P7 parents and carers, you can be as anxious as your youngsters are, about the coming high school experience. For you and your kids about to make the jump, we offer an interactive evening of demonstrations and discussions across all subjects and departments, just to make it clear what goes on in high school. Got worries? Got questions? Come see, and come ask. It was a lot of fun last year, with a big turn-out, and it’s going to be even better this year!

So mark your calendars and watch this space for details. We’re really looking forward to meeting you and your young learners.

Here’s the result of the September draw, which earned £160.00 for our school. You can be part of this too. Just drop us a note, at 200club@broughtonhighpc.org!

Here are the payouts:

1st place: £40.00 (Mrs J Christie)
2nd place: £25.00 (Mrs I Brownlee)
3rd place: £17.00 (Mr J Hewer)
4th place: £13.00 (Mr A Nairn)
5th place: £10.00 (Mr I McLean)

Just a reminder to busy parents and carers, that you can check all dates of Parent Council meetings (and many school functions) in the ‘Diary‘ calendar within our blog! You’ll find Septemberfest listed there, for example, the S1 parents social, and the AGM and all the other meetings (with agendas and minutes).

This being a Google tool, you can overlay it with your own online private calendar, to help avoid double-bookings! It’s hectic helping a youngster through the school years. We aim to make it that much easier.

Saturday 22nd September
11am – 4pm
Free Entry

Septemberfest is the Community Festival at Broughton High School, Comely Bank, Edinburgh.

Come join us for lots of fun for all ages. The festival includes music and dance, with pipers, a samba band, and a rock choir, and capoeira too, with drumming and dance workshops and displays. There are lots of sports tasters and competitions as well, in football, rugby, fencing, judo, tennis, basketball, table tennis and more. British Military Fitness will be running assault courses. There will be bouncy castles and inflatables for all ages, plus the star attraction: a climbing tower! Don’t miss the huge craft fair, either, with loads of fantastic handcrafted goods. Plus, come and have a go at wet felting, leather working, jewellery making or decopatch. Want more? Get your bike fixed for free, and have a go at the bicycle obstacle course. You might try Tandem bike racing! There’s plenty of other things to do. Sit in a fire engine and ring the siren. Get your face painted, or visit the nail bar, the coconut shy, the chemistry capers, or the balloons and ‘tattoo’ and booths. The village café will be selling tea and cakes, and there will be a BBQ, with pizza and ice cream.

Want to support the Septemberfest? Consider being a volunteer on the day — there’s a rota, so it’s only for a couple hours.

Contact Naomi on naomicrowley@blueyonder.co.uk for more details.

Check out Facebook for ‘Septemberfest 2012’!

The latest issue of ‘Teen Titles’ has just arrived in the Library. As ever, it is full of reviews of the latest books for teenagers, and all the reviews are the honest and unedited opinions of teenagers.

This issue features Calum Munro, Connor Bennet and Alex Marshall’s interview of Don Calame, author of ‘Swim The Fly’.

The following Broughton pupils had their reviews published in this issue, and if they haven’t already done so, they should pop into the Library to grab their free reviewer’s copy: Connor Bennett, Megan Black, Lukasz Bojarski, Amelia Brown, Louise Clyne, Ella Duffy, Kyle Fitzpatrick, Aillidh Gladstone-Wallace, Jasmine Hill, Alicja Janksowska, Harriet Johnston, Dorka Kaare, Sarah Malcolm, Alex Marshall, Amy Milner, Calum Munro, Emily Pickup, Georgia Forsyth Sijpestijn, Magnus Westwell.

If your young reviewer would like to feature in the next issue, please let them know that they should ask Miss Paton the Librarian for more information.