Newsletter – Week 1 Monday 26 July

Term 3, Week 1 2021    

Kia ora koutou,

A warm welcome back to school for Term 3 to both our existing and new BDS families. This week our Year 5 and 6 boys are attending a soccer field day with Mr Huskinson, our Year 6 students are travelling to The Cloud for an Olympic Experience, and we have both Howick Intermediate and Somerville Intermediate Principals and Deputy Principals coming to school to talk to all our year 6 students. 

Ms Wendy Morgan is returning to BDS to teach our Year 0/1 class of students in Room 25.  Welcome back to Ms Morgan, and welcome to our new 5 years olds starting school.  Ms Rita Lala will be attending a compulsory work safe course for our school on Tuesday and Wednesday, therefore a reliever will be in her class.

The team newsletters will be emailed home to you this week.  If you need a paper copy please email arohab@botanydowns.school.nz.  If you already received a paper copy of the BDS weekly newsletter you will already receive a term paper copy of the newsletter.

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

Coming Up @ BDS…

Wednesday 28 July – BOT meeting

Tuesday 3 August – Senior Cross-country

Monday 9 August – Yr 3 Museum trip

Tuesday 10 August – Yr 0/1 Museum trip

Wednesday 11 August – Yr 2 Museum trip

Friday 13 August – Yr 4 Museum trip

Wednesday 18 August – Yr 5 Museum trip

Thursday 19 August – Yr 6 Museum trip

SCHOOL NEWS

Before and After School

Please do not send your child to school before 8.30 am, as our school grounds open at 8.30 am, and please pick your child up by 3.00 pm.  Thank you.

School Uniform

We take great pride in our BDS school uniform which can be purchased from John Russell Schoolwear in Howick:

9 Moore St, Howick – www.johnrussellmenswear.co.nz

Please visit our school website for more informaiton about our uniform.

Lost property – we still have a large number of fleece jackets and shoes in our lost property. Please ensure you name all uniform items.

Cross-country – Helpers Needed

The Senior cross-country is scheduled for the afternoon of Tuesday 3 August, we would greatly appreciate a few more helpers on the cross-country route. If you could lend a hand, please contact Joe D’ Ambrosio: joed@botanydowns.school.nz

Thank you!   

Absences

If your child is not going to attend school it is important we are told. Please either:

1. Email the school – absences@botanydowns.school.nz
2. Leave a message on our office answer phone: 534 9848
3. Use the School App – download school app from the app store

Policies and Procedures

Our school website has all our school procedures and policies under School Docs.  Please visit this site if you need any information including what to do if you have a concern.

Botany Downs School Docs – Username: botanydowns / Password: best

COVID

We have continued to have COVID scanning sheets located on our gates and inall classrooms near a  window. Please ensure you use these each time you enter our school grounds. Hand sanitizer is also available in classrooms.

LIBRARY NEWS

Book Week

A very big THANKYOU to everyone for a great Book Week! We hope you all enjoyed the events and activities throughout the week which celebrated books. The Book Character Dress-up day is always lots of fun, and the parade was wonderful – thank you whanau for supporting your children with their costumes – they all looked fabulous!

Thank you also to everyone for supporting the Book Fair and helping the school to gain valuable resources. and to the PTA members and staff who volunteeer to help out running the Fair – THANK YOU!

Book launch @ Howick Library

Come along to the Howick Library this Saturday for this FREE book launch event. The Memory Thief:  a lonely troll and a fierce, spiky girlwho form an unlikely alliance in Leonie Agnew’s extraordinary novel for children aged 9 years and up.

Also at the event will be author Clare Scott, presenting her gorgeous picture book ‘Kiwi and Ruru’.

Please RSVP to authorleonie@gmail.com

COMMUNITY NOTICES

SOCCER LESSONS – Term 3 

HJ Elite Soccer Academy is excited to announce that they will be offering an After School Development Program at Botany Downs Primary; starting in Term 3. 

The program will be held on Mondays at 3:15-4:15pm!

Click this link to register: https://enrolmy.com/hj-elite-academy/book-now/25-After-School-Soccer-Development-Program—Mondays–Ages-4-11–

This program is geared towards the development of girls and boys of primary school age, who are new to soccer, or would like hone their current soccer skills. Our focus is identifying each child’s skill sets; maximising their age-appropriate development; and most importantly ensuring that each child enjoys the process.

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