Science Success at STEM Faraday Challenge Day
We are delighted to report that the six pupils who participated in the Faraday Challenge at Trinity Academy this week have won the trophy on behalf of our school.
The Faraday Challenge Days are cross-curricular activity sessions sponsored by the Institution of Engineering and Technology, pursuant to the national initiative to prepare young people for ‘STEM’ careers, which is to say, jobs in Science, Design and Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. These are held at schools and colleges around the UK and have proved to be enormously popular.
Our science heroes are Robbie Ashdown-Adams (1A3), Neela Hossain (1R1), Lily Intihar (1R3), Jasmine Millington (1R3), John Swanson (1N2), and Alan Widurski (1R2). Please congratulate them (and indeed Fiona Borth who accompanied the students) if you see them!
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!’
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