Newsletter – Week 6, Term 1, 2022

Kia ora koutou BDS whānau,                                                                Week 6, Term 1, 2022

Thank you to the PTA for organising such an awesome Feeling Fabulous Friday.  Students certainly came to school dressed feeling fabulous.  Last night I attended our zoom PTA meeting which has such a passionate, dedicated group of parents.  Please join our PTA if you would like to help out in any way. Helping may be by e.g. giving your name and being available to count money or create a flyer; not necessarily attend meetings. 

You will be aware that we have very few COVID-19 positive cases at school. We are very fortunate to be in this position and school remains open. Our teachers are busy teaching and assessing at the moment to enable them to provide targeted learning for our students. We look forward to seeing our tamariki at school.

Ngā mihi nui,

Vicki Parkins Principal vickip@botanydowns.school.nz
Mark Insley marki@botanydowns.school.nz
Joanne Hughson joanneh@botanydowns.school.nz 

Coming up @ BDS…

Wed 16 Mar – BOT meeting
Wed 23 Mar – Parent/teacher interviews (online)
Thurs 24 Mar – Parent/teacher interviews (online)
Thurs 14 Apr – Teacher Only Day
Thurs 14 Apr – Last day of Term 1
Fri 15 Apr – Good Friday (public holiday)
Mon 2 May – First day of Term 2

SCHOOL NEWS

Botany Best & Values Awards

Well done to the following children who will receive their awards on Friday:

Botany Best: Zerahiah Turner, Autumn Jacobs, Lieol Strickland, Evan Guo, Hannah Shadbolt, Cynthia Liang, Harper Annan, Charlotte Pitcaithly, Eason Dong, Ayeza Zahidani, Yongha Kim, Stevie Lawrenson, Melody Hirovanaa, Muhammad Ahmad, Qais Balasmeh, Lexi Storey, Belle Carson, Jaron Wee,, Leanna Xu and Ian Lopez Woo.

Values Award: Zahara Williams, Eyas Abou Hassan, Grant Leslie, Ava Tang, Nathan Zhu, Chevy Davis, Miane’ Cronje, Ali Moshtagh Askari, Harper Timms, Kudrat Kaur, Raewyn Bua, Theia Saunders, Isabella Liang, Lucian Hadrup, Kourtney Chan, Milan Gahunia, William Lu, Anru Stoltz, Isabella Venter and Maiia Kriukova.

Feeling Fabulous Friday

Our children and teachers did look totally fabulous on Friday! Thank you,  PTA  for organising!  

pta@botanydowns.school.nz

Artwork

Self portraits from Room 3

Picasso inspired portraits from Room 8

Incredible Years Parent Programme –
Invitation to Attend

Incredible Years Parent is a 14-session programme for parents of children aged 3-8, which provides parents with skills to better support children, creating a positive home environment to promote children’s social and emotional competence and communication skills. 

The programme looks at:

• making time to play and spend quality time with children and letting children lead the play
• encouraging the behaviours parents would like to see, through setting clear rules and boundaries and using praise and encouragement
• selectively using consequences, such as ignoring, loss of privilege, and time to calm down. 

Parents come together each week for around two hours and develop approaches to use at home – learning from and supporting one another throughout the programme. 

Dates: 15 March – 28 June (Tuesday mornings)
Venue: Howick Community Church, 120 Picton Street, Howick 2014
Group leaders: Avashni Gopicherran and Julia Langford

The programme is free of charge.
Please contact Joanne Hughson (Deputy Principal) ASAP if you are interested or have any questions: joanneh@botanydowns.school.nz

LIBRARY NEWS

Returning Library Books

Books are usually returned during the weekly class library visit.

If your child has not been at school but has overdue library books, these may be dropped off at the school office during school hours.

However, if you or your household are self-isolating, please hold on to the books until your isolation is complete. 

Room 7 & 5 visiting the library

COMMUNITY NOTICES

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