Hello everyone!

We hope you are having a nice Thursday, and have managed some of your home learning tasks.

Here is an exciting link about some new resources from CGI- STEM based activity packs that you can do at home with your children. The activities are aimed at students aged 6-14, but everyone can get involved!
Activities will encompass all aspects of STEM, including coding, environmental sustainability and robotics. There will be a range of activities each week, involving activities with technical, practical and physical elements.

Find all resources below and bookmark the page to return for more.

STEM from Home

We are emailing  letters out today to inform P1-3 and P4-7 parents about how we want to introduce ways of adding assessment tasks to our home learning. The letters are attached below-

P1-3 Assessment in Home Learning

P4-7 Assessment in Home Learning

P4 pupils will also be receiving their usernames and passwords to allow them to access Teams soon. Home learinng will be on Teams for P4 beginning on Tuesday 5th May. We hope you enjoy using it!

We are keen to find out some feedback about how our home learning is being managed. With this in mind, please follow the link below to take part in a short survey to help us find out how things are going for you in regards our home learning so far-

Home Learning at Broughton Survey

We hope you are enjoying our Twitter Quiz! Some of the guesses are hilarious!

That’s all for today folks, enjoy the rest of your day, and, as always, stay safe!

Mrs Venn, Mr Borthwick, Miss Bradley and Mrs Gowans

Hello everyone, hope you are all keeping well!

It’s Wednesday already, and we’re halfway through another week of home learning! Hope you enjoy today’s tasks.

Our latest news comes in the form of our Hub School at Drummond High School. Yesterday it was Broughton staff’s turn to volunteer, and the Hub Team were visited by press from the Times Educational Supplement, who were writing an article about how the Hub schools work. You can read the article by clicking below!

TES Hub School Article

As our school closure continues, we are trying to think of ways to improve how we share your learning with you. In future you may notice that our teachers are starting to try and use more videos in their home learning, to try and move your learning forward. These videos will be available on Teams for those classes who use Teams, and also on the class website pages for those who do not use Teams.

As we mentioned yesterday, we will be regularly deleting previous home learning from class website pages , as videos can take up a lot of space on our website. As advised yesterday, if you see an activity or video you have found useful, you can save it or download it to your device if you can, as we will be deleting some videos at the end of each week, to make way for new learning.

Speaking of Teams, parents and carers of pupils in P4 should look out for an email later this week, with information, usernames and passwords to allow access to Teams starting next Tuesday 5th May.

Miss Bradley wants to inform Nursery parents that Learning Journals have updated the Parent Contribution page. Parents can now upload photos and documents to their child’s page of any home learning activities. We look forward to seeing those!

Our Twitter Throwback Quiz is proving to be quite tricky for some of you! Make sure to follow us to @Broughton_PS to play along!

Enjoy the rest of your day everyone! As always, stay safe!

Mrs Venn, Mr Borthwick, Miss Bradley and Mrs Gowans

Good morning everyone!

Hope you are all well, and looking forward to another day of home learning!

Here are a couple of links you may find useful today-

The first is a great site Mrs Venn wanted to share that contains advice about learning to use coding for a range of age groups, including some fun games too! Follow the link below-

Code.org

The second is a link to the UK Safer Internet Centre website, which has games, quizzes, films and advice to help you get the most out of the internet while staying safe online. Follow the link below-

UK Safer Internet Centre

Finally, Mrs Clark has put together a dance activity, which has ideas that can be used across age groups. You could record yourself dancing and share it with us! You could even try and dress up as your chosen animal to make a real performance of it! Here is a link to the activity-

Dance Activity Idea

Our Twitter Throwback Quiz continues today, and it’s proving to be a really tricky challenge! Guess the member of Broughton staff from their childhood picture.

We’d also like to let you know, that in order to free up space to add future content on to our website, we will be deleting all home learning tasks from before the Easter holidays, from class pages on our website, on Friday. If you have enjoyed a particular activity and would like to use it again, please take this opportunity to download or save it to your device before it is deleted.

That’s all for today folks, enjoy the rest of your day and as always, stay safe!

Mrs Venn, Mr Borthwick, Miss Bradley and Mrs Gowans

Hello everyone, and happy Monday to you all!

We hope you all had a nice weekend, and were able to enjoy the lovely weather, while observing social distancing obviously!

It’s the start of a new Home Learning week, with new weekly grids up on the class web pages. Also, today is the first day of P5 using Microsoft Teams to access their learning. We hope you enjoy using Teams, please let us know if you have any issues. Remember we posted guidance and videos on our website last week, so hopefully they can help you too. This week we will be setting up P4 to begin using Teams next week. Just to make you all aware, next week will be a shorter Home Learning week, due to the in-service day and May holiday in the calendar- so tasks will only be available Tuesday to Thursday next week.

Tomorrow Broughton staff will be attending the Hub School at Drummond, so it will be nice to see some familiar faces there! All our staff are commenting on how much we are missing seeing all the children face to face- we’re sure the feeling’s mutual!

