BROUGHTON HIGH SCHOOL

PARENT FORUM AGM

Tuesday 16 September at 7pm in the School Library

On behalf of the Parent Council, I want to cordially invited to our AGM. Everyone who is a parent/guardian of a school pupil is welcome to come along – and the more of us who can attend, the better it will be.

We have been working throughout the year to, among other things, promote a positive partnership between the school, parents, pupils and the wider community.

The AGM will be your chance to hear first hand what’s been going on and what we plan to do in the future. Of course the biggest thing this year will be the move to the new school so we will have a presentation on the progress so far. You will also be able to hear about the plans for events around the opening to make this a really special event.

And, most importantly, it will be an opportunity to get involved and help out to benefit everyone in the School

There will be refreshments served including wine, so please.

So I look forward to seeing you on the 16^th.

Geoff Brown

Chair

BHS PC

On Wednesday 20th August 2008, the school will only be open to the Senior school due to stike action.  Only S5 and S6 pupils should attend.

S1,S2,S3 and S4 should return as normal on Thursday 21st August.

Here is a report from Mr Cairns of the Media Department after the success of some young Brougton film makers.

Broughton students won the Advertising Plus Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival schools event on Friday. This was one of 6 awards made in different categories as part of the inaugural Secondary Vision competition for young film makers in schools. Between the award ceremony at Filmhouse on Friday and the public screening at Cineworld on Saturday the students have reached an audience of around 4/500 people with a piece of work done as part of their course in Media Studies. Not only that but to have a winner’s award, from an event as prestigious as the EIFF, is a huge accomplishment for them. 

 It was a really exciting occasion for all our students and it was great to see how well film making in Broughton stood up against films made in other schools – I know I’m biased but I thought our film was far and away the best live action piece on show. I’m really proud of the students and I hope that you might take the chance to congratulate the winners if you see them. There is a lovely trophy ( which I will need to work out what to do with ) and, on Mr Fyfe’s return, we will be able to circulate photos from the event.  

The winners were:- Caitlin Reid, Gina Cameron, Kirsty Mackay, Lorn McDonald, Beth Jack, Amy Leach

Please download the following file to see an example of the excellent work carried out by Ms Brown and her eco-committee.

New English download

The Winter's Tale 

The Music Easter concert will be held on Thursday 24^th April

at Stockbridge Parish Church.

Tickets priced £4/ £2 concessions will go on sale on Monday 7^th April.

The 2008  Art exhibition of exam work will be held a week later than planned.

The new date for this is Thursday 17^th of April from 6.30 until 8.30pm in the Art department.

All welcome.

Please click the link to download the school diary dates:-

School diary dates

Please click on this link for an excellent website on 'Internet Safety'. There are different sections for pupils and parents:-

http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/

The sponsored walk for this year proved to be a great success. The total amount of money raised was:-

 £10,801

 Most of this money will go towards providing funding for extra-curricular activities as the lottery funding for this has been withdrawn.  We are delighted to announce that we will be giving £1,000 each to the 2 nominated charities:-

SANDS (Stillborn and Neonatal Deaths Society) and Simpsons Special Care Babies.