Please see the following information below from our Parent Council-

Dear Parents and Carers,

We attach three posters – the first one is about the Summer Fair, which happens on Saturday 18 June 2022, 11.30 am to 2.30 pm. 

The second one is about a bake off, which is taking place as part of the Summer Fair. 

The third one is about a smaller event happening this Saturday  – a Tidy up Day for the Parent Council cupboard (and also a chance to begin to receive donations of items towards the Summer Fair).  This Tidy Up Day is also fun and happens this Saturday 11 June 2022, 1.00 pm to 4.00 pm.  The posters tell you about how to come along for these events; about how to bring a cake for the bake off; and about how to help with their organisation and running.  We look forward to seeing you on both / either occasions.

Many thanks

Parent Council

Summer Fair 2022

Bake Off Competition

Tidy Up of Parent Council Cupboard

The Art Group visited The Ritchie Collins Gallery today. We got the opportunity to see how Ritchie creates his art work and even got the chance to have a go at creating our own landscape painting. Thank you Ritchie for having us!

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Star Awards

P3a- Oscar Ni

P3b- Joseph Campopiano, Abigail Makunganya and the whole class!

P4b- Adam Winterstein

P5a- Meriem Bousbaci

P5b- Cooper Napier

P6a- Vicki Nicholson

P6b- Laasya Kampa

P7a- Ali Ahmad

P7b- Arafat Moral

Big Book of Achievement

Everyone who represented the school at the Edinburgh Marathon Festival is recognised this week in the Big Book!

Fraser Cummings (P5b) spent a long time building an amazing Lego model at home, which he is extremely proud of!

Hazel Gibson and Christine Watson (P7a) spent 4 and a half hours making a duck cake! A cake that is decorated to look like a duck, not a cake made of duck! Well done, future Bake Off contestants maybe?

Congratulations to all the individual winners of the flat races at this week’s Sports Day! Well done to everyone for taking part with such enthusiasm!

Here are the House Points for this week-

House Points

McDonald- 370 points

Trinity- 367 points

Drummond- 362 points

Pilrig- 308 points

Well done to McDonald! Very close this week!

Congratulations to everyone on their achievements this week! Have a lovely long weekend, we’ll see you all next Monday!

Yesterday was our first proper Sports Day since 2019! It was lovely to be able to hold the event without restriction and allow parents and carers to come and watch once again.

We held our event at the Craigroyston Football Pitch area of St.Mark’s Park, and were lucky enough to be able to have most of the P4-P7 events in the morning before the heavens opened! Our P1-P3 classes weren’t so lucky with the weather in the afternoon for their event, but they got to attempt some of the events.

Thanks to Mrs Bertram for all her organisation of this event. The events all ran smoothly and it was a very enjoyable occasion! In the lead up to the day, Mrs Bertram ran some flat race heats to select the top 4 fastest runners from each P4-P7 class to run in a stage final, one for boys and one for girls. The results are below!

P4-P7 Flat Race Finals- Results
P4 Boys	P4 Girls
1.Jamie Mackay 2.Joseph Hood 3.Marko Masic	1.Tiana Daley 2.Fatima Joof 3.Seren Ferguson
P5 Boys	P5 Girls
1.William Tennant 2.Spike Weller 3.Jaspreet Singh	1.Georgie Francis 2.Amy Hernandez Suarez 3.Eilidh Sloan
P6 Boys	P6 Girls
1.Jude Jeremiah-Shelley 2.Flynn Powers 3.Alfie Gaukrodger	1.Jagna Przychodzka 2.Meerab Rowberry Raja# 3.Lola Sardi
P7 Boys	P7 Girls
1.Szymon Soltan 2.Andy Lang 3.Mikaeel Ely	1.Megan Weatherly 2.Erin Walton 3.Nadia Blaszczyk

Congratulations to all these runners! Hope you like your shiny medals!

The Sports Day was a House Event, with all the scores being added up to make grand totals for each house. Here are the results below!

1st- Drummond- 1266 points

2nd- McDonald- 1144 points

3rd- Trinity- 1094 points

4th- Pilrig- 1016 points

Well done Drummond! Congratulations to everyone for helping make this event run smoothly! Here are some pictures and video of the P4-P7 event. 

