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.

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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.

S1 Parents Evening is on Wednesday, 16th May. The S6 pupils who have been helping serve refreshments are away on study leave. A number of S3 pupils are standing in, for which we are very grateful. They could use some backup. Can anyone, parent or pupil, step in to help?

Please contact Sharee MacKerron (0131 332 7805 or sharee.mackerron@broughton.edin.sch.uk) if you can.

The City of Edinburgh is well into its latest campaign to publicise the continuing need for foster carers.  The number of looked-after children is at its highest level in the city since 1981.

Would you be interested in a drop-in session to meet carers of local children from birth to 18?  Click here for a schedule of upcoming events!