Out PSA Heatlth Week Cafe was held on Friday. There was a range of tasty treats available, and all funds raised will go towards organising our Health Week later this term.

The cafe raised a very respectable sum of £281!

Thanks, as always, to the PSA helpers who organised and ran the event. We must also thank the school Vice- Captains and House Captains, who helped to set up the cafe and with running stalls and serving customers. They were enthusiastic, helpful and a real credit to the school! 10 house points each!

Here are some photos of the event-

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Get set! Broughton Primary school is taking part in Sustrans Big Pedal 2018 on Friday 4th May. The Big Pedal is the UK’s largest inter-school cycling and scooting challenge that inspires pupils, staff and parents to choose two wheels for their journey to school.

Keep an eye on your parent email for more details!

Just a reminder that our PSA Health Week Cafe will be held tomorrow, Friday 27th April, in our Dining Room, from 11.30am-1.30pm. Hot Dogs, healthy home baking, soup and rolls will be on sale. Flyers for this event are attached below.

Due to the scaffolding in the bottom playground, the entrance to the Dining Room from the playground can’t be used. So, can all visitors to the cafe please use the basement doors to enter and exit the school. Please do not use the main entrance by our school office.Thanks.

We look forward to seeing a busy cafe tomorrow!

PSA Health Week Cafe flyer 2018

PSA Health Week Cafe Help Flyer 2018

Last Friday 20th April, our school Cross Country representatives took part in the EPSSA Cross Country event at Inverleith Park. Four races took place- P6 girls, P6 boys, P7 girls and P7 boys.

Over 200 children took part in each race and all our children ran their best.

A special mention goes to Daniel Ritchie P7 who came in in 21st place! We had 2 top 50 placed P6 boys, Nathan Fortune in 42nd place and Innes Penman who medalled in 10th Place.

3 girls were in the top 100 of the P7 girls event, but our best placed girl who medalled was Eilidh Noronha who was 3rd overall in the P6 girls event. Mhairi Noronha came in 17th place.

Well done to all the children who represented Broughton in a very sporting manner. You were a credit to our school!

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The annual Edinburgh Primary Schools Swim Relay and Dive Gala was held today at the Royal Commonwealth Pool.

We sent a team of P6 and P7 swimmers, as listed below-

From P6a- Mhairi Noronha and Innes Penman

From P6b- Eilidh Noronha

From P7a- Harris Archibald, Wanessa Zieniewicz, Ruari Morgan, Tia McCausland, Alex Moir, Greig McVicar, Calum Rathjen and Daniel Ritchie. ( Harper Clark- Tonberg and Lara Russell also attended as our reserves)

From P7b- Aila Binnie

Our Breaststroke team of Greig, Calum, Aila and Daniel won their heat, and won the final to win a Gold medal! Amazing!

Our Backstroke team of Eilidh, Harris, Wanessa and Ruari also won their heat, and came 3rd in their final, winning a Bronze medal!

Our Freestyle Team of Innes, Tia, Alex and Mhairi qualified for the final by finishing 2nd in their heat, and came 5th in the final!

What an amazing achievement! We are all so proud of the whole team. You represented our school so well, and were great ambassadors for our school.

Also another success worth celebrating for Coach Mrs Ramm! Wonder if the Scottish Commonwealth Games team need her on board….?

Well done everyone! What a lovely way to end our busy term!

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Mrs Ramm and Mrs Douglas took our P7 Basketball Team to the final of the Edinburgh City Basketball Tournament at the Crags Sports Centre.

WE WON!

We played out of our skins to defeat Duddingston, Towerbank and Granton in the earlier rounds, before we triumphed against James Gillespie’s in the final!

Mrs Ramm is delighted with not only our performance, but with the levels of determination and sportsmanship too! Such great ambassadors for the school.

Huge congratulations to all of our competitors and Coach Ramm! See below for some pictures and clips of the event.

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Some children at Broughton Primary School are currently off ill with vomiting and/or diarrhoea and fever. The symptoms are suggestive of viral gastroenteritis (also known as norovirus or winter vomiting disease) which is known to be currently circulating in the community. It is usually a short lived, self-limiting illness from which children recover quickly.

Broughton Primary School and NHS Lothian Health Protection Team are working together to monitor the situation. Please find a letter attached below with advice on this matter.

Thank you.

Broughton Primary School – Norovirus- March 2018

 

Our PSA are already planning ahead for our Summer Fair! This will be held in our school playground on Saturday 2nd June from 12pm-2.30pm.

A meeting will be held to kick off the planning process on Friday 23rd March in Rm 2 on the ground floor of the school building, from 11am-12pm. It would be great to get as many ideas and as much support as possible, so all are welcome to this meeting! After the meeting, lost property will also be organised for people to reclaim, from 12pm-1pm.

We hope as many people attend as possible!

While we are putting PSA events in the diary, the next PSA Health Week Cafe will be held on Friday 27th April, in our Dining Room, from 11.30am-1.30pm. Hot Dogs, Healthy home baking, soup and rolls will be on sale.

Please see below a range of flyers created by the PSA to promote these upcoming events. As always, volunteers to help and donations towards these events are gratefully received!

PSA Summer Fair Planning Meeting Flyer- March 2018

PSA Summer Fair Help Flyer 2018

PSA Summer Fair Flyer 2018

PSA Health Week Cafe Help Flyer 2018

PSA Health Week Cafe flyer 2018

Broughton Parent Forum Survey

This is a short survey created on behalf of the Broughton Parent Council and Parent Staff Association to establish how we can improve communication and development as a school community.

We will only take note of your email address in the final question if you want to be added to our email list or removed from the email list.

As a parent of a pupil in Broughton Primary School you are automatically a part of the Parent Forum (see here for more information https://broughtonprimary.org/parent-bodies/)

The Broughton PSA and Parent Council are run voluntarily by parents of Broughton Primary School and hold joint meetings every 2-3 months in school with the school leadership team to establish ways of fundraising to improve the school environment for our children. Please follow the link below to fill out the survey-

Parent Forum Survey

Broughton PSA also have a quick five question feedback form about the last PSA event you attended so that Broughton PSA can improve the event for next time. Please follow the link below to complete this feedback form-

PSA Events Feedback

Your feedback is very helpful- thanks!

Schools from all over the city are invited to send a team of P6 pupils to the Edinburgh heat of this quiz, held at the City Chambers. As it sounds, the quiz is about all things European- including geography, history, culture, sport and much more. The winning school from the Edinburgh heat goes through to a national final.

We sent our team comprising of Louis, Jed, Orrick and Agata, and they did the school proud! They have all been working so hard over the past few months, studying maps, flags, capitals, and much, much more in preparation for the Quiz. They had such a good attitude towards the event. Jed said, ” I’ve learned so much already, so winning will just be a bonus!” There were some really hard questions-some Mr Borthwick couldn’t answer!

Unfortunately, we didn’t win the heat, but we impressed so much with our effort, manners and behaviour- a real credit to the school! 10 well earned house points each!

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