Dear Parents/Carers,

On behalf of all the staff in Mount Carmel I would like to wish you and your family a Happy New Year.

Unfortunately we will not be welcoming all our children back as we would have wished. Circumstances require us to move to a period of home learning for most. I know that the previous period of lockdown was difficult for some families. We have taken on board your comments from our survey of September 2020 and had put plans in place based on these and the experiences of staff who were organising home learning.

Unlike the previous period of lockdown our school will remain open and children of key workers will attend Mount Carmel rather than a Hub. Our staff will work on a rota basis within the school to support these children and when not in school teachers will prepare home learning activities.

As we are able to be in school it will be easier for us to contact you and the children and to adapt to any changing circumstances.

Tomorrow we will give details of how home learning will be organised initially.

I know this is a difficult and worrying time for everyone. Please be assure we will support our children the best we can.

Mrs McConville

Head Teacher

Dear Parents and Carers,

Happy New Year!!

As part of our daily routine within the hubs, we are hoping to get the children out to play as often as possible (weather permitting). We would really appreciate your help in assuring that if you are planning on sending your children to our hub that you make sure they have warm clothing and also send in a spare set of trousers in case they get wet or dirty from outdoor play. We will, as always, ensure your child is safe whilst out playing in the cold weather.  We are looking forward to welcoming the children back into school. As always, a big thank you from all the staff for your ongoing support.

Well we’ve made it to the end of 2020. It’s been a very different start to a school year! I am so proud all the boys and girls for their resilience and hard work over the last two terms. I am proud to be your teacher!

We’ve had a lovely week enjoying the Pantomime, having our Christmas Party, doing Christmas craft activities and having our pyjama and movie day today.

I hope all the parents and carers have managed to access and watch the Mount Carmel Christmas Extravaganza. Who knew Primary 6 were such good dancers – lots of talent for our next Summer show (fingers crossed!).

Wishing all the P6’s and their families a safe and healthy Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Love Miss Mudge x

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

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👌🍗🍰🧁

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:

www.justgiving.com/fundraising/martin-chambers32

This years annual Toy Appeal at the Masonic Hall, 45 London Road, Kilmarnock will be held over 2 days:

• Wednesday 16th December – 11am till 4pm
• Thursday 17th December – 11am till 4pm

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***

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 !