The Edinburgh Schools Swimming Championships were held earlier this term. Broughton pupils attended, and the team had some successful results! Eilidh Noronha from P7b came first in the Backcrawl and Jedrzej Przychodzki from P7b came 6^th in the Freestyle!

Because of these results, both Eilidh and Jedrzej  have qualified for the Scottish Schools Swimming Championships which will take place in Glasgow at the Tollcross Pool on Saturday 26th January!

What an exciting achievement! We wish them both the best of luck!

A group of Broughton pupils attended the Active Schools Day of Dance last Saturday. There were a few nervous faces backstage but once the performance was over, everyone realised how much fun they had had!

Please see the link below to see the photos that were taken (Broughton photos can be seen on page 5).

Day of Dance photos

Well done to all the brave dancers who took part! Thanks to the organisers and coaches involved in the Active Schools Dance Programme, who are looking to do a smaller show at Broughton High School next term. We’re sure our dancers will be ready for the next challenge!

 

Just a reminder about our PSA Christmas Cafe, which  will be held on Friday 7th December in our Gym Hall, from 11.30am until 1.30pm.

House Captains will be at our Gym Hall from 8.30am on Friday 7th December to accept any donations you may have for the Cafe.

Also, our Pupil Council will be organising a ‘Guess the Name of the Teddy’ competition to win the Teddy, and a Pupil Raffle, where the prize is an amazing Amazon Fire tablet!

Please see the two posters below for details of these two fabulous competitions!

PSA Cafe- Guess the Name of the Teddy

PSA Christmas Café- Pupil Raffle

Please see our previous post about the Cafe, for flyers with information about this event, including ways you can help.

We look forward to seeing as many people as possible there on Friday, and thank you in advance of any donations, help or purchases made!

 

 

 

 

We have had a great season to date and ended on a high with an amazing 9-5 goal-tastic win over Flora Stevenson’s at the weekend.

With the brilliant support of Don, our parent coach, our P7s have trained hard every week since late August. The move to Drummond’s flood lit Astro turf once the dark nights arrived was funded by the PSA and we are grateful for the support.

The P7 squad work hard, have fun and support each other as a team.  We have a great little community, with parents cheering the team on each Saturday morning and the children are a credit to the school.

As we head into winter, we’ll be having a break now until February, but are looking forward to getting our boots and blue strips on come Spring to represent Broughton Primary again.

We really hope some of our P4s, P5s and P6s are interested so that we can continue into 2019 with more Broughton Primary football teams.  It relies on parent/carer helpers, but Don can help explain what is involved. Get in touch if you want to know more via the School Office.

Well done team!

Please see below the latest newsletter from our EMF team. Remember, it’s not too late to register, and the Festival weekend will be the 25th and 26th of May 2019.

If you are interested, contact Catriona and Sandra at bpsrunners@gmail.com

EMF Newsletter November 2018

Children in Need was last Friday, and Broughton once again took part in this worthwhile cause. Our Pupil Council decided that we would have a Dress Down Day for a donation to Children in Need. The theme was ‘Wear something spotty or yellow’ and there were lots of fantastic outfits on display! The Pupil Council also wanted us to mark the occasion by having a dance-a -thon. So each class held a dance movement break at 11am on Friday- lots of fun!

As a school we raised £235.85! Thanks to all who donated! Here are some pictures of some of our spotty, yellow pupils in action during their dance-a-thons!

P2a

P2b

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P5a

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Please see below information for our new Better Relationships for Better Learning and Behaviour Guidelines. These will replace our Positive Behaviour Policy, which has recently been reviewed with staff and children.

The new Guidelines will be implemented from Monday 12^th November. In order to ensure a consistent and shared whole school approach the following 3 key values will be adopted by our whole school community.

1. Everyone should expect to be safe in school. People should behave safely towards you and you must behave safely towards other people.
2. Everyone should behave with respect in school. People should talk to you with respect and you must show respect to other people.
3. Everyone has the right to learn in school. Other people’s behaviour should not stop your learning and teaching and your behaviour should not stop learning and teaching for others.

Our new Guidelines will also consist of our Anti-bullying, Equality and Diversity Guidelines. We look forward to your support and that you continue to encourage your child to be a positive member of the school community.

We plan to send out a Parent/Carer questionnaire later in the session where you will be able to provide us with feedback on the new Guidelines.

Better Relationships letter

Better Relationships Guidelines 2018

Anti-Bullying, Equality and Diversity Guidelines 2018

Behaviour Flowchart Broughton

Playground Behaviour Flowchart Broughton

 

Our PSA Christmas Cafe will be held on Friday 7th December in our Gym Hall, from 11.30am until 1.30pm.

Here are some of the stalls and activities on offer at the Cafe-

• Home Baking
• Soup and Hot Dogs
• Festive Stalls
• Pupil Raffle
• Wine Lottery
• Sparkle Jars

and more!

Please see below for a flyer about the event and a separate flyer with advice about how to make a Sparkle Jar. Also attached is information about ways you can help. If you are available to help out in any way, please contact the PSA at broughtonparents@gmail.com

We look forward to seeing you there!

PSA Christmas Cafe Flyer

Sparkle Jar Instructions

Christmas Café- Ways You Can Help

This year’s Children in Need event takes place on Friday 16th November, and Broughton Primary will again be supporting this very worthwhile event.
Our Pupil Council has decided how we will help support this event- we will have a dress down day on Friday 16th November, with a contribution of £1 each for that privilege.
The Pupil Council has come up with two themes to choose from- ‘Wear something Yellow’ or ‘Wear something spotty.’
Our Pupil Council would also like to get everyone up and active for this event, so have requested that each class has a dance for a movement break at some point that day too! Look out for some pictures of this on our website!
We look forward to seeing some interesting outfits on the 16th!

Last night we held our two PSA Hallowe’en Discos in our Gym Hall.

Both discos were very well attended, and there were lots of brilliant and scary fancy dress outfits on display. Everyone seemed to have a fun night!

Our PSA have raised the amazing total of £981.30 over the two discos! That’s a great total to go towards PSA donations to school improvements.

The PSA would like to send huge thanks to the staff and parent volunteers who supported and helped with the organisation, setting up, selling tuck, or tidying of the event.

The PSA would also like to thank all the families who attended the discos.

We’d like to say a massive thank you to the PSA for organising and running the event so well!

Here are some photos of the night-

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