This week saw Broughton participate in the annual Euro Quiz event. This event is for pupils in P6, and schools across Edinburgh participate in the Edinburgh heat, for a place in the national final later in the year. We would normally attend the quiz at the City Chambers, but this year the event was held on-line.

Our P6 team were Georgiy, Erica, Orla and Mariyah, and they worked very hard to prepare for the quiz. They undertook extra homework tasks, spent time in school doing practice quizzes, and did a lot of personal research, so have learned lots about European history, geography and culture in the process.

They represented the school very ably, and we are very proud of them! We will find out how we placed soon, but we reckon the team are all stars! Well done!

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Please see below a letter from Nur, one of the members of our Pupil Equalities Group, regarding this week’s upcoming Eid celebrations.

Thank you.

Eid Celebrations

Our lovely parent group, Friends at Broughton (F@B) recently organised a fund raising activity in school.

Last Friday 30th April, our children were encouraged to come to school wearing a hat, or a headpiece with decoration based on a favourite book or character. There were some lovely creations on show!

Also, the children were invited to create and design their own hand made books and bookmarks. The books were judged and prizes were awarded to our finalists and overall winner. The bookmarks made will be used by our P1 pupils in their classrooms!

Here are the finalists in our handmade book competition! These entries all earned a book as a prize!

Here is our overall winner, who received a £10 book voucher! Amelie from P4b, who made this lovely story and activity book! Well done Amelie!

Here are some of our fantastic bookmark designs!

Well done to everyone who made the effort to design one of these lovely creations! Everyone who did has earned house points, but special congratulations go to our prize winners!

Another activity as part of this event is the Story Tree. F@B and Parent Council members set up a Story Tree in St Marks Park on Friday 30 April.  Pink blossom was added by some of the younger children and wild flowers by some of the parents.  At around 2 pm, 2 groups of around 23 children from Broughton After School Club had fun pointing out the features of the Story Tree.  It was enjoyed by others over the weekend. Here are some pictures!

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Thanks to our F@B group for organising this lovely event. So far it’s raised £93, so well done everyone. Thanks to everyone who took part, we hope you enjoyed flexing your creative muscles!

Today at assembly Mrs Rushforth launched the next block in our Building Resilience programme. It’s called ‘Expect the Unexpected’ and here are the 3 main learning outcomes-

-Change is a part of life

-It’s OK not to be OK

-I have ways to look after my mental health

Please see below the family home task and parent information linked to this block-

Enjoy!

Good afternoon everyone,

Please see below the latest newsletter from Ms Gowans.

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Good afternoon,

Please see below some video clips in a range of languages, containing information around COVID vaccines. Also below is a link to statements from the British Islamic Medical Association.

Vaccine videos

Urdu – https://vimeo.com/534515281

Bengali – https://vimeo.com/533458662

Swahili – https://vimeo.com/531693262

Romanian – https://vimeo.com/530768290

Cantonese – https://vimeo.com/530767549

Mandarin – https://vimeo.com/530767346

Arabic – https://vimeo.com/530755530

Polish – https://vimeo.com/530744121

English – https://vimeo.com/530751443

English v2 – https://vimeo.com/530747880

BSL – https://vimeo.com/530744945

British Islamic Medical Association

https://britishima.org/operation-vaccination/hub/statements/#VAX

We hope you find these useful.

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Good morning everyone, and welcome back!

We hope you all had a restful and relaxing Easter break!

Please see below a letter from CEC entitled ‘Summer Term Arrangements.’

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Good morning everyone,

Please see below a flyer with information from Friends @ Broughton about an exciting event they have organised for this month!

We look forward to seeing how this develops!

We hope you all have a restful Easter break everyone! Stay safe, and don’t eat too much chocolate!

Things are still really tough for families just now. Information on the free or low cost activities and support available in Edinburgh can be downloaded from www.edinburgh.gov.uk/pacs    

If you feel you or your child is struggling and need support email supportingparentsandcarers@edinburgh.gov.uk and a member of our friendly team will get back to you.

#EdinSupportingFamilies

Please see the attached leaflet below-

Good afternoon everyone,

Please see below the minutes of the most recent Parent Council/Friends at Broughton meeting, held last week.

Thanks!