Kia ora koutou BDS whānau, Week 3, Term 1, 2022
Thank you for your continued support of our current health and safety procedures. Our school has happy children busy learning and playing with friends.
Please be assured that we do have a comprehensive plan in place if we are notified of a positive case of COVID in our school. If there is a COVID case in your child’s classroom your child will become a close contact. We will then notify you by email and we will also phone you to come and collect your child. The email and phone call will also give you instructions on how to collect your child and how long to isolate for.
Vicki Parkins Principal vickip@botanydowns.school.nz
Mark Insley marki@botanydowns.school.nz
Joanne Hughson joanneh@botanydowns.school.nz
|
Coming up @ BDS…
Wed 23 Mar – Parent/teacher interviews
Thurs 24 Mar – Parent/teacher interviews
Thurs 14 Apr – Teacher Only Day
Thurs 14 Apr – Last day of Term 1
|
|
|
|
|
Botany Best & Values Awards
Well done to the following children who will receive their awards on Friday:
Botany Best: Oliver Wu, Isher Singh, Muhammad Abdullah, Cordelia Prentice, Jayden Bischoff, Ela Uguz, Noah Ellis, Bree Clark, Nella Ranchhod, Cooper Ellis, Nikit Nandan, Hasrat Dhillon, Lanxi Han, Eric Guo, Vera Zuo, Jennifer Xu, Oliver Rayson, Blake Good, Rain Gu, Kyle Gouws, Ruby Turner and Konrad Ofoia.
Values Award: Eli Adams, Kayla Martins-Fouche, Ozias Su’a, Leon Lo, Ollie Karouso, Sophie Klee, Ansh Patel, Micah Harrison, Aidan Malez-Ocampos, Nora Khong, Brisha Metha, Lisa Huang, Shoryaveer Saharan, Anthony Zhou, Ryan Baker, Daniel Mao, Yuri Kang, Aria Lee and Prisha Verma.
|
|
|
Year 1 Gates
Our Year 1 children are developing great independence walking into school by themselves now.
Rather than using the staff car park big gate to enter the school grounds at 8:30 am, please bring your child to one of the small school gates at the front of the school instead.
The big gate will remain closed at 3 pm from next week as well, so our Year 1 children will leave through the small gates.
This is for safety reasons as we now have construction vehicles accessing the school through this car park gate.
Joanne Hughson, joanneh@botanydowns.school.nz
|
|
|
Year 5 and 6 Camps
Botany Downs School has been working to ensure that the health, safety and ongoing quality educational experience are at the forefront of our planning as we have been working through our Year 5 and 6 Camp organisation under the Covid Protection Framework.
Unfortunately, due to very recent advice and regulations put in place by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health, we have decided to postpone both the Year 5 and 6 Camps. However, we are pleased to let you know we have booked dates for later in the year. Year 5 and 6 parents have been emailed separately last week with this camp information.
This decision has been made in consultation with our Camp Coordinators, Deputy Principal, Principal and School Board, and was not made lightly as the students’ health and safety is our priority.
New dates for Camps:
Year 5 – Monday 26th to Tuesday 27th September
Year 6 – Monday 12th to Wednesday 14 December
If you have completed any overnight permission, health and safety, police vetting forms or paid for camp, this information will be rolled over to new the dates. If you would prefer a refund you can also email our Executive Officer Trish Toussaint trisht@botanydowns.school.nz.
Mark Insley, marki@botanydowns.school.nz
|
|
|
Road Patrol
Our Road Patrol is up and running this year – thank you to the Year 6 children and our parent volunteers. Please use the crossing with your children, this teaches them safe road crossing procedures so they will be able to do it themselves one day!
Some gentle reminders in relation to driving safely around our school…
- Do not park on yellow lines, at all.
- No u-turns in front of the crossing!
- Where possible, kids should get out of the car on the footpath side, not onto the road.
- Park down the road a bit and then walk to their gate.
Thank you for keeping all our community safe.
|
|
|
BYOD Reminder
Please remember to bring your computer forms in to your child’s teacher so they can get logged in and sorted online. Thanks so much.
Joe d’Ambrosio, joed@botanydowns.school.nz
|
|
|
2021 ICAS Mathematics Results
Congratulations to all of the students who took part in the 2021 Mathematics Assessment!
We are happy to let you know that we have received our 2021 ICAS Mathematics certificates. We had some excellent results for this assessment, please see below. Certificates will be handed to students in class. If you had a child who was Year 6 in 2021, you can collect their certificate from our school office.
Year 5 Merit (top 35% of the country): Annabel Duan, Jesse Meng, Selena Wu, Anthony Xu
Year 5 Distinction (top 10% of the country): Daqi Mao, Dhyan Patel, Aaron Qiao, Dorothy Wu
Year 6 Merit (top 35% of the country): Kerry Kang, Jessie Lin
Year 6 Distinction (top 10% of the country): Jessica Huang, Krish Jain, Kristy Lau, Crystal Macwan Tracy Tang, Ray Xu
Mark Insley, marki@botanydowns.school.nz
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BDS eLibrary is Back!
Great news! The BDS elibrary is back up and running, and will be available ALL YEAR for you to access a huge selection of ebooks!
|
|
|
Our BEST Always
 Our main book display fosusses on the famous Kiwis our school houses are named after: Jean Batten, Sir Peter Blake, Sir Edmund Hillary and Kate Sheppard.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
HJ Elite Soccer Programme
The HJ Elite Team is excited to announce the start of their 2022 After School Soccer programmes at Botany Downs Primary in Term 1.
The Term 1 programme will be held on Mondays at 3:15pm – 4:15pm, from February 14- April 4, 2022 at Millhouse Reserve Park.
To register, CLICK HERE.
This programme is geared towards the development of girls and boys who are new to soccer, or would like to hone their current soccer skills.
Our focus is identifying each child’s skill sets; maximizing their age-appropriate development; and most importantly ensuring that each child enjoys the process.
The HJ Elite Team will be following the Covid 19 Protection frame work protocols, with contactless drop off and pick-ups at the Blue Clothing Bin in the Bus Bay (Parents will not be permitted to stay on site).
To further comply with the Covid 19 protection protocols, training will be held at Milhouse Reserve, children will be escorted to and from training by staff members.
See flier and website www.hjeliteacademy.co.nz for more details!!
For all students with credits from Term 3, please contact HJ Elite Academy for your credit codes to be use at check out.
Email: info@hjeliteacademy.co.nz
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
English
Arabic
Chinese (Simplified)
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Maori
Portuguese
Russian
Samoan
Spanish
