Further to our post earlier this term, the PSA would like to remind you of the upcoming International Cafe, to be held on Friday 10th February. It’s a chance to sample a range of different foods, and your support would be much appreciated! A poster has been attached below.

PSA International Cafe poster

Furher to our post earlier this week about the Edinburgh Marathon Festival, attached below is a newsletter from our event organisers with lots of information. The Pupil Council have already been consulted, and are considering how we would like to use the proceeds of this event to enhance the learning and teaching opportunities here at Broughton. Our target is to match last year’s total of £2500!

Also attached is a Winter Flyer, again with useful information about this event, and details on the organisation of weekly fun runs at Pilrig Park, starting on Sunday 26th March, to help people with their training. These are a great idea, and a good chance for people from different classes to meet up and really feel part of team Broughton as they train together.

We will post regular EMF updates as the festival approaches- watch this space!

PSA EMF Newsletter- January 2017

PSA EMF Winter Flyer

Finally, don’t forget our Winter Discos tonight! Look forward to seeing you there!

The Outdoor Play and Learning (OPAL) group, led by Mrs Rushforth, have put together a calendar of carefully considered actions they have planned for this session up until June. A copy is attached below for you to view.

OPAL Calendar of Actions

We are all very excited to see how these plans will influence how our children play in our playground space!

EDINBURGH MARATHON FESTIVAL
SATURDAY 27TH & SUNDAY 28TH MAY 2017 AT HOLYROOD PARK

In 2015, 22 children took part in our first Edinburgh Marathon Festival and raised an amazing £2000. We didn’t think it could get much better but we were wrong! Last year saw 67 children pull on their trainers to run with their friends and Team Broughton Primary raised an incredible £4000 for our school.
The money helped us buy new picnic tables and seating for the playground as well as continue the Culture Fund which supports classes, whether that be a trip to Dynamic Earth or climbing at Alien Rock. Every class did something cool in Edinburgh last year thanks to the money our lovely runners raised. And who can forget the sight of the Lothian Gold Open-Top Bus in our playground and a visit from Dr Andrew Murray!
The EMF organisers were so impressed with the children’s efforts that we have been awarded Super Active School status and they will be visiting the school in March to feature us in the campaign running up to the race weekend
So what do we want to achieve in 2017?
We want Team BPS represented in every race and for every class to have someone running for them. We were one of the Top 5 schools in 2016 and we think we can do even better this year.
There are 9 races this year- 4 for children and 5 for adults. For the first time, there is a race for nursery and P1 children as well as a Junior 5K. All of the children’s races will take place on Saturday 27th May at Holyrood Park. It’s a great event to be part of and our team spirit is brilliant. So far, 20 children have signed up and we have parents entered into the Marathon and Half Marathon races. Mr Horan from P5B is running the 10K and we are confident we will get an adult to run the 5K and a Hairy Haggis Team to run the Marathon as a relay.

Class Competition
The PSA are funding one place for every class from Nursery up to P7 via a lucky draw in class, but don’t worry if you don’t win, as you can still enter the race by going to https://www.edinburghmarathon.com/.
Everyone representing the school will get a Broughton Primary t-shirt to wear on the day and our fun runs in Pilrig Park will start each Saturday morning after the Easter Holidays to get everyone feeling happy and confident before race day. If you’re not a runner, you can still join in by coming along to cheer Team BPS on and can donate via our fundraising page at http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/BPSrunners

If you have any questions please contact Catriona and Sandra at bpsrunners@gmail.com and e-mail us if you register your child to run so we can keep you up to date with news.
Go Team BPS!

 

 

The PSA are hosting an International Cafe in the school dining hall on Friday 10th February from 11.30-13.00, to coincide with Diversity Week at school. All children, parents, carers and staff are warmly invited to come along to sample some cuisine from around the world. All proceeds raised will go towards playground improvements and the cultural fund.

The event cannot go ahead without your help. We require donations of soup and internationally themed savoury dishes to sell at the cafe. These may include quiche, pizza, tortilla, samosa, pakora, spring rolls or sushi to name a few. Any donations of home baking will also be gratefully accepted. All fresh food donations should be brought along to school on the day of the event.

We also need volunteers to run the event. There are 3 shifts that to choose from:

Event set up: 10am-11.30am
Serving at the event: 11.15am-1pm
Tidy up: 1pm-1.45pm

If you are able to help at the event, even for a short time, please email Anne Hay, event organiser, at anne.lm.hay@gmail.com or post a message on the PSA Facebook page http://bit.ly/bps-parents-forum

Welcome back everyone!

We hope you all had a fun and restful break.

We are all looking forward to another very busy term, and, as always, we will keep you up to date with all the latest school news, events and learning on our website.

We already have news of an upcoming event- our PSA Winter Disco is just around the corner!

The date for this is Friday 27th January– P1-3 Disco from 6pm to 7pm, and P4-7 Disco from 7.15pm-8.30pm.

Tickets are 50p per child, and £2 per adult.

We will only be selling tickets in advance, so to make sure you don’t miss out, make sure you complete the tear off slip on the flyer and return it to school in an envelope with payment, remembering to write the name and class of the child to receive the tickets in the correct box on the tear off slip. Only unsold tickets will be available on the night, on a first come, first served basis.

Tickets will be sent to you in your child’s school bag- please remember to bring them along on the night, and also please remember that all children must be accompanied by an adult.

We would also be grateful for people to help out at either disco, so if you can help, please email- broughtonparents@gmail.com, or leave a message on the PSA Facebook page.

Flyers will be sent out this week, and a copy is also attached below:

PSA Winter Disco flyer- January 2017

All money raised will go towards our cultural fund and playground equipment.

