Hello everyone, and a happy Friday to you all!

Well done to you all for making it through another week of home learning! This time next week, we’ll be on summer holidays!

Next week we have our Virtual Broughton’s Got Talent and our Virtual Trip to Edinburgh Zoo to look forward to. Keep going everyone, we’re nearly there!

Last night it was lovely to see some of our parents at our Virtual Parent Council and PSA meeting on Teams. There was lots to talk about, and it was nice to see some familiar faces again!

We shared information about class teachers for next session today! Look out for some videos and photos next week on the website, where your teacher will introduce themselves to you, and show you your new classroom space.

We have more resources to share with you. Miss Clark has a list of ideas for summer holiday activities that are either very cheap, or cost nothing! See below-

Cheap/Free Summer Holiday Ideas

 

See below how you can support your child to gain a qualification at home!

Youth Scotland have made 1000 free resources available to parents and carers to help them to support their child to gain a qualification at home. The Hi5 and Dynamic Youth Awards (DYA) are wider achievement awards that follow an engaging and fun plan-do-review format. Hi5 Awards are aimed at children aged 5+ and DYA at age 10+.

All completed awards receive a certificate. Both awards are nationally recognised and are credit rated and levelled by the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) on the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF).

The resources will be made available to the first 1000 applicants on a first come first served basis. Click here for further information and to access this free resource.

 

That’s all for today, and for another week folks!

We wish you all a very happy and safe weekend. One more week to go….

Mrs Venn, Mr Borthwick, Miss Bradley and Mrs Gowans

 

Hello everyone, and a happy Thursday to you all!

It’s another short update today. We hope you are still keeping going with your home learning tasks- it’s not long until the summer holidays begin, but we’ll still be posting new tasks for you every day until then.

Firstly, a reminder that we will be sharing who’ll be teaching each class next year with you tomorrow. I’m sure you can’t wait to find out who your teacher will be!

As next week is the last week of term, you might find your daily tasks are a bit different to your usual daily literacy and maths tasks. There might be more puzzles, games, or end of term type activities available for you- so you can look forward to that!

Next week we have our virtual trip to the Zoo on Tuesday, and our virtual Broughton’s Got Talent event. P7 also have a couple of virtual or socially distant events next week too, to help us wish them well as they move on to High School.

Talking of P7, we have some lovely photos to share. Today is the last day of the P7 virtual 3-day visits to their high schools. One of their suggested transition tasks has been to create a goodbye message for the school, and attach it to the school gates. Well, we have some lovely messages already attached to our gates from our P7s, and there’s even a special board if any children from other classes want to write a special good luck message to our leaving P7s. This is a lovely way for P7s to communicate with each other, and the school, in these socially distant times! Have a look here-

If you’re passing by, stop and have a read. Better still, leave P7 a nice good luck message!

 

That’s all for today folks. Don’t forget ‘Drop everything and read’ time at 2.30pm! What are you going to read today?

As always, stay safe!

Mrs Venn, Mr Borthwick, Miss Bradley and Mrs Gowans

Hello everyone, and a happy Wednesday to you all!

We’re at the Hub school today, and having a lovely day with our key worker children! Just a short update today.

We are very busy making all sorts of plans for next session. As you can imagine, there’s lots to think about.

We hope to be able to share information on who will be taking each class next year by the end of this week.

Early next week, we also hope to be able to share information around some arrangements for next year- e.g. class groupings, days of attendance, start and finish times, etc.

Miss Bradley has created a P1 Transition Sway presentation for our new P1 starters in August. If you want to view it, you can find it on the ‘Transition’ page of our website!

That’s all for today folks, enjoy the rest of your day.

As always, stay safe!

Mrs Venn, Mr Borthwick, Miss Bradley and Mrs Gowans

 

 

 

Hello everyone, and a happy Tuesday to you all!

We hope you are having a good day, and a special thought for our P7s, who we hope are enjoying your virtual 3-day visits!

Just a short update today, so let’s go.

First, we’re delighted to announce that Mrs Clark from P1, and Mr Rogerson from P4 have planned a Virtual ‘Broughton’s Got Talent’ event for next week. Please see the letter below for information about this exciting event!

Virtual Broughton’s Got Talent

 

We also want to take some time to mention our planned visit to Lagganlia, which we have sadly had to cancel. We realise that this has been upsetting for our P6 children who were so looking forward to it! We are upset too, so we want to make it clear that this decision has been made by the City of Edinburgh Council, and while we are sad about it, we understand why it can’t go ahead. While we will have social distancing in place, and pupils attending school in small groups, we can’t take around 50 pupils in a coach to a residential trip where they would need to share dorms and bathroom space in close contact with each other. We will keep parents up to date with information on refunds, and any plans to offer a different kind of outdoor experience next session when we have them.

Finally, Broughton Primary staff will be attending the Hub school at Drummond tomorrow. It’s our last time at the Hub before the summer break, so it’ll be lovely to catch up with our Broughton pupils and all the other key worker children we’ve got to know a little bit from other schools.

