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Attached below is a list of frequently asked questions for new P1 families you may find useful!

FAQs for New P1 Parents and Carers

We had a busy end to our final term of the year!

Broughton’s Got Talent

We held our annual Broughton’s Got Talent contest. Each stage was represented and we had 2 separate competitions, one for P1-3 and one for P4-P7. It was so lovely to see such a range of talent on display, and we also had performances from our P4-P5 choir and P7 too. Our judges were Katie from our After School Club and Ms Sitaridou, and they had a very tough job to pick winners! Mason from P3b won the P1-3 contest with his great piano playing, and Louie from P4a won from P4-P7 with fabulous magic tricks! Thanks to Mrs Clark for organising, here are some photos of the event!

P7 Leavers

We also said goodbye and good luck to our P7s as they left to move on to secondary school!

We enjoyed having a Leavers BBQ, with games and music, as well as lots of yummy things to eat and drink. Then on the last day of term P7 visited classrooms to have their special P7 uniforms signed. We held a special assembly for them, where they were presented with their Yearbooks and a gift from the school. P1 buddies, P6 pupils and P7 parents also attended the assembly, and P1 performed a lovely song for their buddies! The P7 Brass players performed, and P7 sang a song from their show. The House Captains also got to announce the final House Points totals for the year, and show off the House Shield. Here are the final totals-

Drummond- 13481 points

Pilrig- 12740 points

Trinity- 12687 points

McDonald- 12647 points

Well done Drummond!

Finally, the P7s were piped out of school by our lovely piper, Louise. All the classes clapped the P7s out as they left the school building for the last time!

We’d like to wish all our the P7s the very best of luck and happiness for the future! We’re all very proud of you, and hope you keep reaching for the stars as you move on to high school! We will miss you! Here are some photos of these events!

We hope you all have a wonderful summer! Thanks to all our pupils, staff, parents and carers for all their hard work and support this session! We wish you all a restful, sunny and safe break, and look forward to seeing you all again in August!

On Friday we held our first ‘Sunrise Day’ celebrating equality and diversity in our school.

OPEG ( Our Pupil Equalities Group) came up with this idea, and helped to plan what the day should include. They decided to name the day ‘Sunrise Day’ after their motto. ‘When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.’

Friday was such a lovely day! We had some parents and carers visiting classes to share about their country or culture. Stories, songs, presentations, hand painting, national dress and artefacts were among the many things shared. It was lovely to see so many of our pupils who came dressed in national dress too!

We also had food tasting of a range of different dishes and tasty treats, and classes had an equalities theme to learning happening in class that day.

We’d like to thank everyone who contributed to our day, either by coming in to share with a class, or by contributing some food to share! Below are some photos from the day!

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Please see below a bumper What’s On for North East Families Summer 2023 guide.

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What’s On for Families Summer NE2023

Here are our recent awards and achievements!

Star Awards

P3a- Whole class award!

P3b- Sashwin Arun Prakash

P4a- Carly Law

P4b- Ellis Clark and Angus Laing

P5- Adam Winterstein

P5/6- Whole class award!

Big Book of Achievement

Zoe Bell (P1/2) earned 2 medals for swimming! One for swimming 20 metres and the other for making the biggest splash! Well done Zoe!

Fraser Cummings (P5/6) completed a huge jigsaw! Well done Fraser!

Amar Singh (P5) received a fab trophy from his football club Craigroyston FC. Well done Amar!

Ibrahim Nawed (P4b) has been cooking at home, and made a steak all by himself! Sounds delicious Ibrahim!

Sophie Proudfoot (P4b) received a certificate for achieving Grade 1 in ballet and tap class! Well done Sophie!

House Points

McDonald- 601 points

Drummond- 599 points

Pilrig- 550 points

Trinity- 455 points

Well done McDonald!

Well done to everyone for all their achievements! Have a lovely weekend!

This week we held a Celebration Concert to recognise all the talented musicians we have in school.

We had such a variety of performances! Singing from choir and Glee Team, drumming, pan pipes, piano, cello and recorder! A huge well done to everyone who took part, and to Mrs Clark for putting the performances together! Photos to see below!

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Here are our recent awards and achievements!

Star Awards

P1a- Vinnie Boyd and Esha Mohammad

P1b- Musa Iqbal

P1/2- Whole Class Award

P2- Ahmed Abbasi

P3a- Taranom Alizada

P3b- Lamin Joof

P4a- Dalton Slater

P4b- Celia Gray

P5- Seren Ferguson

P5/6- Spike Weller and Danny Urquhart

P6- Whole Class Award

P7a- Lucie Barclay

P7b- KK Osae- Brown

ESB1- Cameron Barnes

ESB2- Krystian Sawa and Numra Rizwan

Our Eco group also received special certificates for all their hard work as Eco-Warriors this year- awards given to Toby Sewell from P2, Louie O’Neill from P1/2, Harrison Ford from P1b and Robin Harrison from P1a!

