We will be visiting all classes starting tomorrow offering poppies in return for a donation to The Scottish Poppy Appeal. Donations will be cash donations in school via a registered charity tin. 

Thank you for your support.  

Below is the link to send your donations directly to Children In Need this year:

https://app.parentpay.com/ParentPayShop/Foc/Default.aspx?shopid=12634

Donations are to be made only through this link . These donations will not show up on your Parentpay account.

There is payment item on Parentpay called “BBC Children in Need 2023” however, please do not use this as it is set up solely for  Children in Need bank account purposes.

We are delighted to introduce the newest member of our Mount Carmel family – Penelope Terras.

Huge congratulations to Mrs Terras, her husband and big sister Phoebe who welcomed Penelope on 19th October.

You can view our latest newsletter below:

November Newsletter (office.com)

Our winning house “Earth” enjoyed a trip to

@_junglemadness     

recently as their prize. Everyone had a great time and the pupils were complimented by others on their behaviour and manners!

Thank you to the wonderful staff at Jungle Madness who always make sure we have a great time and go out of their way to accomodate us.

Earlier this month Gerard from Missio visited the school . We had a “Wear Bright Colours” day and also a Missio Raffle  which helped us raise £120 for the charity. The lucky winner of the raffle was Gosia in P4. Congratulations Gosia, we hope you enjoy your prize!

Please find attached a link to information regarding St. Joseph’s carers:

St Joseph’s Academy Network-Carers | Biteable

 Our Primary 7’s will be visiting St. Joseph’s Academy next Tuesday, 31st October. They will be walking there and back, so please ensure your child has a jacket with them for the journey. Pupils will be leaving Mount Carmel Primary shortly after 9am.

Thank you

Kilmarnock Standard will be in school on Tuesday 31st October photographing our new P1s at 9.30am

Thankyou

Primary 4 parent/carers only

There will be a Sacramental Preparation Parent Meeting tomorrow evening  (24/10/23) at 7pm in St. Joseph’s church hall.

Gentle reminder that school will close at 3pm on Friday 13th October and reopen to children on Tuesday 24th October at 9am.

We hope you have a great October half-term break

Team MC

Wider Achievements

At Mount Carmel Primary School we want to showcase and recognise all of our achievements.  This includes items that they take part outside of school such as dancing, football, gymnastics, swimming – the list is endless.  Please take some time to detail some of the activities your child takes part in out of school and any special awards they might have received recently as part of this.  If you have any photographs that you would like to share please email these to eamountcarmel.ps@eastayrshire.org.uk

CALLING ALL SCHOOL PERFORMING GROUPS
Could you perform at Kilmarnock Christmas Festival?

Kilmarnock Town Centre-Sunday 26th November

Closing Date For Entries Friday 20th October

Calling all local singers, dancers and musicians! We are on the lookout for the very best local talent to be part of our entertainment programme at the Kilmarnock Christmas Festival.

If you would like to be considered for the event, please submit a short video of you performing (no longer than a 1 minute) by Friday 20th October. Videos can be uploaded via this link. Please read the FAQ’s before submitting your video. If chosen, you will be given a 15 minute slot to perform on one of the event stages at the main event.

Good Luck Everyone!

With Halloween fast approaching, we know this can be an expensive time of year with the added pressure of buying costumes etc. We keep  a supply of children’s costumes in school for borrowing. These will be available from next week in the foyer. Please feel free to come and have a look. Similarly, if you have any children’s costumes you no longer use/need please hand them into the school and we will add them to our collection.

Thank you 

Earth House!!!

Could all children who are in the winning house and going to Jungle Madness on Wednesday 11th October please wear comfortable clothes that day.

Our Halloween Disco will take place on Thursday 26th October.

There will be two separate discos for lower school and upper school:

Primary 1-3 will take place from 6pm until 7pm

Primary 4-7 will take place between 7.15pm and 8.30pm

There will be a small charge payable on the night and this will include DJ, snack and prizes for the best costumes. Children will be given a flyer nearer the time with more information.

