This week has been a busy week at Broughton. It has been our Health and Wellbeing Week, and as well as participation in Swimming, Yoga and Drum Fun activities, we also held our annual School Sports events in Botanical Broughton.The weather was glorious, and the children put their best efforts into competing!

Each class also had a Fun Run around Botanical Broughton to finish off Health Week on Friday. Some of the children dressed as marathon runners to get into the spirit of the event!

 

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Here is our list of Sports Winners-

P1-3 Class Winners- P2/3!

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P4-7 Class Individual Winners

P4a Boys- Innes Penman

P4a Girls- Aurora Kemble

P4b Boys- Ashton Henderson

P4b Girls- Eilidh Noronha

P5a Boys- Alex Moir

P5a Girls- Ruby Knox

P5b Boys- Ewan Kelly

P5b Girls- Sula Gordon

P6a Boys- Douglas Harper

P6a Girls- Ruth Adler

P6/7 Boys- Cameron Laing

P6/7 Girls- Eva Kelly

P7a Boys- Arthur Roberts

P7a Girls- Madiha Choudhury

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Sports Day House Points

1st    Pilrig  1311 pts

2nd     Trinity  1290 pts

3rd   Drummond  1276 pts

4th    McDonald  1266 pts

Fun Run

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Monday saw the second Edinburgh outing of the gold open topped bus in as many weeks as it visited Broughton Primary School. Lothian Buses joined in celebrating the success of 64 children who competed in the Edinburgh Marathon Festival junior races at the weekend to raise money for their school.

Inspired by P5 children and their teachers running The Daily Mile, and parents and children who ran in the 2015 Hairy Haggis Relays, the Parent Staff Association funded 19 children’s entrance fees to encourage first time runners, and to raise £2,500 for playground improvements. Children from every year group were represented, and took part in regular training sessions together in the weeks leading up to the event.

To reward their extraordinary achievement and community spirit, Dr Andrew Murray, ultra marathon runner and Scottish Government physical activity champion, gave a special assembly at school, about his running career, as well as encouraging the children to keep on running and praising their team work. Each child also received a new ‘Wider Achievement Award’ from Mrs O’Rourke and 20 house points.
Mrs O’Rourke said, “Saturday was a wonderful day – a real achievement for all the Broughton children and families who took part. It has been a fantastic community event that was made even more special by Dr Murray and the gold bus visiting the school on Monday morning.”
Parent organiser, Sandra Bagnall said: “Yesterday was the perfect end to a wonderful weekend of running and celebration for the Broughton Primary School community. Dr Murray’s inspirational talk at the school assembly reinforced what the children have learned during their training sessions and participation in EMF, that exercise is fun, makes you feel great and helps boosts your self-confidence and self-esteem, not just in physical activity but all aspects of life.”

Catriona Scott, another event organiser said: “ We are very grateful to Lothian Buses for lending us the gold bus complete with a ‘well done’ banner for the Broughton runners. It was a lovely surprise for them all and a great way to honour their dedication and achievements. Some children couldn’t quite believe it especially since a lot of them had seen their Hibs heroes in it the weekend before, something that they’ll never forget.”

To date, the BPS Runners Virgin MoneyGiving page has raised a whopping £3,610 including Gift Aid, and the children are looking forward to new picnic benches and loose parts play equipment after the Summer holidays.

You can support our fundraising by visiting EMF Fundraising Page and making a donation online.

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Follow the link below to read the Broughton Spurtle article about this-

Broughton Spurtle Article

There has been a huge amount of sporting activity in and around Broughton Primary recently!

Games at the Hub

P6 pupils attended ‘Games at the Hub’ at Broughton High School, an EPSSA organised event where they could compete in a range of sports. Our pupils took part in rugby, football and basketball tournaments.

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Interscholastics

Broughton sent a team to the annual Edinburgh Schools Interscholastics Athletics event. Our athletes took part in a range of events, and showed great effort and enthusiasm.

Our team were as follows-

P6- Eugen Boleac, Douglas Harper, Hayat Obaid, Mohammed El-Fateh, Ruth Adler, Katie Telford, Rania Ely and Alisha Iqbal

P7- Ben Rushforth, Daniel Cooper, Rhys Armit, Arthur Roberts, Modu Dia, Cammy Chambers, Paige McLeish, Sumayyah Aslam, Eva Kelly, Caitlyn Cowan, Robin Brough, Ruby McGoldrick and Wisal Chergui

Special mentions- Our P7 Girls Relay team, who qualified for the final, coming in 5th! Arthur Roberts came 6th in the final of the P7 Boys Cricket Ball Throw, and Paige McLeish, who qualified for the final of the P7 Girls 80m sprint, coming 5th!

Congratulations to all our athletes for their efforts!

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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

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Loose Parts Play has arrived at Broughton!

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the PSA fundraising events last year.

The money raised has allowed us to introduce Loose Parts Play into the playground and provide training for staff. As you can see from the photographs the children are enjoying being creative and imaginative playing with the equipment.

We now look forward to the delivery of the container to store more equipment in!

Each class has been organised a play date for using Loose Parts in May, to which parents and carers are invited!

Please visit your child(ren)’s class page(s) in the ‘Class Information’ section of the website to access these invitations.

Enjoy!