Sounds Like Saturday is starting up again — can you help?
The Sounds Like Saturday morning music classes start again this Saturday 28th September. This is Broughton’s hugely successful part in the Edinburgh Council’s ‘Youth Music Initiative’. Can you let us know if you are able to help out this year? The family café always needs volunteers. If you did help last year, a reminder about your availability would be greatly appreciated. Please get in touch directly with convener Hugh Duffy, at hughduffy@blueyonder.co.uk.
reminder: AGM tonight, with S1 parents get-together first!
Don’t forget, the Parent Council’s annual general meeting is tonight, at the school, at 7:00 p.m. For S1 parents who want to meet each other, there’s a social hour beforehand, at 6:00 (logically enough).
You’re invited to read the reports and accounts beforehand, online, for the detailed view of everything that’s going on.
See you there!
This month’s 200 Club winners!
Here’s the result of the September draw, which earned £160.00 for our school. You can be part of this too. Just drop us a note, at 200club@broughtonhighpc.org!
Here are the payouts:
1st place: £40.00 (Mrs J Christie)
2nd place: £25.00 (Mrs I Brownlee)
3rd place: £17.00 (Mr J Hewer)
4th place: £13.00 (Mr A Nairn)
5th place: £10.00 (Mr I McLean)
BBC Bitesize — a resource for National 4/5 learners this year
Here is an interesting post from the Edinburgh Council’s Digital Learning Team blog yesterday.
‘BBC Learning have launched new BBC Bitesize content to support learners taking new National 4/5 qualifications this year.
Packed with quizzes, videos and infographics, these guides are available on mobile, tablet and desktop and will help you get to grips with the new qualifications.
The new material comprises nearly 5000 pages, more than 7000 infographics, 2000 photos and over 500 new quizzes, presented alongside thousands of educational video clips, mapped to the curriculum. Bitesize_sqa_national4_big
The launch of the National 4 and 5 content is the latest step in the new BBC Knowledge and Learning online product, which when complete will bring together factual and learning content from over 100 existing BBC websites, from Bitesize and Food to Science and History. It’s a great free resource so check it out!’
Want to pass on your skills to our young people?
We just had someone on Parent Council volunteer this week to help S5 and S6 pupils analyze their online reputations — and to calculate the effects on their applications for work, college and university. Businesses, recruiters, and admissions boards all study their applicants’ social media these days. The young people in this week’s group were glad to know this, and wanted to learn more. The S6 pupils also got a workshop on building a CV for success, for which they were very grateful.
Do you have professional skills you could offer our young people? The Parent Council would love to hear from you!
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