SQA Results … what to do when they come
On Tuesday 6 August you will receive your SQA results by text or post. We hope that everyone achieves the results they deserve. However, if results are not as expected and you wish to contact the school to speak to someone, phone 0131 332 7805 between 9am and 3pm.
If you have not met your university condition, and you think that you are eligible for an appeal, contact the school to make an appointment to speak to Mrs Bennett. There is a fast track appeal process for students in this situation.
If you are not eligible for an appeal (for example, you did not do well in your prelim) you will need to consider other options such as finding another course with lower entrance requirements through UCAS Clearance or looking at a college course.
If you have not met the entry requirements for one of your subjects, and you wish to continue in the same subject but at the lower level, you do not have to do anything. Your course will automatically be amended. If you wish to be re-coursed, contact the School Office to make an appointment with Ms Cumming.
If you wish to change your course because you have performed better (or worse) than you expected, contact the School Office to make an appointment to see Ms Cumming for a change of course.
Sounds Like Saturday’s brilliant finale
Thanks for your fantastic and persistent efforts over the last year, says Hugh Duffy. He reports that he keeps bumping into people who say ‘you’re one of the Saturday morning cafe folk’, and that ‘it’s a great thing’. This is clearly a great way to help the school, and what a positive message it sends to our community! Says Hugh, ‘Thanks very much to all the volunteers who helped this year.’
Overall profit for the year? £1,690.25 Smashing!
And this is on top of raising £492.62 for red nose day.
Ella Duffy’s big year
Ella Duffy (now S6) has been successful in her selection for Project Trust! She plans on spending a year in Guyana after leaving school, on a social work project. She’ll be back in touch with us about fundraising — meantime, she’s off to a great start!
Ella has also won a place at the Oxford University summer school, studying Geography.
What a spectacular finish for year 5!
Triumphant season’s end from the Dance School
The City of Edinburgh Dance School annual dance show was held on the nights of Wed 19th and Thurs 20th June and was a resounding success, reports Helen Davies! The cast was comprised mainly of pupils from the specialist dance school at Broughton High School and also featured a performance from the P6 and P7 Talented Young Performers pupils. The dancers performed an exhilarating blend of high energy dances such as the winning junior and senior entries in the Edinburgh Schools Dance Competition, alongside beautiful contemporary routines such as the dance performed by the S3 class as part of the Dance Quest project at the Festival Theatre. There were also 2 pieces choreographed by Higher Dance pupils and a rousing finale to music from Chorus Line performed by all 125 dancers. It was unanimously agreed by all who attended both sold out shows that the standard of the dancers was incredibly high and each and every one of them deserves recognition for the effort they gave.
All the talented dance staff consisting of Pamela Day, Jenni Inglis, Laura Proudfoot, Amanda McNally and Charly Jarvis deserve a huge thank you for their fantastic choreography and teaching, with the biggest thank you reserved for Pamela Day whose contribution was vital to the success of the show.
A very professional 3-camera DVD recording was made of Wednesday night’s show and will be available to purchase in August for £6, so please contact a member of the dance staff if you would like to order a copy.
There were a variety of awards given out to the dancers at the end of Thursday night’s show and these are listed below:
Medals – P6
• Excellence in Dance – Emily Ward
• Best Performer – Emma Mitchel
Medals – P7
• Excellence in Dance- Abby Pickavance
• Best Performer – Nicole Heron
Medals – S1
• Most improved – Kira Stade
• Most Consistent Dancer – performance, technique, improvement and behaviour –Arran Goddard
• Excellence in Dance- Performance Award – Erin Moonie
Medals – S2
• Most Improved –Sophie Cunningham
• Most Consistent Dancer – Niamh McNulty
• Excellence in Dance- Performance Award – Helen Hunter
Medals – S3
• Most Improved – Amy Evans
• Most Consistent– performance, technique behaviour –Chloe Stevens
• Excellence in Dance- Performance Award – Alex Riley
Medals – S4
• Most Improved – Rachel Walker
• Most Consistent Dancer – Nadia Cetrangolo
• Excellence in Dance- Performance Award – Holly Stevens
Medals – S5/6
• Most Improved – Emma Fraser- Reid
• Most Consistent – performance, technique – Taylor Doig
• Excellence in Dance – Performance Award – Lauren Gaff
• Broughton High School Junior Performer of the Year – Anna McDonald
• Broughton High School Senior Performer of the Year – Lauren Gaff
• Choreography of the Year – Kirsty Simpson. Kirsty continuously told the dance staff that she couldn’t choreograph a 2 minute piece for her Higher exam and that she wasn’t going to be able to do it and not only did she produce a well thought out piece, it was also very emotional and got the highest mark for Higher choreography!
