The author E.R. Reilly is visiting our school on Monday at Assembly. He will talk to the P3-7 classes about his work and give them ‘top-tips’ for writing stories of their own. This will launch our new approach to teaching Reading at Broughton which you will hear more about at ‘Meet the Teacher’ on Tuesday.

E.R Reilly’s books are suitable for all children. From ‘Rashnu’, which is especially suited to younger readers, through to ‘Tall Tales’, where a girl ventures into the woods to rescue her pet dog.
You can visit the website at: http://www.er-reilly.co.uk where you can read extracts from the books and see videos of Eamonn teaching children to write stories.

If you would like to purchase one of the books please fill in the slip below and return it to school.

Author Visit September 5th

P1 held a very successful Curriculum Evening this week.

Our new P1 parents got a chance to meet the P1 teachers and find out about how P1 will be organised for the upcoming session.

For those who could not attend, the presentation used by the staff can be found here-

P1 Presentation August 2016

We hope all those who attended found it to be informative and enjoyable.

Thanks for your support!

Our annual Parent Council and Parent Staff Association AGM is next Tuesday 30th August, from 6.30-8.30pm in our School Dining Room.

We have been asked to share the following information with you-

Edinburgh 20mph Speed Limits – Go Live

From Sunday 31 July, the legal speed limit in streets across much of Edinburgh’s city centre and rural west area went down to 20mph, the first phase in a planned rollout of lower speeds across the Capital.

The new speed limits are designed to increase safety for all road users in Edinburgh as well as creating a calmer, more people-friendly environment in shopping and residential streets. A network of key arterial roads across the city will be retained at 30mph and 40mph, resulting in a modest impact on journey times overall.

Our phased 20mph rollout between now and early 2018 brings to fruition many years of planning and public consultation and the network has been designed in line with robust criteria in partnership with key stakeholders such as Police Scotland and Lothian Buses.

Police Scotland will enforce the new limit, focusing on areas where particularly high levels of contraventions are recorded. Anyone caught breaching the limit risks a £100 fixed penalty and three penalty points on their licence.

We have long recognised that a majority of city residents want to see speed limits reduced in the city centre, around residential areas and in busy shopping streets.

Phase 1 ‘go live’ marks the start of sharing these benefits right across the Capital.

Further information and a detailed map of the 20mph network is available at edinburgh.gov.uk/20mph or visit our Facebook page at Facebook.com/edin20mph

Regards

20mph Team

We are very excited to be starting a new session here at Broughton! Whether you are a new family to the school, or have been here for a while, we welcome you all back warmly!

We also have some new members of staff to welcome-

• Ms Rusk in P1a
• Ms Blair in P1b
• Ms Venn in P3b (Mon-Tues) and LCW (Wed)
• Ms McGuigan in P4b
• Mr Horan in P5b
• Miss Black, Pupil Support Assistant

We wish you all a very happy time with us here at Broughton!

Arrangements for Wednesday 17th August- P2-P7

P2 and P3 will line up in the front playground when the bell rings and they are met by their teachers.

P4-P7 will line up in the back playground when the bell rings and they are met by their teachers.

Arrangements for our new P1 classes this week

On Wednesday 17 August, please bring your child into the playground at 9.30 and collect him/her from their classroom at 11.30.

On Thursday 18 August, please bring your child into their classroom at 8.50. The teachers will bring all the children to the front door at 12.10. You will collect your child from the front door at this time.

From Friday 19 August the front door will be opened at 8.45 to allow the children to come into the classrooms independently for a soft start. The teachers will dismiss the children at the front door at 11.55.

P1 hours are as follows-

Wednesday, 17 August: 9.30- 11.30
Thursday, 18 August: 8.50 – 12.10
Friday, 20 August: 8.50 – 11.55

From Monday, 22 August the hours will be:

Monday – Thursday: 8.50 – 2.45
Fridays: 8.50 – 11.55

Breakfast Club

Just a reminder that our new Broughton Breakfast Club begins on Monday 22nd August. There are still some spaces available- if you are interested in a place, please let our School Office staff know.

Class and Staff Pages

Our Staff photos page and Class pages are currently still showing the staff, classes and work from last year. They will be updated for the new session soon, and we will let you know when they are ready to be viewed!

See you all tomorrow!

Let’s hope we all have a wonderful year!

Our last day of term was an eventful and emotional one, especially for our P7 leavers! They visited all the classes for the traditional signing of their P7 jumpers, and we held a special leavers assembly for them.

