We realise that the current situation can be challenging for everyone, both adults and children and we are eager to support you as best we can as we face these challenges together.

As part of our Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) our coach from Barnardo’s Scotland, who supports the implementation of the PATHS® programme in school will be taking questions relating to the Social and Emotional Health and Wellbeing of parents, children and family members.

If you or your child have any questions regarding challenges you are currently experiencing, perhaps dealing with difficult feelings or behaviours in your home or dealing with new challenges presented by staying at home, you can send us your question and our coach from Barnardo’s will respond. As always, if you have a particular concern regarding your child that you want to discuss please contact the school directly.

Just to let you know – Our learning assembly will return on 5th June

Hello boys and girls,

We hope you enjoyed today’s story.

Cody the caterpillar felt a bit unsure about becoming a butterfly, she wanted to stay a caterpillar forever. Her friends told her it would be great and they were right. Marty knows you might be feeling a bit unsure about becoming a big P1 but he also knows you will be great too!!

Now that you have finished the story, do you think you could make your very own butterfly?? Use the butterfly template to make the most bright and beautiful butterfly ever!! Keep your butterfly safe and on our very first day together in school, bring it with you.

We can’t wait to see you all becoming beautiful P1 butterflies!

 Lots of Love

Mrs Duff and Mrs Dunsmore xxx

Hi boys and girls. I am Mrs Rodger and I work in the office with Mrs Gallacher. I hope you are exited about coming to Mount Carmel in August. I can’t wait to meet you!

Hello. My name is Mrs Gallacher and I work in the school office with Mrs Rodger. I’m really looking forward to meeting you all when you start in August. x

Hello boys and girls. My name is Mrs Templeton and you will see me in your playground at break and lunchtime. I will look after you if you hurt yourself or if you aren’t feeling very well. I am looking forward to seeing you all very soon. x

Hi everyone, below you’ll find the grids and worksheets for next week.  But, good news…it’s only a short week!! So each grid has only 5 tasks since Monday and Tuesday are holidays for you!

Numeracy

P5 Numeracy Grid  WB 25th May

Literacy

P5 Literacy Grid WB 25th May

Onomatopoeia task 25th May

IDL

IDL WB 25th May P4-7

Les Couleurs worksheet

Remember, not all tasks need to be completed.  Do what you can and have fun doing it.  Here’s an idea of how you can timetable your day.

Mr Bertoncini & Mrs McIntyre

This Sunday, the 24th May is the day Primary 4 boys and girls have been looking forward to all year. This was the day those who have been preparing for their sacraments, would have celebrated their First Holy Communion. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your families, boys and girls.
There will be a special Mass streamed live by Father Martin from St Matthew’s Church at 10:00am. Mrs McGahon has recorded the psalm and Mr Bertoncini one of the readings. To be part of this special Mass:
Go online and search You Tube for ‘Kilmarnock, St Matthew’

Hello P6,

I have enjoyed your updates on how you are getting on and the photographs of your fabulous work. You are all fabulous!

There is a Numeracy, Literacy and an IDL  (topic) grid based on Rainbows.  This is a shorter week, you are on holiday from school on Monday 25th  and Tuesday 26th so you will see that there are only 5 tasks on each grid.

Numeracy

Numeracy Home Learning Grid

Literacy

Literacy Home Learning Grid

IDL ( Topic)

Rainbow Grid

Les Couleurs

Remember to try to complete the 3 core tasks and some of the additional tasks. There is no expectation that all tasks should be completed.

Here is a possible daily routine but remember to do what suits you and your family.

8.00-9.00      Breakfast, play outside

9.00-10.00    Exercise time: You could do some Joe Wicks on YouTube/ Just Dance/ Cosmic Yoga.

10.00-11.00  Home Learning – Literacy task

11.00-11.30  Snack and play outside

11.30-12.30 Home Learning- Numeracy tasks

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch and play outside

1.30-2.30 Walk or exercise

2.30-3.00 Home Learning –Rainbow grid.

Enjoy the long weekend! I will look forward to hearing from you all.

Take care,
Mrs MacKinnon 🙂

Hello Boys and Girls!

Well done for another wonderful week of learning! Thank you to everyone who sent me photos of your fabulous work, I can see you have been working so hard. I am so proud of every one of you! Keep up the amazing effort!

Below you will find your home learning grids for next week WB 25.5.20. I have sent out your literacy and numeracy task sheets to your individual email accounts. Next week is a short week as we have a long weekend so there is less tasks for you to complete. Remember, core tasks are in red and there is no expectation that all tasks should be completed. Just do what you can!

