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This questionnaire is available online and also as a paper copy. Please only complete type per child. Please complete all areas of this to allow us to provide the best service possible if a future school closure was to occur.
A huge welcome to all our Primary 1 children. They have settled into class beautifully now and are becoming more confident in their surroundings each day.
Literacy
During term 1 our focus will be to develop the children’s phonological awareness in preparation for them to begin learning their letter sounds and making words. We will be concentrating on the rhyme and rhythm of language by looking at Nursery rhymes and clapping our syllables.
We will also be getting ready to write by improving our fine motor control and perfecting our pencil grip!! Name writing will be a focus too so that we can sign off on all our masterpieces!
Listening and talking will be a huge part of our day too, ensuring we develop our skills in active listening, taking turns and communicating our thoughts to others.
Numeracy
We have already begun to look for numbers all around us in Primary 1 and think of reasons why we need them.
Number time 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 also be counting aloud and learning the digits which represent our quantities.
As our pencil control improves, we will be learning to write our numbers, enabling us to record our counting.
Pattern will also be a focus, linking in to outdoor learning by looking for patterns of nature in our environment as well as man-made ones in our classroom. We will be creating our own patterns and linking these with number.
Health and Well-being
Our PATHs programme will feature heavily during our HWB time. The children have already met the puppets and have fallen in love with “Twiggle” and his friends already!!! Now that we have met our special puppet friends, they will be helping us to build friendships and learn all about our emotions.
Pupil of the day will also be introduced, where the children pay compliments to a chosen child, making them feel special throughout the day!!
Children are being consulted about changes to Reward Play to make this a special occasion for all children -class teachers will be asking for their opinion on how Reward Play could be made more special.
Please click on the link below to see the most up-to date information and advice for parents/carers regarding common colds and Covid symptoms from the Scottish Government:
www.gov.scot/publications/common-cold-and-covid-19-symptoms-advice-for-parents-and-carers/:
Superheroes – Magic Mount Carmel
On Friday 11th September we will celebrate our first Magic Mount Carmel Time since returning to school. This will be a special day of celebration for all our Superheroes! We have been so impressed with how our children became Superheroes during times when the school building was closed and how they have continued to be Superheroes since their return. On this day children can come to school dressed in their favourite Superhero costumes – please do not purchase anything new for this day, Superheroes can also wear school uniform or other normal clothes if they wish. In school they will have a special day with Superhero activities in their own class and using our school grounds.
Welcome back to school! It has been so wonderful to welcome back the pupils of primary 5, they are settling in beautifully and have already started making progress in their learning.
Here is an update on our learning that will take place in term 1 August- October.
Literacy
The class novel this term is ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ by Roald Dahl. The pupils will complete various reading and writing tasks related to this appropriate to their level. This novel study also has links to other curricular areas including Health and Well-being, art and drama.
We will also continue using the ‘Bug Club’ reading resource to aid our comprehension skills.
Writing
P5 will focus on imaginative/ narrative writing this term. The class will be told the focus of their writing the night before so as to discuss ideas at home. This will be their ‘Talk Homework’.
Groups will look at planning their piece, punctuation, effective use of vocabulary and paragraphing.
Spelling
Groups will continue to experience the active literacy spelling programme, this will introduce common words and focus phonemes pertinent to their stage.
Numeracy
This term the children will experience shape and time as beyond number topics. This will involve 2D and 3D shape tasks. During time activities they will look at time telling, duration, am and pm and some groups will look at 24hr conversion.
Our number processes topics will include division for the circles and rectangles groups, addition for the squares group and place value activities for the triangles group.
At home children will benefit from timetables revision and experience of telling the time in everyday situations.
Health and Well-being
The PATHS programme will continue to shape our HWB learning. P5 have already started ‘pupil of the day’ and participated in discussions around feelings and how we manage our emotions. P5 will also look at healthy choices and some substances that could harm our bodies, appropriate to their age and stage.
RE
Preparations for First Holy Communion are underway and we are supporting the pupils in class with this. Booklets have been sent home for parents to access for those children receiving the sacrament.
In class we will introduce the Gospel of Mark, our P5 focus gospel. We will discuss our talents and skills and this will form the basis of our class charter.
It’s good to be back!!!!!
EAC have made the decision that Primary 1 children in East Ayrshire should be able to have their class photograph taken outside for the Kilmarnock Standard.
We have arranged for the photographer from the Kilmarnock Standard to come to the school on Friday morning of this week to take a group photograph of our Primary 1 children. This will be taken outside and social distancing will be observed throughout the process.
If you do not wish your child to be in the photograph please let the school office know asap please.
Homework
Homework will be provided to Primary 2-7 children starting from Monday 7th September. Each child will bring home a plastic homework folder which will contain a grid with homework activities. The homework folder will also contain a card with login details for items which can be accessed online.
Pupils will soon be choosing their new House Captains and Vice Captains.
