There are many different ways pupil voice is used in our classrooms on a daily basis here at Broughton. For example, asking the pupils to form their own key questions during interdisciplinary topic work, or suggesting activities for home learning tasks, to name two.

There are also opportunities for influence in the wider picture of the school, through our Pupil Council and our school House Captains and Vice Captains. The members of these groups were selected through an election process, by their fellow pupils.

These two groups have a range of roles and responsibilities in school, and will meet regularly to discuss their ideas to support the school, its pupils, staff and parents.

Here are the members of this year’s Pupil Council. Look out for their distinctive red wristband!

P2a  Dana Khered
P2b  Amelie Fialova
P3a  Cole Weatherly
P3b  Finlay Bartholomew
P4a  Martyna Kabala
P4b  Agastya Tembay
LC2  Samuel Knox
P5a  Afnan Chowdhury
P5b  Aava Braithwaite
P6a  Paloma Luis Navarro
P6b  Muhammad Barry
P7a  Roisin Bagnall-McCrink
P7b  Jedrzej Przychodzki

Already the Pupil Council have been working on an exciting project with Miss Gordon, our EAL teacher, and have decided upon arrangements for this year’s Children in Need event. More details on those to follow soon! Each member has their own Pupil Council jottter, to record any of theirs, or their peers suggestions to discuss at meetings. We’re sure they will have lots of ideas for school improvements this year!

The House Captains are selected from our P7 classes, while Vice-Captains are from P6. They can be identified by their shiny badges!

Here are the representatives for each house-

McDonald House Captains

Armaan Latif and Daisy Drummond

Vice- Captains

Aiden McLear and Ruby Foster

Pilrig House Captains

Aban Baig and Ines Ibrahim

Vice-Captains

Dylan Urquhart and Nadia Fydrych

Trinity House Captains

Innes Penman and Mhairi Noronha

Vice-Captains

Liam Ronald and Hendeke Elias

Drummond House Captains

Jalil Neequaye and Zuzanna Mamos

Vice-Captains

Omar Karaallal and Tilda Rawson

Already the House Captains have been given a role in supporting others in school with lining up, as well as collecting, counting and announcing weekly house points. Both sets of captains support their peers in assembly, and will be launching a school wide competition to revamp our House Shields soon! They are all motivated to represent their houses as well as they can, and encourage their fellow house members to earn as many house points as they can to try and win the coveted House Trophy at the end of the session!

Will Drummond retain their trophy this year? Time will tell…

Details of other pupil groups will be shared on the website as they are formed. Keep an eye out for that!

Hot off the press, we have just received information about events you may be interested in at Drummond High School.

Open mornings are happening today and tomorrow, 9am -12 noon, and an Open Evening will follow on Thursday 8th November.

Please see the leaflet attached below for more details.

Drummond High School Leaflet

Is your child eligible to start P1 in August 2019?

We would like to invite you to our Broughton Primary School Open Morning!

Wednesday 31st October 2018

Session One: 9.15 – 10.15am
Session Two: 11.00 – 11.45am

Join us to find out more about the school and get a tour with our upper school pupils.

Here is a link to our information poster on this event, including information about the registration week in November.

Open Day Poster

We look forward to seeing you then!

Our PSA Halloween Disco is coming up at the end of the month!

There are two discos, both taking place in our gym hall, on Thursday 25th October.

P1-3 Disco is from 6pm-7pm

P4-7 Disco is from 7.15pm-8.30pm

We’ll only be selling tickets in advance, so return the tear off slip from the attached flyer and return it to school with payment to get tickets.

2018 Halloween Disco Flyer

Only unsold tickets will be available on the night on a first come, first served basis.

Please remember that all children must be accompanied by an adult.

We look forward to seeing you there, in your spookiest fancy dress!

Please visit the ‘Parent Bodies’ section of our website, as it has been updated with all the latest relevant information about our Parent Council and PSA, including information about PSA Planning Meetings and dates for upcoming events this session.

Further to this, below is a letter explaining how we collect and manage data about our pupils and families here at Broughton, in line with GDPR guidance.

GDPR Letter for Parents

As promised, we present to you more comprehensive slideshows of our amazing Lagganlia experience. There’s a few videos to watch too! We hope you enjoy seeing these.

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Our PSA held the first lunchtime cafe of this session on Friday in our Dining Room.

Huge thanks to all the organisers for arranging the event, and the parent and pupil volunteers who helped run it.

Thanks also to anyone who donated any savouries or home baking, your support was very much appreciated!

The cafe made a total of £499 towards school improvements, a great amount!

Well done again everyone.

This year, all primary 5 pupils will be part of the Road Safety Community Group. Road Safety awareness is an important topic for pupils to learn about and Primary 5 are looking forward to sharing their ideas with the whole school throughout the year.

Recently, two lucky Primary 5 pupils attended City Chambers to mark the launch of Road Safety across Edinburgh for the 2018-2019 school year. Bea and Holly will be our Junior Road Safety Officers, and both had a fantastic time and even managed to get some complimentary lunch for all of their hard work. Most importantly, both returned to Broughton enthused by what they had seen and heard on the day. They recorded all of their ideas and will be sharing these with the P5 community group at our next meeting. Well done to our JRSOs on the day who were fantastic and very enthusiastic throughout!

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Our final day of activities here at Lagganlia was another busy one!

We’ve had canoeing, mountain biking, gorge walking and some bushcraft skills today.

We also had a chance to buy some souvenirs in the Lagganlia shop, and rounded off our week with a brilliant disco! Some very tired, but happy campers tonight!

We’re really grateful to the staff and instructors here at Lagganlia, for the wonderful opportunities they have provided our children this week.

We’d like to thank our Broughton staff for giving their time to accompany our group, and being so supportive and encouraging with our pupils- we couldn’t do it without you!

We are also incredibly proud of our enthusiastic, supportive and resilient pupils. They really have made the most of their Lagganlia experience, and made some wonderful memories this week! We’re tired, but looking forward to coming home to share all our news! We should be back at school around 12.30- 12.45pm tomorrow.

Here are some photos of our final day’s activities.

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It’s been another successful and busy day here at Lagganlia!

It’s been windy, sunny and rainy all in one day today, and we’ve had a range of different activities to enjoy! Here are some of today’s treats-

• Gorge Walking
• Tree Climb
• Skiing
• Bouldering
• Low Ropes Course
• Abseiling

The Gorge Walk proved very popular, as always, and there were several very wet, but very happy groups returning from the gorge at various points today!

Positive reports continue from instructors and staff, and we are still seeing good co-operation, support and encouragement within all our activity groups.

We finished our evening with a Scavenger Hunt, where we worked in our activity groups to collect a range of items, and then create an artistic masterpiece with the items once collected!

It’s our last full day of activities tomorrow, so fingers crossed for good weather to help us enjoy the last outdoor opportunities of the week!

Here are a selection of today’s photos.

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