Our school class Christmas calendars were on sale at our Christmas Fayre on Friday night. If you were unable to attend the Fayre and would like to order a calendar, you can do this as of today through Parentpay only until this Friday, 5th December, at a cost of £2 per calendar.
If you wish to see a sample of your child’s class calendar photo prior to purchasing, please pop into the school as we have them on display for each class.
The Friends of Jesus Community Group would like to thank the classes for taking part in our special prayer service during Catholic Education Week.
We encouraged everyone to think about the meaning of hope and placed our own special hopes into our ‘bags of hope’ displayed near the altar in each class.
Well done to all our Friends of Jesus group for so confidently leading the prayers in your class.
Please continue to keep us in your prayers.
Choir children should attend school tomorrow night at 5.45pm, Christmas Jumpers, headwear etc can be worn. Mrs Terras will meet the children the children at the front door.
Our Christmas lunch will take place on Wednesday 3rd December. Children can wear their Christmas jumpers with the rest of their school uniform on the day.
This Friday (28th) we are very kindly asking for any home baking donations from parents/carers towards the home baking stall at our Christmas Fayre.
Thankyou
We will be attending ‘Sleeping Beauty’ on Tuesday 2nd December. The buses will leave just after 9am. Children can bring a small snack and juice or water for this. Please do not send fizzy juice or large bags of sweets or crisps. Children can wear Christmas jumpers (if they wish) with the rest of their school uniform. We will return to school in time for a later lunch.
Gentle reminder that the closing date for forms to be returned requesting tickets for this years Infant Nativity is Friday 28th November.
Thankyou
Dear Parent/Carer
As you are no doubt aware, your child is due to transfer from primary to secondary education at the beginning of the new school session (August 2026).
Secondary school hand books are available at: https://eastayrshi.re/SchoolHandbooks
You must complete the online P7 transfer application at http://eastayrshi.re/p7transfer no later than Friday 12 December 2025 to ensure your child is allocated a place within their secondary school.
At Mount Carmel we have been reviewing and updating our Health and Wellbeing policy. This contains items for Do Be Mindful and PATHS. Please read both of these draft policies and complete the linked feedback form for each one. Thank you for your support with this.
Thank you for your views on our updated Numeracy and Nurture policy. Your comments showed that you are pleased with the adaptions.
The Mount Carmel in the Community group have decided to organise this year’s Reverse Advent Calendar which will run from the 1st to 17th of December.
We would be very grateful if you could bring in something to donate to our local food bank such as tinned food, biscuits or pasta. If you wish to send in additional items such as toiletries or infant formula please feel free to do so. These will be greatly appreciated by our local community.
Possible ideas:
Please do not bring perishable foods.
Thank you,
Mount Carmel in the Community group
A reminder that the Primary 4 children who are preparing for First Communion have their next Sunday Club session on Sunday 23rd November at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church.
On this date ( Sunday 23rd November) – the session will be at a different time from that stated on the letter given out by the parish.
The session will start at the earlier time of 11am and run to just before Mass begins at 1130.
Children should bring their “I Belong ” book with them.
Reminder that tomorrow we are having a Dress Down Day, pupils can come to school in their own clothes and we are looking for a donation for the bottle/raffle or tombola stall which we will have at our Christmas fayre on Friday 28th November.
Thanks
All the P6 children who attended Day of Dance on Wednesday had a ball and were a credit to the school!
As part of their Pope Francis Faith Award P7 can put themselves forward for a Parish Commendation from their Parish Priest. I gave out the form for this yesterday. Pupils seeking the Parish Commendation should now have an opportunity to “check‐in” with
the parish priest to agree what they have done in the parish so far. When PP is satisfied that the pupil has met the criterion for the Parish Commendation, he should sign the Parish Commendation sheet.
Please return the form to me by Friday 28th November as it has to be scanned and emailed to SCES to be verified.
Thank you,
Mrs Terras
Preparations have already begun for this year Infant Nativity ‘Hey Ewe’ and children are busy learning all of the fantastic songs and lines.
