Gunpowder goujons
Bonfire Bangers
Firework Fries
Catherine Wheel Coleslaw
Sparkler Sponges
Big Bang Biscuits
Please note a change to our Parent/Carer Appointments; they will now be as follows:
Tuesday 15th November- 5pm until 8pm
Wednesday 16th November – 3pm until 6pm
We are pleased to be returning to face to face appointments in the school.
An online form will be available shortly for parents/carers to provide their preferred date.
As part of our Halloween celebrations we have 3 beautiful Hampers to give away. In order to win 1 of our beautiful hampers, you can purchase raffle tickets using your ParentPay Account. All monies raised will go towards school funds
Thankyou
It’s the end of our school term, and we would kindly ask that parents/carers routinely check their child/children’s hair for any unwanted “visitors” during the holidays.
Thank you for your co-operation.
We would like to say a great big THANKYOU to our friends at Atrium homes who very kindly donated £500 to the school for our breakfast club.
!!HALLOWEEN RAFFLE!!
Our Halloween raffle is coming soon. Pay for your tickets on Parent Pay for a chance to win this goodie bag. It is full of sweeties, eyeballs and creepy crawlies. Keep an eye out for a chance to win!
GOOD LUCK!
Friday 14th October – Dress Down Day (£1 donation on Parentpay)
October Break– School closes at Friday 14th October 3pm
Monday 24th October In Service Day
Tuesday 25th October Pupil Return 9am
Thursday 27th October – Halloween Disco (£2.50 pay at the door)
(P1-3- 6.30 till 7.30pm)
(P4-7 – 7.45 till 9pm)
Friday 28th October– Halloween Lunch Menu
Fun Fact: Halloween dates back 2000 years to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain where they lit bonfires and wore costumes to ward off ghosts.
Chilling Cheeseburger
Witches Pizza Fingers
Wizard Wedges/Creepy Corn on the Cob/Petrified Peas
Spooky Sponge/Vampire Slime (cupcakes and green jelly)
Reminder that The Kilmarnock Standard will visit the school tomorrow for our Primary 1 photograph
We are delighted that every pupil in the school will today receive a beautifully illustrated and informative hardback book celebrating Queen Elizabeth 2nd’s Platinum Jubilee.
Please check schoolbags for this book.
On Wednesday 12th October the Healthy Living Programme will be working with our local Spar in Meiklewood Road and will be giving out free fruit and water to school children on behalf of the store.
The Healthy Living Programme will be located outside the Spar for the children coming out of school in the afternoon.
Reminder that the Tempest photographer will be in school tomorrow for individual pupil photographs, and also Primary 1 and Primary 7 class photographs.
On the run up to Halloween we will have a selection of Halloween costumes in our foyer. These will be available to anyone who is in need of a costume their child/children.
Similarly, If you have any costumes that your child/children have outgrown please hand them in to the school and we will add them to our exchange.
Thank you.
Please read our October Newsletter.
Today some of our P7 pupils visited St. Bernadette’s Relics at Carfin, along with Father Martin and Mrs Crawford.
On Friday 14th October, we will be holding a “Dress Down Day” in school. We are asking kindly for a £1 donation for this via Parentpay. As always, no football colours please.
Every pupil who donates £1 through Parentpay will be entered in a raffle draw to win a special prize organised by FOMC.
All children in P4 who are preparing for the Sacraments of Confirmation in the coming year should come to the Enrolment Service during Sunday Mass on Sunday, 2nd October (9.30am in St. Matthew’s and 11am in Our Lady of Mount Carmel).
Congratulations to the amazing Mr Bertoncini. Today he completed his first ever parachute jump. We are so proud of him and for doing this for such a wonderful charity. So far he has managed to raise over £800 for The Ayrshire Hospice. We always knew he was a hero and today he became our flying Superhero. Well done Mr B!
If you would like to donate please click on the link below. Thank you.
A very warm welcome to the Primary 1 Blog. The children are settling brilliantly into their new school surroundings and have already established routines and friendships within their new class!!
We have had a lovely start to the term getting to know one another and our new class routines but we are most definitely poised and ready to LEARN!!!
