Last Friday the Friends At Broughton group (FAB) held their Halloween Discos in our Gym Hall.

The 3 events were well attended, and there were some fantastic costumes on show! Such great imagination and clever ideas!

There were also lots of treats to eat and drink, and the tuck shop was kept busy all evening!

Before expenses, the total made by the discos was around £1100! Thanks to everyone who organised the discos, helped on the night or attended. You all played your part towards helping provide FAB with funds to support the school!

Here are some photos from the event-

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Last Friday we held an assembly where we were thinking about how we travel to school.

Don, our visitor, was encouraging us to try and walk, use a scooter or cycle to school as often as possible. He explained the obvious health benefits, as well as the benefits to the environment. Even if you live far away and have to travel to school by car, getting out of the car a short distance away from school and walking the rest of the way is a start!

We’ll soon be introducing a way to record how we come to school each day when we register. Using fun avatars we can record whether we walked, cycled, used a scooter, etc. and the data will be recorded.
Other schools across the city will be taking part in this initiative, so it will be interesting to see the results!

Now that we have our playground space back, we are changing where we line up ready to come in to school.

Below is a diagram of where each class will now line up. We are glad we can use both sides of the bottom playground now, and both basement doors.

The classes all had a couple of practices in lining up at their new spots today, so hopefully they’ll remember tomorrow. The diagram should help jog their memories!

We look forward to greeting our classes in their new spots tomorrow!

 

Here is the latest news from Friends at Broughton regarding Broughton Decides.

Thank you everyone who voted for Broughton Decides.

The 62 votes in Round 3 gave the following results-

As the winning decision was for something that requires major work with the council we will have to enter into discussions with them about installation costs, maintenance upkeep and other Health and Safety necessities before we can go ahead.

This was a very useful first process of Broughton Decides, from gathering 41 ideas and getting a range of votes narrowed down to the final winner.

Please see below a letter regarding next month’s General Election, and how this will impact on our school.

General Election Day letter 2019

Please see below for a letter with information regarding this year’s BBC Children in Need event, and how we plan to contribute here at Broughton.

Children in Need 2019

Thanks!

Below is the latest information about next year’s Edinburgh Marathon festival from Sandra at bpsrunners. Don’t delay if you want to sign up for next year’s races- you might even get your entry fee reimbursed if you enter our prize draw- more news on that soon…

EMF 2020- November 2019 Newsletter

 

Here are some certificates we’ve been awarded recently.

First we have a certificate of appreciation from the Edinburgh Foodbank, thanking us for collecting 184.5kg of food donations at Harvest time! Amazing!

We were also awarded a certificate of thanks and congratulations from the NSPCC, for attentive listening and enthusiastic participation during the NSPCC assemblies and workshops last week.

Well done, and thanks, to everyone who contributed towards the school receiving these certificates!

 

 

Allow us to introduce you to this year’s Broughton Primary Pupil Council.

Here are all the members of the group this year-

P2a- Alexia

P2b- Evie

P3a- James

P3b- Luke

P4a- Darcey

P4b- Ishaq

LC1- Alfie

P5a- Hazel

P5b- Gregoire

P6a- Rory

P6b- Maja

P7a- Vlad

P7b- Liam

LC2- Samuel

We have had our first couple of meetings and had the chance to meet each other. We have discussed what we see our role to be in school, and that is- to be involved in making decisions on behalf of the Pupil Voice! Today, we carried out our first important job- tidy and organise the playground cupboard! The playground is going to be an area of interest for Pupil Council this year, so it’s important we know what resources we have already, before we think about what we would like to add and how we are going to organise playground activities.

The Pupil Council worked hard to remove all the items, organise them into ‘keep’, ‘bin’ or ‘keep for loose parts’, and then organise them further into containers. There’s more room in the cupboard now! Well done team!

Before…..

During….

After!

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A reminder that this Wednesday 30th October is the Edinburgh Council School’s Open Day for children starting P1 next session.

Please see the poster below for details of this, and for Registration in the week beginning Monday 4th November.

BPS Open Day and Registration Poster