upcoming events at Broughton — general reminder for January
Just to remind parents and carers at this busy time of year, there are several late-January events at Broughton that may need to go in people’s diaries:
Curriculum Evening for S2 Parents at 6.30 on Wed., 23 January.
S5/6 prelims begin at 9:00 on Wed., 30 January.
Full Parent Council Meeting at 18:30, on Thu., 31 January.
Special budget meeting with councillors this WED, 16th 6.30pm @ BHS
Dear Parents and Carers
We are meeting with a (handful) of our local councillors on WED (6.30pm) to talk about the Council’s draft budget proposal — given our own interest, obviously with an eye on education items.
To give you an idea of the scale of things: for the coming financial year (from April 2013), the Council is seeking to save £3.8m. This rises to £31m in 2014/15 and £95m in 2017/18. Given that education accounts for 33% of the total Council budget, a lot of these savings could translate as cuts into a more poorly resourced education budget.
The format of the meeting will be relatively informal, seminar style: rather than lobbying the councillors present, the emphasis will be on gathering as much information and rehearsing arguments as possible to make the maximum impact at a special budget meeting for PC chairs in the following week with the convenor of the Council’s finance committee.
The aim of the meeting will be to identify any weaknesses in the draft budget and to outline any alternative ideas/priorities that benefit BHS either immediately or longer term (through better education budget husbandry). The ideal outcome of the meeting would be three to five well-tested points and arguments that I can take to the meeting with the finance committee convenor.
In addition to MSG members and local councillors, any BHS parent or carer interested in this is welcome to contribute.
Harald Tobermann
Chair, BHS Parent Council
annual school performance survey for parents and carers
Dear Parent/Carer
Annual self-evaluation survey
View of parents and carers
This survey has been devised to help us provide your child with a high quality education. Your views will help us find out what we are doing well and where we could improve.
I would like to thank the thousands of parents and carers who have taken part in the survey before and encourage even more of you to do so this year. The views of parents and carers really help us to improve services at the school level and across the city.
If possible, please complete the survey on-line using the following link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/cfsurvey-parents
(Please note, if the link does not open, please copy and paste it into your browser and it should open from there).
Paper copies are available from your child’s school if preferred.
We have not asked you to provide your name. This is so that you can express your views freely knowing they will be anonymous.
The deadline for completion of the survey is Friday 8th February 2013.
A summary of the results will be circulated to all schools.
Thank you for your co-operation.
Yours sincerely
Gillian Tee
Director of Children and Families
Waverley Court
4 East Market Street
Edinburgh
EH8 8BG
recruitment and selection training
For you who are interested in participating in the recruitment and selection process at Broughton, please find attached a flyer and booking form for the Council’s Recruitment and Selection Training session, to be held at Liberton High School on 22 January. Parental input to senior appointments at BHS is vital and the Parent Council is keen to have a roster of parents with the required training.
Ministers Tweet about us!
Broughton High School hosted Mike Russell, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, and Leighton Andrews, Welsh Minister for Education and Skills on Wednesday 20 December. Their Tweets following the visit are as follows:
Mike Russell:
“I was at Broughton High School in Edinburgh this morning with the Welsh Education Minister, Leighton Andrews.
In the course of a very interesting visit that demonstrated the strengths of Curriculum for Excellence and the wonderful work of the school in a variety of areas including specialist provision in football, music and dance, we dropped in on a rehearsal for tonight’s Christmas concert.
The choir, in Santa Hats, were taking a rest. The samba drummers were definitely not.”
Leighton Andrews:
“Congratulations to Broughton High in Edinburgh, where a student piper escorted us in with Hen Wlad fy Nhadau and the choir sang Cwm Rhondda.”
Broughton High School Parent Council 