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.
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Building Resilience Revision Activities
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!
Friday 24th April
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
Psychological Services Contacts
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.
Thursday 23rd April
Hello everyone!
We hope you’re all keeping well and having a good day.
Here are some updates for you.
Jenni Longstaff, the chair of our Parent Council and PSA, has sent us some information and updates. This includes the agenda, with some action points from the planned meeting we had to cancel in March, a treasurer’s report from the PSA, and updates on the March Family Fun night Beetle Drive and our Growing and Cooking Project.
Agenda for Cancelled PC Meeting- March 25th
PC-PSA Treasurers Report-25th March
Review of the PSA Beetle Drive Family Night
Growing and Cooking Project Update
As you may have seen, BBC Education’s new education service – BBC Bitesize Daily – launched on Monday this week.
There are 150 online lessons in English, Maths and other core subjects on the BBC Bitesize website. And there are also new Bitesize Daily programmes broadcast on BBC iPlayer and via the BBC Red Button.
You can follow the links below to access some of the resources BBC are providing to aid with home learning-
Bring The Noise Robot Challenge
BBC Bitesize Primary Planner Podcasts
Here is an update from the WWF. Next week our #LearnToLoveNature campaign shines a light on our coastal seas and provides enriching content for pupils to access and use independently from home.
Starting on Monday 27th April, our coastal seas week will include live learning events via our new dedicated Facebook group, an opportunity to participate in a fun and insightful webinar with a WWF expert, and links to our popular educational materials.
Follow this link to join- WWF Learn To Love Nature Group
Here is an opportunity sent from the Zoo- join us as we celebrate our very own native Scottish wildlife, with brilliant activities for all ages. Join us as we discover what makes an animal native, examine the different habitats we have here in Scotland and learn about how animals are specially adapted to live there. Look closer at puffins, Scottish wildcats and beavers and go on an amazing animal safari from the safety of your sofa!
Follow this link to see more-
Bonnie Beasts of Scotland Course
That’s all for today folks! Enjoy the rest of your Thursday, and, as always, stay safe!
Mrs Venn, Mr Borthwick, Miss Bradley and Mrs Gowans
Wednesday 22nd April
Hello everyone!
Hope you are having a good day, and enjoying getting back into your home learning routines! Today Mrs Martin has sent some more Art ideas for you to try, this time using collage- see the list of ideas here-
P1-P7 Home Learning Collage Ideas
Mr Young has also shared a nice Art activity, a competition organised by the Big Issue magazine to design a cover for the magazine. Follow the link below for more details-
Mr Horan has also let us know that Living Streets have created a space for pupils to use during the lockdown. It hopes to keep pupils active and engaged in a safe manner. Follow this link to check it out-
Now that the weather has improved, we’d love you to share some examples of how you are spending your daily outdoor exercise, if you are getting out! Can you send us any signs of Spring you see, or just a picture of whatever you’re doing to get your daily exercise- we’d love to share it on the website! Email our admin account, class teachers, or our leadership team your photos!
Stay safe, and take care of each other,
Mrs Venn, Mr Borthwick, Miss Bradley and Mrs Gowans
Using Microsoft Teams
This week we are starting to use Microsoft Teams to share home learning with our P6 pupils.
We aim to introduce Teams to P5 next week, with P4 following the week after.
Here is a link to some instructions to use that may help accessing Microsoft Teams.
We’re also very grateful to Miss McCrimmon, who has created some videos to help with using Teams. We hope you find them useful. The following videos apply to using Teams with an Ipad.
- Logging into Teams
2. How to find Assignments
3. Editing an Assignment
4. Submitting work to hand in
We hope you find these useful, but please remember, all home learning is shared daily on the class pages of the website, so don’t let any technical glitches or issues with Teams cause you any undue stress. Simply take a photo of your work, and email the teacher if you like- they’ll still see it and get back to you!
Tuesday 21st April- Welcome Back!
For pupils
Good morning everyone and welcome back to school! I hope you all managed to have a reasonably restful Easter Break and that you and your families are all well.
This is definitely the most unusual start to a summer term. We hope you manage to get back into some sort of routine and are able to do some, or all of your home learning each day. I’m sure your class teachers will have some fun activities lined up for you in the coming weeks.
Remember to follow us on Twitter as there are lots of ideas and suggestions as well as ‘Through the Keyhole’ which will start up again. Remember you can email your teacher directly or contact any of us should you have any questions or if you’d like to share any of the things you did over the Easter Break. We’d love to hear from you!
Mrs Venn, Mr Borthwick, Miss Bradley and Mrs Gowans
For Parents/Carers
Good morning. I hope you all managed to have some sort of break over Easter. I know some of our children have been attending the Hub. This is now operating at Drummond High School Monday to Friday from 8-6. If you are a category 1-3 Key Worker and have no one able to look after you child, you can apply for a place using the form found at
https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/schoolclosures
We will once again upload daily learning for each year group onto the school website. Primary 7 will continue to use Teams and this will also start for our Primary 6 classes. There will be support materials on the website for anyone who would like help with accessing this. We will be emailing out passwords for Teams to our Primary 5 learners in the coming days with the aim to commence Primary 5 Teams next week. Using Teams allows class teachers to give feedback on pupil learning.
I still wish to emphasise however that for many of you, juggling home schooling with your own work commitments and other family activities is challenging, so we would stress that you just do what you can.
Can I also remind you that we are able to apply for food parcels. Should any of you wish to receive a food parcel them please get in touch with me or the school admin.
Should you have any questions or need to talk to me about anything then please do not hesitate to get in touch. We will continue to keep you updated via the school website.
Maria Gowans
Hub School and COVID-19 survey
Hello everyone,
We hope you are managing to have an enjoyable and restful Easter holiday!
We have a couple of updates for you. First, our Hub School for children of key workers will now be Drummond High School. Parents/Carers who are key workers can complete the form below to request a place from Monday- Friday from 8am-6pm.
More information is here on the CEC website.
Also, below is a link to a survey about Coronavirus from the Children’s Parliament. The survey is for children aged from 8-14 years old. The NHS are making use of the results to help with their planning.
We hope you enjoy the next few days of your holiday!
We’ll be back to our home learning on Tuesday 21st April. Take care until then, and stay safe!
Friday 3rd April- Happy Easter Break!
Hello everyone, and Happy Friday!
We’ve made it! We’ve reached the end of what will have been one of the most unusual and uncertain terms any of us have ever experienced. We are so proud of our Broughton community, for supporting each other through this difficult time.
Firstly, our amazing staff for keeping our home learning so well updated, and for supporting each other as friends too. Also, our fabulous families- you’ve worked so hard to keep going and your support is hugely important to us. We have composed the letter below to you all, which we hope you will find helpful in the times ahead.
Easter Break Letter to all Parents and Carers
Attached below are a series of links and activities that we hope you’ll find useful if you’re looking for things to keep our young minds busy over the holidays! Just don’t forget to rest well too!
Here is a link to a Home Learning website for fans of a certain boy wizard!
We’d like to thank Miss Stewart and our P1-P4 staff team for providing the extensive list of activities below. Enjoy!
Chores for Promoting Developmental Skills
Health, Wellbeing and STEM Easter Activities
Finally, we wish you all a happy, healthy and restful Easter break.
Take good care of yourselves, and each other,
The Staff Team at Broughton
Broughton Primary 