Our raffle tickets for the big summer prize giveaway are all ready and waiting. All you have to do is log onto parent pay and buy the tickets. You have to be in it to win it!!
Big Garden clean up day!
A great big thank you to all of our wonderful parents, staff, local councillors and especially pupils (and pupils to be) who came along to help us tidy up the front of the school this afternoon. It looks so much better already. Keep an eye out for our future dates. Your help would be very much appreciated!!
#teammc
Breakfast Club 2022-2023
We are pleased to announce that our Breakfast Club will be returning after the summer holidays. This will begin on Monday 22nd August and will support 30 children per day.
As you are aware the focus of the Breakfast Club is to support families by providing a healthy and nutritious start to the school day as well as opportunity for children to engage in social, physical and educational activities.
Breakfast Club will begin at 8:15am each morning and will cost £1 per day paid via ParentPay or will be free for those who have applied for Free School Meals.
Please be aware that the purpose of Breakfast is not to provide early morning childcare, as stated it is about supporting families and children to make healthier choices. Priority places will be provided to specific families.
If you would like your child to be considered for an additional place at Breakfast Club please click on the link below. Please complete this for Sunday 19th June:
Mrs Fergusson
P7 Leaver’s Lunch-Friday 24th June
This lunch will be for the whole school on Friday 24th June which is also our Fun Day!
Our Primary 7’s have chosen their own “Leaver’s Lunch” menu:
Burger and Fries
Popcorn chicken and fries
Cheese pizza and fries
Fudge or sponge cake and custard
Summer Raffle (FOMC)
Our raffle tickets are now on sale through Parentpay for the FOMC Summer Raffle. They will be available to purchase until Friday 24th June and the raffle will be drawn on Monday 27th June.
Fun Day!
It’s FUN DAY time here at Mount Carmel Primary School. On Friday 24th June we have lots of amazing activities planned for all the classes. We have bouncy castles, treasure hunts, den building and a visit from the ice cream van planned. We are also asking that children bring in their bikes and scooters as they will be allocated time to play on these with their friends during the day (please ensure that all children have a helmet with them as they will be unable to ride their bikes and scooters without one).
It is a dress down day – you can wear anything you like (as long as it is not football colours).
We are kindly asking for a donation of £1 which will go straight towards our school fund. All donations will receive 1 free entry into the class summer raffle prizes and the raffle will be drawn on Monday 27th June.
Let’s end our school year with a BANG!!
Flying the flag for Mount Carmel
We are proud to be flying our new school flag at the front of the school!
Multi-Sports Club
Please note that the the P5-7 Multi-Sports Club has finished. Last week was the final session, The children who participated thoroughly enjoyed the activities. A big thank you to Mark Devlin for hosting!
Snack times
We would like to share a kind reminder with everyone that we are a health promoting school. Therefore we ask that the children bring in a healthy snack for playtime. These include fruit, a sandwich, a packet of crisps or a small sweetie. Please DO NOT send your child into school with brain lickers, sugary spray sweeties or anything else with a high sugar content. We would also like to remind you that the children are welcome to bring water into their classes. No juice or flavoured water should be sent into class for during the day. The children are allowed juice and flavoured water at lunchtime.
Thank you for your understanding and support in this matter.
#teammc
Platinum Jubilee Celebrations
As part of our Platinum Jubilee Celebrations,
As well as treating ourselves to some Victoria Sponge in class thanks to Christopher last week. Hannah and Azlan from P5 designed a new castle for Queen Elizabeth II made out of Lego…
SUMMER RAFFLE!!
We are super excited to share our summer raffle news with you all.
Our excellent Friends of Mount Carmel team have donated an amazing prize for each class which is full of summer toys. The lucky winner can enjoy themselves and keep busy all summer long!!
The raffle tickets will be available to buy on parent pay as of Monday and the tickets will be £1 each.
Our wonderful P7’s will be taking the prizes around the classes to let the children see what they are trying to win.
#teammc
P7 Leaver’s Assembly
It has come to our attention that there is an error in our June’s newsletter regarding the Primary 7 Leaver’s assembly. Our assembly will be held on the 28th June at 2pm – NOT the 21st.
Please accept our apologises for the error.
We look forward to seeing all of our P7 parents in school for this very special occasion.
