As mentioned in our recent newsletter you are invited to come and meet your child’s teacher on Friday 14th September.

The session will be similar to our parent drop ins, where you will get the opportunity to see learning in action, have an informal chat with your child’s teacher and watch a short presentation on the year to come at your leisure.

The timings for the Meet the Teacher are as follows:

Primary 1 – 2  from 11.20 – 11.55am

Primary 3 – 7 from 11.45am – 12.20pm

You can find a copy of a letter with full details below-

Meet The Teacher Letter

We look forward to seeing you on Friday!

 

The next unit of our school ‘Building Resilience’ programme was launched at Assembly last week.

The unit is called ‘Respect Yourself’, and has 3 key messages-

• There is no one quite like me
• Everyone has different strengths
• I treat myself with respect

Attached below is a leaflet about this unit for parents and carers, and resources that can be used for the family task linked to the unit.

Enjoy!

Respect Yourself Parent Carer Leaflet

Respect Yourself Family Task

Respect Yourself Family Task – worksheet for back

 

Mrs Rushforth will be posting a weekly blog on our website, to share all the great work that is happening here at Broughton.

Her ‘Headteacher’s Welcome’ page will be where you can find these blogs in the future, but you can find the first one by following the link below!

Week Beginning 20th Aug

Don’t forget that each class in school has it’s own page, in the ‘Class Information’ section of our website. This section still has last session’s classes, as the pages are under construction at the moment. But keep your eyes peeled, and we’ll let you know as soon as these pages are ready for you to view more evidence of the successful learning that happens here!

 

We look forward to welcoming all our children and families back tomorrow morning. We hope you all had a lovely holiday!

The refurbishment of the school is now well under way and will continue this academic session- the school is going to look great when it is finished!

We would like to thank all the contractors, cleaning staff and Broughton school staff, who have worked hard over the past few days to get the school ready for our return.

The school office will open at 8.30am tomorrow for any enquiries, or you can phone and leave a message for the office staff on 0131 556 7028.

We are looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow morning!

• Nursery at 8.30am
• P2-P7 at 8.50am
• P1 at 9.30am

We made it! It’s been a very busy few weeks, but the end of term is here, and what a year we’ve had at Broughton!

As is customary, our last post of the year gives us a chance to pay tribute to our P7 pupils, who are moving on to new adventures in High School after summer.

P7 Show

In May, P7 presented their annual leavers show to the school and their families. Set in a retirement village, the characters reminisced about their time at Broughton over the years, and all the various events, trends and music that shaped those memories. P7 worked incredibly hard and the show was a massive success!

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Leavers BBQ

Another Broughton P7 tradition is our P7 Leavers BBQ. This year we were lucky enough to have beautiful weather and could hold this over at Botanical Broughton. All the classes in school made bunting to decorate Botanical Broughton, with good luck and farewell messages for P7. The atmosphere was really relaxed, and there was music, dancing, playing and chilling out on picnic rugs. A fun time was had!

Last Day of Term

On the last day of term P7 visited all the classrooms in the school, for the customary signing of their P7 jumpers. This gives them a chance to say goodbye to their friends from other classes, and their P1 buddies.

Assembly

The final event of the year is the P7 Leavers Assembly. Our P7s picked the song for the assembly, and were presented with their leaving gift and Yearbook.

The House Captains announced the final totals of this year’s House Points. After a close race all year, it’s a huge well done to Drummond house, who win the House Shield for the first time! The full final totals are here-

1st Drummond- 14453 pts

2nd McDonald- 14308 pts

3rd Pilrig- 14155 pts

4th Trinity- 13677 pts

P7 also had the chance to perform songs from their show for one last time, and Miss Stewart shared a video of Broughton staff sharing their own personal messages for P7.

We sent our P7s off to High School in style- piped out of school by Louise! All our classes came out into the stairwell to clap P7 out, and P4 and P5 formed a tunnel to guide them through into the playground to meet their parents and carers. An emotional day for everyone!

We’d like to take this opportunity to wish everyone in our school community a sunny, happy summer break! Thanks for all your support this year!

Huge thanks to our hard working staff team too- enjoy a well deserved rest!

Let’s hope the sun shines- see you in August!

 

This year’s Edinburgh Marathon Festival was a very successful event, with over 120 entrants from Broughton’s pupils, parents and staff!

We’ve heard from the EMF organisers that the Junior races are 50% full already.  If you are interested in taking part next year, you should sign up ASAP!

Follow the link below to a newsletter from our Broughton Runners, with advice about how you can get involved for next year.

EDINBURGH MARATHON FESTIVAL 2019

Today we held our annual ‘Broughton’s Got Talent’ show in the hall. We certainly do have talent! We had magic tricks, dancing, singing, gymnastics displays, flute playing, keyboard playing and a puppet show. Our judges Mrs Ramm and Ms Milligan had a very difficult task trying to pick winners from all the wonderful talent on display! But pick 2 winners they did- P1-3 winner was Maciej from P3a for his confident singing, and the P4-7 winners were a dance/gymnastics group from P4b, made up of Holly, Grace, Mairi, Triona and Amelie, for their well choreographed and practised routine. Well done!

Well done to everyone who took part! Whether you auditioned in your class, or made it to the final, it’s a very brave thing to do to perform in front of an audience. It takes confidence as well as talent! Thanks to Mrs Ramm and Ms Milligan for their judging skills too. Here are some photos of our talented lot!

Yesterday we held our annual Nursery-P1 transition event.

Our new P1s who start in August had the opportunity to visit our P1 classrooms for an activity time. Parents and carers were treated to a presentation from Mrs Rushforth and Ms Vacher, giving them lots of important information about our school, and starting P1. There was also a marketplace of stalls for the parents and carers to visit, including:

• Pupil Council
• Eco-committee
• Junior Road Safety Officers
• After School Clubs
• PSA and Parent Council
• EAL service
• Superlogo School Uniform
• Dental Service

Our guests were even able to enjoy a P1 Fashion Show, showing off some examples of school unform available!

The Gym Hall was very busy, and we hope everyone was able to get a flavour of our school, our associated groups and pupil voices!

Here are some pictures of the event! Huge congrats to Ms Vacher for organising this. A massive task! Thanks to all who gave their time to help make this event a success!

In other transitions, our P7 pupils spent 3 days at their new High Schools this week. They got the chance to become more familiar with their new school buildings, and take part in some activities their new timetables will follow. We received some very positive feedback, and our pupils were ‘a credit’ to us! Well done P7!

 

Today we held our final drop-in session of the year.

It was lovely to see so many visitors taking part in a range of activities around the school.

Special mention goes to our P4 classes, who organised a very busy Sushi Cafe to fund raise for Cancer Research. They were busy waiting on their parents and carers, taking orders and bringing them their delicious sushi! Their cafe raised around £50!

We hope you enjoyed this opportunity to spend some time in classes. Here are some photos we’d like to share!

 

 

Last weekend we held our annual PSA Summer Fair in our school playground.

Thamkfully the weather was kind to us, and the playground was buzzing with activity! There were so many different stalls to visit, lots to eat and drink, and fun activities to take part in.

Huge thanks and congratulations to our PSA for all their organisation. Thanks also to all who helped set up, run or tidy up stalls and events. Thanks too, if you attended and helped by buying something on the day!

Our fair raised the amazing total of £2312!

Here are some photos of this successful day!

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