We’d like to wish everyone celebrating a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Today we got the chance to have our first Carols on the Stairs singalong since 2019, and it was lovely to hear all our voices united in song!

 

Thank you to all our pupils, staff, parents and carers for such a busy, hard working and supportive year! Team Broughton is a truly amazing force!

We hope you all have a restful, safe and happy holiday, and we look forward to seeing you all again on Thursday 5th January 2023!

 

Here are some of the awards and school achievements this week!

Star Awards

P3a- Jakub Nowicki

P3b- Francesca Devlin ( and she got another award from Mrs Hush too!)

P4a- Liubomyr Redko

P4b- Celia Gray

P5- Connor Urquhart

P5/6- Whole class and Pinky Ni

P6- Meriem Bousbaci

P7a- Cole Weatherly

P7b- Eva Schogler

Big Book of Achievement

Maddie Ellis (P2) took part in a Santa Fun Run and raised £60 for the Make a Wish Foundation! Well done Maddie!

Alicia Nicol (P4b) received a certificate from her tuition class for great writing and overall effort! Well done Alicia!

House Points

Pilrig- 340 points

Trinity- 308 points

McDonald- 260 points

Drummond- 227 points

Well done Pilrig!

Well done to everyone for all their achievements! Have a lovely weekend!

There are still a few FAB winter events running up until the end of term!

See below for more information…

FAB Online Raffle (closes 18th December) – A last reminder that our 18+ Online Raffle closes 18th December.  Prizes have been generously donated by many businesses and parents/carers of the school.  £2 per ticket.  Winners will be drawn and contacted after 19th December.  £50 restaurant voucher, Axe throwing experience, Skwitch, Lidl on Ice tickets, baked goods, art works and goody bags from local businesses are just a few examples of prizes. Click here to look at all of the 55 amazing prizes:

Bit.ly/FABRaffle

*NEW* FAB Winter Trail LAUNCHED (closes 31st December)!  There are 14 local businesses for you to visit, all situated locally to the school, each has a clue on their window, individual opening hours applied.  Let’s spread some festive joy with friends and family for this fun activity during the holiday season.  Map can be found here. #stayActive

Donation welcome – minimum £1 voluntary donation via ParentPay by 13th January 2023

*NEW* FAB Kids’ Raffle Each child will be given a strip of tickets and winners will be drawn at school on 19th December.  Many prizes have been secured by the Parent Council this year!  Baked goods, book tokens, bike service and Christmas Tree Maze are just a few example prizes.

Donation welcome – minimum £1 voluntary donation via ParentPay by 13th January 2023

Another successful FAB Winter Café on 2nd December.  £655 has been raised for the Parent Council and the fund will go back into benefiting the children.  What a way to kick start our winter programme!  Well done all!  Thank you to everyone who supported us hope you all enjoyed it! 

Special thanks to the P5/6 pupils who baked, the pupil volunteers for manning the stalls and the children who shared their wishes on the Wishing Tree.  May all your wishes come true! 

Some photos of this event are below!

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Here are some of the awards and school achievements this week!

Star Awards

P3a- Sahabiyah Salman

P3b- Marlow Welsh

P4a- Ruby Tennant

P4b- Lucas Dreger Lamas

P5- Emilie Guagliardo

P5/6- Marko Masic

P6- Whole class!

P7a- Josh Ho

P7b- Meerab Rowberry Raja

House Points

Drummond- 556 points

Pilrig- 481 points

Trinity- 424 points

McDonald- 409 points

Well done Drummond!

Well done to everyone for all their achievements! Have a lovely weekend!

Here are the winning Sparkle Jars from last week’s very successful FAB Winter Cafe!

It was very hard to pick winners, so well done to everyone who entered one into the competition!

Here are the worthy prize winners-

– Humaira Hussain P2

– Alexia Kiokpasoglou P5

– Adam Awadh P4a

– Lucas Dreger Lamas P4b

– Malcolm Scott P1a

– Sahabiyah Salman P3a

Thanks to our FAB team for organising the fun ( and very busy) cafe last week. Thanks to all our pupil volunteers too, and any of you who attended and bought something!

Here are some of the awards and school achievements of the past couple of weeks!