Thank you for your continuing support!
#teammc
Sports Day
Sports Day was fantastic! Our children have had a really enjoyable day and was great to see them taking part in so many different activities. Thank you to all of our team for organising the events today.
We cant wait to share our Sports Day photographs. It was also super to see so many parents/carers/relatives/friends come along to see our children.
Thank you.
#TeamMC
#MCFamily
P4 Sacraments
What a year of celebration it has been in Primary 4. The children have been on an exciting journey making three of their sacraments this year and we couldn’t be more proud of them. They began the year with their first Reconciliation, then their Confirmation and more recently they made their first Holy Communion. They have worked extremely hard and showed dedication to their faith and God. Well done everyone!!
Sports day update
Further to our earlier post, we would like to invite our parents in through the front gate when coming into school to see your own child race. A pupil from our wonderful P7 organisers will be there to greet you and take you around to the field at the back of the school where our races will be taking place.
A reminder that school uniform is not required tomorrow and the children can wear comfortable sports wear that is weather appropriate.
Everyone please cross your fingers and toes for a dry day!!
A little reminder of the times for each class race…
9:10 – 9:30 Primary 1
9:35 – 10:00 Primary 1/2
10:05 – 10:30 Primary 2/3
11:00 – 11:40 Nursery children
11:45 – 12:10 Primary 4
1:10 – 1:40 Primary 5
1:45 – 2:15 Primary 6
2:20 – 2:50 Primary 7
Sports day
It is our absolute intention to go ahead with sports day tomorrow (Thursday 9th June). Unfortunately, we cannot predict the weather, so we kindly ask that you send your child into school with sport clothing on (absolutely no football colours) and equipped for the ever changing weather. We will be outside for some of the day; therefore the children will need jumpers and maybe a light raincoat (hopefully not but we do live in Scotland!) or if we are lucky enough for some sunshine, a hat and sun cream.
Can you also make sure that your child has plenty of water for the day as they will be very busy with lots of different activities from races and potted sports to curling and yoga.
The children are very excited for tomorrow (and so are the teachers!). We cannot wait to have our new p1’s in as well as our parents to see us racing. Please see below the timetable for the races (this has been shared previously)
9:10 – 9:30 Primary 1
9:35 – 10:00 Primary 1/2
10:05 – 10:30 Primary 2/3
11:00 – 11:40 Nursery children
11:45 – 12:10 Primary 4
1:10 – 1:40 Primary 5
1:45 – 2:15 Primary 6
2:20 – 2:50 Primary 7
Again, we kindly ask that when your child is finished racing, could you please leave the playground as to allow the next class parents in. to watch their children.
See you all tomorrow!!
North West Kilmarnock Consultation Parent Discussion
A reminder that a letter was sent home yesterday regarding an Education Scotland visit on Monday 13th June at 1:30pm. Thank you to the two parents that have kindly volunteered so far. Please consider being part of our parent group sharing your views on the educational benefits of an ECC and refurbishment of our school.
Sharing your views in this group will help to strengthen our bid process.
Please complete the return slip on the letter or email myself.
andrea.fergusson@eastayrshire.org.uk
Pupil Council
On Tuesday I was delighted to work with the Pupil Council and speak with them about the North West Kilmarnock Consultation and hear some of their views on why this would be good for our school. These children are now working with the rest of their class to gather more ideas to share with Education Scotland on Monday 13th June.
Great job, thank you for sharing your ideas.
Mrs Fergusson
Sports Day Reminder
Sports Day
Our school sports day has been provisionally organised for Thursday 9th June this year. This will take the form on potted sports where classes will walk their way around a series of sporting
events, one of which will be races, parents/carers will be permitted to attend.
Our sports day has been scheduled for the 9th June this year (weather dependent). We would like to invite our parents and carers in for a short visit to see your child and their class compete in some races.
This will take the format of welcoming our adults into the school grounds to watch their child’s class run and then we politely request that you allow the next set of parents to be invited in. If you
are the parent or carer of more than one child then you are invited to come in for each of your child’s race slot.
Please find below the timetable for the day and come along to see your child participate in the fun. We are super excited to have you in school on the day to cheer for us and we hope to see you there!!