We look forward to seeing you then!

 

 

We have been celebrating Christmas through some lovely performances over the past couple of weeks.

Last week our Nursery performed their Christmas Story for their parents. Last Friday P1-3 held their Nativity celebration, and yesterday P4-7 held their Christmas celebration concert.

The Nativity and P4-7 celebration were both held at Broughton St.Mary’s Church, and we would like to thank them, and the minister Graham McGeoch, for allowing us to use their magnificent venue, and for all their help with the accommodation.

All the pupils and staff worked very hard to prepare for their performances, and both were very succesful, with great singing, readings, acting and dancing!

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We’re looking forward to our traditional Carols on the Stairs today, when the whole school get together to sing, and everyone starts to feel really Christmassy!

We’d like to wish all children, staff, parents and carers a very Merry Christmas, and a healthy, Happy New Year!

Have a great holiday everyone, we’ll see you all in January!

On Friday the PSA ran their annual Christmas Cafe after the P1-3 nativity.

There were lots of delicious treats to eat and drink, and a wide variety of stalls with Winter Crafts, tattoos, Lolly Lottery, Sparkle Jars and a very successful Raffle, to name a few. It was very busy!

The event raised just under £1100, an amazing amount, which the PSA will use to benefit everyone in school!

Thanks to everyone who attended and bought something there, and huge thanks also to the organisers and helpers of the PSA. We’re all very grateful!

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House Morning

We held a very successful house morning on Friday. All the classes were using sustainable or recycled materials to create a range of winter crafts. Here are some photos!

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Some of the winter crafts we created will be on sale at a Pupil Craft stall at the Christmas Cafe on Friday. Remember, the cafe is on from 11.45-1pm in our Gym Hall this Friday.

Eco- Group

Our Eco Group has been up and running for a while now, organised by Miss Wilson, our Nursery teacher.

The Eco group reps are as follows-

P1a Jude
P1b Riley
P1c Rebecca
P2a Zack
P2b Mariyah
P3a Laura
P3b Aava
P4a Abbey
P4b Hannah
P5a Jack
P5b Nathan
P6 Marc
P6/7 Heather
P7 Sumayah
LCW Chai

Here are photos of the group in action, making posters to encourage recycling in school.

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The Broughton Primary School PSA Christmas Café takes place on Friday 16th December in the school gym hall from 11.45-13.00. It gives pupils, staff, parents and carers a chance to come together and celebrate the end of term. It also raises valuable school funds, which will be used to continue with playground improvements and pay for school excursions.

The event can only be a success if as many parents/carers as possible make a small contribution to the event. Here are 5 ways you can help to support the event.

• Donate a raffle prize
For the children’s raffle, we welcome donations of new and unused toys, books, games, chocolates/sweets and art/craft materials. We have a fabulous Amazon Fire tablet to give away as first prize. Tickets for this raffle can be bought in school from Mon 12th December for £1 per ticket.
For the main raffle, we invite you to donate bottles of beer/wine/spirits, gift vouchers, toiletries and boxes of chocolates/biscuits/sweets. Tickets for the main raffle can be purchased at the event for £1 per ticket.
Donations of raffle prizes can be brought to school from Monday12th December.

• Make a Sparkle Jar
We have an amazing Crayola Inspiration Art Case to give away for the best Sparkle Jar. Kids love Sparkle Jars and they are easy to make. Take a clean jam jar, decorate with paint, glitter, stickers and ribbon. Fill the jar with sweets and treats – (think party bags), then seal the jar with a lid or cover. Please label the base of the jar with your child’s full name and class. Bring the jar to school from Monday 12th December. Sparkle jars will then be on sale at the Café.

• Make sandwiches/wraps/rolls and Home Baking
If you can make 4-5 sandwiches this would be a great help. These should be individually wrapped in a food bag or cling film. Please label each one with the type of filling, for example, “Cheese & Tomato”, “Ham” or “Tuna”. These are all popular fillings. Our home baking stall is always very popular. Put your aprons on and get making cakes and biscuits. Please label any tins/boxes you would like returned with your name on the box and the lid. Donations of fresh food should be brought to school on Friday 16th December only. The gym hall will be open from 08.30am.

• Volunteer
Thank you to everyone has so far volunteered to help at the event. We still need some more helpers at the following times on the 16th:
Table set up – 08.50-09.30 Event set up – 10.00-11.45
Running the event – 11.45-13.00 Tidy up – 13.00.14.00
We also need 1 volunteer to make a pot of soup before the event. Ingredients supplied.
If you are able to help, please email anne.lm.hay@gmail.com to be added to the rota.

• Come along on the day
We need your support to come along on the day and make it a success by buying raffle tickets, soup, sandwiches and our delicious home baking.

Here are some updates from our Parent Council and PSA, including details of upcoming events.

Firstly, follow the link below to see updated information about our Parent Council and PSA Committee members.

Parent Council and PSA Committee Information

Education Governance

The Scottish Government is currently conducting an Education Governance Review which is about how Education is run in Scotland. We are keen for as many Parents and Carers to know about it and get a chance to respond. See below for information about this.

A group of parents are meeting to respond to this as a Parent Council, and as all Parents and Carers are members of the school forum you are all welcome to join in (likely to be on Fri 9 December in the morning) – if you would like to take part in this please email the Parent Council chair, Sandra Rathjen -jonandsandra.rathjen@blueyonder.co.uk and she will let you know when and where the meeting will take place.

Education Governance Review

PSA Christmas Cafe

The PSA will once again be holding a Christmas Cafe from 11.45 to 1pm on Friday 16th December in our Gym Hall, after the P1-3 Nativity. Please see the flyer below for details.

Christmas Cafe Flyer