It’s Poppy donation time again. Our P7 pupils will be going round the classes as of tomorrow with poppies. If your child would like a poppy please send a small donation in with them to pop in our collection tin.
Thank you for your support.
Children In Need
Please wear something spotty, if you wish, for our Dress Down Day on Friday 14th November as it it also Children In Need day. Remember to also bring a donation for the tombola that day too.
Thank you
Tempest Photographs
Tempest Photographs have been handed out today and will be in your child’s bag. To take advantage of free delivery back to the school please order online by scanning the QR code on your chosen photo or by using the unique reference number at www.tempest-orders.co.uk before Friday 7th November. Any orders placed after this time will include postage charges.
Thanks
Eco Crew Update!!
Well done to our Climate Conference champions, Eddie and Gabo in P7, who represented our school on October 2nd at the EAC Climate Conference 2025 in Loudon Academy.
Our MC Eco reps met local council representatives from different departmental sectors of EAC and discussed, how as a council collective, we can get our carbon footprint to net zero and work together to be more sustainable as a school. Lots of ideas were shared by all parties and both Eco Leaders gave quality feedback to our Eco Committee back in school to help inform our school ‘Action Plan’ moving forward.
They even had time to pick up our Clean Green Bronze Highly Commended Award and meet our EAC Power down mascot ‘Windy! Thank you also to former P7 pupils Teodor and Vivienne for their input towards this last year.
Well done boys we are very proud! Great job!
Thanks again to our fabulous parents who have been joining in by supporting our Voyage to Venus. You have been logging S-Miles using the link below or QR Code to log your journey to school/work too if you walk or use public transport to get there.
Message from EAC V2V Command…
We have earned a bonus 60 miles for our school!
November Dress Down Days
We will be having a series of Dress Down days throughout November, we are kindly asking pupils to donate various items on these days to help towards our school Christmas fayre on Friday 28th November items and days are listed below:
Friday 7th November – Bottle Stall Donation
Friday 14th November – Tombola/Raffle Stall Donation – Wear something spotty for Children in Need
Friday 21st November – Sweets/chocolate Donation
Friday 28th November – Homebaking/ Cake Stall Donation
Thank you
School Halloween Raffle
Our October Halloween Raffle is live on Parentpay. As always tickets are £1 per strip of 5. The raffle will close on Tuesday 28th October and will be drawn on Friday 30th. Good Luck!
FOMC Halloween Raffle
If you want to be in with a chance of winning this fabulous Halloween hamper from FOMC, please head to Parentpay, where you can pay £1 for a ticket towards the FOMC Halloween Raffle.
This is a separate raffle to the school’s October raffle!
P7 Barnardo’s Youth Group
Barnardo’s East Ayrshire Families Youth Service would like to inform young people and their parents/carers of a Youth Group that is available to young people in Primary 7 from the local area. This group is completely FREE to attend and runs term-time every Monday from 4pm-6pm in Onthank Community Centre.
If your P7 child/children would like to attend please ask the office for an application form.
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P4 First Holy Communion Meeting
A reminder that Fr Jim has organised a meeting tomorrow ( Wednesday 22nd October) at 7pm in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, for parents of those Primary 4 children who will be making their First Holy Communion in June 2026.
During the meeting, as well as registering your child for the sacrament, Fr Jim will issue details of the important dates relating to the preparation programme for First Communion.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Thank you.
After school Christmas Choir Rehearsals
After school Christmas choir rehearsals will start on Tuesday 4th November from 3-4pm.
Further after school rehearsals (3pm – 4pm) will be on:
Tuesday 11th November, Tuesday 18th November, Tuesday 25th November
Thank you,
Mrs Terras
School Car Park
Our school car park is as always out of bounds for parents/carers vehicles . We also have an increase in commercial traffic e.g vans lorries etc going in and out of the car park daily due to our kitchen renovations having started this week making it particularly hazardous.
MCPS – Nurture Policy
At Mount Carmel we have been reviewing and updating our Nurture Policy. Please take some time to read over this and complete the short form for any feedback you may wish to give. This survey closes on Friday 7th November.
Head lice
We have had reports of unwanted “visitors” to some children within the school, we kindly ask that parents/carers routinely check their child/children’s hair for any of these unwanted “visitors” and take appropriate action if required Thank you for your co-operation.
School holidays
Gentle reminder that school will close on Friday 10/10/2025 @ 3pm and reopen on Tuesday 21/10/2025 @ 9am.