Primary 1 – Term 1
Literacy
During literacy times, P1 have been developing their phonological awareness (the ability to hear sounds in words). We are doing this by focusing on the rhythm and rhyme of language through clapping syllables and working on our nursery rhymes.
We are also working on our fine motor control to get ready for writing! Name writing is a focus too, so we can always sign off on our masterpieces!
Listening and talking is a huge part of our day. We are learning to follow our “carpet rules” to ensure we do our best listening while the teacher or our peers are talking. We are also taking turns at communicating our thoughts and feelings.
Numeracy
We know numbers are all around us and have had a chance to talk about numbers which are “special” to us, for example, our age, door number etc.
Number times will consist of lots and lots of counting! We will be developing our “number sense” by counting out and comparing quantities and becoming familiar with the language of mathematics.
We will be reciting our number sequences forwards and backwards, understanding that each number we say represents a quantity.
As our pencil control improves we will be learning how to form our digits correctly.
Pattern will also be a focus this term. We will link this to outdoor learning by looking for natural patterns and shape in the environment as well as artificial ones indoors.
Health & Well-being (HWB)
Our PATHS programme will feature heavily during our HWB time. The children have been very excited to meet our PATHS puppets, Twiggle and friends! Our puppet friends will be helping us to explore our feelings as well as thinking about the qualities that makes us good friends. We will also be introduced to our “Pupil of the Day” initiative, which allows each and every member of the class to be the focus of our kind words and actions for a whole day.
In PE we will initially develop our spatial awareness through games before moving onto large ball skills.
RE
The children have been introduced to our RE times and have learned about God’s love for us all. We will continue to explore this unconditional love by considering the gifts God has given us, including people who care for us and the qualities which make each and every one of us so special and unique.
IDL
We will be using our Nursery Rhymes to explore other areas of the curriculum such as art, music and technology.
Expressive Arts
During art sessions we will be creating our favourite characters from the Nursery rhymes we have been learning. We will be doing a lot of cutting and sticking of different types of collage matierials.
During music sessions, we will be singing and keeping the beat to Nursery rhyme favourites.
Mrs Duff
Hello and a very warm welcome to the primary 2 blog! We have had a lovely start to term 1 getting to know one another and establishing our class charter together. It has been a delight learning about each individual and seeing their personalities shine. The boys and girls have embraced primary 2 with open arms and are all keen to learn and have fun!
Primary 2 – Term 1
Literacy
Phonics – We are developing the letter sounds that we were taught during primary 1 while introducing new sounds. During this term we will be introduced to other joined phonemes (2 letter sounds) which include ‘ee’ ‘oo’ ‘ph’ and ‘ck’.
Reading – We have started reading our class text “The Owl Who Was Afraid of The Dark” and we have already completed prediction and description tasks associated with the characters. We will continue to work on our skills, focusing on decoding and comprehension as we re-start our bug club texts.
Writing – This term our writing will focus on descriptive writing which will tie in with our class text “The Owl Who Was Afraid of The Dark” as we describe the characters and the different settings within the book. We will continue to use our writing targets of capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.
Numeracy and Mathematics
During this term children will be expanding their number processes we have learned so far. We will be reinforcing our addition skills, counting in 2’s,5’s and 10’s. We will also be focusing on the sequencing of numbers, thinking about the numbers before, in-between and after as we count forwards or backwards. For beyond number in primary 2 we will be focusing on shape and patterns with Mrs McGregor.
Health and Wellbeing
Primary 2 will continue to develop their social and emotional skills through our whole school PATHS program. The Characters have returned to Primary 2 and the children continue to enjoy engaging with them and love when they come out in the classroom. Primary 2 also gift and receive compliments for ‘pupil of the day’ which they are all amazing at doing. In the morning the children love to do their colour monster check in which relates to the different emotions and how they are feeling. We have also focused on friendships and kindness within our class through our PATHS program and highlighted the qualities that make a good friend and how we show kindness to one another. We created our own class charter linking it to the book called ‘Our Class is a Family’ and our rights.
P.E.
Within P.E. we have been doing developmental games. During this term we will also be developing our football skills and large ball skills by participating in volleyball. P.E. days will be Tuesday and Thursday.