Our school choir performed, and then all our P7s were presented with a Yearbook, dictionary/thesaurus set, and beautiful, individually inscribed commemorative spoons, made by Mr Clark, Harper in P5’s grandfather. We are so grateful to him for making them!

Mrs O’Rourke thanked our P7s for their hard work over the years, and also for being such a good example to others, and great ambassadors for our school.

Our P7 House Captains performed their last task of the year by announcing the final House Points totals. As follows-

1st     McDonald     11 851 points

2nd     Pilrig     11 551 points

3rd     Trinity     11 468 points

4th     Drummond     10 962 points 

Well done to McDonald house!

P7 sang ‘You Give A Little Love’ from their leavers show, and just before the bell, they were led out of school by Louise, the piper. All the other classes came out to applaud them as they made their way through the school, and they were met by parents and carers in the playground.

We would like to wish our P7 leavers the very best of luck and happiness for the future! We hope we gave you a worthy send off!

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We also said farewell to a number of staff: Mrs Clark,Miss McEwan and Mrs Murphy who are moving on to new schools. Also Miss Gilhooly and Mrs Higham, who are leaving Broughton for a while but will be returning.

It certainly does!

We held our annual talent show this Wednesday, and what a range of talent was displayed!

We had magic, comedy, singing, dancing , gymnastics and musicians playing instruments!

We also had two musical performances from our Broughton Musical Theatre Group.

Our judges were Mrs Hutchison, Mrs Martin our Art teacher, Katie from After School Club, and Denise from our Broughton Musical Theatre Group.

They had a very hard job deciding on the winners, and gave very positive feedback to all the acts for their great performances.

The winners were as follows-

P1-3- Hendeke Elias from P3a

P4-7 Joint winners- Jess Russell from P4a

and Oliver Rumgay, Eamon Kemble, Ronan Ratcliffe and Daniel Cooper from P7.

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Well done to everyone who auditioned or performed today.

Thanks also to all the staff for their part in organising the event!

This week our Pupil Council manned a stall at our very successful P1 Transition afternoon for new P1 parents/carers.

They were welcoming, polite and confident in talking to the parents, and were able to share some of the work they have done this year, as well as answering any questions the parents had.

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We’d like to thank our Pupil Council for all they have done for our school this year, recognise their achievements, and share their successful planning and decison making, that has had such a positive impact on the school this session.

Our Pupil Council members are:

P4a- Louis Roberts

P4b- Eilidh Noronha

P5a- Kiana Ghomeshi

P5b- Jay Dunsmore

P6- Rose Overton

P6/7- Robin Brough

P7- Oliver Rumgay

Each P4-7 class held an election, with interested candidates presenting to their class why they thought they would be suitable for Pupil Council, and winners being decided by votes.

They have worked so hard this year to make decisions and plan for improvements, all to benefit our school.

Here is a summary of what has been achieved this year, with links to some documents created with the Pupil Council’s influence.

• Created clear aims for the Pupil Council      Pupil Council Aims
• Designed new Star Awards for staff, which are used to recognise achievements at Assembly every week
• Created mindmaps of what they liked about Broughton, and what they would like to improve
• Created an Action Plan based on their improvements ideas  Pupil Council Action Plan
• Organised our school’s Dress Down Day to support Children in Need
• Presented to parents at the P1 Open Day in November
• Counted and donated the collection money from our Christmas Concerts to Cancer Research
• Collected evidence of succesful learning in their classes, and shared their findings with each other and Mrs O’Rourke    Pupil Council Graffiti Wall
• Designed the signing to name our bowling green space ‘Botanical Broughton’

Botanical Broughton sign

• Created a list of features that make our school unique

What makes Broughton unique

• Considered roles and responsibilities that our house captains and vice-captains should undertake.

Thanks again Pupil Council, you have certainly raised the bar for your successors next year!

We held a barbecue party for our P7 leavers this Tuesday night!

Thankfully the weather was kind to us and we were able to hold the event over at Botanical Broughton, our bowling green space.

Mrs O’Rourke and Miss Kilpatrick were on form as the chefs for the evening, and we had games, dancing, singing, and of course, plenty delicious treats to eat too!

Everyone had a good time, and we hope P7 weren’t too tired for their transition visits to High School on Wednesday!

Thanks to all the organisers, staff who came along to support the event, and of course, P7 for making it such a fun evening!

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We held our last Parent Drop-in session of the year this Friday.

These drop-ins allow our parents and carers the opportunity to visit classes and see examples of classwork, as well as getting involved themselves in some activities!

The school was very busy, and we hope everyone enjoyed the chance to share their learning with each other!

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