In total, Broughton Primary School has at least 58 pupils running this Saturday in the Edinburgh Marathon Festival Junior Races. The 11th BPS Pilrig Park weekly training practice went well – FINAL ONE FOR SPRING 2022!  Thanks to everyone who came along to our weekly training practices. Thanks to Naomi Sandilands and Shona Campbell for leading the sessions and thanks to Ivon Bartholomew, for taking the photographs. 

After 11 fun runs at Pilrig Park, our runners are now ready to take part in the Edinburgh Marathon Festival Junior Races.  We are looking forward to seeing all our runners in their white Broughton Primary School t-shirts!  If your child is not running, then you are still very welcome to come along and cheer on Team BPS!  A poster is attached below with some final information about the race day.

For those of you who wish to mark the effort involved in this activity, by and for our Broughton runners, by donating or by getting your runs sponsored, then we have included details on the poster about how to make a payment via ParentPay.  In ParentPay this payment item called is ‘EMF Race Day Fundraiser 2022’.  This payment will contribute towards Parent Council funds, which are used throughout the year to fund class outings and to enhance the school experience.

Good luck everyone!

EMF Race Day Poster- Saturday 28th May

 

Star Awards

This week’s awards were given out to pupils for being effective contributors.

P1a- Louie O’Neill

P1b- Ahmed Abbasi

P2a- Eray Karaagacli

P2b- Blair Pollock

P3a- Yunus Karaallal, Maya Osae-Brown and Diego Sardi

P3b- Grachan McGlinchey

P4a- the whole class!

P4b- Luna Huarcaya

P5a- Luca Paolozzi

P5b- Luke Evans

P6a- Lucie Barclay

P6b- Houssem Hamza

P7a- Erin Walton

P7b- Mustafa Azam

ESB1- Elyse Metcalf

ESB2- Kelvin Young

Big Book of Achievement

Georgie Francis (P5a) competed in the Scottish Gymnastics grades competition in Perth last weekend! She passed her grade 5 with distinction, scoring over 12 points on each of the 5 pieces of apparatus! Well done Georgie!

Here are the House Points for this week-

House Points

Drummond- 629 points

Pilrig- 499 points

McDonald- 482 points

Trinity- 418 points

Well done to Drummond!

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

Good luck to everyone running as part of the Edinburgh Marathon Festival this weekend too! We hope you have fun and the weather is nice for you!

Look at how our tomato plants are growing!

P2a, P2b, P6a and the Enhanced Support Base are taking part in a tomato growing project.
#tomtastic

Hello everyone,

Our next parent and carer consultations are on Wednesday 8th June from 5pm-8pm, and Friday 10th June from 1pm-4pm. These meetings are for all classes, apart from P4a. They are in-person meetings, which means you are finally able to come in to school! You must use the Parents Booking website to book your appointments.

Bookings for these appointments can only be made from 7pm this Friday 27th May until 3.30pm on Tuesday 7th June.

Please follow this link to access the Parent Booking website- http://www.parents-booking.co.uk/

The following document has instructions to help you make a booking-Parental Instructions to make a booking using Parents Booking site

If you need to book an interpreter for your appointment, please choose your appointment time by Wednesday 1st June, to allow us time to book interpreters.

Here is a link to the information letter-

BPS Parents Evening Letter- June 2022

Here are links to video clips that may help you to make appointments-

Video 1- How do I log in to Parents Booking?

Video 2- How do I make an appointment?

Video 3- How do I cancel or re-arrange an appointment?

Video 4- How do I make appointments for another of my children?

Video 5- How do I email or print my appointments?

If you have any problems booking appointments, please contact the school. We look forward to catching up with you!

Please see below a letter from Scottish Government around a consultation on school uniform.

Notification of Scottish Government Consultation on School Uniforms in Scotland

 

Thank you.