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

Mrs Venn, Mr Borthwick, Miss Bradley and Mrs Gowans

 

Hello everyone, and a happy Monday to you all!

We hope you’re all ready for another week of home learning! Here is today’s update.

First of all, we are pleased to announce the results of last week’s Scavenger Hunt! Our end of year totals are going to be record- breaking for each house, after adding all these points on. There’s less than 2 weeks left until we announce the results for our House Shield. Who knows, there may be another chance to earn some house points before then too! Here are the Scavenger Hunt results-

1st  Trinity with 11 180 points!

2nd  Drummond with 8560 points

3rd  McDonald with 6740 points

4th  Pilrig with 6700 points

Well done to Trinity! You’re doing really well at these lockdown house events!

 

Miss Clark has another fab resource to share. These are brain breaks suggested by ‘Mentally Healthy Schools’. They could be useful to help children to take a break if they are spending long periods sitting doing home learning. The ideas were originally created for using in the classroom but can easily be adapted to use at home with your child/children.

Brain Breaks

 

Sadly, we are able to announce today that our annual trip to Lagganlia Outdoor Centre in September has officially been cancelled due to COVID-19. We are all deeply disappointed that this has had to happen, but understand the reasons why this would not be possible. We hope our P6 pupils are not too disappointed, and we’ll get our thinking caps on to try and see if we can replace it with a similar, socially distanced event at some point next session. We will be sending information out to P6 parents to organise refunds once we receive this from CEC.

 

Finally, we hope our P7 pupils have fun this Tuesday to Thursday, when they will be having their virtual 3-day ‘visit’ to their new high school. We know it’s not the same as actually being there in person, but hope the alternatives provided by the high schools are good fun and enjoyable for you!

 

That’s all for today folks, stay safe!

Mrs Venn, Mr Borthwick, Miss Bradley and Mrs Gowans

 

 

 

Please follow this link to see a letter for parents and carers from the City of Edinburgh Council-

 

Parent and Carer Letter- Friday 12th June

 

Thank you.

Please see below a statement from the City of Edinburgh Council-

Black Lives Matter
Recent events in the US, in particular the shocking death of George Floyd, and the global response are shining a light again on the harmful and persistent issue of institutionalised racism. We fully recognise that it is no less an issue in the UK and Scotland. We have a list of similar deaths of black citizens, and we have witnessed the disproportionate effect of COVID-19 on people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

We are heartened by the concern and support expressed by pupils, parents and staff from across our learning communities in recent days. We are all rightly asking what more we can and should do to support our Black, Asian and minority ethnic pupils and colleagues.

We re-affirm and strengthen our commitment to confronting and addressing racism and discrimination in all its forms through strong anti-racist leadership, teaching and youth work. Our recent engagement with BAME young people and partner organisations has shown that there is much more that we can do and we will continue to listen and learn. We have started by implementing a revised anti-bullying procedure supported by training for senior leaders and pupil Equalities groups and we are working to ensure that Black history and its role in our city is a core part of a decolonised and inclusive curriculum. We will increase training for all school staff and have set up a working group as part of a national commitment to increasing diversity in the teaching workforce.

We believe that our schools have a vital role to play in tackling racism and creating a city where all are treated with dignity and respect. We want all our children and young people to thrive and lead in a diverse and complex world. We do not underestimate the challenge of this deep-rooted problem. We are fully committed to making a difference, harnessing the compassion, energy and creativity of our children, young people, families and staff to make Edinburgh a city where there is no place for discrimination or injustice.

On behalf of,
The City of Edinburgh Council Equalities Steering Group (Education)

Hello everyone, and a happy Friday to you all!

Well done on completing another week of home learning! There are only 2 weeks left until the summer break!

We start today’s update with some photos. Our Broughton Reads focus is ongoing, with lots of our pupils reading for enjoyment while having lunch, or taking part in ‘Drop everything and read’ time every Thursday at 2.30. Here are some photos you’ve shared with us!

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We’re happy to share that P5 and P4 will be having Group calls with their teachers next week. Timeslots will be sent out via email, and more information is available on these class pages.

 

Mrs Gowans sent out a letter yesterday to ask for some information from parents and carers around children returning to school in August. It is attached below in case you missed it.

Parent and Carer Letter- Returns in August

 

We have been advised by CEC, that the short film, ‘Resilience’ will be shown at 8pm, on Sunday 14th of June on the below advertised channels.

We understand the film refers to Adverse Childhood Experiences and their impact on young people, so may be useful to watch if you can.

 

Our P7 pupils would normally be looking forward to their 3-day visits to High School from Tuesday to Thursday next week. Obviously these will be very different than originally planned, but high schools are still trying to provide a transition experience for these pupils. All the latest information and links we have been sent by high schools can be found in the ‘Transition’ page of our website. Don’t do any of the tasks till next Tuesday though, eager beavers!

That’s all for today’s post, and for another week folks!

We hope you have a great weekend, and, as always, stay safe!

