P1 have achieved the silver level award as part of the woodland trust Green Trees Award. You can see their certificate below! Well done P1! @woodlandtrust  @edinburghLfS

Silver Award Certificate

This week was the turn of P6 to be visited by Cyber Captains to collect some examples of successful learning for sharing on social media.

Georgie (P7) and Alicia (P5) visited P6 and took the photos in the slideshow below. P6 were creating spy gadgets to present to the P6 Dragons Den. They were focusing on using persuasive language to convince the Dragons to invest!

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Thanks Georgie and Alicia for collecting these photos! Well done P6, looks like a lovely fun activity!

Here are our recent awards and achievements!

Star Awards

P1a	Whole class award and Sadie Grant
P1b	Whole class award and Juno Lamb
P2a	Chris Burns
P2b	Noora Ryan
P3a	Toby Sewell
P3b	Max Wallace
P4a	Asya Coskun
P4b	Abdulmuqsit Luckmanali
P5a	Oscar Ni
P5b	Asma Bousbaci
P6	Protik Das
P6/7	Spike Weller
P7	Meriem Bousbaci
ESB 1	Annie Hoggan
ESB 2	Krystian Sawa

Big Book of Achievement

Charlie Hubbard (P1a) took part in the Edinburgh Winter Run Family Mile at Holyrood Park. He completed the run in a good time, and earned a medal! Well done Charlie!

Angus Nasmyth (P1b) has started taking snowboarding lessons. He has managed to complete a blue run by himself, and has done a red run too! Well done Angus!

House Points

Drummond- 413 points

Trinity- 325 points

McDonald- 287 points

Pilrig- 251 points

Well done Drummond!

Well done to everyone on your achievements! Have a lovely weekend!

Our Pupil Digital Group, or Cyber Captains, as they have named themselves, have started what will become a regular job this session. Each week they will visit a stage in the school to collect some photos or videos of some successful learning to be shared on our school website and X feed. 

Last week Cyber Captains William T (P7) and Ellis Clark (P5b) visited P7 to see what they’ve been up to.

Here’s what P7 had to say-

This week we did some self portraits and finished our Year Target booklets. We also went buddying with P1. We helped them to complete a questionnaire about the rights of the child. We also designed hoodies showing our identity, hobbies and talents.

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Thanks William and Ellis for collecting and sharing these pictures!

Last year we organised an event called ‘Sunrise Day.’ This day is named after the motto of our Pupil Equalities Group (OPEG), ‘When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.’

This event was an invitation to parents/carers to come in and visit classes to share their culture with the pupils, through information presentations, donating food to taste, stories, sharing artefacts or other symbols. We also invited pupils and staff to come to school in national/cultural dress that day and had equalities themed learning happening in classes that day.

Sunrise Day was such a success, this year we have decided to extend it and have Sunrise Week! This will be the week beginning Monday 22^nd April 2024. We hope this might give people more opportunities to come in rather than just one day.

Sunrise Week will be rounded off on Friday 26^th April with a FAB International Café, where donations of national cuisine and dishes will be gratefully received.

Last year the theme was very much about sharing the diverse culture of our school with the pupils, and we are keen to continue that this year. We also want to recognise other areas of equalities during Sunrise Week too. Themes of gender equality, disability, LGBTQI+ and age equality are also issues we have introduced in school, and we’d be keen to have these issues represented during Sunrise Week too!

Please let us know if you would be interested in sharing your experience with a class or classes. Your visit would only need to be around 10-15 minutes per class. This visit could be-

-telling a story from your culture/country

-teaching a song from your culture/country

-teaching some words and phrases in a language

-doing a ‘Show and Tell’ with an object or artefact of interest from your country or culture.

-Henna or hand painting

-Presenting information or experiences around gender equality, LGBTQI+ rights, disability rights or age equality.

We’d also be grateful if you could share any contacts you may have with groups or organisations who you feel could participate in Sunrise Week.

If you would like to come in to visit a class or classes, or have any contacts you think could get involved, please email Mr Borthwick , david.borthwick@broughton-pri.edin.sch.uk with your name, child’s class(es) and what you would like to share on the day.

Please let us know by Friday 5^th April 2024 to allow us to arrange this successfully.

Thank you!

Here are our recent awards and achievements!

