Dear Parents/Carers,
Assembly
The Assemblies discussed Black Lives Matter. We also celebrated recent birthdays and our wonderful achievements.
Congratulations!
To P2C who won a prize of books for our school from the Climate Action Week Competition! Their task was to design a sustainable home for Keep Scotland Beautiful.
Hallowe’en in Bruntsfield
We will have a bit of dressing up fun in Bruntsfield on Thursday 31st October. Children may come to school dressed up. No weapons or fake blood please.
Coffee Morning
We will be hosting a Parent/Carer coffee morning in our Nurture Room with our new Pupil Support Officer, Mrs Tait on Friday 1st November at 9am, straight after drop off. Come along to hear about the role of Pupil Support Officer, the things we have planned for Parents (we are looking for your input in this!) and meet new people over a drink. If you can m,ake it, it would be good to see you!
Local School Crossing Vacancy
We are looking for a local School Crossing Person for the safety of our families!
The closing date for the vacancies is the 25thof April and the post reference number on myjobscotland www.myjobscotland.gov.uk is EDN29068. As a shortcut to the vacancy candidates can either click on the link below or put School Crossing Patrol into the key words box on the website and this will bring up only school crossing vacancies instead of having to scroll through all of the Edinburgh council vacancies. https://myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/city-edinburgh-council/jobs/school-crossing-patrol-guide-citywide-locations-399803
Gardening at Bruntsfield School
We are keen to establish a group of volunteers with an interest in gardening. We are looking for parents or grandparents who can volunteer to come into school for an hour every 2/3 weeks to work with small groups of pupils on our playground planters. If you are interested or would like some more information, please contact Lesley Lamond through Admin@bruntsfield.edin.sch.uk.
Free online webinar for Parents with ASN
Date: Wed, Oct 30 • 19:00 GMT
Cargo Bike Community Event
We would like to cordially invite you to our spooky Halloween cargo bike community event this Saturday, October 26th 2pm-5pm, at the Bruntsfield Links. Try a cargo bike, enjoy a hot drink and cake, and bring the whole family for Halloween-themed activities for the little people (Halloween treasure hunt, arts and crafts, face painting).
Please find the full event details here: https://banzaiedinburgh.org.uk/2024/10/16/launching-our-cargo-bike-library/ and who we are here: https://banzaiedinburgh.org.uk/
Bake Sale on the Links!
A group of last years BPS P7’s, most of whom still have siblings at school,(Iona S, Amber H, Esme G, Cecelia L and Izzy M) are holding a bake sale on Bruntsfield Links this Sunday from 3-6pm. They’re going to do a few fun things like games and tattoos . It will be to raise money for Cancer Research as several of the girls have recently lost family members to cancer, and one has a relative battling cancer just now.
Free sensory packs for families on support
We are a local autistic youth led charity in West Lothian supporting autistic and neurodivergent young people in West Lothian and surrounding areas. We know how difficult the Christmas period can be for autistic young people and each year we make a commitment to provide as many free sensory packs as possible to our youth community. It’s important to us to be able to reach young people who need this support, so we are reaching out to local organisations and schools to share information about our free sensory packs. We would be grateful if you could share/forward this information with families who could benefit. Please see details below.
Each year, just before Christmas, we donate hundreds of free sensory packs to our autistic youth community, ensuring they have access to sensory, fidget and stim toys to help them regulate. We use the money we raise from our website and from sponsorships to be able to make these donations. Our dedicated team of autistic young people, as well as volunteers from Aviva, give us their time to help us plan, prepare and send them out to families.
You must have a young person who is autistic (formal diagnosis is not required) who is between 8 and 18 years old.Your household must be in receipt of low income benefits (Universal Credit, Housing Benefit, Working and Child Tax Credits, Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), Pension Credit, Income Support). There can only be one application per family (however we can add more than one name to the pack for families with more than one young person)
Each pack contains 11 sensory, fidget & stim toys worth £35, families must pay postage costs for the free sensory pack (£3.99)https://www.diversified.org.uk/pages/freesensorypack2024. Should you have any questions please feel free to get in touch with us at caleb@diversified.org.uk
Blaze Basketball Club
Blaze Basketball Club is excited to announce the start of weekly alternating Jr NBA (boys) and Jr WNBA (girls) leagues at the Crags Centre. The leagues will run from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM every Friday, starting on 25th October until 13th December, before taking a break and resuming on 7th February until 4th April. As part of the Boroughmuir HS cluster, you will be prioritised over other schools, the deadline for applications is next week 8th October. If you would like to enter a team(s), please reply to this email and include peter@weplaytogether.scot in the reply.
Kind regards,
Stephen Gilhooley