Religious Education
This term we remind ourselves of God’s love for us all. We continue to thank God for all our family, loved ones and friends. We also thank God for making every one of us unique.
IDL
Primary 2’s first topic this year is “All About Me”, they will learn more about their likes and dislikes as well as share information about their lovely families and have the chance to create self-portraits through Art and Design.
Our topics “The Owl Who Was Afraid of The Dark” and “All About Me” will make several cross curricular links which will include expressive arts, literacy, health and wellbeing, technologies and social studies.
Thank you for visiting our Primary 2 blog on what we have been learning this term!
Miss Maitland
We are delighted to announce the return of Killie’s Disney Playmakers – this time the adventure we follow will be Moana.
Aimed at girls aged 5-8, of all abilities, to give them a non-competitive introduction to football, Disney Playmakers empowers girls to express themselves, following the storybook and the adventures of Moana, from crossing the ocean to battling the Kakamora.
If you have any young people who would be interested, please let us know asap, or sign up here
Primary 7 St Josephs Parent Information Appointments with Miss Cathie will now take place on Monday 3rd October. All original appointment times are still valid.
Primary 3 Blog Post (Term 1 Update)
Hello and welcome to our very first blog post of the new session. Primary 3 have been very busy settling into our new classroom and our new routines. Children have been working hard to become familiarised with their class groups, recapping previous learning and are enhancing this through our novel study and outdoor learning.
Literacy
Our class novel is ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ and through this text, the context and the discovery of the lands at the top of the Faraway Tree, pupils will explore our outdoor area, looking for natural resources to create scenes from the text. Pupils will continue to create some imaginative writing, describing the different lands that may arrive at the top of the Faraway Tree and will develop their use of descriptive words to describe characters from the novel.
Our reading and spelling activities are now underway, and children have been working within groups to revisit previous sounds and texts, ready to use their skills and strategies to tackle new and unfamiliar spelling sounds and reading books. Our focus in writing currently is descriptive writing, and ideas will be developed from our class novel!
Homework began week beginning Monday 5th September, please remember to check your children’s bags for a plastic wallet. Reading books will be attached to pupils’ accounts through our online Bug Club reading programme. I will issue Bug Club login details when the first homework tasks are sent home. Homework will consist of spelling, reading and maths, both mental and worksheet/jotter jobs too. These will be issued on a Monday and should be returned to school on a Friday.
Maths
Our focus in maths will be place value, with children working on 2-digit numbers and this will increase to 3-digit numbers with our circle maths group. Children will be able to partition these numbers and discuss this in terms of hundreds (H), tens (T) and units (u), whilst building on their understanding of number and number patterns. Addition and subtraction will also be a focus as well as word problems to consolidate our strategies within these 2 operations of number. Children will regularly use their ‘Thinking It Through’ jotters as the term progresses to develop problem solving skills, applying knowledge of number to new contexts and develop strategies for any number problems.
Health & Wellbeing
Our Paths Pupil of the Day has now begun, and our Pupil of the Day has been receiving lots of compliments. All children will have the opportunity to be pupil of the day. We will begin exploring emotions, comfortable and uncomfortable and how we recognise these emotions within ourselves and in others.
In P.E, our sessions will happen on a Monday and a Wednesday and our focus in term 1 will be on team games, hockey, and badminton. Children will have the opportunity to partake in some fun activities which support teamwork whilst focusing on developing their listening skills, awareness of space and racquet skills.
R.E
Our focus during R.E sessions will be on prayer, their meaning, the routines of the church and the celebration of Mass. We will also spend some time reading and discussing bible stories relating to friendship and love, whilst considering how each of us are unique and have our own God given talents.
Topic
As the class novel is The Magic Faraway Tree, we will be doing a mini topic which focuses on exciting new lands at the top of the tree, developing children’s imaginations and ideas in fictional texts. We will also look at woodland animals as these are a feature in the class novel and will tie in nicely with out term 1 science topic about vertebrates and how we categorise all living things. Children will explore and examine living things and look at the characteristics of what makes some living things vertebrates.
We hope this is the start of a very successful term and that the pupils are enjoying their return to school and seeing their friends and teachers.
Take care,
Mrs Travers