Good luck to all the children who have created films for this.
Dear Mount Carmel Primary Choir Member,
I would like to invite you be part of the Mount Carmel Primary Choir Team on Microsoft Teams.
As we cannot yet sing in school together, I thought you could all be practising at home, so that when we do get back together we would have a song or two to perform and sing.
I have chosen two songs for us to do. The first is called ‘One Moment, One People’ a song about working together and making positive connections with each other, very important at this time. The second song is called ‘We Are the Children of This School’.
On the Team there are backing tracks and lyrics to help you learn the songs. I would like you to start with ‘One Moment, One People’. There is a unison voice version as well to help as a guide for the melody.
*Listen to the unison version several times to get familiar with the tune.
*While listening click on the lyrics/sheet music and start singing along.
*You will notice that half way through the song it splits into two parts, try and learn both and we will decide who sings what when we meet again.
I hope you will enjoy the songs and singing again. Have fun practising and I look forward to seeing and hearing your lovely singing voices soon.
Miss Donnelly
(Vocal Instructor)
With the recent turn in weather, could we please request that children come to school with adequate clothing for outdoor learning and P.E. – such as a waterproof jacket.
We do have a stock of waterproof clothing children can access if this is required. Please give us a call or email if you would like to access these waterproofs.
Please find below our Privacy Notice in relation to the Barnardo’s PATHS programme which we are running in the school. This gives information on our schools partnership with Barnardo’s and how we use the information collected.
Can we please remind parents/carers that children should not be lifted over the fence at the lower school for health and safety reasons.
Your co-operation is appreciated, thank you.
Please remember that if your child has new symptoms of coronavirus (persistent cough, high temperature, and/or loss of taste or smell), they must not attend school for 10 days after the onset of symptoms. However, if they are tested and receive a negative result they can normally return to school immediately unless a high temperature is present, in which case they should still stay away from school for 48hrs after their temperature has normalised without the use of medication used to suppress fever. Please also note that pupils will be required to isolate for 14 days if another member of their household has symptoms, unless they themselves are tested for coronavirus.
I understand the pressures parents/carers are under to send their children to school and I am aware of the difficulties placed upon parents/carers when children are unable to attend school. However, it is critically important at this time that we adopt a cautious approach to managing the risks from coronavirus, and make our school as safe as we possibly can for our staff and our young people.
Your support in being vigilant to any new symptoms of coronavirus and acting in line with the current Government guidance helps us create that safe environment we are all working hard to maintain and for that I am grateful to you all.
Kindest Regards
Carole McConville, Head Teacher
A reminder if you still have EV5 (parental consent) and Flu Vaccination forms at home, could they please be completed and returned as soon as possible.
Thank you
From Monday 24th August there will be a designated area in the school playground for children to be collected at the end of the school day.
Primary 1 -3 parents/carers can continue to access the lower school playground at the end of the day to collect children.
Primary 4-7 parents/carers are required to wait in the Primary 6 and 7 playground to meet children.
The school gates will continue to be closed until 2.55pm. We request that no one enters the school grounds until this time.
A reminder that pupils CAN bring their own stationery to school, however, these CANNOT be shared with others.
With the recent turn in weather, could we please request that children come to school with adequate clothing for outdoor learning and P.E. – such as a waterproof jacket.
We do have a stock of waterproof clothing children can access if this is required. Please give us a call or email if you would like to access these waterproofs.
Please find information on the link below regarding the East Ayrshire School Lunch Pre Order System:
From Monday 17th August we ask that parents and carers no longer enter the school playground to drop children at school. Children will walk on their own from the lower school entrance gate and upper school entrance gate. A member of the management team will be at these gates to welcome the children to school.
Primary 1 parents and carers may continue to enter the lower school playground until children are collected by their teachers. We ask that from Monday 24th August Primary 1 parents and carers no longer enter the school playground to drop children at school.
The reason for these changes is that we want to keep children and families safe and support social distancing.
Please make sure that your child’s name is on the labels of jackets, jumpers, cardigans etc.
Please remember to adhere to social distancing when dropping and collecting children at school.
Today we were delighted to welcome back to school all our pupils from Group B including some more of our new Primary 1’s.
It was so good to see everyone in the school and the playground! We hope you all had fun.
Tomorrow we are looking forward to welcoming back our P6 and P7 “Buddies”; Our Primary 1’s are very excited to meet them !
It was great to see all the lovely , smiling Group A children back in school today along with our brand new Primary 1 pupils.
We enjoyed seeing them playing with their friends and having fun in the playground at break and lunch ! Everyone is excited about our Group B children coming tomorrow. We can’t wait to see you all again!
THURSDAY
FRIDAY (P1 and P6 and 7 buddies)
Please read the document below regarding updates to school transport.
Please read the attached letter from Mrs McConville detailing the arrangements for pupils returning to Mount Carmel Primary School.
Mount Carmel Return of Pupils Aug 5th