If you can help out at any of the discos please get in touch here

Breakfast Blethers will now start at 9am instead of 9.15am

A reminder that the school  closes at 3pm on Friday 13th October for the October break. We will reopen for pupils  on Tuesday 24th October.

Monday 23rd is an in-service day for staff.

Homework finishes on Friday 6th October. 

Reminder that the school will be closed for the September holiday weekend on Friday 22/9 until Monday 25/9.

School will reopen on Tuesday 26/9 at 9am.

We hope you have a lovely break.

TeamMC

Our September raffle is now up and running on Parentpay!

To be in with a chance of winning our fantastic prize all you  need to do is buy your tickets via Parentpay.

Tickets are £1 per strip of 5. 

The closing date for purchasing tickets is Wednesday 27th September and the Raffle will be drawn on Friday 30th.

Breakfast-Blether-flyer

Begins  this Thursday 21st September 9.15am-10.15am

Please find attached our School Improvement Plan for 23-24:

Family Friendly School Improvement Plan

We will once again be accepting  any unwanted items of clothing for our Rag Bag collection. Previously, Rag Bag pre-printed bags were distributed to schools for donations, however, this is no longer the case. Please hand any donations into the school in a carrier bag or bin bag by 9am on Monday 18th September.

Thank You.

If you have not already done so could you please complete and return the forms that were issued to all children at the start of term by Tuesday 19th September.

If you require any new forms to be issued please contact the school office where we can arrange for duplicate  forms to be printed and sent home in your childs school bag.

Thankyou

We are a nut free school. Please do not send in any snacks or lunch products that contain nuts (for example snickers, Nutella or Kinder Bueno). 

Thankyou 

Welcome back everyone and welcome to the P7 blog! I hope you all had an enjoyable holiday.  I am delighted to welcome back the pupils of P7 who have settled well into the school routine and are enjoying being the top of the school!

Here’s an overview of our learning that will take place in our first term (Aug-Oct).

Literacy

This term we will be focussing on a novel study, The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo.  As well as reading the book together, the class will participate in activities that relate to other areas of the curriculum including Art, Social Studies and Technology.  We will also continue to develop our comprehension skills through our use of all ALP reading strategies with a particular focus on summarising and identifying the main idea

For writing, we are concentrating on descriptive writing:  Giving detailed descriptions using similes, alliteration, the senses and metaphors to interest the reader.

Spelling groups will continue to use Active Spelling strategies and follow on from previous work.

Numeracy

All groups this term have begun by looking at place value.  We will soon be moving into addition and subtraction.  The class will continue to take part in daily mental activities such as number talks where they aim to use a variety of mental strategies to achieve the solution.  The class are also working on skills beyond number with Mrs McIntyre and are currently developing their knowledge of angles.

Health and Wellbeing

This year we will continue to use the PATHS programme to shape our HWB learning. P7 have already started ‘pupil of the day’ and participated in discussions around feelings and how we manage our emotions.  We will continue to revise the steps of the Problem Solving guide and aim to apply it in situations independently.  We are also investigating the different diets people have due to allergies, intolerances and religious reasons.

For PE, we have participated in team games concentrating on how important communication and teamwork is in order to be successful.  P7 will shortly begin our block of badminton aiming to develop their racquet skills, learn the rules and take part in small competitive games.

IDL

Our topic this term is World War 2.  This ties in closely with our novel study.  We will investigate how the war began, key events in the war (D Day, The Battle of Britain and The Blitz) and how people helped the war effort.  We will be using other curricular areas, such as literacy and technology, to help us understand and research this topic.  P7 have also been watching news clips, information bulletins and listening to music from the 1940s to get into the mind set of Brits during the war.

Technologies

This term P7 will access and use more features of Glow, attach files to emails, save work to cloud locations and retrieve files using search functions.  We will also have an input from East Ayrshire IT department on how to use and access Chromebooks.

RE

P7 will continue to complete their journal for the Pope Francis Faith Award as well as reading from the New Testament.  We will be looking at the life of Jesus and how he associated with those who were marginalised in society.

I look forward to working with P7 in the coming year and hope to have lots of enjoyable experiences that will make learning fun and memorable.

Mr Bertoncini