P2 Literacy Learning Grid 27.5.20

P2 Numeracy Learning Grid 27.5.20

P1 to 3 IDL grid 27th May

French Greetings 27th May

French Rainbow

Suggested Timetable:

8:00 – 9:30 Get up/Get Dressed/Eat Breakfast

9:30 – 10:00  Joe Wicks/Outside Play

10:00 – 10:30 Literacy/Numeracy Task (Choose 1)

10:30 – 10:45 Brain Break/Snacktime

10:45 – 12:00 Literacy/Numeracy Task (Chooe 1)

12:00 – 12:30 Lunchtime (Can you help your adult to make lunch?)

12:30 – 1:30 IDL Task (Choose 1)

1:30 – 2:00 Cosmic Yoga

2:00 – 2:30 Literacy/Numeracy Task (Choose 1)

2:30 Free Time!!

Have a lovely long weekend everyone, stay safe! I am looking forward to hearing your news next week!

Mrs Dunsmore xox

Good afternoon primary four,

I hope you have all had another fantastic week and made the most of the sunshine.  I can see that you have all been super busy again this week, which is amazing! I am so proud of you!  You are all SUPERSTARS!

I know this weekend is a strange one as a lot of you would of been looking forward to making your Communion,  some of you will be feeling a bit disappointed and that’s OK.  When the day does come, we’ll make sure it is incredibly special and we will keep you in our thoughts and prayers this weekend.

Take care and enjoy the long weekend!

Love from,

Mrs Strachan x

Literacy – P4 WB 25.5.20

T-L-5091-Roald-Dahl-Quotes-Mindfulness-Colouring-Posters t-l-51740-ks1-roald-dahl-differentiated-reading-comprehension-activity_ver_3

Time Capsule Activity Booklet

Numeracy – P4 WB 25.5.20

Who-Stole-The-May-Queens-Crown-Activity-Sheet

Rainbow 4-7

Les Couleurs(1)

Hello Primary 7,

This is a bit of a different week because you are on holiday from school Monday 25th and Tuesday 26th. Therefore you only have five tasks in the Numeracy and Literacy grids to do. Again, do what you can, when you can. I am on Teams from 9-3pm.

I am still looking for Primary 1 photos, I’ve sent another reminder email out.

I hope everyone managed to read the S1 Transition message from Mr Kane and Mr Boyle. It is on the Mount Carmel blog page and I emailed it.

Lastly, I love looking at all the work you’ve been sending me. I am very proud of you all. Thank you for all your hard work.

Have a relaxing long weekend and fingers crossed the sun comes out at some point.

Love Miss Mudge

HOME LEARNING GRIDS w/b 25th May

LITERACY

Primary 7 Literacy Grid wb 25th May

My Shadow poem

Green Group Poetry Tasks

Yellow Group Poetry Tasks

Green Group prefix activity

Yellow Group Spelling Task and Answers

NUMERACY

Primary 7 Numeracy Grid wb 25th May

Circles Numeracy Task 1

Circles Numeracy Task 2

Triangles Numeracy Task 1

Triangles Numeracy Task 2

IDL

Rainbow 4-7

french rainbow

Hello Boys and girls,

Here are your learning tasks for the week ahead. You are doing an amazing job so far and I am so very proud of all of you. I have included  an example of what your day could look like but just complete your tasks whenever you can. There is no expectation for all of these tasks to be completed. This week you will also notice there are fewer tasks. This is because Monday and Tuesday are holidays for you all. This means you have a lovely long weekend and I would love to hear all about it. Send me an email of some of the wonderful things you have been doing. Hope to hear from you all soon. Lots of love, Mrs McCreadie x

Possible daily routine

08:00-09:00 – Breakfast/ cartoons/ outside play/ get dressed

09:00 – 10:00 – Exercise time – Joe Wickes/ just dance / Cosmic yoga

10:00 – 11:00 – Home learning – Literacy task – choose 1 activity

11:00 – 11:30 – Snack and play

11:30 – 12:30 -Home learning – Numeracy task – choose 1 activity

12:30 – 1:30 – Lunch and play

1:30 – 2:30 – walk or some exercise

2:30 – 3:00 – Home learning – IDL grid – choose one activity

3: 00 – RELAX!!

Literacy mat

Numeracy mat

IDL grid

french rainbow

French Greetings

Hello boys and girls! Welcome to our third Home Learning Assembly.

