Primary 1 had a ball at their Christmas Party this afternoon! The children enjoyed Party games and showcased their disco “moves” on the dance floor before tucking into some delicious Dominoes pizza 😋! Our Party was even more special as we were able to enjoy it with our friends in P1/2 who are part of our bubble ❤️!
Pass the parcel fun!
Musical Statues!
Pizza time!
Ending on a high with the Hokey Cokey 😃!
Have a wonderful Christmas with your families and take care 🎅🏻❤️.
Mrs Duff x
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Today our children all had a fantastic Christmas Party day. This was made extra special with a delivery of 30 Dominoes Pizzas. Thank you to a very kind parent who donated this for our fabulous day.
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Congratulations to Skye P5 who, on Friday, was the very lucky winner of a PS Vita which Secret Santa had delivered to Mount Carmel!
We hope you have lots of fun Skye!
Wishing all of our pupils and their families a wonderful Christmas and peaceful New Year. Have a magical time and stay safe everyone !
Love and best wishes from all the staff at Mount Carmel Primary
The school closes at 2.30pm tomorrow for the Christmas break
The school re-opens for staff and pupils on 6th January
Our Christmas extravaganza is available to view !!!!…….
If children wish to they can come to school on Friday in their pyjamas for some end of term fun in their class.
The children had a lovely time visiting Crossgates Care Home over the last few days, to bring some festive cheer to the residents. It was so nice to see them joining in, waving and enjoying some of the makaton songs and dances.
We wish all of the staff and residents a lovely Christmas and a peaceful New Year.
We have some very exciting news here at Mount Carmel. Our Christmas showcase is ready for your viewing pleasure. We have all worked really hard on this and had great fun making it so we hope you enjoy it. This production will require a password in order for you to view it which will be sent out to the main contact for each of our children. To ensure the safeguarding of our children we kindly ask that this password is not shared with others.
Here is the link to the programme:
Virtual Christmas Show Programme
Enjoy
https://sway.office.com/h76CvOsC72z6NFA0?ref=Link
On Friday primary 3 enjoyed Christmas Jumper Day and our surprise visit from Santa! Today we loved our walk to Crossgates Care Home, we showed the residents some of our sign language songs that we have learned and posted some of our fabulous letters and handmade cards.
Father Martin came into Primary 1 this morning for a Christmas prayer service. We talked about the Christmas story and the “gifts of love” we can give this Advent ❤️❤️❤️.
As it was Primary 1’s turn to do a “wave & walk ” at Crossgates Care Home this afternoon, we had the perfect opportunity to show love by spreading some Festive cheer ❤️! The children gladly put their Nativity costumes on to shower the residents and staff with smiles and chants of Merry Christmas!
What another busy week in Primary 6!
Over the last couple of weeks, the Primary 6’s have been planning, writing, and illustrating their own Christmas stories for P1-3. The pupils worked collaboratively in pairs and trios. Tymek and Krystian worked together to write their story in Polish!
To help them with this task the pupils first looked at popular children’s Christmas stories to inspire them. The pupils enjoyed reading them too!
Next, they worked together to plan their stories developing a plotline, characters, and an overriding positive Christmas message.
The pupils then typed and illustrated their stories including a front cover and blurb. I am so impressed by the finished results and the pupils cannot wait for the P1-3s to enjoy their stories next week.
This week we continued with our 3D and 2D shape topic. One group learned about the properties of a circle and had plenty of practice drawing circles of different radii with a compass.
Other groups looked at tiling 2D shapes and had the opportunity to take part in lots of practical activities to build on this skill. I was impressed with their tiling creations!
As a class, the pupils looked at identifying the nets of 3D shapes. They used the 3D shapes to help them with follow up tasks.
On Friday the pupils took part in a real-life price comparison task. They had to find the prices of Christmas dinner food items in three different supermarkets. They then totaled the costs of the items in each supermarket to find out which was the cheapest. Some pupils got a shock at the price differences between supermarkets.
Next week is our final week before the Christmas holidays and we are going to be very busy with different activities to make the week special. There is no homework now until after the holidays. I was very happy with the home projects and the effort that was put into them.
Keep your eyes peeled for a VERY special Primary 6 Christmas message 🙂
Thank you to the boys and girls for the very lovely card that was sneakily left on my desk on Friday!
Miss Mudge x
Wow! What a busy few weeks Primary 4 have had. Lots of fabulous Viking topic work, creating shields and writing in Viking runes, our Christmas video preparations, Christmas crafts and Viking long boat presentations. We also had a beautiful class service with Father Martin.
I am so proud of all the hard work and fun we have had. We have been investigating the properties of 3D shape, looking at shapes we can stack and nets to create fabulous Christmas decorations. The creations have been amazing and the pupils have worked their socks off to put together some fabulous models and our Christmas video too. I can’t wait for parents/carers to see all the great work that has been done.
Here is some of the great work that has taken place. Well done Primary 4!
As always, take care and stay safe,
Mrs Travers
Today Santa took some time out of his day to make a special visit to the school. He walked around the school grounds, waving at the children and even had a chat with some of the children through the window. Santa left a selection box for each of us to enjoy.
