November 200 Club winners!
Here are this month’s winners in the 200 Club prize draw, which garnered £262.00 for our school. (Note the duplicate winner!) Send us an e-mail if you’d like to be involved too!
1st place: £40.00 Mrs L Thompson
2nd place: £25.00 Mrs J Marshall
3rd place: £17.00 Mr K F Macaskill
4th place: £13.00 Mrs S Shaw
5th place: £10.00 Mr K F Macaskill
Concert Band Festival at school this Sunday — call for volunteers
There is a ‘concert band festival’ at the school on Sunday 3rd November from 9:00 until 19:00. We’ve been asked to run a cafe at it, and would appreciate some more parent volunteers helpers. It’s not an onerous task — it just means serving tea and coffee for an hour or two on Sunday. It’s also a great opportunity for parents to get together and get to know the school better as well as helping to enhance the reputation of Broughton.
If you’d like to get onto this rota, please contact hughduffy@blueyonder.co.uk.
Next Recruitment and Selection Training course
Edinburgh Council’s next Recruitment and Selection Training date is on Monday 11 November, from 6 to 9 p.m.
This course is to enable Parent Council members to participate in the recruitment of promoted teachers. On successful completion of the course, participants will be able to:
• Understand their roles and responsibilities during the recruitment & selection process
• Understand the context and legal framework
• Understand the Council’s procedures for recruitment & selection
This course is suitable for Parent Council members who will be a part of the Appointments Committee for the recruitment of promoted teachers (Head Teacher, Deputes and Principals). This is for those who have never attended a Recruitment and Selection Course with the City of Edinburgh Council.
The course duration is 3 hours (evening).
The course location is Liberton High School, 328 Gilmerton Road, Edinburgh, EH17 7PT
How to book:
Please fill in the booking form and e-mail it to mailto:nicole.fraser@edinburgh.gov.uk
or post it to Nicole Fraser, Administrative Assistant, Business Centre 1/1, Waverley Court, 4 East Market Street, Edinburgh, EH8 8BG.
Bigger, better! Broughton High School Website now Live!
The new, improved school website is now live! See it now, at www.broughton.edin.sch.uk.
This has been a big project, two years in coming, but it’s up and running now, bringing you easy access to school information, and updated newsfeeds all the time, just like you get from the Parent Council. The Comms Group are grateful to the many people who have worked steadily to make it happen, like Joanna Goddard, Graeme Robertson, Duncan Fisher, Trudy Stade, and Gavin Gray, and on staff, Pauline Cumming, Depute Head. Some of the content is yet to be finalized. Please take a look, and send any observations or suggestions you may have to admin@broughton.edin.sch.uk. Meanwhile, be sure to register your e-mail address for news updates!
Attention, parents of genius kids!
Is your child a marvel at maths or a whizz with words? Web-coding whizzkid or strategic game supremo? Novelist, blogger or persuasive public speaker? Business brain or ingenious inventor?
Let’s celebrate the extraordinary lives of gifted children and their families — the hit documentary series is back!
If you know a 5-12* year old who would relish meeting like-minded bright young children .. .and if he or she would enjoy competing for the much coveted title of Child Genius, then production company Wall to Wall would love to hear from you!
They are once again searching for the country’s brightest young minds to take part (with their families) in a documentary series to be shown on Channel 4. The series will feature competition rounds devised in association with high IQ society British MENSA and other leading children’s education experts, along with documentary filming that explores the joys and challenges of parenting a gifted child, approaches to education and what it means to be a high achieving child in Britain today.
If you are a family facing the challenges and rewards of raising a gifted child, we’d love to hear your story!
Apply online. Start by unlocking the 10 mind-boggling Brainbusters for your child to try, at http://www.childgenius2014.co.uk.
*Please note applicants must be born between 01/09/01 and 31/08/08
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