Kia ora koutou BDS whānau, Week 10, Term 2, 2022
Term 2 has been such a successful term. Our calendar has been full and our tamariki have been fully engaged in their learning and happily playing with their friends. Our final week is also busy and very exciting.
This week is Book Week and our Librarian, Vanessa Hatley-Owen, and Sharmila Raj our Inqjuiry Leader, have organised many interesting events and activities. We encourage you to visit the school to purchase books and stationery from our Scholastic Book Fair. The days and times are mentioned below. We are looking forward to the creative book character costumes that our tamariki proudly showcase in our Book Week Parade on Friday at 11 am on our netball courts if it is fine. Whānau are welcome to attend.
Reports go home on Tuesday followed by parent interviews on Wednesday and Thursday. Please do book a conference with your teacher as it is so important to share information and make connections.
A HUGE thank you to our PTA for fundraising for our wonderful new Tiger Turf area under the junior canopy. This space has been totally transformed!
Wishing you all a relaxing, happy time with your whānau in the school holidays.
Ngā mihi nui,
Vicki Parkins Principal vickip@botanydowns.school.nz
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Coming up @ BDS…
Week 10 – BOOK WEEK
Tues 5 July – Reports sent home
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 2
Mon 25 July – First Day of Term 3
Wed 27 Jul – Howick Int visiting Yr 6 / BoT meeting
Thurs 28 July – Somerville Int visiting Yr 6
Mon 8 Aug – Stardome trip Yr 6
Thurs 11 Aug – Howick Int open day / Stardome trip Yr 5
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Parent Teacher Interviews
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Botany End of Term Certificates
End of Term Certificates: Selena Wu, Chante’ Bester, Leo Xie, Saket Andala, Oliver Rayson, Maiia Kriukova, McKinley Baybay, Jay Kim, Noah Nagoorsamy and Kayla Fegen.
 This week’s assembly is for Years 4-6, and will be held on Friday, 9.10am.
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SchooI Board Parent Election 2022
Nomination round
Our school will be undertaking a parent election for three (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.
Wayne Jamieson, Returning Officer, CES
89 Nazareth Avenue | Middleton | Christchurch | PO Box 414 | Christchurch 8140
P (03) 338 4444 | Cell 021 399 744 www.cessl.org.nz
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The Book Week Character Parade
Whānau Invitation
We are delighted to invite the BDS whānau back to our Book Week Character Parade this year after two years of lockdown. It is happening on the last day of this term: Friday 8 July at 11.00am. If it is raining, the parade will be cancelled, so let’s hope for a beautiful day!
Sharmilar Raj and Vanessa Hatley-Owen, Book Week Coordinators, (sharmilar@botanydowns.school.nz vanessah@botanydowns.school.nz)
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HPPS Hockey Field Day
On Tuesday 28th June our joint Year 5 and 6 hockey team went to the HPPA hockey field day held at Lloyd Elsmore. We were very lucky with the weather and the quality of hockey played was fantastic. We had four tough games and came away with a win in two of them.
All of the kids’ were enthusiastic, tried their absolute best and continued to smile even when the results didn’t go their way.
It was an awesome day and great to see so many eager kids giving hockey a go!
Hockey Coordinators, Kylee Holmes (kyleeh@botanydowns.school.nz) and Sophie Hill (sophieh@botanydowns.school.nz)
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BDS Cross-country
We had a great Cross-country day on thursday with great weather for the event. All students worked hard to build fitness and run to the best of their abilities. Thank you so much to the parents and teachers who helped support our runners.
Congratulations to the following runners for coming first, second or third in their groups:
Year 4 Girls:
1 – Harkirat Gill
2 – April Clements – Goh
3 – Amelia Klee
Year 4 Boys:
1 – Mason Ludick
2 – Jacob Kong
3 – Owen Huang
Year 5 Girls:
1 – Ruby Chen
2 – Luise Peng
3 – May Shawani
Year 5 Boys:
1 – Kyan Norton
2 – Ini O
3 -Yisen Qi
Year 6:
1 -Selena Wu
2 – Annie Li
3 – Rebecca Houston
Year 6 Boys:
1 – Jesse Elliott
2 – Dhyan Patel
3 – Blake Good
Joe D’Ambrosio, Cross-country Coordinator (joed@botanydowns.school.nz)
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BDS Learning and Fun
Crazy Hat Day!
 Walking School Bus
 Buddy classes Room 16 and Room 1
ESOL: At the start of the term, we made vanilla ice cream. It was delicious but we said, “Why can’t we make our own flavours?” So we went to New World to find new flavours. My buddy and I decided to make chocolate and caramel ice cream. Today we made it and it was bliss! By Lukas.
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Children Turning Five
If your child is turnng five in the next six (6) 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)
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Scholastic Book Fair – Week 10!
As part of our Book Week, the annual Scholastic Book Fair will again be open next week, full of wonderful books to purchase at great prices. The Book Fair will be open daily (see times below). By supporting the Book Fair you not only help develop your child’s reading skills and reading enjoyment, you also help the school gain valuable resources – thank you!
- open daily before school 8.30-9.00am
- open Mon-Thurs after school 2.30-3.30pm
- open late Wed: to 5.20pm and Thurs: to 7.20pm
- cash or EFTPOS
- every purchase goes into the draw to win a prize!
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Howick Intermediate School
School Board Elections
Parent Election Notice
Nominations are open for the election of three parent representatives to the Howick
Intermediate School board on Friday 15 July.
All eligible voters will receive a nomination form. Use this form to nominate yourself or
someone in your community. You will also receive a nomination cover letter calling for
nominations. Information on who is not eligible to be a board member is provided with the
nomination form.
If you need more nomination forms, contact the school office.
Nominations close at noon on Wednesday 3 August. You may provide a signed candidate
statement and photograph with your nomination.
The electoral roll is held at the school and can be viewed during normal school hours.
As nominations are received, there will be a list of candidates’ names kept at the school up
until election day, which you can view.
Voting closes at 4pm on Wednesday 7 September.
Steph Elder,
Returning Officer
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