Mrs Venn, Mr Borthwick, Miss Bradley and Mrs Gowans

 

 

 

 

Hello everyone, and a happy Thursday to you all!

My goodness, we have a big update for you today!

First, we’re delighted to show you some fabulous photos that were shared with us after yesterday’s super Scavenger Hunt! It looks like lots of our children took part, and had lots of fun! Don’t forget to let your class teacher know your score by 3.15pm today, and we’ll count them all up and announce the results on Monday! Here are some photos, and huge thanks to Miss Blair and Mr Paton for organising this event!

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We are also delighted to share the following post from Rachel Blythe, Vice-Chair of our PSA, who has been leading our Planting and Growing Project this session. Thanks for the update Rachel!

Continuing from the earlier information about planting in May and June 2020, Broughton Primary School’s Growing and Cooking Project would like to share some information with you on planting sunflowers and potatoes. We would love to encourage families to plant something at home in June 2020, if they are able to do so. This is a small bit of a replacement for the planting activities, which we would have had in the school in June. The two documents below describe how to grow sunflowers and potatoes. Again, if you plant something, then we’d love to see some photos of the plants as they grow, so please send us pictures so that we can share them here! Please also enjoy our pictures of us repotting our sunflowers in early June.

How To Plant Potatoes

Sunflower Growing

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Mrs Martin has more Art activities for us to try. The theme of this one is ‘Artists.’ We hope you enjoy them!

Mrs Martin Art task- Artists

 

On Tuesday 23rd June we will be taking a whole school virtual trip to Edinburgh Zoo.
This will involve watching the live webcams, taking part in activities and sharing some information and photographs on Teams or by email for Twitter and the Website. Huge thanks to Miss Wilson and Mrs Clark, our P1 teachers, for organising this! Look out for some pre-visit tasks in next week’s home learning to prepare for this. How exciting! See the attached letter below:

Broughton Virtual Trip to Edinburgh Zoo

 

Please see below the latest resources from the team at RBS Moneysense, with two new bundles to develop learning in the following areas:

For First Level:
What coins and notes do we use?
What are needs and wants?
Why is it important to save money?
Where can I keep my money safe?

For Second Level:
How do I plan a simple budget?
How can I pay for things?
Enterprise: raising money for charity
How can I keep my money safe? including fraud and scams

Find resources here

We close today’s post with some more sharing of home learning. Afnan in P6 has shared this lovely piece of embroidery she has done. Here’s what she had to say about it-

“To make embroidery, you use a piece of fabric and decorate it. You need to use some thread and needle, but if you want you can add beads,pearls etc. What you need to do is to draw something to be a template. Then if you have a proper embroidery kit (any kit will do) you can add any colour you want. It  is like you are decorating. It is really hard and I got poked with the needle quite a few times, but I didn’t give up and this is my first time doing embroidery. It turns out to be great!”

We agree Afnan , it does look great! Thanks for sharing with us!

 

That’s all for today folks! Don’t forget Drop everything and Read time at 2.30!

As always, stay safe!

Mrs Venn, Mr Borthwick, Miss Bradley and Mrs Gowans

 

Hello everyone, and a happy Wednesday to you all!

Hope you’re all well, and enjoying your Scavenger Hunt. Thanks to everyone who has shared your photos and scores so far. There’s plenty of time for this, as the deadline to send in your scores is not until tomorrow at 3.15pm. We’ll add up all the scores and announce the results on Monday!

We sent out a letter yesterday to share the fact that Mrs Garner, our P3a teacher, will be retiring at the end of term. She has been a member of staff at Broughton for 17 years, and has been a much admired and respected colleague and teacher for many staff and pupils alike! We realise how unusual it must be to be retiring under these very strange circumstances, but we are sure you will all join us in thanking her for all her dedication and hard work over the years, and also in wishing her a very long and happy retirement. The copy of Mrs Gowans’ letter is attached below.

Mrs Garner Retirement June 2020

Another recent letter sent out was for P7 parents and carers, with information around how we would like to mark the end of term for our P7 leavers. Again, our plans are very different to how we would originally have liked to mark the end of P7 for them, but we’re still hopeful we can wish them well for the future in a socially distant way! Please see below for a copy of this letter.

P7 End of Term arrangements- June 2020

We hope you haven’t forgotten about our ‘Broughton Reads’ focus. It’s ongoing until the end of term, and we still want to encourage you to keep reading for enjoyment as much as you can. Don’t forget ‘Drop everything and read’ time tomorrow at 2.30pm, and we are still happy to see your lunchtime reading pictures too!

Lastly today, we have some lovely artwork to share! After creating a lockdown picture as part of her home learning tasks, Sky in P5b sent it to Liberton Hospital. That should help cheer people up, it’s so bright and colourful! Well done Sky, such a kind thought!

We’re happy to share lovely examples of home learning like Sky did, just let us know!

That’s all for today, folks! Don’t forget to send us your Scavenger Hunt scores!

As always, stay safe!

Mrs Venn, Mr Borthwick, Miss Bradley and Mrs Gowans