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.
New Clerk appointed for Parent Council
Nature cameraman Doug Allan visits Broughton
Maddy Bourne, depute head girl at Broughton High, was able, through a friend of her mother, to bring celebrated cameraman Doug Allan to school last week. Doug is a freelance photographer and cameramen whose work has been shown in a large number of nature documentaries for the past 20 years, including those presented by David Attenborough. It was he who contributed some of the most memorable scenes on Blue Planet, Life, and Frozen Planet.
Doug, who hails from Dunfermline, gave Broughton pupils a fine presentation about working in some of the world’s wildest places.
Said Maddy, about the visit, “It is really great to get Doug, as lots of people at the school are interested in the media. Doug is so big in that scene. The pupils are excited to see him.”
Headteacher John Wilson added, “Doug is so renowned as a documentary photographer and cameraman. I am delighted, as the inspiration for Doug coming here did not come from me or other teachers, but a senior student at the school.”
See STV coverage of this exciting event here.
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