The Broughton Association: another way for parents to get involved
You may have heard of the ‘Broughton Association’, and wondered what it is.
Answer: the fundraising arm of the Parent Council. The general idea is to organise social activities to deepen relations between staff, parents, and others associated with the school, and to make money to donate to various places in school — club trips, for example, or learning materials, or things like software licences.
Want to get involved? The BA meets the first Wednesday of the month during term time (6.30-7.30pm). Current attendees are Carole Melee (Chair), Naomi Crowley (Treasurer), Fiona Robb, Jane Bremner, David Martin and Caroline McKeown. The school representative is Susan Bennett. Just drop her a note, at Susan.1.Bennett@broughton.edin.sch.uk if you’d be interested in joining in!
‘Tenner’ — another way for young people to get involved
Here’s an exciting opportunity, much like our own Enterprise programme, for youngsters to try their hand at entrepreneurship. The ‘Tenner Challenge’ is a national competition for young people and schools who want make a new business idea happen, using real money, taking real risks in the business field, and hopefully making a real profit – and making a difference in people’s lives, too.
Read about Tenner in detail here, and let us know if you’d like to explore the idea more!
our volunteering — it’s working!
A big thanks to everyone who helped staff the Broughton Association cafe at the Scottish Schools Pipe Band Championships on Saturday, and those who provided an abundance of delicious homebaking. It was a very busy day, reports organiser Naomi Crowley, with pipe bands coming from as far away as Benbecula! Here is a link to the event, if you want to see what was going on. Our pipers did very well! There were a lot of positive comments about our school’s facilities, our stewards (Broughton senior pupils), and our cafe. (Only one customer was disappointed — they wanted a latte!) The profit? £405. Naomi’s team shopped around to keep the prices down for everyone, which people pretty clearly appreciated. More broadly, as Naomi observes, this is the sort of event that is really raising the profile of our school — which in turn benefits our kids. Harald Tobermann, PC Chair, echoes this, saying, ‘[T]he value of such efforts is not only in the funds generated, but the raised school profile. The BHS school roll has increased in recent years, bucking demographic trends: as school funding is tied to pupil numbers, this is clearly something all pupils at BHS benefit from.’S6 schools transition visits
Visits by Broughton senior pupils to our cluster schools — Flora’s, Ferryhill, Granton, and Stockbridge — are underway. Our S6 visiting team consists of Katie Messer, Daniel McIvor, Tommy Loan, David Hand, Cailean Osborne, Tomiwa Folorunso, and Maddy Bourne. By all accounts the P6 and P7’s who face the jump to high school soon are delighted by what they see and hear. Kathryn Collier, P6 teacher at Stockbridge, writes, ‘I and the Primary 7 teacher were highly impressed with the talk. The Broughton seniors ensured they had a captivated audience at all times, spoke very well and were fantastic when answering questions. Thank you for organising this.’ To our senior visiting team the Parent Council second this note of thanks!
Tuck Shop HELP NEEDED — Scottish Schools Pipe Band Championships Sunday 10th March
The Broughton Association is running a tuck shop at the Scottish Schools Pipe Band Competition at Broughton High School this Sunday, 10th March. With 400-500 visitors expected, it’s a great opportunity to give the BA a cash injection to help fund more extra-curricular activities at the school.
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