Today also sees the start of our new Twitter Quiz. Each day will see a throwback photo of one of the Broughton staff when they were a child. All you have to do is guess who it is! This should be fun…

We have a couple of website ideas today. Firstly, RBS Moneysense have launched a free home learning resource for financial education.  Follow the link below to find out more-

Moneysense Home Learning

Also, Brittanica have launched a new Home Learning e-book, which can be downloaded to get advice on home schooling, gain access to award-winning digital resources, and a range of ready-made activities to support children of all ages and abilities. Follow the link below for more-

Brittanica Home Learning Ebook

We hope you enjoy the rest of your day! Stay safe and look after each other!

Mrs Venn, Mr Borthwick, Miss Bradley and Mrs Gowans

To all our Muslim families, we’d like to say ‘Ramadan Mubarak!’

We hope you have the chance to celebrate as you would wish to.

 

We had planned to start our next Building Resilience unit this term, but obviously we’ll need to postpone that until the new session in August. However, in the meantime Mrs Clark has put together some revision activities for the units we have already covered, which you may find useful to jog your memories!

Building Resilience Revision Activities

Skipper says thanks!

 

Good morning everyone!

We hope your first week back has gone well and that you are managing to access your learning either through the website of through Teams (P6 and P7). All Primary 5 parents have now been sent their child’s login details for Teams so children should be able to access learning in this way from Monday 27th April.

Please let us know if you are having any problems with either accessing learning or finding a device to access your learning on.

This week we have been able to distribute almost all of the home learning packs that were not collected on the final day of school. We still have a very small number left so if you have not yet received yours, then please get in touch.

There are a large number of learning websites with great materials available to children. There are links to these on this website.

Today was our last ‘Through the Keyhole’ puzzler on our Twitter feed. However, look out next week for the start of a brand new photo quiz! Follow us on Twitter @Broughton_PS to play along!

We hope you all manage to have a good weekend.

Take care,

Mrs Venn, Mr Borthwick, Miss Bradley and Mrs Gowans

 

If you would like support or advice in supporting the learning and wellbeing of our children and young people, then Psychological Services are happy to offer advice and support at this time.

Please see below for a link to their contact details.

Psychological Services contact details

 

Thank you.

Hello everyone!

We hope you’re all keeping well and having a good day.

Here are some updates for you.

Jenni Longstaff, the chair of our Parent Council and PSA, has sent us some information and updates. This includes the agenda, with some action points from the planned meeting we had to cancel in March, a treasurer’s report from the PSA, and updates on the March Family Fun night Beetle Drive and our Growing and Cooking Project.

Agenda for Cancelled PC Meeting- March 25th

PC-PSA Treasurers Report-25th March

Review of the PSA Beetle Drive Family Night

Growing and Cooking Project Update

 

As you may have  seen, BBC Education’s new education service – BBC Bitesize Daily – launched on Monday this week.

There are 150 online lessons in English, Maths and other core subjects on the BBC Bitesize website. And there are also new Bitesize Daily programmes broadcast on BBC iPlayer and via the BBC Red Button.

You can follow the links below to access some of the resources BBC are providing to aid with home learning-

BBC Bitesize Daily

Bring The Noise Robot Challenge

BBC Bitesize Primary Planner Podcasts

 

Here is an update from the WWF.  Next week our #LearnToLoveNature campaign shines a light on our coastal seas and provides enriching content for pupils to access and use independently from home.
Starting on Monday 27th April, our coastal seas week will include live learning events via our new dedicated Facebook group, an opportunity to participate in a fun and insightful webinar with a WWF expert, and links to our popular educational materials.

Follow this link to join- WWF Learn To Love Nature Group

 

Here is an opportunity sent from the Zoo- join us as we celebrate our very own native Scottish wildlife, with brilliant activities for all ages. Join us as we discover what makes an animal native, examine the different habitats we have here in Scotland and learn about how animals are specially adapted to live there. Look closer at puffins, Scottish wildcats and beavers and go on an amazing animal safari from the safety of your sofa!

Follow this link to see more-

Bonnie Beasts of Scotland Course

 

That’s all for today folks! Enjoy the rest of your Thursday, and, as always, stay safe!

Mrs Venn, Mr Borthwick, Miss Bradley and Mrs Gowans

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello everyone!

Hope you are having a good day, and enjoying getting back into your home learning routines! Today Mrs Martin has sent some more Art ideas for you to try, this time using collage- see the list of ideas here-

P1-P7 Home Learning Collage Ideas

Mr Young has also shared a nice Art activity, a competition organised by the Big Issue magazine to design a cover for the magazine. Follow the link below for more details-

Big Issue Cover Competition

Mr Horan has also let us know that Living Streets have created a space for pupils to use during the lockdown. It hopes to keep pupils active and engaged in a safe manner. Follow this link to check it out-

Living Streets Home Learning

Now that the weather has improved, we’d love you to share some examples of how you are spending your daily outdoor exercise, if you are getting out! Can you send us any signs of Spring you see, or just a picture of whatever you’re doing to get your daily exercise- we’d love to share it on the website! Email our admin account, class teachers, or our leadership team your photos!

Stay safe, and take care of each other,

Mrs Venn, Mr Borthwick, Miss Bradley and Mrs Gowans