Star Awards

P1a	Alisa Rozova
P1b	Jeremi Szczurak
P2a	Aneesa Imran
P2b	Thomas Marshall
P3a	Indah Collins
P3b	Miryn Ford
P4a	Jakub Nowicki
P4b	Rosie Nicholson
P5a	Emre Gear
P5b	Lucas Dreger Lamas
P6	Alexia Kiokpasoglou and Emelie Guagliardo
P6/7	Robert Wawock
P7	Aya Yasin
ESB 1	Malik Moutaouakil
ESB 2	Quinne Wright

Big Book of Achievement

Lots of things to mention this week, as some of these are from before the Christmas holidays!

Celia Gray (P5b) took part in her first gymnastics display with her gymnastics club!

Alexia Kiokpasoglou (P6) successfully reached stage 6 at her swimming club. This means she can swim 25 metres freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke without any swimming aids!

Thomas Marshall (P2b) gained a Two Year certificate for attending Stagecoach, and also played an Elf in their Christmas show ‘Elf the Musical Jr!’

Maddie Ellis (P3b) ran the Santa Fun Run in Princes Street Gardens to raise money for the Make A Wish foundation!

Ria Collins (P6) had 17cm of her hair cut off on her 10th birthday last July to donate to the Little Princess Trust. She received a certificate as a thank you for raising £220 for the charity!

Dean Melville (P3a) earned his orange belt in karate, and won hard pads and a gum shield!

Alexander McCloy (P3a) earned his green belt at Taekwondo!

Vicky Flores Diaz (P3a) earned her first swimming certificate and is now progressing to the next level!

Iona Baruah-Young (P2a) earned her Stage 2 swimming certificate and achieved her ‘Explore Core Skills 1’ certificate in gymnastics!

Ayeesha Palfreyman (P2a) took part in a dance show, performing as part of musical theatre, street dance and also a solo part!

Bacary Davis (P1a) performed in a dance showcase as part of a team!

Blair Pollock (P4b) has moved up a class at swimming lessons to Swim Skills 2 class!

Chloe Craig and Summer Jones (P4a) came 1st in a dancing competition as part of their dance group! It was the first time they had performed the dance as a group!

House Points

McDonald- 219 points

Pilrig- 211 points

Trinity- 193 points

Drummond- 186 points

Well done McDonald!

Well done to everyone on your achievements! Have a lovely weekend!

Last week, we had a visit from Louise from Dogs Trust Education who spoke at our assemblies and led workshops with P6 and P7. Dogs Trust aim to encourage and motivate children to behave safely around dogs, to consider the needs of the dogs they currently live with, and to be responsible dog owners in the future.

We received a certificate from Dogs Trust for our participation, attached below. It was very interesting to hear of ways we can be safe around dogs, and how our behaviour can be interpreted from a dog’s perspective. Thanks to Louise for her fun and interesting presentations!

Dogs Trust E-Certificate

Here are our recent awards and achievements!

Star Awards

P1a	Bacary Davis
P1b	Elena Ho
P2a	Qais Salman
P2b	Fatiha Abdul
P3a	Whole Class Award
P3b	Harrison Jevons
P4a	Aarav Bajpai
P4b	Lamin Joof
P5a	Whole Class Award
P5b	Liam Laidlaw
P6	Connor Urquhart
P6/7	Joseph Hood
P7	Theo Kennedy-Hughes
ESB 1	Primrose Scott
ESB 2	Riley Fyfe

House Points

Pilrig- 976 points

Trinity- 970 points

Drummond- 855 points

McDonald- 680 points

Well done Pilrig! 

Well done to everyone on your achievements! Have a lovely weekend!

Please see the information below from the Stantec Project Team regarding the Powderhall Junction project(at the intersection of Broughton Road and McDonald Road). This information shares details of upcoming ways to have your say.

A community engagement event will be held in Broughton Primary School (132 Broughton Road, EH7 4LD) on Wednesday the 24^{th of} January 2024 between 15:30 and 19:00 at the Classrooms in the Link Building. The project team will provide an update on how the views of the local community have shaped the emerging designs and the extension to the study area.

A survey is available online which is planned to close on Friday 16th February 2024 and can be viewed here:

https://tinyurl.com/PowderhallJunctionProject 

The event and survey are open to all so please share this invite on social media channels or directly with groups / individuals who might have an interest.

To request alternative formats for submitting your views please contact PowderhallJunction@Stantec.com or call 0131 335 4200

Kind regards,

Stantec Project Team

We’d like to wish all our pupils, staff, parents and carers a very happy new year! We hope 2024 is a year of good health and happiness for you. We’re looking forward to what new learning and adventures 2024 will bring!