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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Thankfully the weather was glorious today for our Infant and Upper School Sports!

Thanks to Mrs Ramm for organising the events; they both ran very smoothly. We had lots of fun taking part in a wide range of events.

Well done to everyone for participating so well. We’ll find out on Monday at the Sports Assembly which Infant class won the Infant Sports event, and which individuals in P4-7 won medals. There were lots of house points awarded today too, for good sportsmanship and behaviour! Here are some photos of both events.

Well done to all of the Primary 6 & 7 pupils who recently took part at the 2018 Interscholastic Sports Finals at George Watsons Sporting Facility in Myerside. It was a beautiful, warm sunny day and Broughton had representatives in each competition.

Daniel Ritchie from P7a did brilliantly to qualify for the boys 600m final but ultimately fell just short of a medal in the final. While our other representatives fell just short in their respective heats. All pupils must be commended for the exemplary behaviour and sportsmanship throughout the day.

Team Broughton was as follows.
Boys Cricket Ball – Alex Moir
Girls Cricket Ball – Aila Binnie
Boys Relay (P6) – Nathan Fortune, Innes Penman, Armaan Latif, Jedrzej Przychodzki & Daniel Savas (R)
Girls Relay (P6) Zuzanna Mamos, Agata Laskowska, Mhairi Noronha & Roisin Bagnall-McCrink
Boys 600m – Daniel Ritchie
Girls 600m – Eilidh Noronha
Boys Relay (P7) – Calum Rathjen, Greig McVicar, Aidan Edgcombe & Alex Aliyev.
Girls Relay (P7) – Kelci Keegan, Gracie Clark, Wanessa Zieniewicz & Megan Wright.
Boys 80m (P6) – Innes Penman
Girls 80m (P6) – Zuzanna Mamos
Boys 80m (P7) – Aidan Edgcombe
Girls 80m (P7) – Kelci Keegan

Well done everyone!

A group of Primary 6 children were invited to attend the annual Games @ HUB event at Forrester’s High School. They participated in three sports: Swimming, Ultimate Frisbee and Cricket.

All of the children had a great time and represented our school brilliantly. The swimming team managed to win the trophy for winning the most races; that is now two years in a row Broughton have won the swimming trophy! What an achievement!

Well done to all who participated on the day; we are all very proud of you!

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Mrs Rushforth would like to start her very own Head Teacher blog!

Soon she’ll have a special page on the website for this, but until then you can click on the link below to see her very first blog. We’re surprised she’s got the energy, after running in the Edinburgh Marathon Festival at the weekend………

Mrs Rushforth’s First Blog

We’ve had a wonderful day at the Edinburgh Marathon Festival! Beautiful weather, and 118 fantastic pupils running in a range of different races! Mr Young, Miss Rusk and Mrs Rushforth also took part today, as well as some of our parents;what an amazing achievement from Team Broughton! Here are some photos of our day!

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The weekend is not over yet though! Mr Horan and Miss Bishop are running in the half marathon tomorrow, along with some more of our parents! We wish them all good luck, and hope they don’t ache too much on Monday morning!

Also don’t forget Joel and Caroline, the Kenyan runners who visited the school on Friday-they are taking part in the main event tomorrow too!

Let’s cheer everyone on!

Don’t forget we’re raising money for our Culture Fund, which provides money to allow all of our pupils to benefit from a variety of excursions over the year.

Follow the link below to donate whatever you can!

EMF Fundraising Page

Thanks again to our organisers, runners, supporters and anyone who has donated! We are incredibly proud of our fantastic school community! #gobroughton

The Edinburgh Marathon Festival begins tomorrow! We have 118 pupils taking part this year, as well as enthusiastic parents and teachers participating too. Our P3-7 entrants were given a very special treat today, when Project Africa Athletics paid us a visit.

Project Africa Athletics is a non-profit making charity, who discover, help train and support talented athletes currently living in poverty in Africa. Joel and Caroline, two marathon runners from Kenya, came along to talk to the children. They talked about their lives as farmers in Kenya, and how they developed into world class marathon runners. The children had the opportunity to ask them questions, and compare their home and school life to those of Joel and Caroline. Joel even taught us some Kalenjin, his local tribal language!

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Joel and Caroline will be running in the Marathon at the weekend, so we’ll be giving them all support and good luck for this! They may even be around to cheer on all our Broughton runners this weekend too!

This was a very special experience for all our plucky runners. Good luck this weekend team Broughton!  #gobroughton