• Dancer of the Year – Helena Campbell. Helena is a very eager, talented dancer and performer. She is a joy to have in class and approaches all her work with maturity and sensitivity. She has a beautiful movement quality and we have no doubt that she will go on to be very successful in her dance career!
• Raymond Kaye Memorial Trophy – Ewan Hambleton. Raymond Kaye was a very accomplished dancer, teacher and choreographer and colleague who worked here at Broughton for many years until his sad passing two years ago from cancer. The memorial trophy is awarded in his honour to a pupil who is a fantastic performer and shows real potential and I know Raymond would have been really excited about the potential of this pupil. This student has shown great determination, consistent improvement, is a great encourager to others, has fantastic teaching skills and is someone to watch out for in the future!
The hard-working dancers who performed in the show are listed below:
S1 Dancers
• Romy Fraser Reid
• Arran Goddard
• Isla Cleland
• Ellie Darge
• Lauryn Fraser
• Finlay Halliday
• Leigh Heron
• Cerys Jones
• Emma Jones
• Anna Kennedy
• Brooke Killin
• Beth Lawrie
• Jade Macleod
• Erin Moonie
• Niamh Quinn
• Billie Ramsay
• Tamara Robertson
• Kira Stade
S2 Dancers
• Natalka Browarczyk
• Charlee Cameron
• Alisha Cowper-Barrie
• Sophie Cunningham
• Amy Dickson
• Aoife Fisher
• James Gilhooly
• Leanne Gray
• Helen Hunter
• Morgan Igoe
• Hannah Lewis
• Iona Lewis
• Molly Lueck
• Jemma Macleod
• Keavey Malloy
• Chloe McClean
• Sofia McCorkindale
• Niamh McNulty
• Angelica Mollica
• Ruaridh Mollica
• Natalie O’Brien
• Nicole Smith
• Magnus Westwell
• Beth Wilkie
S3 Dancers
• Jasmyn Anderson
• Amy Bagshaw
• Erin Baillie
• Hannah Beisel
• Gregor Campbell
• Tida Delvalle
• Sarah Docwra
• Amy Jo Evans
• Catriona Gabriel
• Aillidh Gladstone-Wallace
• Ewan Hambelton
• Angel Jongshansitto
• Anna Macdonald
• Isla Melee
• Rebecca Nolan
• Greta Penny Tobermann
• Alex Reilly
• Mara Smith
• Chloe Stevens
• Megan Stewart
• Alix Taylor
S4 Dancers
• Alexandra Barnard
• Nadia Cetrangolo
• Eve Dorrian
• Emma Geraghty
• Natasha Jenkins
• Lauren Kerslake
• Lindsay McGowan
• Kirsty Simpson
• Holly Stevens
• Rachel Walker
• Kirsten McGregor
• Charlotte Nicolson
S5/6 Dancers
• Taylor Doig
• Emma Fraser Reid
• Lauren Gaff
• Alicja Jankowska
• Shona Pendreigh
• Chloe Kibble
• Louise French
P6 Dancers
Katie Broadway
Hannah Baillie
Jessica Nolan
Hannah McDougall
Isabella Paterson
Amy Anderson
Abby Loughran
Alice Semple
Neve Clelland
Emily Ward
Muirin McGowan
Emma Mitchell
Breana Black
Elif Yildrim
Kheeva McCafferty
Robyn McClean
Lucile Bell
Ellie MacDonald
P7 Dancers
Roisin Caufield
Georgia Combe
Michael Denvir
Ellie Grace
Olivia Graham
Mary Hargest
Iona Henderson
Neela Hossain
Emily Jefferson
Emma Kenendy
Gemma Laing
Hannah Lynch
Lily McCorkindale
Katie McKenzie
Lucy Mucklow
Abby Pickavance
Alice Prince Tappe
Ziad Segalla Humbert
Sarah Thomson
Emily Whitlie
Asya Yildrim
Aimee Harrison
Eilidh West
Nicole Heron
Ellie McKenzie
Georgina Arena Terry
Music School: Graduation Recital last night a big success
The annual City of Edinburgh Music School Graduation Recital was a tremendous success this year.
Says Tudor Morris, the 3 senior students leaving us put together a varied programme that included traditional fiddle, classical violin, classical piano, own compositions, jazz and even a prog rock item.
The finale was a hilarious piano piece for 6 hands on 2 pianos that was arranged and choreographed by the students with precision and aplomb.
All three plan to further their musical studies next year: Eilidh Crawford is going to the Royal Welsh College of Music, Cameron Watt to Salford University, and Jack Westwell to Edinburgh University. We wish them well and thank them for a great evening’s entertainment.
Broughton High School Parent Council 