Star Awards

P1a- Malika Hassan and Flora Sheddon

P1b- Anneesa Imran and Cole Singh

P1/2- Rebecca Turpie and David Nguyen

P2- Noah Carr and Jerreline Law

P3a- Fraser Savage and Grace Powers

P3b- Harry and Faith Spiers

P4a- Maya Osae-Brown and Gael Gardiner

P4b- Sophie Proudfoot and Patryk Bednarz

P5- Amar Singh and Alexia Kiokpasoglou

P5/6- Sam Gibson and Adeline Lewis

P6- Jaspreet Singh, Kevin Kielak and Luke Evans

P7a- Whole class!

P7b- Whole class!

ESB2- Nikolas Dudziak and Krystian Sawa

Big Book of Achievement

Yahya Iqbal (P4b) was very brave and earned a certificate for attending sessions run by Richmond’s Hope. Well done Yahya.

Grace Powers (P3a) attended her first Gaelic Football tournament in Dublin, and her team won 3 out of 4 games!

Sophie Proudfoot (P4b) took part in a Tapathon for Children in Need!

Sophie O’Neill (P3b) performed on stage at the Pleasance Theatre in a production of Cinderella!

Both P7 classes were mentioned in the Big Book this week, for being fantastic ambassadors for our school, and showing excellent enthusiasm, effort and resilience on their residential excursion to Lagganlia Outdoor Centre. Lagganlia staff were full of praise, and we are very proud of you all!

House Points

Drummond- 500 points

McDonald- 488 points

Pilrig- 462 points

Trinity- 445 points

Well done Drummond!

Children in Need

We raised £197 for Children in Need when we held our Dress Down Day! Well done to all who took part, and thanks to all who donated!

Well done to everyone for all their achievements! Have a lovely weekend!

FAB Winter Raffle and Winter Cafe

Two exciting events coming up this week!

Our winter raffle is now live on bit.ly/FABRaffle

Enter Raffle to Win BPS FAB Winter Raffle hosted by Broughton ParentsBroughton Primary School Parent Council/Friends at Broughton Winter Raffle. All funds raised will be put towards playground improvements, growing and cooking project and to allow all pupils to attend whole class outings with their friends, regardless of their ability to pay. Thank you!! This raffle will end on18 December 2022 at 11:45pm (or last ticket sold). Winners will be drawn and contacted via email on 19 December 2022. All prizes to be picked up at Broughton Primary School, Broughton Road, Edinburgh, unless stated otherwise.bit.ly

.  At £2 per ticket, you have a chance of winning one of the amazing prizes.  Entry closes 18th December and winners will be drawn automatically and contacted via email from 19th December onwards.

See below to see a poster about the raffle-

BPC Winter 2022 Raffle

Preparation for Winter Cafe is underway.  It is on this Friday 2 December, 11:30-13:30 at the Gym Hall.  Looking forward to seeing all the amazing home baking again.  Donations of food, crafty items, festive jumpers etc are welcome or bring along to the cafe.  See you then!

For Children in Need, our Pupil Equalities Group organised a Dress Down Day where children were invited to come to school wearing clothes that reflected their culture, as well as wearing spots or yellow like Pudsey.

Many children came in national dress today- countries represented included

Poland

Nigeria

Gambia

India

Pakistan

Malaysia

Peru

Indonesia

Egypt

Here are a few photos for you to enjoy!

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Well done everyone!

Star Awards

P1a- Whole class!

P1b- Mark Pashaev

P1/2- Robin Cohen and Callie Brattley

P2- Adam Wawock

P3a- Nefeli Alysandratou

P3b- Rosie Nicholson

P4a- Peter Rogaczyk

P4b- Reyaan

P5- Ian Rahman

P5/6- Josh Hay

P6- Piotrek Fraczek

P7a- Whole class!

P7b- Laasya Kampa

Big Book of Achievement

Atticus Crozier and Yevhen Semeniuk (P3b) won medals for taking part in a football tournament!

Luke Evans (P6) has managed to complete his entire Maths book with Mrs Douglas! He had to answer each question 3 times correctly, and has finished all 163 pages- amazing!

House Points

Drummond- 478 points

Pilrig- 463 points

McDonald- 460 points

Trinity- 418 points

Well done Drummond!

Well done to everyone for all their achievements! Have a lovely weekend!