Here are this week’s awards and achievements!

Star Awards

P3a	Rebecca Arockiaraj Charles
P3b	Noora Ryan
P4a	Whole Class Award
P4b	Whole Class Award
P5a	Whole Stage Award
P5b	Whole Stage Award
P6a	Tobi Ortega Jurecka
P6b	Minh Le and Whole Class Award
P7a	Vlada Semeniuk
P7b	Samer Atia

Big Book of Achievements

Toby Sewell and Alexander McCloy (P4a) have earned their black stripe belt in Taekwondo, which means they have achieved all the grades in Active Tigers and are now working towards the UKTC group! Great effort from you both!

Rhys Owain McLaren (P3a) attended the Beauty and the Beast pantomime at the Festival Theatre. The panto was being filmed for BBC and Rhys can be seen in the audience on the recording. We now have our very own TV star at Broughton!

Robin Cohen (P4a) was presented with a ‘Living Our Values’ award 2024 from Spartans FC for Respect throughout the year. The coaches said,” He is always respectful to teammates and coaches, always listening to instructions, taking everything in and trying his hardest.” He received his award from one of the first team players at Spartans FC. Well done Robin!

Jerreline Law, Vicky Flores Diaz, Valentina Ortega Jureckova (P4a), Carly Law and Maya Osae-Brown (P6a) performed at the Edinburgh Piano Christmas Showcase 2024. Their piano teacher said they were all outstanding! Excellent work from you all!

House Points– This Week

McDonald- 339 points

Drummond- 272 points

Trinity- 262 points

Pilrig- 261 points

Well done McDonald!

House Points- Mid-Year Totals so far…

McDonald- 2636 points

Trinity- 2632 points

Drummond- 2437 points

Pilrig- 2288 points

Well done McDonald! It is very close though…

Well done to everyone on your achievements!

We’d like to wish all our pupils, staff, parents and carers a very happy, restful Christmas break, and a peaceful and healthy New Year when it comes!

We look forward to seeing you all again on Tuesday 7th January 2025!

We have a double update this week, with last week’s star awards as well as this week!

Star Awards

Class	Last week	This week
P1a	Logan Donald	No assembly
P1b	Amelia Lavagna	No assembly
P1c	Harlie Gray	No assembly
P2a	Odette Anstoter	No assembly
P2b	Oliver York	No assembly
P3a	Zohair Zargar	Hania Furdal
P3b	Callie Brattley	Cole Brook Singh
P4a	Rudhraunsh Sreeramadasu	Alexander McCloy
P4b	Dougal Jumar	Arthur Watson
P5a	Brandon Singh	Heidi Scott
P5b	Daniel Ivanov	Rosie Nicholson
P6a	Stelios Gerakopoulos	Diego Sardi
P6b	Ellis Clark	Danvanth Laxman
P7a	At school camp	Whole class award
P7b	At school camp	Whole class award
ESB 2	Max Macleod	Archie Anderson

Big Book of Achievements

Maddie Ellis (P4b) was a zookeeper for an afternoon at Edinburgh Zoo! She got to feed meerkats, penguins and armadillos! What a treat Maddie!

Cary Hubert (P3b) took part in the Zayna Dance School Winter Showcase. They put on 2 shows at the George Aikman Lecture Theatre and Cary performed 3 dances in each show! He worked so hard and danced amazingly. Well done Cary!

P7 represented Broughton so well at Lagganlia Centre when they visited for their residential camp last week! They challenged themselves, were thoughtful and supportive of each other, and respectful of the Lagganlia instructors and staff. Lagganlia said we were ‘amazing!’ Well done to everyone who attended!

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

FAB Winter Trail is back!  Download the map, follow the trail, solve the clues to reveal the answer.  Available to all, voluntary donations welcome. 

This is a fun activity for friends and family to take part during the holiday (trail finishing Sunday 12 January 2025).  To help keep children active and connected with our local community during the festive period.  Hope you all enjoy it and help spread some festive joy to everyone!!  

Help Make the Magic Manageable!

There are so many demands at this time of year, the list just keeps on getting longer and the cost continues to rise. You can find a list of free and low-cost activities to do in the run up to and during the winter school holidays on the Family Holiday Activities webpage. The City of Edinburgh council are updating the webpage all the time, so please keep checking back in for new activities.

Support for Families

Check out the other Support for Families webpages for lots of other supports and activities provided by different organisations throughout the year.

The Financial support webpage might be particularly helpful just now when trying to stretch the budget for those extra holiday costs.

If you need any help finding support for you or your child, please email

supportingparentsandcarers@edinburgh.gov.uk

Please see below a poster with information on the Parent Council Adult Winter Raffle!

The raffle is now live.  The poster has closing dates, link and QR codes to take part.

The link to buy a raffle tickets is:  https://rb.gy/k1ixxm

Good luck!

BPS PC Raffle Poster 2024

**Raffle donations appeal**

We have received some lovely prizes already but will still welcome more! If you can donate a prize or you know a company or business who can, please drop them at the school office on Monday 9th or Tuesday 10th December.  Raffle ticket sale information will be coming soon.