Thank you Santa, we love you!🎅
We would like to say a big “ Thank You “ to our amazing dinner ladies for a wonderful Christmas lunch yesterday. It was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone!
We are a very lucky school to have them👌🍗🍰🧁
Thank you to Fr. Martin for coming to our class and teaching us about Jesus and Christmas. Also to our lovely dinner ladies for making our delicious Christmas lunch! ☃️❄️🎄
We would like to thank Morrisons, Kilmarnock for their very kind donations of biscuits for the staff, and also breakfast bars, juice and fruit snacks for some of the children. They are very much appreciated by everyone.
We have had another busy week in Primary 6! There has been so much excellent work I had to share it with parents and carers.
The pupils started exploring 3D and 2D shapes this week. Some of our pupils were identifying polygons and their properties whilst others explored regular and irregular 2D shapes.
All pupils revised the properties of 3D shapes and the pupils were able to take part in practical activities.
The pupils also created their own tessellations with some pupils opting to use 2D shapes and others challenging themselves by creating their own templates.
The pupils also learned how to draw 3D shapes and I was so impressed with the work they produced!
The pupils also used their problem solving (and patience) skills to try and solve tangrams. These proved challenging but they used their resilience to try and solve them.
What a busy week. I’m so proud of all the Primary 6’s. We’re looking forward to exploring 2D and 3D shape further next week 🙂
Miss Mudge
As we reach December we would like to say that our staff love nothing more than a BIG THANK YOU
We know that some parents/ pupils like to bring gifts, but a thank you is the best gift ever! Instead this year we would be delighted if you could add a donation to Father Martin’s :
“Advent Cycle Fundraiser”
You can sponsor him through his “Just Giving” page here:
This years annual Toy Appeal at the Masonic Hall, 45 London Road, Kilmarnock will be held over 2 days:
This event is for families struggling at Christmas who need a little help.
Parents/carers can attend (no questions asked) and choose toys for their children this Christmas.
Attendance is for adults only this year and masks MUST be worn. Social distancing will be in place, hand sanitising on entry and a one way system will be in operation.
If your child wishes to send Christmas cards to school please put these in their homework folder on Thursday 3rd December or Thursday 10th December. These will then be handed out on the Monday.
Thank you for your co-operation with this.
As it is the beginning of December, it is time again for our
Reverse Advent Calendar appeal
Please bring items similar to those listed above into school by Friday 11th December. All items should be in a bag clearly marked for Reverse Advent calendar.
***no perishable food stuffs please***
You will now find Home Learning Tasks available online for children that are working from home for a short period of time.
These are available from the Main Menu of the website or by clicking on this link.
We are planning a P1-P3 Virtual Infant Nativity this year called:
“Bells Ring Out”
More information will be given out to parents/carers of P1-3 in due course by letter.
This year, each class will have their own post box where they can post Christmas cards to their friends. Children should bring their Christmas cards into school for posting on a Thursday and they will be delivered by the class teacher on the following Monday.
As today is the 1st of December, we are planning a PATHS home challenge through use of the PATHS Kindness Advent Calendar!
Try the kindness activities in the calendar above throughout the month of December with your child/children at home . Even if they only manage 1 it is a step of kindness in the right direction!
We would love to see any pictures you take of the children carrying out the kindness activities. Please send them to me at:
gillian.templeton@eastayrshire.org.uk
and we will try and post as many as we can on our blog !
Our 2020 school Christmas calendars will be on sale shortly! They will be reasonably priced at £2 per calendar (£4 for 2, £6 for 3 etc).
This year we have used some of the fantastic colourful photographs we took of each class in front of our “Rainbow Wall ” in the assembly hall. We are really pleased with how the photographs have turned out and hope they will brighten up the calendar in what has been an otherwise dreary year!
The calendars will be available to buy through ParentPay shortly.
Our Viking activities continued today, with Primary 4 getting busy designing and making their very own Viking brooches. The children took some time to think about what they wanted their brooch to look like, drawing their design and thinking about colour and pattern.
Later, we made our brooches using card and foil and applying their design to the brooch. I think Primary 4 made a fantastic job of their brooches, with lots of wonderful ideas coming to life on their hand made brooch. Well done, you are stars!!!
Some children have yet to finish their brooch and I will update with more photos once our display is complete.
We had a fabulous Rainbow Reward day with lots of bright clothing and fun activities in class and outside. Enjoy your weekend and see you all on Monday.
Mrs Travers
Primary 4 have been enjoying our new topic of the Vikings and learning lots about where Vikings came from, where they travelled to, why they raided British towns and what life was like in a Viking village.
Our focus recently has been looking at the living conditions inside a Viking long house and the children worked in groups to design, plan and build their own long house models.
I think the results are pretty fantastic as you can see from the photographs below. The team work displayed in class was fantastic too.
I am really looking forward to seeing the results of our homework challenge, to build a Viking Long Boat at home with the family! Have fun kids and I am sure some of your parents are more excited about this challenge than some of you!!
Take Care ( and remember your rainbow colours tomorrow!)
Mrs Travers
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