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35 Mirrabooka Ave, Howick, Auckland 2010 / 09 534-9848

Monday 24 June 2019

Dear parents, Reporting to Parents Your children’s reports will be coming home on Friday. Bookings open tomorrow for our parent interviews next week (see below). Children will be bringing home their Maths books for you to look through next Monday. Class and Individual Photos PhotoLife - class/individual photos will be taken on Wednesday 3 July 2019. This year ordering will be done on line. If you require a sibling form please collect one from the office. Special Terrific Persons Awards Congratulations to all the following children, who will receive their special certificates at this Friday morning’s assembly, starting at 9.10am in the hall: Dion Choi, Anuscke van Zyl, Daisy Yang, Mandy Belding, Calvin Munce, Connor Henderson, Riya Doddala, Samarveer Parmar, Joy Turner, Franklyn Pretorius, Harmony Hemi, Daqi Mao, Mila Carr, Vicente Cornejo Araya, Brian Yu, Jasmine Chilcott, Emma Chang, Samuel Nergaard Grace Ge, Naomi Le Roux, Mikayla Fillet and Khloe Smith. Parent Interviews Our interviews are being held next week, on Wednesday 3 July (3.20pm-5.00pm) and Thursday 4 July (3.20pm-8.00pm). Year 3-6 children are welcome to attend these interviews with their parents, to talk about their progress. As usual, bookings will be done online, and can be made from TOMORROW onwards. Details of how to do this have been sent home today, and will also be on our school website: www.botanydowns.school.nz

Botany Downs School Values Programme The following children have been selected for showing Honesty and will be acknowledged at this Friday’s assembly, and their names put on the Values Tree in the library: JD Hawkins, Joshua Zhang, Rory Bird, Martin Duff, Layla Carr, Angela Wang, Owen Huang, Matthew Lourens, Marley Ayshford, Rishaan Kumar, Elena Huang, Louie Yu, Annabel Duan, Caitlin Hunkin, Skylah Peters, Yuheng Zhu, Kate Jacobs, Jacob Heenan-Ahiao, Aaron Qiao, Richard Qu, Bryan Cremer and Charlie McNae.

Coming up…

Tuesday 25 June Hockey Field Day

Friday 28 June Literacy Quiz / DISCO / Student reports are coming home

Monday 1 July NZ Playhouse performing for Y0-3

Wednesday 3 July Class and Individual photos / Parent Interviews 3.20pm-5.00pm

Thursday 4 July Parent Interviews 3.20pm-8.00pm

Friday 5 July Last day of term. 3pm finish.

Monday 22 July Term 3 begins

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School Disco This Friday 28 June, in our school hall. $5 per child. Please see today’s

PTA Weekly Update for more information and details about ticket purchases.

See you on Friday at the disco!

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Updated contacts If you have recently changed your address or contact phone numbers please could you let the office know. If you have an email address we need to have it please. Thank you.

2019 Term Dates

Term 2 Ends Friday 5 July Term 3 Starts Monday 22 July Ends Friday 27 September Term 4 Starts Monday 14 October Ends Wednesday 18 December School Trips Next Term Unfortunately the Junior and Middle school have had to cancel their trips to the Tip Top Factory this term. We have managed to secure an exciting trip to the Te Tuhi Art Gallery and Pakuranga Library at the beginning of Term 3 and this will be split over weeks 1-4. Watch this space... Jennie Edwards Keeping our Children Safe Thank you all parents for your sensible driving around our school, and the care you are taking to ensure our children are safe. It’s great to see people using the pedestrian crossing at the front of the school where the road patrol operates. Thank you. As you know, we are a “Travelwise School”. We place much emphasis upon our students travelling to and from school safely. The streets around our school are very busy at certain times, and there are four exits. If you see any matters of concern-for example children crossing the road unsafely-please don’t hesitate to contact the school office and let us know so we can follow up on this. Friendly Reminders No car parking on any yellow lines. If you are among the early arrivals to pick up your children after school, it would be appreciated if you

could position your car on the street in a way that leaves room for others to park. Please don’t block driveways - let’s remember our neighbours! Thanks for your help with this everyone. There is no parking in the lower staff car park. This is a drive through drop off zone only in the mornings,

and cannot be accessed before 3.15pm after school. Have a great week everyone! Kind regards, Mr T principal@botanydowns.school.nz

35 Mirrabooka Ave, Howick, Auckland 2010 / 09 534-9848

Notice from the NZ Police The NZ Police recently launched a new non emergency number, 105. We’ve done this to make it easier to get hold of us in the event of non-urgent situations or ‘Things which have Already Happened’, which don’t require Police assistance immediately. You can call us on 105 for all non-emergencies, or you can go online at 105.police.govt.nz to report things like:

- Lost property - Theft from a public place or car - Intentional property damage - Or to get an update or add info to a previous report In the event of an emergency, always call 111 - Things that are Happening Now

School Disco- Friday 28th June Get your dancing shoes on as the school disco is on in the school hall this Friday! Remember there is a prize for best dressed. This term we will be hosting the Junior and Senior discos on one night :Years 0-3 will be from 5.30pm-7pm and years 4-6 from 7.30pm-9pm Tickets are $5 per child and only students of Botany Downs Primary School are able to attend (this means only siblings who are students at the school, no pre-schoolers or past students due to health and safety rea-sons as we can only have a limited number of people in the hall at one time) This year you can order tickets online and pay via online banking: http://form.jotform.co/91257906919873

Tickets will be issued during this week . The cut off date for ticket orders is this Thursday 27th June, with tickets issued on Friday 28th June- anyone wanting to purchase tickets after this date will need to buy them at the door on the night of the disco. We would love to have some parent helpers on the evening so if you are able to lend a hand, please can you contact us: pta@botanydowns.school.nz

End of Term Sausage Sizzle We will be hosting our end of term sausage sizzle on the last day of term (Friday 5th July) and would love to have some parent helpers assist us with cooking the sausages and serving. Please contact pta@botanydowns.school.nz if you are able to help out.

Make sure you keep your gold coins as there will also be drinks on sale as well as sausage sizzles.

Come along to a PTA meeting! We have a PTA meeting in the staffroom on Monday 1st July at 7.30pm and would love to have some new members join us- please come along to find out what we are all about. Many hands make light work so the bigger the PTA gets, the better we can work to make positive changes for the school.

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Next PTA meeting: in the staffroom Monday 1 July at 7.30pm.

All welcome! See you there!

35 Mirrabooka Ave, Howick, Auckland 2010 / 09 534-9848

Our BEST - Always 35 Mirrabooka Ave, Howick, Auckland 2010 / 09 534-9848

Our BEST - Always 35 Mirrabooka Ave, Howick, Auckland 2010 / 09 534-9848