Big Book of Achievement

Lucy Draganova (P2) has achieved skills 3 in swimming at her local leisure club. She also participated in an online international competition for singing folklore songs of Israel and Bulgaria, and she won a certificate for coming in second place! She is also completing her preschool years at the Bulgarian school in Edinburgh, where she attends every Saturday! You’ve been very busy Lucy! Well done!

Akal Singh (P3a) won a medal for his football team Craigroyston FC, who won their tournament last weekend!

Josh Hare (P1a) has earned the Golden Bib at his Saturday football class3 weeks out of the last 4! He earned it for good football skills, great listening and for helping an injured team mate. Well done Josh!

House Points

Trinity- 394 points

McDonald- 379 points

Pilrig- 297 points

Drummond- 258 points

Well done Trinity!

Well done to everyone for all their achievements! Have a lovely weekend!

Please see below an update on last weekend’s Summer Fair from FAB-

FAB Summer Fair 2023

FAB Summer Fair 2023 was one to remember!!  Not only did you help raise approximately £2,400 (expenses pending) for the benefit of our children at Broughton Primary and Nursery, we also raised awareness of community spirit – parents/carers and staff volunteers, pupils from Broughton Primary and Drummond Community High, our local clubs and local businesses all played their vital part in making it a successful Summer Fair 2023.  We cannot thank you all enough.

Last Saturday, we had….

– sunshine,

-a playground full of fun games and activities,

-the gym hall full of art and craft,

-a visit from the fire engine,

-154 Edinburgh North East Scouts,

-Chinese Calligraphy and games provided by the Edinburgh Chinese School,

-Crombies sausages on the BBQ,

-serving dishes donated by Vegware,

-Smoothie Bike from Edinburgh Bike Cooperative,

-17 bake off entries, with the Broughton Bake Off winner receiving an Afternoon Tea for Two voucher from Mimis Bakehouse,

-Lolly Lottery winner of a £10 Book Token voucher,

-10 lolly lottery winners winning a toothbrush and toothpaste set each  (#brushYourTeeth)

-approximately 250 games passports used! #stayActive

-Glee performance by our own Broughton Glee club,

-dance performances from Edinburgh Dance Academy, La Belle Arts and Zayna Dance Academy

– fencing workshops from Fencing Fun, Salle Holyrood Fencing Club.

Many activities and ideas at our fair were from the survey you filled in back in March 2023, thank you!  We hope you all enjoyed the fair and a feedback form will be sent out soon.

Summer Fair photo dump below!

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Head over to our Empowered Learning page, where you can find some handy video clips to help develop pupil and parent/carer’s digital skills! Link below.

Empowered Learning page

 

We hope you find these useful!

Here are our recent awards and achievements!

Star Awards

P1a- Avani Kaushik and Isla Marlow

P1b- Hania Furdal

P1/2- Rebecca Turpie

P2- Advay Singh

P3a- Akal Singh

P3b- Mason Smith

P4a- Oscar Ni

P4b- Joseph Campopiano

P5- Elodie Avison

P5/6- Sam Gibson

P7a- Fraser Duncan and Jagna Przychodzka

P7b- Nikola Fydrych and Finlay Bartholomew

ESB2- Krystian Sawa

Big Book of Achievement

Nefeli Alysandratou (P3a) made her Brownie promise!

Sophie Proudfoot (P4b) made her Brownie promise and earned her badge!

Grace Powers (P3a) played in the ‘Northern Gaelic Games’ in Manchester. She played 5 games in a row and won a medal!

Lucas Dreger Lamas (P4b) took part in a football tournament with his team Craigroyston FC, and he won a medal for coming in 3rd!

Finn Messer (P5) recently wrote a letter to Blue Peter telling them about his work with younger children, and an award his Mum had received. They were very impressed and sent him a cool letter and Blue Peter badge!

Fede Wilcken (P5) recently got a certificate for completing the Treetop Adventure Challenge in Dalkeith! He said it was a lot of fun and he would recommend it!

We also want to recognise the efforts of everyone who took part in the Edinburgh Marathon Festival! Whatever race you ran, well done for all your efforts in representing the school so well! Wear your t-shirts and medals with pride!

House Points

Huge totals this week, as we have combined the school points with all the points earned on Sports Day!

Drummond- 2335 points

Pilrig- 2180 points

McDonald- 2136 points

Trinity- 2005 points

Well done Drummond!

Well done to everyone for all their achievements! Have a lovely weekend, hopefully we’ll see some of you at our Summer Fair tomorrow!