We’ve had a wonderful day at the Edinburgh Marathon Festival! Beautiful weather, and 118 fantastic pupils running in a range of different races! Mr Young, Miss Rusk and Mrs Rushforth also took part today, as well as some of our parents;what an amazing achievement from Team Broughton! Here are some photos of our day!

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The weekend is not over yet though! Mr Horan and Miss Bishop are running in the half marathon tomorrow, along with some more of our parents! We wish them all good luck, and hope they don’t ache too much on Monday morning!

Also don’t forget Joel and Caroline, the Kenyan runners who visited the school on Friday-they are taking part in the main event tomorrow too!

Let’s cheer everyone on!

Don’t forget we’re raising money for our Culture Fund, which provides money to allow all of our pupils to benefit from a variety of excursions over the year.

Follow the link below to donate whatever you can!

EMF Fundraising Page

Thanks again to our organisers, runners, supporters and anyone who has donated! We are incredibly proud of our fantastic school community! #gobroughton

 

 

 

The Edinburgh Marathon Festival begins tomorrow! We have 118 pupils taking part this year, as well as enthusiastic parents and teachers participating too. Our P3-7 entrants were given a very special treat today, when Project Africa Athletics paid us a visit.

Project Africa Athletics is a non-profit making charity, who discover, help train and support talented athletes currently living in poverty in Africa. Joel and Caroline, two marathon runners from Kenya, came along to talk to the children. They talked about their lives as farmers in Kenya, and how they developed into world class marathon runners. The children had the opportunity to ask them questions, and compare their home and school life to those of Joel and Caroline. Joel even taught us some Kalenjin, his local tribal language!

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Joel and Caroline will be running in the Marathon at the weekend, so we’ll be giving them all support and good luck for this! They may even be around to cheer on all our Broughton runners this weekend too!

This was a very special experience for all our plucky runners. Good luck this weekend team Broughton!  #gobroughton

Today was the first day of our Electives programme. The children were allocated one activity from a wide range of choices, and will work to develop their skills in this activity, every Friday, for the next 4 weeks. The school was alive today with the buzz of activity, and from a wide range of activities to either build on a current interest or skill, or to develop completely new skills in something never tried before. Amongst the activities happening today we had-

• Singing
• Yoga
• Ballet
• Philosophy
• Table Tennis
• Art
• Swimming
• Spanish
• Gaelic Football
• Dance
• Drama
• Comic Book creating
• Animations
• Coding
• Card Games

We hope everyone enjoys developing their skills on these activities over the next few weeks. Here are some photos of our first sessions today…

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The annual Edinburgh Marathon Festival is this weekend! We have 118 children from Broughton Primary running on Saturday, which is an amazing number. There are also lots of parents taking part over the weekend, as well as Mrs Rushforth and Mr Horan from school!

Last week our fantastic runners picked up their special Broughton t-shirts they’ll be wearing on the day. That should make them easy to spot if you are going along to spectate and cheer them on!

Today all our runners had some special photographs taken, altogether in our school playground. It took a bit of organising to get everyone to stand correctly and look at the camera at the same time, but we got there!

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We’re raising money to continue our Culture Fund- please do what you can and share with family and friends. You can follow our fundraising link at:

Fundraising Page

We hope to see as many supporting spectators as possible this weekend! Good luck to all of our runners, from the youngest nursery pupil to the oldest adult!

#gobroughton

Our PSA Summer Fair is just around the corner! It will be held on Saturday 2nd June, from 12pm-2.30pm in our school playground. Let’s hope we have a sunny day!

As always, there will be a range of stalls at the fair. Here are a few examples-

• Home Baking
• Arts and Crafts
• BBQ
• Face Painting
• Raffle
• Pocket Money Stalls
• And much, much more!

Attached below is a promtional poster for this event, and a newsletter, with ways you can help out. If you can help in any way, please email broughtonparents@gmail.com with times you are available.

Summer Fair Poster 2018

Summer Fair Newsletter 2018

This is usually a very busy event, so any help, donations or support you can give will  be gratefully received! Thank you!

 

A big thank you to everyone who took part in The Big Pedal at Broughton on the 4th May 2018! Our JRSOs were very busy collating our results and an impressive 183 pupils, parents and carers cycled or sccoted to school on the 4th May. Well done to everyone from Nursery to P7 who took part and made the day such a success.

Broughton Primary School placed 19th out of 66 schools in the Large Primary Schools One Day Challenge Category. 45.95% of our school population cycled or scooted to school on the day. Very impressive!

Here are a couple of photos of some nursery pupils doing their bit on the day. Remember to keep cycling with all of this lovely weather!

 

The annual Edinburgh Marathon Festival is only 2 weeks away! We have 110 children from Broughton Primary running on Saturday 26th May, which is an amazing number. There are also lots of parents taking part, as well as Mrs Rushforth and Mr Horan from school! Attached below is a copy of the latest EMF newsletter, and some quotes and interviews with some of this year’s participants!

EMF 2018- newsletter -May 2018

EMF 2018-Quotes and Interviews

If you’ve not told us that your child is taking part, please make sure we know by emailing us at bpsrunners@gmail.com

T-shirts to wear on race day are being handed out this Friday 18th May, at lunchtime. This will take place in the Boost room (Rm 8b).

We’re raising money to continue our Culture Fund- please do what you can and share with family and friends. You can follow our fundraising link at:

Fundraising Page

Our fanastic Broughton Runners have been meeting regularly to train and prepare for this year’s festival. Every Sunday the sun has shone for their training sessions, and their last fun run is this weekend. Below are some photos and videos of our team, taken during their training sessions- looks like lots of fun!

We’ll update any further news as the festival approaches! Go Team Broughton!

#gobroughton

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Today was the Big Pedal-the UK’s largest inter-school cycling and scooting challenge that inspires pupils, staff and parents to choose two wheels for their journey to school. Our Junior Road Safety Officers have been encouraging as many pupils and parents as possible to take part. Whether it was by scooter or bike, we certainly had a lot of traffic in our playground this morning!

Today the JRSOs carried out a survey of how many people took up the Big Pedal challenge, and 183 people took part! That’s a great effort!

We’ll find out soon how our number compares with others around Edinburgh and the UK, so keep a look out for an update!

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Parent Drop-In

Today we also held another Parent Drop-in. A chance for our parents and carers to pop in and spend some time in class to catch up on some of the fantastic learning happening in school. The school was buzzing with activity, and it was lovely to see so many visitors around the school! We hope you enjoyed your visit!

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Free Online Safety Workshop for parents and carers – Friday 11th May, 9am-10am, at Broughton PS

Muddled by Minecraft or rattled by Roblox? NSPCC and O2 are running hour-long interactive workshops with tips, tools and advice on how to keep your child safe online.
Talking about online safety with your child doesn’t need to be difficult – build your confidence to have those important conversations and learn where to go for help and advice.

Come along at 9am on Friday 11th May. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity!

RSVP by responding to Fiona.Vacher@broughton-pri.edin.sch.uk by Wednesdsay 9th May. Let us know if you would like a translator for this event, stating for which language.

This week most of our P6 and P7 pupils have been busy developing their cycling skills through the Bikeability programme.

The children have been developing their understanding of important road safety skills as well as skills in riding and controlling their bikes safely.

We hope you all enjoyed it!

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