We hope you have a lovely October break
Meet The Teacher Sessions-September
During September we were delighted to see so many of our parents and carers come along to our ‘Meet the teacher’ session, thank you for taking the time to come to school and get some information about the year ahead. Please let us know what you thought of these sessions and anything else we could add in the future.
FOMC Halloween Hamper
If you want to be in with a chance of winning this fabulous Halloween hamper from FOMC, please head to Parentpay, where you can pay £1 for a ticket towards the FOMC Halloween Raffle.
This is a separate raffle to the school’s October raffle!
Christmas Choir
Any Primary 4 -7 who would like to be part of the Christmas Choir must return their permission letters by Friday 10th October.
Thank you,
Mrs Terras
Mount Carmel Missio Champions
A huge well done to our Friends of Jesus Community Group, who were commissioned as our Missio Champions at a beautiful Mass on Friday.
The children from the group, participated in Mass and received their badges and a special blessing from Fr Jim who encouraged us all to think about our mission to share God’s love with others.
The Friends of Jesus group are looking forward to highlighting the work of Missio Scotland throughout the year, as we share our faith and encourage the whole school community to love God and others.
Mission Control Update
‘Voyage to Venus’ is underway !
Our Active travel commanders are pleased to share that we have started recording S-Miles in most of our classes and we are delighted to report we have even had a few parents/carers logging their active travel journey to work too out with the school using the link below and the QR code on the school front door. Well done for getting involved as we earn extra S-Miles!
It literally takes a minute to click the link or scan the QR on door, add your name and your child/children’s school! That’s it! So, If you take public transport and then walk to work e.g. in Glasgow or locally in town, then this counts too!
Voyage to Venus – Parent Active Travel Link
Do you know that in East Ayrshire 50% of our fuel emissions are from drivers travelling less than a mile in our area, to drop kids off at school or to nip to the shops?
Eco Committee Suggestions –
Could we reduce this by taking turns and car sharing with people who live in our street?
A ‘walking bus’ where parents who live nearby collect another nearby family en route.
This would make it safer for us around the school area and lessen congestion, Meiklewood Road can get unsafe with lots of cars parked all over, as we try to navigate and cross on our way to school.
Have a think? How can you help keep us safer and healthier?
Now, Let’s get those cosmic crystals through logging as many S-Miles on part 1 of our Voyage to Venus… 🚀🪐
Thank you for supporting us,
P4-6 Mission Control on behalf of the Eco Committee
October Raffle
Our October Raffle is now live on Parentpay. As always tickets are £1 per strip of 5. The raffle will close on Tuesday 28th October and will be drawn on Friday 30th. Good Luck!
Winning House Prize
We are delighted to announce that the winning House for this term is Water.
The children who are in the winning house will enjoy a trip to Jungle Madness on Wednesday 8th October whilst there they will be given crisps, cookies & juice if you do not wish your child to have these for allergy purposes please contact the school office.
Well done Water House we hope you have a great time at Jungle Madness
Dress Down Day
There will be a Dress Down Day on Friday 10th October. We are asking kindly for a £1 donation via ParentPay . Pupils who pay give a donation will automatically get a free entry into our October Raffle. This item is now live on Parentpay and will be open for payments until Wednesday 22nd October.
Take a Bow October Program
Homework
Homework will finish for the October holiday on Friday 3rd October and recommence on Monday 27th October 2025.
Panto 2025 – reminder
Reminder that if you have not already done so the final payment towards your childs pantomime ticket is due to be paid before the 30th October 2025.
Tempest Photography
Tempest Photography will be in school on Friday 24th October.
All children will have an individual photograph.
Unfortunately we will be unable to accommodate family photographs.
October Newsletter
Please see link for October Newsletter
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Basketball Club- Loudoun Leisure Centre
Celebrating 70 years of St Joseph’s Academy
Celebrating 70 years of St Joseph’s Academy, Grassyards Road
We invite you to join us for a celebration Mass in St Joseph’s Academy Assembly Hall on Saturday 22nd November at 11am. We are honoured to have Bishop Dougan presiding over Mass to mark this special occasion. Please use the link or QR code below to register your attendance. We look forward to seeing you then. It would be appreciated if you could share this with your staff and parents.
Halloween Disco
Please see the poster below for details of our Halloween Disco on 30th October. Tickets for this have gone into schoolbags today.
Do not send the money into school please, the £2.50 is payable on the night on entry. Please complete the attached portion of the ticket and make sure your child brings this with them on the night.
Thanks.