We hope you are all well and continuing to enjoy the tasks and activities from your teachers. We have loved hearing from you and seeing all the great things you are doing at home. Remember just do what you can, when you can and know that we are here to help you.

We will begin our assembly by taking a moment to speak to God-

Dear God,

Thank you for our homes and our families. Please continue to help us and keep us safe. May we live like Jesus and show others your love in all that we do.

Lord in your mercy, Hear our Prayer.

A few weeks ago Bishop Nolan asked for pictures of our priests to be sent to him and we know that many of you had great fun drawing pictures of Father Martin! This week Bishop Nolan has a new challenge for you – he would like you to paint or draw a picture of your family. These will then be used to fill the Cathedral at a time when it cannot be filled with people. Ask a grown up to send your pictures via Facebook Messenger to the RC Ayr Page or you can email them to Mrs McGahon on Glow.

On the Wellbeing blog you will see lots of top tips on how to stay positive and have a healthy mind. This week for Mental Health Awareness Week we are asked to think about how kindness can make us all feel better.

Over the last few months we have seen many wonderful acts of kindness. From Captain Tom’s pledge to raise money for the NHS to each and every one of our amazing Key Workers who have put patients, customers and others before themselves. Kindness is spreading everywhere!

What does kindness look like for us? How can we feel better by helping others? Click on the link below and we can watch this short video together –

https://youtu.be/Qcyc68d6OAk  

“Kindness is a gift everyone can afford to give”. Here are some ideas of ways that you can show kindness from home –

• Send a friend a card to let them know you’re missing them.
• Invite a friend to play a safe online game with you.
• Sort through your old clothes or toys and choose a few things to donate to charity.
• Give a compliment to someone at home – this could be yourself!Remember all the wonderful compliments your friends and teachers at school gave you.
• Help a younger brother or sister with something they don’t understand.
• Set the table for dinner and help to clear up afterwards.
• Leave a thank you note for your postman/woman or your bin collectors.
• Clap to thank the NHS and put a rainbow in your window.

We know that lots of you will be doing these things already and it would be lovely if you could share some of your acts of kindness with us! Let us know what you did and how it made you feel. You can email them to your class teacher or to Mrs McGahon.

We have so many reasons to be proud of ourselves and others during these unusual times. This week Mrs Duff and Mrs McIntyre would like to share their Proud Clouds with you!

Thank you also this week to Jessica (P1), Hannah (P3) and Olivia (P7) for sending in their Proud Clouds, check them out on the Wellbeing blog! Remember you can send yours to Mrs Crawford at claire.crawford@eastayrshire.org.uk. We are so proud of all of you!

This Sunday would have been the celebration of First Holy Communion for our boys and girls in P4 who have been preparing for their sacraments –

Maia, Kinga, Megan, Lexi, Marcie, Harry, Oliver, Chloe, Annalise, Ethan, Emily, Damon, Zak and Indigo we are thinking of you and sending our love and prayers.

There will be a special Mass streamed live by Father Martin at 10.00am from St.Matthew’s Church. Just search for ‘Kilmarnock St Matthew’ on You Tube and you will be able to take part.

Let us now finish our assembly with a prayer sent to us by Father Martin –

Father of kindness and of all calm, help us to find peace in you.

You showed your friends how to find happiness through love.

Touch our hearts that we will always know that you are with us and that we are not alone.

Teach us that we can find your love in our brothers and sisters, in our family and friends. 

Help us to find you and your love every day of our lives.

This prayer we ask through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

Continue to stay safe boys and girls. We love and miss you all very much.

Together we are #Team MC

Please find below a link to information about-

PATHS – The  social and emotional learning programme the children have been learning about in school .

An introduction to PATHS® for Parents

Important information from Mr Kane and Mr Boyle from St. Joseph’s Academy

Message from Mr Kane

We have not forgotten about you. We are still gathering all data files from associated schools, and will be in touch in late May/early June to introduce you to staff and life at St. Joseph’s. We do not know when we will be able to welcome you formally, but staff are working to prepare an online introduction for you later in the month. As soon as we have all contact details we will be in touch with parents/carers. We would rather wait for all records to be with us than to send information to some families and not others. I would stress that the timeline for record transfer is as normal, but know that pupils and families will be more aware of the move to St. Joseph’s while schools are closed.

