The annual Edinburgh Schools Swimming Gala was held on Wednesday 23rd March.

Our Broughton team were excellent ambassadors for the school, who took part with maximum effort and impeccable behaviour all morning!

Our breaststroke team came 5th in their heat, our backstroke team came 4th, and our freestyle team made the final of their event, where they came 5th!

Huge congratulations to the team, for enthusiasm and behaviour!

The team members are as follows-

From P6- Ruth Adler, Katie Telford and Katherine Donn

From P7- Beth Dickson, Ben Rushforth, Brodie Healy, Cameron Laing, Ronan Ratcliffe, Wisal Chergui, Eva Kelly and Orla Morgan.

10 house points each!

Mrs Ramm took our P6 and P7 cross country teams to the annual EPPSA Cross Country event held at Inverleith Park yesterday.

All teams competed really well. With over 200 children in each race all the children really dug deep on what was a difficult course and we ended up with six placed runners- From P6- Rose Overton and Amelia Durward-McLeod, and from P7- Rhys Armit and Sumayyah Aslam

Special mention for Daniel Cooper who reached 36th place and Eva Kelly who made 39th in their P7 events!

Well done to all our runners!

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Our website was launched just under 2 months ago, and in that time has been visited an amazing 18 000 times!

We’d like to hear your feedback about the site, so we can make sure we are maintaining a user-friendly and informative way of communicating what is happening here at Broughton.

We’d appreciate if you could share your opinions of our website using the ‘2 Stars and a Wish’ sheet (attached below). Each star comment is something you like about the site, each wish a suggestion for improvement. There is also space to provide further suggestions if required.

Paper copies of this feedback sheet will be available to fill in at this week’s parent consultation meetings, or alternatively you can download the copy below, fill it in and email it electronically to our admin email address- admin@broughton-pri.edin.sch.uk

Thanks for your help!

Website Feedback for Parents

Broughton Primary’s PSA has joined Your School Lottery, where every ticket sold raises money for our school. Tickets cost just £1, and each ticket not only enters you in to the Broughton Primary weekly prize, but also the national School Lottery to win £25,000 each week.

So far we’ve raised £294.40 from just 34 supporters, which has us on track to raise £1,068 by the end of the year. Help us raise as much as we can to benefit all our children, and consider buying a ticket!

Please follow the link below to access Broughton’s school lottery page-

Broughton School Lottery Page

Thanks!

 

Our P7 football team (pictured above) won their first match of the season on Saturday with a 3-1 victory over Blackhall. Well done team!

Praise also must go to our P6 team (pictured below), who scored 2 goals, also against Blackhall- the final score 7-2 to Blackhall.

We’ll keep you posted with results as the season continues. Good luck to both our teams!

It’s been a busy time recently at Broughton- here are some of our latest updates-

World Book Day

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Thursday 3rd March was World Book Day. As usual, we entered into the spirit of the day, and there were so many amazing costumes showing characters from our favourite books. As well as dressing up, we gave out World Book Day vouchers, which can be used at the visiting Book Fair next week. There were also a range of reading and literacy activites across the school to mark the day. Well done to all!

Sporting Events

Our P7 Basketball team took part in the Edinburgh Schools Basketball Finals at Meadowbank Stadium on Monday 7th March. Although we didn’t win, we played well in 3 hard fought matches. Just getting to the final means we are in the top 8 basketball teams in the city! A great achievement!

Mrs Ramm will be taking our Cross Country team to the annual Edinburgh Schools event on Monday 14th March, and Mr Borthwick will be taking our Swimming team to the annual Edinburgh Schools Gala at the Commonwealth Pool on Wednesday 23rd March. Good luck to both teams, results and pictures to follow!

Euro Quiz

As announced recently, our P6 Euro Quiz team represented the school so well at the City Chambers on Wednesday 2nd March. We received our result this week, and we came in 10th out of around 25 schools! Well done team!

Diversity Event at Drummond High School

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Drummond High School held an event celebrating Diversity on Thursday 10th March. As well as an International Market Place supported by a range of local businesses and a series of workshops, pupils from Broughton were in attendance as part of a show. Members of P6a and our Musical Theatre group both participated, showing great confidence and talent in their performances! Well done to all who gave their time and efforts to make this such a success!

PSA and Parent Council

Our PSA and Parent Council met on Wednesday 2nd March. Please visit our ‘Parent Bodies‘ section of the website for the latest minutes and newsletter.

Excursions

There have been some interesting excursions recently, and there are more to come before the Easter holidays. P5 have been to the National Museum, P2 have used generous PSA Cultural Funding to help support a visit to Craigmillar Castle, and P4 have been visiting the Royal Mile as part of their work on Old Edinburgh. As always, keep checking class pages in the ‘Class Information‘ section for latest news and pictures of what our classes have been learning!

Easter Camp

A flyer is attached below, for anyone interested in attending an Easter Camp over the upcoming Easter break.

Easter Camp Flyer 2016

 

On Wednesday 2nd March , a team of P6a pupils represented the school at the Edinburgh Schools heat of the Euro Quiz, held at the City Chambers.

There were around 20 schools there, all fighting it out to be the one school to represent all Edinburgh schools at the national Euro Quiz final in May.

Our team members were Katie Telford, Ruth Adler, Katherine Donn and Maya Davidson, and they worked really hard preparing for the event.

Although they didn’t win, they answered the tricky questions well, and most importantly, had fun!

They also earned 15 house points each for their hard work and committment!

Well done girls!

 

 

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Our PSA Bag Pack Fund Raiser was held on Saturday in our local Tesco store.

We managed to raise an amazing £657.90!

Thanks to June at Tesco for helping to organise the event, and also all the pupils, parents and staff who gave their time to help. Thanks also to all the local shoppers who donated so generously.

Each pupil who helped has earned 10 house points for their efforts!

Well done to all!

Thursday 3rd March is World Book Day, and we are recognising and celebrating the importance of reading in a number of ways around the school.
All pupils are invited to come to school dressed up as their favourite book character on Thursday, and to bring along with them their favourite book.

Each class will have a special reading time within the day where they will be able to share their favourites with their class mates.

All pupils will be given their £1 World Book day token which can be used in local book shops but also at our School Book Fair which will be held week beginning 14th March, more details to follow.
The Nursery and P1 classes will have a ‘Gifting Event’ where they will be given their individual Book Bug packs to take home and share. They will also have a Storyteller visiting their classes to promote their love of stories.
We are having an additional P1 parents drop in on the day, further details have been provided in an individual letter for P1 parents.

 

In an effort to promote healthy eating and to support families in improving pupil’s food choices, Broughton Primary are having a Healthy Snacks Week from Monday 29th February to Friday 4th March!

A copy of the letter to parents/carers is below-

Healthy Snack Week letter

Also, here is a link to the Child Smile website which provides ideas for healthy snacks.

Child Smile website

We look forward to seeing all these delicious healthy snacks next week!