a Chinese cultural experience from Fettes
We’ve just had a lovely moment of sharing with our friends at Fettes College. Fettesian Matthew S came to Broughton’s Diversity Day, to perform on the Erhu, a traditional Chinese instrument with two strings. He played three folk tunes to a delighted audience, who spontaneously clapped along with him. Matthew says he was surprised and pleased by this. He enjoyed the performance very much and looks forward to a chance to do another.
See the Fettes tweet here.
exam season in Scotland starts: here are some stats
Have you an anxious young exam-taker? He or she is one of 159,000 this year. Together they will produce 740,096 papers, between Standard Grade and Advanced Highers. They will come from 520 schools and colleges. 34,000 of them have registered for results via the ‘mySQA’ service. The beleaguered SQA have lined up 15,000 invigilators and markers to help. See a recent news piece about it all.
For parents of prospective applicants to Napier University
Napier University advises us, and all interested parents, that they’re always happy to attend careers evenings or parents’ evenings at school if we’d like them to. They can offer a Parents’ Survival Guide session, where parents of prospective applicants to Napier can get more information about choosing courses and applying, and about what happens when students join the University.
Or if you’d like to visit them, their next undergraduate Open Day is on Saturday 13 October 2012. See details here.
Calling all Parents: Murderers Needed
The Scottish Book Trust reports a highly successful project that has gotten S1s at Linlithgow Academy into the school library in droves. Young pupils at the school were called upon recently to solve, in 3 50-minute crime scene investigations, a gruesome murder. They were led through the crime steps by volunteers acting in the character of people involved — maybe — in the crime. See it all in detail here. The project proved very popular, and more importantly it taught the young detectives quickly how the library is organised and how you go about finding things. Would Broughton parents looking for ways to engage our own S1s consider something just as gruesome? Murder, anyone?
cyber-bullying: a problem in the Lothians?
Kezia Dugdale, MSP, Co-Convenor of the CPG on Children & Young People, is seeking general advice and views on the prevalance of cyber-bullying. She is writing to professinoals and parents across the Lothians — anyone interested in helping her understand the extent to which this may be a problem for young people in the region, and to help crowdsource a potential solution.
If you have a view you’d like to share with her, you can contact her through her website, at http://www.keziadugdale.com. If you’ve never heard of cyber-bullying, you can read her essay on the subject here.
Broughton High School Parent Council 