The City of Edinburgh Council have released a video of key workers being recognised for their part in delivering essential services during the lockdown. If you look closely, you might recognise some Broughton faces in the clip…..
Click here to view the clip!
Good morning everyone!
It’s Friday! Well done on making it to the end of another week in lockdown. We hope you are still managing to complete as much of your Home Learning as you can.
Remember we posted a link to a short survey we launched yesterday, so you can let us know how you are getting on. Follow the link here to complete it. It only takes a minute.
Remember that next week we will only be posting Home Learning on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. This is because of an in-service day on Monday, and a holiday on Friday. It’s P4’s first chance to access their learning through Teams! We hope you enjoy that, and let us know if you have any problems.
Mrs Martin has sent us some more great Art ideas. This week she’s suggesting ways to use recycled materials to create fab Artwork! See below for more…
Here’s another post from the WWF, with a new resource starting on Monday.
Starting Monday 4th May, we’ve provided fun daily activities to help your students connect with nature and learn more about our planet’s forests.
Our upcoming themed week will include live learning events via our new dedicated Facebook group (with recordings available on YouTube), links to our popular educational materials, and an opportunity to participate in a fun and insightful webinar with a WWF expert.
Follow the link to join the Facebook group- WWF Facebook Group
Remember that all of the Home Learning from before the Easter holidays is being removed from the website today, including some of this week’s videos. It’s your last chance to save or download a task you might want to keep if you particularly enjoyed it- although we have copies of everything saved too, so we can easily find things if need be!
Lastly, keep those guesses coming in for our Twitter Quiz- our throwback staff photos are priceless!
We wish you all a very happy weekend, and, as always, stay safe!
Mrs Venn, Mr Borthwick, Miss Bradley and Mrs Gowans
Hello everyone!
We hope you are having a nice Thursday, and have managed some of your home learning tasks.
Here is an exciting link about some new resources from CGI- STEM based activity packs that you can do at home with your children. The activities are aimed at students aged 6-14, but everyone can get involved!
Activities will encompass all aspects of STEM, including coding, environmental sustainability and robotics. There will be a range of activities each week, involving activities with technical, practical and physical elements.
Find all resources below and bookmark the page to return for more.
We are emailing letters out today to inform P1-3 and P4-7 parents about how we want to introduce ways of adding assessment tasks to our home learning. The letters are attached below-
P1-3 Assessment in Home Learning
P4-7 Assessment in Home Learning
P4 pupils will also be receiving their usernames and passwords to allow them to access Teams soon. Home learinng will be on Teams for P4 beginning on Tuesday 5th May. We hope you enjoy using it!
We are keen to find out some feedback about how our home learning is being managed. With this in mind, please follow the link below to take part in a short survey to help us find out how things are going for you in regards our home learning so far-
Home Learning at Broughton Survey
We hope you are enjoying our Twitter Quiz! Some of the guesses are hilarious!
That’s all for today folks, enjoy the rest of your day, and, as always, stay safe!
Mrs Venn, Mr Borthwick, Miss Bradley and Mrs Gowans
Hello everyone, hope you are all keeping well!
It’s Wednesday already, and we’re halfway through another week of home learning! Hope you enjoy today’s tasks.
Our latest news comes in the form of our Hub School at Drummond High School. Yesterday it was Broughton staff’s turn to volunteer, and the Hub Team were visited by press from the Times Educational Supplement, who were writing an article about how the Hub schools work. You can read the article by clicking below!
As our school closure continues, we are trying to think of ways to improve how we share your learning with you. In future you may notice that our teachers are starting to try and use more videos in their home learning, to try and move your learning forward. These videos will be available on Teams for those classes who use Teams, and also on the class website pages for those who do not use Teams.
As we mentioned yesterday, we will be regularly deleting previous home learning from class website pages , as videos can take up a lot of space on our website. As advised yesterday, if you see an activity or video you have found useful, you can save it or download it to your device if you can, as we will be deleting some videos at the end of each week, to make way for new learning.
Speaking of Teams, parents and carers of pupils in P4 should look out for an email later this week, with information, usernames and passwords to allow access to Teams starting next Tuesday 5th May.
Miss Bradley wants to inform Nursery parents that Learning Journals have updated the Parent Contribution page. Parents can now upload photos and documents to their child’s page of any home learning activities. We look forward to seeing those!
Our Twitter Throwback Quiz is proving to be quite tricky for some of you! Make sure to follow us to @Broughton_PS to play along!
