Welcome to this week’s Flyer.
Another busy week of events. Big Congratulations are due
to the children who competed in the Cross Country Event last Monday at
Inverleith Park. Our entrants did particularly well with Christopher P in P7
coming 4th out of 300! Excellent runs too from Jannike, Daniel P and Lucas in
P6. Thank you to Mrs Walker and Ms
Alexander for your help on the day.
Euroquiz
Last week, 4 P6 pupils travelled with Mr Rae to the City
Chambers to take part in the annual Edinburgh School Heats for the Euroquiz. Oliver, Orla, Mika and Alexander had practised for weeks
and learnt about countries, languages and Parliaments to help them answer some
tricky questions. Despite a fantastic
performance, Congratulations must go to our friends at Bruntsfield Primary for
coming first.
Parent Council
The next Parent Council Meeting is on Thursday 27 March
at 7pm in the Staffroom at Broughton High School. An information Evening for parents/carers to consult on the accommodation proposals will be held in our school hall on Thursday 3 April at 6.30pm. We look forward to seeing you.
Parent-Teacher Consultations
It was a real pleasure to see so many parents and carers
this week for our consultations. Thank you for your positive and helpful
feedback. Many thanks also to Mrs MacTaggart and her band of P7 helpers who
manned the Book Fair and Fairtrade Stalls.
Sports Relief
This weekend a number of our pupils are planning to
complete Swimming Challenges to raise money for Sports Relief. Impressive sums of money have been raised
already and we look forward to finding out how they got on next week. Good luck!
Music School
Monday 25th March – Lucy, Antoinette and Shakira, the P6
string trio are playing in the Queen’s Hall as part of the City of Edinburgh
Council’s Resonate Concert series.
Tuesday 25th March – international cellist Stephen
Isserlis is giving a masterclass in the music school at Broughton High –
Shakira has been chosen to play.
Edinburgh Competition Festival – Lucy and her two older
sisters Freya and Emily got an outstanding award and were asked to perform in
the Queen’s Hall last Saturday as part on the winners’ concert.
Lucy achieved an outstanding and an excellent award for
her solo performances on piano and violin, Antoinette achieved excellent awards
for her solo performances on piano and violin.
Playground
One of our school rules to keep all children safe, is not
to play on the embankment bordering Orchard Brae. Some parents/carers are allowing their
children to play on the embankment at the end of the day. Please help your child
to follow the rules to keep safe and also to allow us all to enjoy the
daffodils that the Gardening Club have planted. Many thanks for your support
with this. Here is a reminder of our school uniform policy from our Handbook.
School Uniform
Parents are asked to co-operate with the school in
encouraging the wearing of the school uniform. It incorporates a range of
popular items of dress, e.g. sweatshirts, T-shirts.
Wearing school uniform contributes to a positive school
ethos and helps avoid discrimination and reduces peer pressure to wear
expensive designer clothing.
Our School Uniform consists of grey or navy
trousers/skirt/pinafore, white or red polo shirt, or white shirts/blouses and
red or navy sweatshirts. All uniform
items may be purchased on line from our supplier, Border Embroideries at
www.border-embroideries.co.uk or by calling 01361 810304. You can choose for uniform to be delivered to
your home or alternatively free of charge to the school. Please note, deliveries to the school will be
once a month.
P6 pupils design a special sweatshirt to wear in P7.
Items of clothing which have been found within the school
are kept in lost property which is in Room 4 on the ground floor where they can
be claimed by pupils and parents.
No football shirts, scarves etc. may be worn to school.
All clothing should be named, please.
A school’s reputation can also be enhanced in the local
community by the wearing of school uniform and school security will be improved
as it will be easier to identify intruders.
The appropriate clothing and footwear for PE is a
T-shirt, shorts and gym shoes with non-marking soles. These are necessary for
health and safety reasons and your co-operation is requested to ensure that
pupils are equipped to participate in the PE lessons.
Please ensure that all items of clothing are clearly
labelled, particularly ties, sweat shirts and PE equipment which are often
lost.
A protective apron or an old shirt should be worn for art
and craft activities.
Please help us by ensuring that pupils do not bring
valuable or expensive items of clothing to school.
For safety reasons, the wearing of jewellery to school is
discouraged. If pupils with pierced ears must wear earrings they should be of
the stud variety and not the dangling or hoop variety. Please note that to all
football tops and scarves may not be worn in school nor skimpy tops, t-shirts
with slogans or other inappropriate clothing.
If you have any queries regarding the school’s dress
code, please contact the school office.
Footwear and Clothing Grants
Grants for footwear and clothing for children are
available to parents receiving:
- Child Tax Credit, but not working tax credit, with an annual income of less than £ 15,860
- income support
- jobseekers allowance[income-based]
- support under Par V1 of the Immigration & Asylum Act 1999
- Income related element of Employment and Support Allowance
Information on free school meals and clothing grants is
available on the www.edinburgh.gov.uk website. Applications for free school
meals and clothing grants can be made by contacting Grants, Awards and
Placements, Business Centre 1:1 Waverley Court, 4 East Market Street,
Edinburgh, EH8 8BG
Please ensure that your child wears the full school
uniform to school every day. If you have any difficulty providing a full school
uniform, please discuss this with Mrs Brennan.
Thank you.
Headlice.
Can we please remind you to check your child's head this
weekend? It is important to keep checking for headlice regularly, thank you.