Please see below the attached flyer containing information on parenting courses available across the city.

PoPP Flyer-Autumn 2022

Star Awards

P1a- Malika Hassan

P1b- Hania Furdal

P1/2- The whole class, and Calan Woods

P2- Ahmed Abbasi

P3a- The whole class!

P3b- The whole class!

P4a- Joshua Male

P4b- Grachan McGlinchey

P5- The whole class!

P5/6- The whole class!

P6- Luca Paolozzi

P7a-Flynn Powers

P7b- Kacey Fisher

ESB2- Krystian Sawa

Big Book of Achievement

Indah Collins (P2) earned a certificate for being part of a research study at Edinburgh University! She played some games the researchers designed for their studies.

Sally Robinson (P1/2) went to watch Sound Symphony with her Mum!

We hope you have a lovely weekend everyone!

The AGM for our Parent Council is on Wednesday 7th September from 6.30-8pm.

Please find more information in the posters below-

Here are the minutes from our last Parent Council meeting for your reference-

BPS Parent Council Minutes 11 May 2022

We hope to see as many of our parents and carers involved as possible!

 

Welcome back everyone!

We hope you have all enjoyed a restful and relaxing summer holiday! We look forward to seeing you back tomorrow.

Please see attached a graphic that shows where classes will be lining up this year. When the bell rings, class teachers will come out to collect their class and will have a sign for their class to help guide you to them! Parents of P1 pupils, we know that the arrangements for the start of term are a bit different for you, but the graphic still shows where your classes will line up eventually!

Lining Up-August 2022

See you tomorrow!

We certainly had a very busy end to our summer term this week!

On Wednesday we held our P7 Leavers BBQ in the school playground and Gym Hall. There was lots to eat and drink, games and dancing.

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On Thursday we held our school talent show, Broughton’s Got Talent. We were treated to an amazing range of talents; baton twirling, cello playing, gymnastics, magic tricks, live art, Rubik’s cube tricks and drumming. We also had performances from our P6 cellists, our Active Schools Dance Group, Maya playing her flute and our Glee Club! So many talented pupils in our school!

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Friday was a special day for our P7 Leavers. They spent some time getting their school jumpers signed by the school pupils and staff. Then we held a special Leavers Assembly, where each of the P7s was presented with a leaving gift and a Yearbook. This was our chance to celebrate all P7 have achieved and wish them well for the future! We also announced the House Point totals for the year, to decide who would win the House Shield this year!

1st- Drummond– 20258 points

2nd- McDonald– 19630 points

3rd- Trinity- 18726 points

4th- Pilrig– 18689 points

Well done Drummond!

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We were able to give our P7s a stylish send off, as they were piped out of the school by Louise, our amazing piper. The school clapped along as the P7s came down the stairs, and they were treated to a few tunes in the playground too! We’d like to wish our P7 pupils all the very best for the future. We’ll miss you!

 

It’s been a really busy year, and we’d like to thank our amazing pupils for all their hard work and enthusiasm, in what has been an unusual year as we have tried to get back to a sense of normality in school! Thanks also to our brilliant staff too, for all their hard work and efforts in supporting our pupils. We want wish those staff and pupils leaving us all the very best for the future, we will miss you! Special mention to long serving members of staff Mrs Cowan, retiring from our school office, and Miss Bradley, who leaves to take up a new post at East Craigs Primary. 
Last but not least, to all our parents and cares, thanks for all your support this year!

We are all awesome! #teambroughton

We wish you all a very happy, sunny and restful Summer break! We hope you all have a great time, and look forward to seeing you all again on Wednesday 17th August.

 

 

 

Star Awards

P3a- The entire class!

P3b- The entire class!

P4a- Raihaan Yusuf

P4b- The entire class!

P5a- Daisy George

P5b- Jarvis Leung

P6a- The entire class!

P6b- The entire class!

P7a-The entire class!

P7b- The entire class!

Big Book of Achievement

Amy Hernandez Suarez (P5b) took part in a drumming competition held on Princes Street in front of a large crowd! Well done Amy!

Joshua Winterstein (P6a) invented a Maths game where you do calculations to help you choose different activities to do. It would be an inventive way of choosing things to do during a lockdown. So creative!

Finn Messer (P4b) took part in the Summer Reading Challenge 2022, and received a Gadgeteers Certificate! Well done Finn!

We also recognised all the efforts P7 put into their fabulous Leavers Show last week- so much talent and a very entertaining show! Well done P7!

