Broughton High School Family Music Quiz, Friday 16 March
Dear Broughton High School Community,
You are invited to come along to the Family Music Quiz in the Main Hall.
Friday 16th March 2012 from 19:00 to 22:00 (doors open at 18:30).
Come along and raise funds for Broughton High School and have some fun as well.
Come as a team, or join in on the night.
Pit your musical knowledge against the students!
Licensed Bar Light Buffet Music and entertainment
Adults £3 Secondary & Students £2 Primary pupils Free
Reserve tickets through the School Office on 0131 332 7805
February 200 Club Winners!
Here are the latest draw winners. Remember, anyone can join. Just e-mail us (at intouch@broughtonhighpc.org) to set it up.
1st prize, £40.00, to M Kinnaird
2nd prize, £27.00, to Mr & Mrs P McTavish
3rd prize, £20.00, to Mrs S Shaw
4th prize, £15.00, to Mrs F Cooke
5th prize, £10.00, to Mrs A Mariani
Here are some interesting facts from the 9 draws so far this year: 53% of members have won something; 2 members have won 3 times; 8 members have won twice; and the top 3 profiteers are all women, with the only 2 Fionas sharing over £150 between them.
S4 subject-specific NAB and prelim dates
Here’s an important reference tool for parents of S4’s. It’s available on the school website in Word format, but this has been failing to load correctly on some devices, particularly the hand-held type. While that glitch gets fixed here it is, in pdf. A ‘NAB’ (for ‘National Assessment Bank’ of exam questions) is a unit assessment at Intermediate and Higher level. There are three in each subject area. The prelim is the dry-run for the final exam, normally taken after all the NABs are done. Your student is not required to sit the prelim, but the prelim can serve as the final exam if something goes terribly wrong on final exam day. (Highers pupils also need prelim scores for grade estimates in university applications.)
Find it by clicking here.
newly relaunched Communications Committee
The Parent Council has established a new Communications Group, to improve engagement between our school, our parents, and our wider community. This group, with the Management Support Group and the Broughton Association, now comprise the Parent Council. We’re delighted to announce that a member of the senior management team has just agreed to serve as our formal Comms-school link! To get this Comms Group running and integrated, there will be a series of meetings from now until the end of the school year. We’re working on internal organisational processes, and on enhanced ways of reaching you — we’re live on Twitter already, and on Facebook, and we offer e-news updates too.
Please help share this information and encourage people who are interested in news about Broughton High School to register for blog post notifications, on whatever platform they like best. And please do e-mail us, at intouch@broughtonhighpc.org, with any questions or views you would like shared.
new student peace project
Just a note, about S4 Katie Messer, and her recent approach to the Parent Council for help with a remarkable world peace project. She came with John Cudlipp, the project having germinated in a paper in his RMPS class. She calls it ‘The Impossible Peace’, averring that peace is in fact not impossible. She envisions 40 t-shirts, emblazoned with pictures of their wearers’ personal peace heroes — e.g. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. — and each wearer speaking a line from these individuals’ most famous speeches. These spoken lines Katie means to film, and edit them into a composited single speech on the very real possibility of peace. The PC was delighted to help. What lies ahead for this film-in-the-making? With luck, a screening at the Fringe, which has a special category into which this should fit. Last year Katie mounted a very successful charity film festival at the school, single-handedly. We’re optimistic about her latest plan, to say the least.
