P7 arrived safely at Lagganlia Outdoor Education Centre, near Aviemore, yesterday lunchtime!

We have settled in to our dorms well, and have been developing independence and life skills through keeping our new home for the week clean, doing dishes and keeping dorms tidy and organised!

We have already done a range of exciting and interesting activities! Last night we carried out a ‘Scatter Course’, a kind of scavenger hunt to get to know the Lagganlia Centre well. Todays activities have included a gorge walk, abseiling, rock climbing, mountain biking and a hill walk.

The children have been recording their thoughts and feelings about their activities in their daily diary time too.

The weather has been mixed- a bit windy today, but that helps to keep the dreaded midges at bay!

We are happy to share just a few of our pictures so far with you below- there has already been some fantastic team work, encouragement, support and determination from our pupils- long may their positive attitude continue! More photos to follow later in the week!

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Our PSA will be holding a Lunchtime Cafe this Friday 30th September.

This will run from 11.30 until 1pm in the school Dining Hall.

On sale will be soup, savouries and home baking.

If you can support the cafe with a donation of sandwiches, cakes or other goodies, that would be much appreciated!

The flyer is below-

PSA Lunchtime Cafe

 

We are excited to announce the members of 2 very important Pupil Groups at Broughton- Pupil Council and House Captains.

Pupils interested in representing their class on Pupil Council prepared short presentations to say why they would be a good candidate, and were voted for by their classmates. Especially exciting for P2 and P3, who have reps for the first time this year!

Our Pupil Council this year are as follows-

P2a   Ruby Dockerty
P2b   Orla Pendry
P3a   Beatrice Smith
P3b   Grace Clarkson
P4a   Holly Bartholomew
P4b   Ruby Foster
P5a   Finn Pendry
P5b   Jess Russell
P6   Calum Rathjen
P6/7  Ewan Gardner
P7   Alba McGowan
LCW   Jamie Pass

 

P7 House Captain candidates, and P6 Vice- Captain candidates had to present to the members from their house from P5-P7. After some very close voting, the following pupils were voted in to represent their respective houses.

House Captains 2016-2017

McDonald
Ruth Adler P7   Sean Hunter P7
Pilrig
Isla McPherson P6/7   Amelia Durward-McLeod P6/7
Trinity
Katherine Donn P7   Douglas Harper P7
Drummond
Kayleigh Wylie P7   Cammy Clarkson P7

House Vice- Captains 2015-2016

McDonald
Thomas Dimelow P6   Harris Archibald P6
Pilrig
Alex Moir P6   Megan Wright P6/7
Trinity
Greig McVicar P6   Sameer Uddin P6
Drummond
Harper Clark-Tonberg P6   Holly Hou P6

Congratulations to all our new members!  We’re sure you’ll represent yout classes and houses well!

Praise must also be given to everyone who put themselves forward to be considered for these important roles. You were all very brave and confident to stand up and present to your audiences. Well done!

 

We had a visit from author E.R. Reilly at our assembly on Monday! He read us some excerpts from his books and gave us story writing tips we can use in our own creative writing and stories.

He held a book signing, where pupils could buy signed copies of some of his stories. Over 50 copies of his books were sold, so he kindly donated a number of free books to the school!

We enjoyed his visit very much!

This week also saw our annual ‘Meet the Teacher’ event. The evening was well attended across the school, and we hope that our parents and carers found it to be a useful and informative event. Power point presentations for each stage will be available to view on individual class pages soon. Watch this space!

Thanks for supporting us with your attendance!

 

 

 

The author E.R. Reilly is visiting our school on Monday at Assembly. He will talk to the P3-7 classes about his work and give them ‘top-tips’ for writing stories of their own. This will launch our new approach to teaching Reading at Broughton which you will hear more about at ‘Meet the Teacher’ on Tuesday.

E.R Reilly’s books are suitable for all children. From ‘Rashnu’, which is especially suited to younger readers, through to ‘Tall Tales’, where a girl ventures into the woods to rescue her pet dog.
You can visit the website at: http://www.er-reilly.co.uk where you can read extracts from the books and see videos of Eamonn teaching children to write stories.

If you would like to purchase one of the books please fill in the slip below and return it to school.

Author Visit September 5th