On Saturday 65 Broughton Primary pupils are running in the Edinburgh Marathon Festival.

The BPS Team are running an impressive 70 miles (112km) between them and that works out the same as climbing Ben Nevis an exhausting 83 times! We’re within touching distance of our £2,500 target to buy picnic benches and tables, plus more loose parts equipment for all our children to enjoy. Please support the runners and sponsor them here, EMF Fundraising Page , share the fundraising page with family, friends, workmates and ask them to share it too.
If you’d like to come along and cheer the runners on, the 2k (9-12 years) race starts at 12.30pm and the 1.5k (6-8 years) race is at 1.30pm.

School Sports Day

Just a reminder that Sports Day for P1-7 will take place, weather permitting, next
Tuesday 31st May during our Whole School Health Week.

We are planning to hold the sports events on the bowling green, now named
Botanical Broughton, across from the school.

The P4-7 event is due to start at 9.15am and P1-3 starting at 1.30pm.

As we will be competing in our houses we are asking pupils to wear a top in their own house colour:
Drummond – Blue

Trinity-Green

Pilrig-Yellow

McDonald- Red

Parents are invited to come along to Sports Day and cheer on our budding athletes!

Fingers crossed for a sunny day!

In just over a week, on Saturday 28th May, 65 Broughton Primary pupils are running in the Edinburgh Marathon Festival to raise money for playground improvements and our popular Culture Fund. Together they are running 112km, which works out at a massive 143,000 steps between them! Please support the runners and sponsor them here and share the fundraising page with family, friends, workmates and ask them to share it too!

EMF Fundraising Page

Our organisers had a drop-in session for our runners at school today, and they had the chance to pick up their special t-shirt they’ll be wearing when they represent the school.

They will all look very fetching in this!

 

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At Broughton our P6 and P7 pupils celebrate their wider achievements through participation in the JASS scheme (Junior Award Scheme for Schools.)

One element of JASS is called ‘Adventure’, and  our P7 trip to Lagganlia School Camp allows them to take part in  a wide range of ‘adventure’ type experiences and activities.

For our P6 pupils, and those P7 pupils who did not go to camp, Mrs Clark organised an ‘Adventure’ outdoor learning experience, in St. Mark’s Park woods.

The children were involved in problem solving through building a waterproof shelter, and enjoyed fire building too!

The children all had a fantastic time, and what a great example of outdoor learning!

Thanks to Mrs Clark for organising this wonderful experience for these pupils!

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We were very pleased this week to have some new signage and door artwork installed at school.

Our entrance foyer now has a new welcome sign, and the doors at the entrance to the school have transparent artwork showing our school badge, motto and learning wordle.

We are also very excited to have a new sign for our bowling green space, Botanical Broughton. This sign was designed by the Pupil Council, and looks great!

 

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Our Pupil Council have been gathering evidence of successful learning happening here at Broughton.

Each member of the Pupil Council took photographs of successful learners at work, examples of successful learning, or examples of things that helped them to be more successful in their learning.

They gathered a range of evidence, including learning walls, class displays, examples of home learning,pupils working together, and much more, all from a variety of different contexts.

This week they shared their evidence with each other, and invited Mrs O’Rourke along too. They explained what their evidence was, and why they had included it as an example of successful learning. They were very clear and confident in their presentations!

Mrs O’Rourke collated all their evidence in a graffiti wall, which can be found at the link below-

Pupil Council Graffiti Wall

Well done, and thanks to our Pupil Council for their efforts!

 

In two weeks time, on 28th May, 65 Broughton Primary children are running in the Edinburgh Marathon Festival to raise money for playground improvements and our popular Culture fund. They will run an impressive 112 km (just under 70 miles) between them and that is the equivalent of running to Stirling and back!

Please support the runners and sponsor them here and share the fundraising page with family, friends, workmates and ask them to share it too!

EMF Fundraising Page

 
Local press have also taken an interest in our marathon efforts! Follow the link below to an article about our plucky runners in ‘The Broughton Spurtle’.

Broughton Spurtle News Article