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At Broughton our P6 and P7 pupils celebrate their wider achievements through participation in the JASS scheme (Junior Award Scheme for Schools.)

One element of JASS is called ‘Adventure’, and  our P7 trip to Lagganlia School Camp allows them to take part in  a wide range of ‘adventure’ type experiences and activities.

For our P6 pupils, and those P7 pupils who did not go to camp, Mrs Clark organised an ‘Adventure’ outdoor learning experience, in St. Mark’s Park woods.

The children were involved in problem solving through building a waterproof shelter, and enjoyed fire building too!

The children all had a fantastic time, and what a great example of outdoor learning!

Thanks to Mrs Clark for organising this wonderful experience for these pupils!

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We were very pleased this week to have some new signage and door artwork installed at school.

Our entrance foyer now has a new welcome sign, and the doors at the entrance to the school have transparent artwork showing our school badge, motto and learning wordle.

We are also very excited to have a new sign for our bowling green space, Botanical Broughton. This sign was designed by the Pupil Council, and looks great!

 

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Our Pupil Council have been gathering evidence of successful learning happening here at Broughton.

Each member of the Pupil Council took photographs of successful learners at work, examples of successful learning, or examples of things that helped them to be more successful in their learning.

They gathered a range of evidence, including learning walls, class displays, examples of home learning,pupils working together, and much more, all from a variety of different contexts.

This week they shared their evidence with each other, and invited Mrs O’Rourke along too. They explained what their evidence was, and why they had included it as an example of successful learning. They were very clear and confident in their presentations!

Mrs O’Rourke collated all their evidence in a graffiti wall, which can be found at the link below-

Pupil Council Graffiti Wall

Well done, and thanks to our Pupil Council for their efforts!

 

In two weeks time, on 28th May, 65 Broughton Primary children are running in the Edinburgh Marathon Festival to raise money for playground improvements and our popular Culture fund. They will run an impressive 112 km (just under 70 miles) between them and that is the equivalent of running to Stirling and back!

Please support the runners and sponsor them here and share the fundraising page with family, friends, workmates and ask them to share it too!

EMF Fundraising Page

 
Local press have also taken an interest in our marathon efforts! Follow the link below to an article about our plucky runners in ‘The Broughton Spurtle’.

Broughton Spurtle News Article

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Loose Parts Play has arrived at Broughton!

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the PSA fundraising events last year.

The money raised has allowed us to introduce Loose Parts Play into the playground and provide training for staff. As you can see from the photographs the children are enjoying being creative and imaginative playing with the equipment.

We now look forward to the delivery of the container to store more equipment in!

Each class has been organised a play date for using Loose Parts in May, to which parents and carers are invited!

Please visit your child(ren)’s class page(s) in the ‘Class Information’ section of the website to access these invitations.

Enjoy!

 

Here are our P6 Racquets team- Katie, Katherine, Sid and Ewan. They represented Broughton at the recent EPPSA competition.

Katie reached the semi-finals of the tennis and badminton competitions, while Katherine reached the semi-final of the badminton competition. Ewan won the fair play award. Well done to everyone for representing Broughton so well!

On Saturday 28th May, 64 children from Broughton Primary are taking part in the Edinburgh Marathon junior races.

Pupils from P1-P7 are running to raise money for ongoing playground improvements. This year we want to buy new picnic benches and loose parts play equipment AND continue the culture fund.

Team BPS have all been training hard and can’t wait to represent the school. Please show your support by donating and sharing our story with family and friends. Follow the link below-

Broughton EMF Giving Page

Thanks!

Summer Fair

Our annual PSA Summer Fair is just around the corner! This year’s event is on Saturday 4th June from 12pm-2.30pm. Follow the link below to see the flyer leaflet for this year’s event.

Summer Fair flyer 2016

The Summer Fair is always a very successful fund raising event, but wouldn’t be possible without the fantastic support of our amazing volunteers. We are still looking for volunteers to support this year’s event, so please contact the PSA if you can help in any way!

School Lottery

If you haven’t yet joined our school lottery, but have been thinking about it, now’s the time! There’s an iPad up for grabs, with all new supporters being entered in to the draw to be in with a chance of winning.

To date our 36 supporters have raised £390.40 for PSA funds, and by the end of the year that figure is a predicted £1,144. All that money will be put towards continuing our cultural fund which has been providing extra curricular activities for all year groups.
Follow the link below for further information and links-

Your School Lottery leaflet

Welcome back, to what will hopefully be a very summery summer term!

We are all very much looking forward to our final term of the session, and have lots of activities and learning opportunities planned before the summer holidays begin.

Just some of the highlights will include:

• Health Week
• P6-7 Interscholastics Athletics Event
• School and Nursery Sports Days
• P7 Transition visits and leaver’s events
• Nursery transition visits to P1
• School Reports issued
• PSA Summer Fair

and lots more! Let’s make this a fantastic term!

 

Parent Drop- In

Friday 15th April was another successful parent drop-in session; another opportunity for our pupils to share their successful learning with parents and carers. Our gallery of photos is below:

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JRSO Road Safety Competition

Last term our Junior Road Safety Officers invited our pupils to take part in a city wide Road Safety competition, to create a new design to encourage motorists to observe 20mph speed limits. One entry was picked from each year group, and these entries have been entered into the city wide competition, with a chance to win fantastic prizes! These are the year group winners-

P1- Oliver Clarke

P2- Bea Smith

P3- Jasmine Howie

P4- Roisin Bagnall-McCrink

P5- Harris Archibald

P6- Alesha Nicholson

P7- Tanisha Rahman

Photocopies of each of these entries are displayed on the JRSO notice board in school. Fingers crossed one of our entries wins! The winners will be announced later in April.

 

Active Schools

Below are some links to Active Schools events you may be interested in-

Active Schools Clubs Term 3

Clubgolf – Edinburgh Club Information 2016

Twisted Perfection Dance Classes

 

Don’t forget Monday 18th April is a holiday!

 

Broughton Primary School now has a Twitter account. Please follow us @Broughton_PS for tweets about day to day life at Broughton Primary, with examples of learning activities, weekly house point winners and more! The more followers the better!