9:10 – 9:30 Primary 1
9:35 – 10:00 Primary 1/2
10:05 – 10:30 Primary 2/3
11:00 – 11:40 New Primary 1 children
11:45 – 12:10 Primary 4
1:10 – 1:40 Primary 5
1:45 – 2:15 Primary 6
2:20 – 2:50 Primary 7
P3 Sacrament of Reconciliation
Also on Tuesday evening we were delighted to be with our Primary 3 children as they made their Sacrament of Reconciliation. It was a lovely celebration with the the children and their families. We look forward to continuing to support them as the make two further sacraments in Primary 4.
I know you will continue to join us in praying for our children as they continue on their Faith journey.
New P1 parents/carers
On Tuesday evening we were delighted to welcome our new primary 1 parents into the school. Mrs Duff shared information about Primary 1 as well as some of the practicalities of starting school.
We have gifted all of our new children with a homework bag as well as a lovely story book to share at home.
Thank you also to Mr Farren our Parent Council Chair who shared with the parents the great work that they do for our school.
The evening finished with a tour of our lower school and a chance to see inside the classrooms.
It was lovely to have parents back in our school. At the start of next school year we are planning to have parents of all of our children in for a visit to see their new teacher as well as see their new classroom.
Mrs Fergusson
Big Garden Tidy Up Project
A reminder that our garden tidy up will take place on 16th June between 3pm-5pm . We would be very grateful for any time you can spare at all to help us. We would also be grateful of any donations of any of the following items:
Plants/seeds
Soil
Hanging baskets
Garden Paint
Masonry paint
Bark
Planters
If you are able to come and help on the day if you could bring your own gardening equipment with you please.
North West Kilmarnock Consultation Parent Discussion
Please check school bags tonight for a letter regarding an Education Scotland visit on Monday 13th June at 1:30pm. Please consider being part of our parent group sharing your views on the educational benefits of an ECC and refurbishment of our school.
Sharing your views in this group will help to strengthen our bid process.
Please complete the return slip on the letter or email myself.
andrea.fergusson@eastayrshire.org.uk
Primary 7 Transition further update
Further information from St Joseph’s this afternoon:
- Pupils should be at St Joseph’s for 8.50am either via own transport/our school buses/their own primary buses if at St Andrews.
- Pupils will leave at the end of our school day – 3.40pm
- Pupils can access canteen facilities
- Pupils should be in full school uniform and bring PE kit if needed
- Pupils should bring with them their timetables and slips they were asked to return during Miss Cathie’s visit.
Primary 7 Enterprise
Our Primary 7 pupils have been very busy making items to sell in order to raise additional funds for their Activity Week. These items include Tic tac toe, spinning tops, car/butterfly keyrings and personalised keyrings and can be purchased through Parentpay.
***Please note there is a limited amount of each item available and will be allocated on a first come first served basis . ***
What a great job they have made!
P7 Transition Workshop
e-Sgoil has collaborated with Headstrong to create some exciting learning opportunities to support learners with their mental health during transition from P7 to S1. There will be a live class-based transition workshop and a live family learning session. The session will run on 6 June from 9.30am – 10.15am for P7 class-based workshops and 6pm – 6.30pm for evening family learning sessions.
Jubilee Celebrations
The children have been busy with lots of fun activities this week on the run up to the Jubilee. We are delighted to share with you this picture of Christopher from P5 who made this amazing Jubilee sponge cake!
Wow!
Thank You!
We would like to say a big thank you to both Tesco Extra, Kilmarnock and Morrisons, Kilmarnock for kindly donating some garden items to help us in our garden tidy up project .
EA School Counselling Newsletter-May
Please find below the May edition of the EA School Counselling & Psychological Wellbeing Support Newsletter:
East Ayrshire School Counselling & Psychological Wellbeing Supports Newsletter (office.com)
St Joseph’s Church-175th Anniversary
On 13th June St Joseph’s parish community will celebrate the 175th anniversary of the solemn opening of our church in 1847. Our community will gather to worship at 7 pm on Monday 13th June to celebrate a Mass of Thanksgiving for the mission of the last 175 years.
We extend a warm invitation to you, your staff and parents and pupils to join St Joseph’s parish community on this occasion.
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Fr Stephen
Rev Stephen G McGrattan
Parish Priest of St Joseph’s