Enjoy the rest of your day everyone! As always, stay safe!
Mrs Venn, Mr Borthwick, Miss Bradley and Mrs Gowans
Good morning everyone!
Hope you are all well, and looking forward to another day of home learning!
Here are a couple of links you may find useful today-
The first is a great site Mrs Venn wanted to share that contains advice about learning to use coding for a range of age groups, including some fun games too! Follow the link below-
The second is a link to the UK Safer Internet Centre website, which has games, quizzes, films and advice to help you get the most out of the internet while staying safe online. Follow the link below-
Finally, Mrs Clark has put together a dance activity, which has ideas that can be used across age groups. You could record yourself dancing and share it with us! You could even try and dress up as your chosen animal to make a real performance of it! Here is a link to the activity-
Our Twitter Throwback Quiz continues today, and it’s proving to be a really tricky challenge! Guess the member of Broughton staff from their childhood picture.
We’d also like to let you know, that in order to free up space to add future content on to our website, we will be deleting all home learning tasks from before the Easter holidays, from class pages on our website, on Friday. If you have enjoyed a particular activity and would like to use it again, please take this opportunity to download or save it to your device before it is deleted.
That’s all for today folks, enjoy the rest of your day and as always, stay safe!
Mrs Venn, Mr Borthwick, Miss Bradley and Mrs Gowans
Hello everyone, and happy Monday to you all!
We hope you all had a nice weekend, and were able to enjoy the lovely weather, while observing social distancing obviously!
It’s the start of a new Home Learning week, with new weekly grids up on the class web pages. Also, today is the first day of P5 using Microsoft Teams to access their learning. We hope you enjoy using Teams, please let us know if you have any issues. Remember we posted guidance and videos on our website last week, so hopefully they can help you too. This week we will be setting up P4 to begin using Teams next week. Just to make you all aware, next week will be a shorter Home Learning week, due to the in-service day and May holiday in the calendar- so tasks will only be available Tuesday to Thursday next week.
Tomorrow Broughton staff will be attending the Hub School at Drummond, so it will be nice to see some familiar faces there! All our staff are commenting on how much we are missing seeing all the children face to face- we’re sure the feeling’s mutual!
Today also sees the start of our new Twitter Quiz. Each day will see a throwback photo of one of the Broughton staff when they were a child. All you have to do is guess who it is! This should be fun…
We have a couple of website ideas today. Firstly, RBS Moneysense have launched a free home learning resource for financial education. Follow the link below to find out more-
Also, Brittanica have launched a new Home Learning e-book, which can be downloaded to get advice on home schooling, gain access to award-winning digital resources, and a range of ready-made activities to support children of all ages and abilities. Follow the link below for more-
Brittanica Home Learning Ebook
We hope you enjoy the rest of your day! Stay safe and look after each other!
Mrs Venn, Mr Borthwick, Miss Bradley and Mrs Gowans
To all our Muslim families, we’d like to say ‘Ramadan Mubarak!’
We hope you have the chance to celebrate as you would wish to.
We had planned to start our next Building Resilience unit this term, but obviously we’ll need to postpone that until the new session in August. However, in the meantime Mrs Clark has put together some revision activities for the units we have already covered, which you may find useful to jog your memories!
Building Resilience Revision Activities
Skipper says thanks!
Good morning everyone!
We hope your first week back has gone well and that you are managing to access your learning either through the website of through Teams (P6 and P7). All Primary 5 parents have now been sent their child’s login details for Teams so children should be able to access learning in this way from Monday 27th April.
Please let us know if you are having any problems with either accessing learning or finding a device to access your learning on.
This week we have been able to distribute almost all of the home learning packs that were not collected on the final day of school. We still have a very small number left so if you have not yet received yours, then please get in touch.
There are a large number of learning websites with great materials available to children. There are links to these on this website.
Today was our last ‘Through the Keyhole’ puzzler on our Twitter feed. However, look out next week for the start of a brand new photo quiz! Follow us on Twitter @Broughton_PS to play along!
We hope you all manage to have a good weekend.
Take care,
Mrs Venn, Mr Borthwick, Miss Bradley and Mrs Gowans
If you would like support or advice in supporting the learning and wellbeing of our children and young people, then Psychological Services are happy to offer advice and support at this time.
Please see below for a link to their contact details.
Psychological Services contact details
Thank you.
Broughton Primary 