Help & Homebaking Needed for BHSA Fundraising Chess Cafe This Saturday!
Our first Chess Cafe of the year is THIS Saturday 25 October – see below for how you can help.
Last year our regular fundraising activities of running community cafés for the young competitors and their families attending chess competitions hosted by Lothian Junior Chess at Broughton High School raised £3,103.55 in total. For more information and photos about the event please look our end of year newsletter here: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/gl7ryPHxWT2lH2o9?ref=Link
During 2025/26 we are continuing to run our community cafés for five dates of Lothian Junior Chess competitions, which include Team Days, Edinburgh Junior Congress, Lothian Junior Championships & the UKCC Scotland East Megafinal.
Event Information
Our community cafe is open from 9am until 4pm in the Hub area offering items for breakfast, lunch & tea time, including snacks throughout the day. We often sell out by early afternoon. It’s really popular, relied on and much appreciated by the young chess competitors taking part, and their accompanying parents/carers who are with them for the day. Saturday 25 October is the Edinburgh Junior Congress Competition and we will have families with us from across the city.
If you’re watching a football match/practice at the school pitches you are also very welcome to pop by for a coffee!
How To Sign Up To Help
If you are able to help with set up or serve food and drinks for just an hour or two during the day you can sign up via this form (simply click on the link to complete): Sat 25 Oct https://volunteersignup.org/8TF3A
Our next Chess Cafe will be on Saturday 15 November – you can sign up to help here https://volunteersignup.org/R8EJM
Who Can Help?
Parents/carers, or pupils, or even staff, are all welcome to help. It’s an enjoyable experience and a great way to meet others at the school. Volunteering can count towards any work-based schemes. For pupils helping is not only valuable volunteering experience, hours can be used for your Duke of Edinburgh Award or as house points!
CALLING ALL BAKERS!! Are you a keen baker or have a budding chef at home?
We really rely on homemade donations of savoury/sweet bakes &/or soup for our Chess Cafes. Homebakes really help boost our profits & the more money we make – the more we get to spend on school. If you are able to donate something please let us know via this form https://forms.gle/CU8twrxkLVDT6yGp6 (just click on the link to complete). Parents, pupils or staff can make something to contribute.
How To Donate Food:
Absolutely NO NUTS please – this includes nut oils, nut flours, nut butters & nut milks – BHS is a NO NUTS school & we have individuals attending with nut allergies. Soup must be vegan. Anything suitable for those with allergens or on special diets is very welcome. You can drop off in the Hub from 8:30am on Saturday as there is access through the main school entrance. Please label any help containers with your name & mobile number to make sure that they come back to you.
Where Does the Fundraising Money Go?
All money raised by the event goes into school funding projects and resources via our BHSA charity funds. For a full list of what we have funded over the last few years please look at our end of year newsletter, or visit our website https://broughtonhighpc.org/broughton-high-school-association/
BHSA is YOUR school charity. Every pupil at Broughton High benefits from BHSA funding during their time at school, making us a very worthy cause to support and get involved with! Thanks in advance for your help 😄 please spread the word to other parents if you know they’re wanting to help.
PC/BHSA Diary Dates 2025-26
Dates are up for the year! Want to check when there’s a PC meeting coming up? Or when the next BHSA Committee meeting will be? Or if you’re wanting to help with one of our BHSA events when that will be? Just check out our diary dates for the year by clicking on the link! Diary 2025-26
Parent Council AGM, Tues 23rd September 2025
Come and join us for the first meeting of the session. Agenda to follow. There will be snacks, coffee and tea from 5.30pm, with the meeting from 6-7.30pm. All parents and carers very welcome!
Meeting on Wednesday 11th June
Please join us for our last Parent Council meeting of the school year. The meeting will be held at 6 pm on Wednesday 11 June, in the school staffroom.
We look forward to hearing an update from Roberta Porter, following her first full school year as Head Teacher at Broughton. This will include a staffing update, feedback from the Self-supported Evaluation and parent survey, as well as a look at the school improvement plan.
There will also be a discussion on the mobile phone policy at the school, a hot topic in the wider Edinburgh school community.
We would love to have some more committee members, whether you have a little time or a lot. If there’s anything you’d like to be involved in, get in touch.
Looking forward to seeing you.
Parent / carer focus group
We are looking for a few parents or carers to join us next Tuesday (25th March) at 2pm.
Next week the school is undertaking a self-evaluation process with the council. As part of this, there will be a focus group for parents and carers.
The Focus Group will look at what the school is doing well in relation to parental involvement and engagement, and consider what they could do better.
We want to give the school and education dept a wide and representative view of our feelings, so if you’re able to come, please email intouch@broughtonhighpc.org ASAP. You can attend in person or via Teams.
If you can’t come but have things to say, please email so we can include your views.
Broughton High School Parent Council 