Newsletter – Week 6 Tuesday 31 August

Term 3, Week 6 2021    

Kia ora koutou,

Yesterday afternoon we were informed by the Prime Minister that Alert Level 4 will continue for another two weeks and this will be reviewed on Monday 13th September. 

A sincere thank you for all that you are doing at home to support your child with their home learning. We appreciate your efforts in providing that balance between continuing with your child’s home learning and their well-being; and we understand that it is not easy.  We have included some well-being sites below that you may find useful.

Please continue to keep in contact with your child’s teacher and let them know if you have any questions or require any further support as your child’s home learning continues.

Our teachers also need to be able to contact you. Please email office@botanydowns.school.nz if you have any changes to your address, email or phone number. If you are unsure if you have sent the changes please still send in the information and we can check for you.  Thank you.

Please do not hesitate to also contact:
Lisa Bethune Deputy Principal Year 0-3: lisab@botanydowns.school.nz
Mark Insley Deputy Principal Year 4-6: marki@botanydowns.school.nz
Vicki Parkins Principal: vickip@botanydowns.school.nz

Ngā mihi,
Vicki Parkins
Principal
vickip@botanydowns.school.nz

School News

Well-being

This is an excellent resource for well-being and activities at home: https://sparklers.org.nz/

The Primary Principals Association has also sent out a free wellbeing site from Changing Minds with self care activities for our staff and families: https://www.wellbeingsessions.nz/upcoming-sessions

Cancellation of Events

We have been informed that there will be no inter school events run by the HPPA (Howick and Pakuranga Principals Association) in Alert Level 3 and 4. This includes cross country, gymnastics, dance festival and speech competition. We will endeavor to have our own opportunities for these events when we are back in Alert Level 2.

Learning from Home Links

A list of helpful links to help with learning at home can be found on our school website. Head to the Learning at Home Links page and scroll to the bottom for new links: https://www.botanydowns.school.nz/learning-at-home-links/

New links will be added as we find them, so please do check back again!

Schedule for Home Learning TV | Papa Kāinga

The programming schedule for Home Learning TV | Papa Kāinga on the Learning from Home website is now available as a downloadable PDF. Click here to see the schedule.

National Poetry Day – Quiz Answers

Friday 27 August was National Poetry Day. Here are the answers to the ‘Match the teacher with their favourite poem’ quiz for those who had a go. 

1 – The Jabberwocky – Mrs Hatley-Owen
2 – Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow wood – Mr D’Ambrosio
3 – Daffodowndilly – Mrs Holmes
4 – The Owl and the Pussy Cat – Mrs Beach
5 – The End/Now we are Six – Mrs Parkins
6 – Revolting Rhymes – Ms Pfister
7 – For Sale – Mr Yoon
8 – Tiddely Pom – Mrs Short
9 – If Ever There is a Tomorrow – Mrs Keenan
10 – Silly Old Baboon – Ms Caceras
11 – Ode to Autumn – Mrs Jacobs
12 – A Girl Who Didn’t Stop – Mrs Johnston

Nature Art

Some of the gorgeous creations from our students, using nature as their inspiration:

Home Learning from Room 8

Arlie and Dad:

Koru art by Allen:

Writing by Zoey:

Activity by Henil:

LIBRARY NEWS

Coming soon…

We are excited to offer access to a library of e-books and audio books for a 12 week period. The Wheelers e-Platform has a huge collection of books for children of all ages that can be borrowed and read on any device. Further details will be emailed home soon.

Onlne story links:

COMMUNITY NOTICES

COVID information for Pacific communities

Key information on COVID-19 is available in nine Pacific languages on the Ministry for Pacific Peoples website.

COVID information in other languages

 The Ministry of Ethnic Communities has released some videos in different languages about the “Golden Rules for Level 4”:

• Punjabi: https://youtu.be/5iggJbUTDG4
• Arabic: https://youtu.be/AK3o7GClKfA
• Cantonese: https://youtu.be/VJicCY7FCjQ
• Mandarin: https://youtu.be/FYrsuH2iKaM
• Spanish: https://youtu.be/n-uQHSYM96U
• Hindi: https://youtu.be/LZ4Ilzqa8yE
• Tagalog: https://youtu.be/crWAHGte8eg

Pay the kindo way: https://botanydowns.school.nz/kindo/