Last week was Sunrise Week, our week of celebrating diversity of the people and families that make up Team Broughton! Originally thought up by OPEG last year as a day of equalities learning and sharing, we decided to extend it to a week to allow more opportunities for people to attend and share examples of their culture with classes. What a busy week! See below some examples of the visitors we welcomed last week.

Risay and Ayden’s Mum Azwa visited P6/7 to teach the class all about Malaysian Night Markets!

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Azwa also visited Ayden’s P3 class, to teach them about how Eid is celebrated.

Cassie’s Dad Chunliang visited the P5 classes to teach them about the origins and customs of the Chinese Dragon Boat festival!

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Arya’s Mum Ana, with her friend Leticia, gave P3a a Tour of  Spain, teaching about food, customs, sports and animals and teaching some Spanish words and phrases!

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Indah and Ria’s Mum Pauline visited P3a and P6 to teach them about Malaysian schools and snacks!

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Holly’s Gran visited the P2 classes to share a story from South Africa, and teach them some language too!

Khubaib and Zohair’s Mum Bilkies visited the P2 classes to teach them about Kashmir, the area of India she comes from!

P1b decorated biscuits with flags of different countries, and designed some of their own!

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Ruby’s Mum Kirsten also visited P1 to teach some Maori words and a song from New Zealand!

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Conrad and his team came to our assembly on Friday and presented their Chinese Lion dance performance for us! It was amazing!

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Finally, the week was rounded off with an International Cafe run by our Parent Council FAB team. OPEG pupils helped with setting up and selling at the cafe. There were lots of tasty treats from different countries and cultures to buy, and a recipe share so people could copy or photograph the recipes of others!

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We’d like to thank everyone who gave up their time to come and take part in Sunrise Week! Thanks to all our visitors for sharing their stories, information or performance with the classes, and also to all the volunteers who helped organise the International Cafe. Thanks also if you attended the cafe and bought something! Let’s see if we can get even more visitors at Sunrise Week next year!

P6 had an epic adventure this week at Bonaly Outdoor Centre! They spent the whole day and most of the evening taking part in a range of activities, including archery, hill walking, stream walks, climbing, bushcraft and outdoor escape room problem solving. The day was rounded off with a campfire and marshmallow toasting!

The pupils were excellent ambassadors for our school, showing determination, resilience and a growth mindset to new challenges!

See below for some photos of our epic day!

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Here are our recent awards and achievements!

Star Awards

P1a	Lily De Beer
P1b	Romy MacKenzie-Scott
P2a	Whole Class Award
P2b	Harrison Ford
P3a	Vicky Flores Diaz
P3b	Arthur Watson and Leo Hoyland
P4a	Abdur Moral
P4b	Sophie O’Neill
P5a	Peter Rogaczyk
P5b	Ziad Atia
P6	Ria Collins
P6/7	Fraser Cummings
P7	Aya Yasin
ESB 1	Cameron Barnes
ESB 2	Archie Anderson

Big Book of Achievement

Bacary Davis (P1a) learned how to do a trick on his skateboard, and also how to herd goats! Good range of new skills there Bacary!

Alexia Kiokpasoglou and Bea Skinner (P6) had skiing lessons together and accomplished Level 1, skiing down a green piste. They were so good at it that at the end of the lessons their instructor took them all the way up to the black piste!! Bea even managed a ski jump! Well done to both of you!

House Points

Pilrig- 317 points

Trinity- 299 points

Drummond- 281 points

McDonald- 253 points

Well done Pilrig!

Well done to everyone on your achievements!

We hope you all enjoy a great weekend!

Dear Parents/Carers,

Thank you for all of the interest and feedback on our products for Grow a 5er. It has been brought to our attention that some of the forms on the Sway we shared cannot be edited, we do apologise about this.  We are currently working on rectifying this issue and we hope to resolve it soon.

Worst case scenario and we cannot edit the permissions we hope to having a selling morning. We will contact you with an update as soon as we have one. In the meantime, there is no deadline until we sort this.

Apologies and we appreciate your patience.

P6, P6/7 & P7 Team

Please see below information on behalf of our Parent Council-

Dear Parents and Carers,

Broughton Primary’s Parent Council will be running a fund raising Café on Friday 26 April, from 11:30am to 1pm in the school dining hall.  It would be lovely to see as many people there as possible. See below for our promotional poster.

FAB International Cafe poster – April 26 2024

To join in with the school in celebrating diversity in Sunrise Week, the café will have an international theme.  We are looking for donations of food to sell at the café, sweet or savoury, and it would be really lovely to have food that gives a flavour of as many different countries and cultures as possible. Please do provide something if you can.  As usual it would be really helpful if you could provide a list of ingredients with your dish so that people with food intolerances know which food they can eat, and of course please don’t include nuts in any of the food.

We are planning to have a recipes board to share recipes from different countries and cultures.  If you do cook some food to donate, it would be lovely if you could also provide the recipe to go on the board.  And even if you can’t prepare some food for the cafe this time (we know it can be difficult when everyone is already juggling so much) please do consider providing a favourite family recipe for inclusion on the board.

And we can’t run these events without your help on the day.  If you are able to spare a bit of time on Friday to help with setting up the cafe, selling the food or clearing up please fill in the form below letting us know when you are available and how to contact you.

International Cafe Volunteer Form

Looking forward to seeing you on Friday.  If you have any questions please email the Parent Council at broughtonparents@outlook.com

Kind regards

Rebecca Winterstein

(on behalf of the parent council)

Hi everyone, P6 & P7 are excited to share with you our products for our Grow a 5er topic. 

A few months ago, pupils were tasked with creating their own business. Once they had created their business and business plan they were given a loan of £5 per pupil to reinvest in their business with the hope of turning a profit. These groups consist of 4 – 6 pupils and there is a wide variety of products on offer.  On the Sway we have created, each product has its own order form that pupils can complete at home with a parent or carer. Once orders are in and payment is received, P6 & P7 will begin to create and fulfil orders. Should groups not be able to complete orders, then we will refund pupils fully. 

Sway of Products Available

Thanks for taking the time to look through our products, we hope you like them. 

P6 & P7 pupils. 

If you have any questions, please contact Mr Horan, Mr Murray or Miss Mooney. Thank you!

Here are our recent awards and achievements!

Star Awards

P1a	Karolina Ortega Jureckova
P1b	Zayhaan Hosanoo
P2a	Jaasritha Billa
P2b	Vinnie Boyd
P3a	Abdullah Tariq
P3b	Maddie Ellis
P4a	Tomy Nemec
P4b	Elena Leader
P5a	Stelios Gerakopoulos
P5b	Grachan McGlinchey
P6	Alexander Prince Thomas
P6/7	Ben Porter
P7	Blair Malcolm
ESB 2	Whole class award!

Big Book of Achievement

Alexia Kiokpasoglou (P6) walked a total of 263,792 steps in March, equal to approximately 210km. By taking part in this challenge, she raised £210 for the Air Ambulance Service and earned a certificate! Well done!

Toby Sewell (P3a) completed a full 3 hours of Taekwondo training and was graded up to the red stripe belt at Taekwondo UKTC camp. Well done Toby!

House Points

Trinity- 566 points

Pilrig- 444 points

McDonald- 325 points

Drummond- 289 points

Well done Trinity!

Well done to everyone on your achievements!

We hope you all enjoy a great weekend!