Volunteers needed
Ella Duffy, 6th year, is fundraising for a charity called Project Trust, with whom she will be volunteering in her gap year in Guyana. She needs volunteer supervisors for an event she is organizing for 13 December (Friday). This is a Christmas ‘Jingle Ball’, with live music from a few bands from within and outside school, and tickets will be sold to S4-S6 students from Broughton and other schools. She is required to have a 1:10 adult-to-young-person ratio. She currently has 15 teachers to help; she anticipates needing 15 more adult volunteers.
Would you would be willing to supervise from the balcony in the Hub, from 6:15pm (the event starts at 6:30) until 9:30pm? Please drop us an ‘intouch’ e-mail if you can, and we’ll let Ella know she has more help.
Come lead the Comms Committee!
We need a born organiser. Someone needs to ensure that we meet once a term, circulate agendas to keep us focused, and take a note of meetings to share with people who can’t attend. Now and again this person would also liaise with the PC Chair. Could you be this person, the contact point for your Communications group? Please say the word if you’d like to help us!
Scotland scores ahead of other UK countries in core school subjects, according to a major world study
‘PISA,’ the Programme for International Student Assessment of 15-year-olds, puts Scotland above England, Wales and Northern Ireland this year for reading and maths. For science, Scotland is slightly behind England. This, according to the BBC this week. Read the whole story here.
P7 Transition page on the School website just updated
The P7 Transition section on the school website has just been updated. Here is the link if you want to have a quick look. The main new points are the Timeline for Parents of the main transition events and the S1 Enrolments section which has all the information about how to apply for places / non-catchment etc. This also has web links to the Placing in Schools Booklet as well as the online non-catchment application form and a downloadable copy of the non-catchment form if parents prefer paper.
Free health event at Stockbridge House this Monday
The Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership is holding a free health event at Stockbridge House from 5-7.30pm on Monday.
It’s a drop-in evening, full of information stalls on a range of ways to improve your health. Learn about natural food and better cooking, how to get started walking or cycling, or where to do that sport you always wanted to try. (There will be taster sessions, so you can try some of them on the spot.) You can even get a quick health check, free!
This is also the place to have your say on where the Neighbourhood Partnership should be focusing its 2014-2017 Local Community Plan.
Come on along! There’s a prize draw for everyone who visits. And if you’re one of the first 50 visitors, you get a goody bag!
Follow this exciting event on Twitter, with #healthinverleith. Follow the Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership at @north_team.
Broughton High School Parent Council 