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Well done to everyone on Saturday at the EMF Junior Races!  From our 58+ BPS runners in the EMF Junior Races; to Naomi Sandilands and Shona Campbell, who provided a great set of 11 training practices in Pilrig Park and who staffed the BPS Meeting Place for the day itself, giving structure to the activities.  Thanks to Ivon Bartholomew for all the photos.  As the poster said – it’s about taking part and making memories as much as race times!  BPS runners ran in the kids kilometre, the 1.5 km, the 2 km and the Junior 5km.  What an amazing team!

There were also 7 former BPS runners, who are now at Drummond Community High School running in the Junior 5km. Shout out to Mrs Gowans, and team BPS EMF champion, Sandra Bagnall, who both ran the Adult 5km. Sandra is a former Broughton parent who used to organise team BPS and the Pilrig Park training practices, alongside Catriona Scott from 2017 to 2021.

Some comments from parents of our most recent runners:

“It was our first year and it was brilliant! The Pilrig Park runs were brilliant in the run up!”

“Our son really enjoyed the training sessions and taking part in the run today!”

“My kids ran for the first time and they had really good fun. They felt so happy as they got medals.”

Here are some of Ivon’s lovely photos.

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Well done everyone! Go Team Broughton!

Some children from P1 and P2 planted lots of new herb plants into the top playground on Friday.  We bought them with a grant for sustainable food growing from Edinburgh City Council.  The children are looking forward to using the plants in their play and for cooking after the summer holidays!

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Our Pupil Art Group set up shop in our shelter today to sell some of the fabulous new BPS merchandise featuring our beautiful portrait of the school, created alongside local artist Ritchie Collins.

Here they are in action, preparing for the hard sell!

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Items of merchandise will soon be available to buy through ParentPay, so look out for more details about this soon!

In total, Broughton Primary School has at least 58 pupils running this Saturday in the Edinburgh Marathon Festival Junior Races. The 11th BPS Pilrig Park weekly training practice went well – FINAL ONE FOR SPRING 2022!  Thanks to everyone who came along to our weekly training practices. Thanks to Naomi Sandilands and Shona Campbell for leading the sessions and thanks to Ivon Bartholomew, for taking the photographs. 

After 11 fun runs at Pilrig Park, our runners are now ready to take part in the Edinburgh Marathon Festival Junior Races.  We are looking forward to seeing all our runners in their white Broughton Primary School t-shirts!  If your child is not running, then you are still very welcome to come along and cheer on Team BPS!  A poster is attached below with some final information about the race day.

For those of you who wish to mark the effort involved in this activity, by and for our Broughton runners, by donating or by getting your runs sponsored, then we have included details on the poster about how to make a payment via ParentPay.  In ParentPay this payment item called is ‘EMF Race Day Fundraiser 2022’.  This payment will contribute towards Parent Council funds, which are used throughout the year to fund class outings and to enhance the school experience.

Good luck everyone!

EMF Race Day Poster- Saturday 28th May

 

Star Awards

This week’s awards were given out to pupils for being effective contributors.

P1a- Louie O’Neill

P1b- Ahmed Abbasi

P2a- Eray Karaagacli

P2b- Blair Pollock

P3a- Yunus Karaallal, Maya Osae-Brown and Diego Sardi

P3b- Grachan McGlinchey

P4a- the whole class!

P4b- Luna Huarcaya

P5a- Luca Paolozzi

P5b- Luke Evans

P6a- Lucie Barclay

P6b- Houssem Hamza

P7a- Erin Walton

P7b- Mustafa Azam

ESB1- Elyse Metcalf

ESB2- Kelvin Young

Big Book of Achievement

Georgie Francis (P5a) competed in the Scottish Gymnastics grades competition in Perth last weekend! She passed her grade 5 with distinction, scoring over 12 points on each of the 5 pieces of apparatus! Well done Georgie!

Here are the House Points for this week-

House Points

Drummond- 629 points

Pilrig- 499 points

McDonald- 482 points

Trinity- 418 points

Well done to Drummond!

Congratulations to everyone on their achievements this week! Have a lovely weekend!

Good luck to everyone running as part of the Edinburgh Marathon Festival this weekend too! We hope you have fun and the weather is nice for you!

Look at how our tomato plants are growing!

P2a, P2b, P6a and the Enhanced Support Base are taking part in a tomato growing project.
#tomtastic