It’s the time of year when our kids have lots of small slips and trips and enjoy sliding in the mud, and they often need a change of clothing to keep them comfortable for the rest of the day.
We are looking for some donations of childrens underwear (tights/socks etc) used or new to be handed in to the school, if you have any of these items spare, we would be very grateful if you could kindly hand these into the school office.
Thankyou
Aswell as the normal school lunch menu choices on the 25th of January, children will also have the opportunity to choose the traditional Scottish favourite of Haggis, Neeps & Tatties for lunch that day.
Shortbread will be available as the choice of pudding that day and the soup choice will be Potato & Leek.
We were delighted to invite Diane Campbell from Ayrshire Sports Ability to the school yesterday to present a cheque to us for £200 which we will use to purchase a Boccia Set (similar to bowls), which will be able to be accessed by all classes. Initially, Primary 2 will be piloting this. We will also be having a demonstration visit from Gary Seymour from Active Schools.
Well done to our amazing Eco Committee applicants who had to submit an application form and be interviewed as part of the selection process.
The successful applicants are:
Here is a reminder of individual class PE days:
A reminder that homework will resume again today.
Please see below the most up to date Parent information regarding our school counselling service.
Homework will resume again on Monday 16th January.
Registration week – Monday 9th January – Friday 9th January
For full information and application forms for the enrolment of Primary 1 children starting primary school in August this year please see the link below:
School admissions · East Ayrshire Council (east-ayrshire.gov.uk)
Please find our January 2023 Newsletter attached.
We hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and New Year!
Wishing all of our pupils and their families a very Merry Christmas from all the staff at Mount Carmel.
There will be a reduced lunch menu on Friday 23rd December the choices will be as follows:
Soup – Lentil
Sandwiches – Gammon, Cheese or Egg Mayonnaise.
Thankyou
Our Christmas parties this year are as follows:
Primary 1-3 Tuesday 20th December
Primary 4 & 5 Wednesday 21st December
Primary 6 & 7 Thursday 22nd December
Children are welcome to come to school in their party clothes on the day of their party. Children can also be picked by up by an adult at lunchtime (12.15pm) to go home and get changed for their party, however, they should be back at school no later than 1pm.
Each party will begin at 1.30pm prompt.
Please view the current guidelines below regarding Scarlet Fever issued by Public Health Scotland:
A reminder that the last day before our Christmas holidays will be Friday 23rd December. The school closes at 2.30pm.
Our Christmas parties this year are as follows:
Primary 1-3 Tuesday 20th December
Primary 4 & 5 Wednesday 21st December
Primary 6 & 7 Thursday 22nd December
A reminder that all children attending tomorrow evening’s performance must be collected at 6.30pm.
As you are aware we have been in the process of creating our Mount Carmel Antibullying Policy Statement.
Please see the draft version of this below. If you have any comments regarding this please use our school query form on the website.
Reminder that today we will be selling some of our class Christmas crafts and we will also be taking orders for our festive calendars. Craft prices will range from between 30p and £2 and calendars will be £2 each.
We will be accepting cash only today for those items. There will also be donation boxes for FOMC.
Tomorrow pupils in P4-7 can bring a Christmas jumper / tinsel etc with them to wear along with the rest of their uniform for the show in the afternoon.
For Thursday night’s performance they can come wearing their Christmas jumper /accessories etc.
On Monday 19th December all children are invited to come to school wearing their pyjamas for a special pyjama and movie day! They can also bring with them a cuddly toy if they wish.
We have 15 extra tickets available for our Nativity performances. If you would like a maximum of 2 extra tickets, please complete this form.
Tickets will be issued on a first come first served basis.
Here is a little taster of some of the class Christmas craft items that will be for sale prior to our Nativity performances next week:
Tomorrow the children are welcome to wear a Christmas Jumper to school along with the rest of their school uniform.
If you have any spare Christmas jumpers that you no longer need, we would be grateful if you could drop them off at the school. Likewise, if your child wishes to borrow a Christmas jumper for the day, we do have a very small selection kept in school.
We are delighted to be continuing with our annual Reverse Advent Calendar initiative this year. This is a wonderful project which helps local families who may be struggling this Christmas.
Pupils can begin bringing in to school any items similar to those listed below. We will collect items up until Wednesday 21st December when Father Martin will then uplift them and take them to the Food Bank.
Please do not hand in perishable food stuffs
Doors will be open for access to our small hall half an hour before each performance, where parents/carers will be able to purchase items from our class Christmas crafts, order school class calendars and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee.
Doors open on Wednesday 14th at 1.30pm (performance at 2pm)
Doors open on Thursday 15th at 5pm (performance at 5.30pm)
Check back here shortly for pictures of the Christmas crafts which will be on sale.