Here are the House Points for this week-

House Points

Trinity- 638 points

Drummond- 614 points

McDonald- 559 points

Pilrig- 494 points

Well done to Trinity!

Congratulations to everyone on their achievements this week! 

Please see below the final Head Teacher Newsletter of this session from Ms Gowans-

Head Teacher Newsletter- June 2022

Thank you!

Star Awards

P1a- Valentina Ortega Jureckova, Dougal Jumar, Rebecca Turpie and Assata Hamici Ajari

P1b- Sajith Manikandan and Haris Afzaal

P2a- Heidi Scott

P2b- Yevhen Tarasovych Semeniuk

P3a- Ranya Yasin and Cihangir Ates

P4a- Marko Masic

P4b- Finn Messer

P5a- Piotrek Fraczek

P5b- Natan Mikoda

P6a- Jagna Przychodzka

P6b- Sana Bharadwaj

P7a-Danny Coleman

P7b- Mariyah Ali

Big Book of Achievement

Nur Aslam (P7a), Mariyah Ali and Armaan Uddin (P7b) , the P7 members of our school Equalities Group, represented the school at a Young Person’s Equalities event held online last week. They were one of only 5 schools across the whole city who presented to the event, sharing an example of good Equalities practice. They talked about our ‘Amazing Languages We Speak!’ map at the school entrance. They represented the school so well, so big thanks for your efforts!

Viksha Manjunathaswamy (P3a) took part in a show as part of her ballet class, and received a certificate of participation! Well done Viksha!

Poppy Hatton (P4b) entered a competition around the time of the Queen’s Jubilee to design a decoration for a crown. She won a John Lewis gift voucher- well done Poppy!

Here are the House Points for this week-

House Points

McDonald- 776 points

Pilrig- 608 points

Drummond- 556 points

Trinity- 552 points

Well done to McDonald!

Congratulations to everyone on their achievements this week! Have a lovely weekend!

Please see the post below from Rachel Blythe, chair of the Parent Council-

BPS SUMMER FAIR: Many thanks to everyone who helped make the Summer Fair happen.  Helping roles included: carrying tables, carrying stock; set up; serving on stalls; the barbecue; face painting; henna body art; organisation beforehand; making bakery; donating many things.

Thanks particularly to: (parents and friends) Robert Pollock, Naomi Sandilands, Veronika Jureckova, Anne Hay, Stuart Hay, Pauline Oh, Shona Campbell, Nicolette Oosthuizen, Dina Subasciaki, Rohena Rabbi, Naureen Akhter, Bence Solymar, Kath Henderson- Lewis, John McCallum, Catherine Evans, Kirstie Bogle, Anne Pollock, Sarah Drummond, Matthew Wilkin, Barbara Johnson, David Rawson, Deborah Elliot, and Karen Macpherson. 

Thanks particularly to the Staff of the School, who helped with set up, served on stalls, tidied up and helped greatly with organisation beforehand: Mrs Gowans; Mrs Rushforth; Mr Borthwick; Ms Bradley; Ms L Clark; Mrs Blair; Miss MacPherson; Mr Davies; Mrs V Clark; Mr Rogerson, Miss Wilson, Mrs McLear, Mrs Williamson and Miss McCrimmon.  Thanks to the School Office staff and Janitors!

Thanks particularly to the teenagers volunteering from Drummond Community High School (DCHS): Gala, Maya, Charlie, Jordyn, Evie, Kian, Madi, Heather, Layla; Carly.  Many thanks to Leah Rankin, (1 of 3 Pupil Support Leaders at Drummond), who did a splendid job of publicising the volunteering opportunity / passing on names.  Thanks also to Anne Hay, who started the process of asking DCHS for volunteers for this Summer Fair. 

Thanks particularly to the children from BPS, who helped with set up, served on stalls, tidied up.  An amazing 94 BPS children signed up for volunteering roles.  Those who made it along did a splendid job.  Many BPS children worked particularly hard at the Summer Fair.  Thanks very much to Mr Borthwick for organising all these pupil volunteers!

Thanks to everyone who helped, whose name we did not collect!  And thanks to everyone who came to the Summer Fair, bought something there, or donated items beforehand.

P.S.-Rachel forgot to thank herself! Well done Rachel for the role you played in planning, organising and running the event!

Many thanks to everyone who helped to plan, organise and run our first Summer Fair in 3 years on Saturday! We had lovely weather and a very busy playground! It was so nice to be able to meet up and share this event together. Thanks to all the volunteers who helped out, and thanks also to anyone who turned up and bought something! All your efforts are greatly appreciated!

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