This years performances will take place on Tuesday 9th December & Wednesday 10th December at 2pm (doors open at 1.30pm for tea & coffee)
A letter will be sent to Infant parents/carers over the next few days on how to purchase tickets.
We look forward to seeing ‘Ewe’ soon
We are asking pupils to wear something blue to celebrate World Children’s Day , this Thursday 20th November. After the fantastic Scotland result last night children are able to wear Scotland football tops ONLY should they wish to do so.
The Christmas choir have been working incredibly hard during rehearsals and can’t wait for their first performance at the Christmas Fayre next Friday.
To help the children practice at home I have put the links to the backing tracks on YouTube below. These are the same versions of the ones we use at rehearsals. We want to sing without needing song sheets for our performances so this should help build confidence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAqhh5KVc8o&list=RDzAqhh5KVc8o&start_radio=1 – It feels like Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VJp7-ptpiQ&list=RD0VJp7-ptpiQ&start_radio=1 – It will soon be Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28pWYYGQw64&list=RD28pWYYGQw64&start_radio=1 – Jingle Bell Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh02eg1s_P8&list=RDeh02eg1s_P8&start_radio=1 – Rock Around the Shops
Thank you,
Mrs Terras
We are asking pupils to wear something blue to celebrate World Children’s Day , this Thursday 20th November.
We have altered our ask for this weeks’ dress down day to anything for either the Raffle, Tombola or Bottle Stall to add to our donations for the Christmas Fayre on Friday 28th.
Every donation is greatly appreciated.
There is now a payment item on Parentpay where you can purchase raffle tickets for the Christmas Fayre raffle. Tickets are £1 per strip of 5 and the last day for purchasing tickets this way will be Wednesday 26th November. The raffle will be drawn on the night of the Fayre.
*Please note this is a separate raffle from our school November raffle.
A reminder that tomorrow, (Tuesday 18th November) children in Primary 1 will receive their Bookbug Family Bag and children in Primary 2 and Primary 3 will receive their Read Write Count bags.
We will have a special afternoon of activities on the day. Children in P1-3 can bring pyjama’s to change into after lunch, they are also welcome to bring a cuddly toy, small blanket or pillow. The teachers have planned a lovely afternoon for the boys and girls we hope they have a lovely time.
Please do not send children into school in their pyjamas, they should come to school in their uniform and have their pyjamas with them to change into.
Thanks
A reminder that our outing to the Pantomime is on Tuesday 2nd December.
The buses will be at the school for 9am and all children who are attending the Pantomime MUST be in school for this time as the buses will be unable to wait for any latecomers. Children can bring a small snack, a bottle of water (not fizzy juice) and they can wear their Christmas jumper with their school uniform. They will be back in time for lunch.
Children who are not attending the Pantomime should not come into school that day as there will be no provision for them.
We have been informed that we will have an Authority Learning Visit. This will take place on Tuesday 2nd December, Wednesday 3rd December and Thursday 4th December.
Part of this includes a discussion with our parents/carers. If you would like to be part of this discussion please complete the form below.
This will take place in the school on Wednesday 3rd December at 2:30pm.
Mount Carmel Learning Visit Parent/Carer group – Fill in form
Thank you for your support.
Mrs Fergusson
The Primary 4 children who are preparing for First Communion have their next Sunday Club session on Sunday 23rd November at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church.
On this date ( Sunday 23rd November) – the session will be at a different time from that stated on the letter given out by the parish.
The session will start at the earlier time of 11am and run to just before Mass begins at 1130.
Children should bring their “I Belong ” book with them.
We had asked our parents to complete a survey on our school. This is a way for us to hear your views on what we are doing well and what we could do to improve our school.
Thank you very much to everyone who took the time to fill this in during our pupil progress meetings. We really appreciate it.
If you haven’t had the opportunity to complete this survey, please find the link below.
Parent questionnaire for Mount Carmel – Fill in form
Thank you everyone!
Remember to check your child’s Learning Journal for a snapshot of some of the fabulous learning taking place in our classrooms.
If you are unable to log in, please contact the school office.
