bilingual event at Broughton
Following the government’s recent statement of commitment to language tuition in schools, evoking much media commentary like this recent correspondence in The Scotsman, Broughton High School are running an evening on bilingualism next Wednesday, 8th May, from 4 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. Featured speaker will be Dr Antonella Sorace, Professor of Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Please be in touch, at ‘intouch’, if you’d like further details.
Inter-faith issues: good discussions on Monday!
More positive news for Broughton, reports John Cudlipp, from Monday’s inter-faith meeting at school, when the higher Philosophy pupils got a chance to drop in. Present was David Chillingworth, Anglican Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane, who is full of praise in his blog this morning for our young people’s enthusiasm and goodwill in discussion. Our thanks to all who attended, and we are very proud of how our pupils pitched in!
S6 schools transition visits
Visits by Broughton senior pupils to our cluster schools — Flora’s, Ferryhill, Granton, and Stockbridge — are underway. Our S6 visiting team consists of Katie Messer, Daniel McIvor, Tommy Loan, David Hand, Cailean Osborne, Tomiwa Folorunso, and Maddy Bourne. By all accounts the P6 and P7’s who face the jump to high school soon are delighted by what they see and hear. Kathryn Collier, P6 teacher at Stockbridge, writes, ‘I and the Primary 7 teacher were highly impressed with the talk. The Broughton seniors ensured they had a captivated audience at all times, spoke very well and were fantastic when answering questions. Thank you for organising this.’ To our senior visiting team the Parent Council second this note of thanks!
Drama Department — request for costumes and props
The Drama Deparment have a request for parents, please. They would like donations of any unwanted fancy dress costumes and interesting or unusual props. Anything goes! These can be sent into school via pupils.
Edimbourg, la Ville à l’Envers
After touring in 6 countries (Quebec, Germany, Czech Republic, Turkey, China and Vietnam) with his project ‘Les Retours de l’Ecole’ (On the way back from School), French composer and musician François Audrain launches in Edinburgh a new series of collaboration with foreign schools: ‘La Ville à l’Envers’ (The City inside out).
In association with Broughton High School Audrain teamed up with pupils studying Advanced Higher French to design a video for his song Nuit étrange (Strange Night). Moving away from the usual postcard image, the participating pupils used their smartphones and pocket cams to film their city as they see and experience it in their daily life. The video will be screened as part of Audrain’s electro-rock performance ‘Edimbourg, la Ville à l’Envers’.
‘Edimbourg, la Ville à l’Envers’ will be performed in France next February as part of the Travelling Film Festival in Rennes (Brittany) which will dedicate its 2013 edition (19-26 February) to Edinburgh and Glasgow.
A very special thanks from François to Estelle Morali-Silver and her pupils at Broughton High School (Edinburgh) for their collaboration.
See the full blog on this exciting event from the Institut Ecosse français here.
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