Newsletter – Week 7, Term 2, 2022 – Botany Downs Primary School

Kia ora koutou BDS whānau, Week 7, Term 2, 2022

A very warm welcome to Mrs Rachael Ryan who started at BDS on Monday as the class teacher of Room 13. Mrs Ryan is also the Team Leader of Year 3 and our Kahui Ako Across School Leader.

Friday was such fun with our tamaiki coming to school in their very creative “B” outfits, and some of our staff also joined in (see the photo below), ka pai everyone. School photos are on Wednesday so please come dressed proudly in our school uniform.

We are very pleased to let you know that for the past two weeks we have had no notification that any of our tamariki have COVID. Hopefully this trend will continue.

A reminder that our school app is free to download and is a great asset to have on your phone as we not only send out our newsletters but also reminders e.g. non uniform day. If you have the app it can take you to our website where our newsletter and all other information can be translated. See below on how to upload this to your phone.

As we continue to develop our local curriculum we have another short survey. Please could you take a few minutes to complete the following survey as we will be looking at the responses for our next Teacher Only Day.

Short Survey Number 2

Thank you.

Ngā mihi nui,

Vicki Parkins Principal vickip@botanydowns.school.nz

Coming up @ BDS…

Wed 15 June – Photolife photo day
Fri 24 June – Matariki Holiday (public holiday)
Mon 27 June – Teacher Only Day
Week 10 – BOOK WEEK
Wed 6 July – Parent/teacher interviews, 3.20-5.10pm
Thurs 7 July – Parent/teacher interviews, 3.20-7.40pm
Fri 8 July – Book Character Parade / Last Day of Term

SCHOOL NEWS

Botany BEST & Values

Botany BEST: Allen Wang, Joshua Bruwer, Caelin Ramiah, Dayton Huggins, Minji Kim, Billie Turner, Mariam Alwaidh, Hazel Singh, Chloe Jack, Beau Scott, Ariyan Atrushi, Ezra Boyter, Bella Hu, Mia Bester, Annieke Steyn, Ken Hoang, Olivia Sun, Lia Biddick, Lachlan McHardy, Tanush Tailor, Connor Henderon & Mason Ludick.

Values: Nature Parsons, Mene’ Nel, Sophie Chen, Liam Cho, Jennifer Wu, Atlas Timpson, Lucas Chen, Xavier Marck, Jax Bloem, Bree Clark, Violet Liu, Emma Lee, Michael Joseph, Melody Hirovanaa, Oskar Yang, Shrihaan Harridass, JD Hawkins, Ini Olajide, Aimee Le Roux, Arissa Ezra Fesolai, Ruby Turner & Konrad Ofoia.

This week’s assembly (week 7) will be for Years 0-3 and will be held on Friday at 9.10am.

PhotoLife – Class and Individual/Sibling Photos – Wednesday 15 June

Class and individual/sibling photos will be taken on Wednesday 15 June. Please ensure you have returned the signed sibling form that was email out last week.

SchooI Board Parent Election 2022

Nomination round

Our school will be undertaking a parent election for 3 School Board vacancies. This process will start with the issuing of nomination papers to our caregiver community by Friday 15th July 2022.

We have employed CES to undertake the election process on our behalf. This year with legislative change, our nomination form and full instruction on how to place your nomination into our own School’s Election website will be emailed to you if we have your email address in our database or you will receive it by post if we don’t have your email in our database.

Nomination papers will also be available at the school office. The school will send those on to CES for processing upon receipt from candidates.

Nominations close on Wednesday 3 August at 12 noon. Election day is Wednesday 7 September.

We look forward to your participation in this process.

NZEI

Teachers who are NZEI union members will be attending paid union meetings as they embark on their collective agreement negotiation. We will accommodate our staff attending these meetings by zoom within our school. Therefore, no students will need to be sent home.

BDS School App

A reminder to download and install our school app to keep up to date:

Go to your app store and look for the KiwiSchools app.
Download and install (free)
Open app and search for Botany Downs.

BDS Learning and Fun

Year 2 Team – Great “B” costumes from our teachers on last week’s non-uniform day!

Year 1, Room 9 – Room 9 read the story Roy G Biv and really enjoyed learning about the order of the rainbow. We decided to test our new knowledge and painted our very own rainbows. Don’t they look great!

Netball Inter-School Day

On Tuesday the 31st May, two Year six netball teams and twoYyear 5 teams took to the courts in an inter-school fun day. The weather was amazing, the players were astounding and the games were awesome. The A team had five games with fantastic results. The B team had six great games with mixed results.

It was wonderful seeing the kids’ skills improve during the day. Their sportsmanship was great and they all had smiles on their faces even after a loss.

A great day was had by all and netball was the overall winner for the day.

Netball Coordinators, Rachael Jeffs (rachael@botanydowns.school.nz), Jacquie O’Driscoll (Jacquieo@botanydowns.school.nz)

World Vision 40 Hour Famine

This year our School Councillors and House Leaders are working with World Vision to help our Year 4, 5 and 6 students raise money for people in need of clean water. This is an optional fundraiser.

Each Year 4 to 6 student has received a permission form to explain the organisation. If your child would like to participate please fill in and return the permission form to receive a sponsorship booklet. For more information please visit the 40 Hour Famine website: World Vision 40 Hour Famine

If you have any questions please contact: Mark Insley, Deputy Principal, (marki@botanydowns.school.nz)

Road Safety Week

At Botany Downs School we are celebrating Road Safety Week from 13-17 June 2022.

Look out for our “Road Safety Heroes” – road patrol students and parent supervisors, the walking school bus, safe drivers, children riding their bikes and scooters to school, Police and Fire and Ambulance – we are all Road Safety Heroes!

Our Travelwise Leaders will be out on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings reminding our community to keep us safe by driving slowly, parking safely, turning around away from the school and road patrol, and using the road patrol to cross the road.

They are also going to read a Road Safety Book to our Year 0-3 classes – we love our student leaders working with the younger children!

Kylee Holmes, Road Patrol and Travelwise Co-ordinator, (kyleeh@botanydowns.school.nz

Children Turning Five

If your child is turnng five in the next 12 months please ensure you enrol them as soon as possible. Our roll is steadily growing and we need to plan for classes and teachers during the year. Please collect your enrolment pack from the office, or email office@botanydowns.school.nz

Joanne Hughson Deputy Principal Years 0-3 (joanneh@botanydowns.school.nz)

LIBRARY NEWS

Orders Close Friday 17 June!

Reminder – orders close on Friday 17 June for the latest issue of the Lucky Book Club. Thank you for supporting your child’s reading development and enjoyment!

Please note: online orders are preferred, thank you.