Local artist Ritchie Collins visited our assembly yesterday to launch the amazing school portrait he and our pupil art group created to mark Broughton 125 and to use on BPS merchandise! We presented him with a portrait created by Eva, Emi and Martyna as a thank you!

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BPS Pilrig Park weekly training practice towards the Edinburgh Marathon Festival Junior Races – Thanks to everyone who came along to the 10th of our weekly training practices on Sunday 15 May, 10.30 am. Thanks to Shona Campbell and Naomi Sandilands for leading the session.  Thanks to Ivon Bartholomew, for photographing the running. 

This Sunday 22 May, 10.30 am is the last one before all the junior races for Edinburgh Marathon Festival.  We are keeping this one at Pilrig Park too and it is same time, and open to all – you don’t need to have entered the EMF to join in at Pilrig Park! Younger /older siblings welcome. All levels of running ability welcome. It’s about fun and taking part!

We are giving out white Broughton Primary School t shirts to everyone from BPS taking part in the races, so that it is easy to spot our Broughton runners.  (We collect the t shirts back in again afterwards.)  If you are running and you didn’t manage to get your white Broughton Primary School t shirt, please get in touch via broughtonparents@gmail.com

Star Awards

This week’s awards were given out to pupils for being responsible citizens.

P1a- Max Wallace and Harrison Jevons

P1b- Haris Afzaal

P2a- Nefeli Alysandratou

P2b- Man-Yui Chan

P3a- Anshu Sathyan

P3b- Sophie Proudfoot

P4a- Elodie Avison

P4b- Kayden Wilson

P5a- Blair Malcolm and Jaspreet Singh

P5b- Spike Weller

P6a- Riley Templeton, Darcey Roscoe, Lola Sardi and Flynn Powers

P6b- Malhar Deolekar

P7a- Danny Coleman and Antoni Soltan

P7b- Tyler Evans and Armaan Uddin

Big Book of Achievement

Our whole school are being recognised for raising over £5000 towards aid for Ukraine by completing our sponsored run. Well done everyone!

Riley Templeton, Darcey Roscoe, Lola Sardi and Flynn Powers represented the school so well at the Edinburgh heat of Euroquiz!

Harrison Jevons (P1a) took part in the Race for Life and ran 5K! Well done Harrison!

Here are the House Points for this week-

House Points

McDonald- 798 points

Trinity- 749 points

Drummond- 702 points

Pilrig- 693 points

Well done to McDonald!

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

Please see below a post from Rachel Blythe, our Parent Council chair-

PARENT COUNCIL IN PERSON MEETING

Many thanks to everyone attending the last Parent Council meeting, on Wednesday 11 May, 6.30 pm. 3 staff attended and a good number of parents. Staff attending were: Mrs Gowans, Mrs Rushforth and Mr Borthwick.
Thanks to Naomi Sandilands, who took the minutes. Thanks to Pauline Oh for her work on Primary 1 transitions and on Active Schools. Thanks to Shona Campbell for the Treasurer’s Report.
The childcare at the meeting consisted of: the Music room next door, with a paid supervisor, was used by 3 children.
The minutes of the meeting will be shared soon.

 

Pictures attached below show-

1) The Breakfast Club Room in the link, where we met;

2) The Music room next door, for childcare;

3) Soft seating in the Breakfast Club room itself, good for children who want to be in the meeting room itself or younger children;

4) The outside of the Link Building.

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Please see below details of a free online information session on Anti-Bullying from respectme.

Anti-Bullying Information Session for Parents & Carers in Edinburgh

Day/Date: Wednesday 1^st June 2022

Timing: 6.30-7.30pm

Audience: Parents and carers – Edinburgh

Venue: Online Eventbrite

Cost: Free

About the event: Join us to find out more about what you can do to support children and young people affected by bullying. Organised by Edinburgh City Council in partnership with respectme, Scotland’s anti-bulling organisation. This session for parents and carers will help you to understand more about bullying and how to respond effectively whether it’s happening online or offline.

How to register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/339885114527 – this link takes you to the registration page.