Message from Mr Boyle

A welcome video will go out this week or early next week. S1 classes are completed in terms of allocation. We consulted with Primary Heads and P7 teachers on positive peer groupings, as the Pastoral visits that would normally help with this were cancelled due to closure. There will be 4 S1 classes and an intake of 104.

All ASN information has gone to Mrs Hoy and she is aware of those requiring Learning support as Transition 1 meetings took place prior to closure.

Packs including timetables, transport information and school/East Ayrshire policies will be emailed in to P7 parents in June.

Individual departments may put their own introductory videos in the coming weeks.

Thank you so much to all of the boys and girls who entered the competition to design a new t-shirt for Marty.

There were so many wonderful designs that Marty had to ask Mrs McConville to help him choose! We are very pleased to announce that the winner is Katie MacKinnon. Well done!

Mrs Taylor has her sewing machine at the ready to turn your design into a real t-shirt for our favourite bear!

Hi boys and girls,

We hope you enjoyed today’s story. It is one of our favourites as it has lots of numbers and things to count!!

Why don’t you watch and listen to the story again and point to the numbers you see. Do you recognise them? Perhaps you could count the animals/birds on each of the pages.

Now that you have finished the story, do you think you could go on a number hunt around your house or when you are out on a walk?? Look out for any of the numbers you saw in the story today! Where do you think you might find numbers?

Here are some that Marty has spied already!

We would love you to take a photograph of any numbers you do find, and if possible, could you send them in to Mrs McGahon?

Happy Number Hunting!!

Lots of love,

Mrs Duff and Mrs Dunsmore xxx

Hi boys and girls. My name is Mrs Webb. I love working in the infant department and cannot wait to see your smiling faces. We have a fabulous school and wonderful teachers.

Hello boys and girls. My name is Mrs Jeffers. I like to paint, dance and play lots of playground games. I’m excited to meet you all and hear all about what you enjoy. See you soon. x

Hi,

I hope you and your families are healthy and happy and are enjoying some very special time together. Here is your learning for the week ahead.

Remember there is no expectation that you should complete all of the things on the grids, you do what is right for your family circumstances.

I love hearing from all of the children and I am super proud of each and every one of them.

Keep being awesome!!

Take care,

Love from Mrs McCreadie xx

Literacy mat primary 3 18.5.20

P3 Numeracy Learning Grid 18.5.20

Blue Spelling word for the week beginning 18.5.20

green Spelling word for the week beginning 18.5.20P1 to 3

IDL grid 18th May PDF-1

red Spelling word for the week beginning 18.5.20

https://www.solvemoji.com/Puzzle/

Hello P6,

I have enjoyed your updates on how you are getting on and the photographs of your fabulous work. You are all stars!

Please find below the Home Learning Tasks for the week beginning 18/5/20.

There is a Numeracy, Literacy and Health and an IDL grid based on Family.

Numeracy

Numeracy Learning Grid

Co-ordinates Task

Literacy

Literacy Learning Grid

IDL Topic

Family P4-7

Remember to try to complete the core tasks and some of the additional tasks. There is no expectation that all tasks should be completed.

Here is a possible daily routine but remember to do what suits you and your family.

8.00-9.00 Breakfast, play outside
9.00-10.00 Exercise time: You could do some Joe Wicks on YouTube/ Just Dance/ Cosmic Yoga.
10.00-11.00 Home Learning – Literacy task
11.00-11.30 Snack and play outside
11.30-12.30 Home Learning- Numeracy tasks
12.30 – 1.30 Lunch and play outside
1.30-2.30 Walk or exercise
2.30-3.00 Home Learning – Health and Well-being Grid

Take care,
Mrs MacKinnon

Hello P5,

It’s been great to see all the work and pictures from those who have sent some this week. Please continue to share your work with us and check in with us weekly on glow email.  Keep working hard!

Here are next weeks grids and accompanying worksheets:

Literacy

P5 Literacy Grid May 18th

Onomatopoeia

Maths & Numeracy

P5 Numeracy Grid 18th May

Circles dividing decimals

Circles & Rectangles w/sheet AP

Rectangles Simplifying fractions

Squares Subtraction

Squares w/sheet 1 Area/Perimeter

Squares w/sheet 2 Area/Perimeter

‘Family’ Learning Grid

Family P4-7

Remember to complete core tasks and if you can try some of the optional ones too – There is no need to complete all tasks. Only do what you can and whenever you can manage as there are plenty things to work on.

Take care and stay safe!

Mr Bertoncini and Mrs McIntyre