Below is the agenda for this week’s Parent Council meeting. All are welcome to attend, this Wednesday at 6.30pm-8pm in the Link building. A free crèche for children is provided.

Agenda

-Introductions and apologies
-Drummond head girls
Actions from last PC meeting, 24th June 2019
-Football coach
-Opal reboot

Senior leadership report

Parent Council Chair report
-Broughton Decides
-Powderhall redevelopment
-Lagganlia future assistance
Friends At Broughton report
-Halloween disco
-Cafe – Lagganlia review, Christmas plans
-March Family Night
-EMF 2020 – Sandra Bagnall
-Cooking together event – David Michie
-Gardening project
-Treasurers report
-Projection of funds based on current fundraising
-Amazon account

Next meeting date: Wednesday 29th January 2020

We’ll see you on Wednesday!

Thank you to the 84 children who took part in Round 2 of Broughton Decides.

The children voted on the top 7 options from Round 1 and were able to give us a top 4 suggestions to vote for – see pictures for what they chose from and their results.

The vote for Round 3 is now open until Tuesday evening with the top result being announced at the Parent Council meeting, Wednesday 30th October, in the Link building 18:30-20:00.

Vote now: https://forms.gle/3urnyD4j7NQdGGCY6

Parent Council

Please see below the latest newsletter from Mrs Gowans.

Head Teacher’s Newsletter October 2019

This week we had a visit from the NSPCC to deliver their ‘Speak Out.Stay Safe.’ programme.

At assembly we met Buddy, the NSPCC mascot. We learned about different ways that people can be unsafe, and why it is important to share and ‘speak out’ to trusted adults if we feel unsafe.

P6 and P7 classes also had a workshop with our visitors, and everyone in the school was given a special sticker to remind them of the important messages we learned.

Thanks to our lovely visitors for coming to share this important learning with us!

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Wednesday 30 October is the Edinburgh Primary School Open Day for prospective new P1 parents.

Broughton Primary will be open from 9.15 – 10.15 in the morning and 1.30 – 2.30 in the afternoon.

We hope to meet lots of possible new Primary One parents and families during these times. The session will begin with a chat from myself and our Depute Head, Mrs Rushforth, followed by a tour of the school.

Mrs Maria Gowans

Head Teacher

Following feedback from the last school Drop In, we have changed some of the days and timings for the next three Drop Ins. These are as follows:-

Friday 8 November –8.50 – 9.30 for P1 – P7
This will give parents an opportunity to see the first part of the morning in classes.

Thursday 30 January – 2.15 – 2.45 for P1 and P2 and 2.45 – 3.15 for P3 – P7
This is in response for some parents requesting a different day of the week.

Friday 6 March – 11.25 – 11.55 for P1 and P2 and 11.55 – 12.25 for P3-P7
The final drop in date will be confirmed following feedback from the above three sessions.

Today we held our annual Harvest Assembly. Our super House Captains (and some Vice-captains too) came before the bell this morning to accept and display some of the very kind donations made by our lovely school community! We also were able to show the fruits (or should that be vegetables?) of our labours with the harvest of potatoes we have from our school gardening project!

Sara from the Edinburgh Food Bank came to our assembly, and she was so happy and grateful for all of the donations. She explained to the children the types of items that the food bank collect, and why they are useful.

Thank you so much to anyone who made a donation to our harvest collection. Whether it was one can of beans, or a whole bag full of items, they all go to making a difference to people in need.

May we also take this opportunity to wish you all a happy and safe October break. We look forward to seeing you all again when school re-opens for the pupils on Wednesday 23rd October.

Here are some photos of our collection today.

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Please see below a message from our Parent Council.

Hello all,

There were 41 responses to our feedback survey question: We have £3000 in raised funds to spend before June 2020 – how shall we spend these funds?

These results have been collated and any duplicate ideas have been merged together.

The £3000 in funds to spend, as with any fund spend, is to be granted by Broughton Primary School Trust, our registered charity SCO44041.
Fundraising is done regularly on the Trust’s behalf by Friends At Broughton which is a sub-group of our Parent Council.

For Round 1 the spend feedback given by the parent body have been grouped under the 4 categories of our Broughton Primary School Trust fund objectives:
please vote for either: one of each category or your top choice overall.

The official first round of Broughton Decides is now open, for all adults of the school community until – 9pm on the 20th October.

Happy Voting! Please follow the link to vote below.

https://forms.gle/byaxE736DkPmrm8Z7

Broughton Primary had a visit from Mike, Peter and Martin- our visitors from Tanzania! They were here to talk to us about our partner school in Tanzania and our focus on sustainability. They talked at our assembly, and then the LC enjoyed asking questions about life in Africa, learning a song and a dance too!

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Drummond Community High School is holding Open Mornings for all parents in our cluster primaries and beyond catchment on Thursday 31st October and Friday 1st November from 9am-noon.
There is also an Open Afternoon on Thursday 14th November from 4.30-6.30pm.

Please see the attached flyer below for more details. We’re especially proud to see that both pupils who are heads of school are ex-Broughton Primary Pupils!

DCHS Open Events Information