Welcome back to Term 3! Read-A-Thon starts on Monday. Look out for more information coming home soon.

Coming Up

• BOT Meeting - Thursday 25 July - 6.30pm (Staffroom)

• Year 2 100th Day at School Celebration - Friday 26 July

• Read-A-Thon Starts - Monday 29 July

• Hearing & Vision Testing - Friday 02 August

• Year 6 Nest Programme - Monday 05 August

• Year 5/6 Netball Supercluster - Tuesday 06 August

• Year 5/6 Rippa/Tackle Tournament - Thursday 08 August

Contents

Principal News

• Change to School Assemblies

• School Calendar/Fridge List

• Start of School Dates 2025

School Notices

• School Lunchroom Closed

• Intermediate School Enrolments 2025

Friends of the School

• Read-A-Thon

School Events

• Netball News

• Mrs Burn visits the ESOL classroom

Principal News

Change to School Assemblies

We are prepared and ready to go for another busy term at Browns Bay School. After some feedback from teachers and whānau we have reverted to Whole School assemblies this term. These will be held in Weeks 5 and 10. They may be a little longer as we settle into a new routine. Thanks in advance for your patience.

School Calendar / Fridge List

To try and help with more effective communication we have started a Google calendar for school events. If you regularly use a Google calendar you can subscribe to the school calendar here.

Attached at the end of this newsletter is what we have named a 'Fridge List.' It contains all the school events for the term. This term we will trial sending this home in hard copy alongside the Read-A-Thon information on Monday. You can pin it to your fridge and hopefully it will help everyone to keep on top of all the activities happening this term. There will be an opportunity to give feedback in upcoming newsletters.

Start of School Dates 2025

The Board have approved the date for starting school in 2025. We are still waiting for information from the Ministry of Education and our local schools regarding possible Teacher Only days.

Browns Bay School will start the year on Monday 03 February. School will be closed on Thursday 06 February (Waitangi Day) and Friday 07 February and will re-open on Monday 10 February. Please note these dates if you are making plans for the summer holidays.

Friends of the School

Read-A-Thon

Starting next week, Browns Bay School in conjunction with our Browns Bay ‘Friends of the School’ Parent Association are running a Read-A-Thon fundraiser to assist us in raising funds towards our exciting new sports upgrade.

We are fundraising to repair and upgrade our Basketball and Netball courts and create an Astroturf field that will allow our Tamariki to play sports all year round.

We have the opportunity to reinvigorate the courts outside Rooms 14-17, to expand the number of hoops available for playing and practicing as well as building an entirely new Astroturf area that has line markings for Basketball, Netball and Tapu ae.

Our students will come together and participate in our Read-A-Thon. They will be seeking online sponsorship for their efforts. All funds raised will go towards this exciting upgrade to our sports facilities.

We need your support to sponsor our Tamariki and encourage them to get reading. Our challenge is to “read our way around New Zealand” in 3 weeks - 42 stops in all…2 jumps a day. We will be reading at school each day and at home to complete our challenge.

Fundraising is a great way for our whole school to come together and work towards a common goal.

All information on how to create your own fundraising site will come home on Monday.

Thank you for your support......Let’s get reading Browns Bay!

School Notices

School Lunchroom Closed

The Browns Bay School Lunchroom will be closed from Monday 29 July 2024 until Friday 09 August 2024 with ordering once again available from Monday 12 August 2024.

During this period, ezlunch will continue to be available.

Ezlunch provide a wide variety of healthy food options for school lunches (including vegetarian and gluten free), delivered to Browns Bay School by Go-Deli. It is available Monday, Wednesday and Friday with ordering online at www.ezlunch.co.nz. Lunches can be ordered, at home, in less than 1 minute. Payment is made by ezlunch account, topped up by credit card. NO COINS required.

Intermediate School Enrolments 2025

Murrays Bay Intermediate School

Murrays Bay Intermediate School have asked for the following dates to be passed on to parents who have a child attending their school in 2025:

Wednesday 21 August - Parents Evening - MBIS Hall - 6pm

Tuesday 27 August / Wednesday 28 August – Application Confirmation - MBIS Hall  7.30am – 10.30am and 3pm – 8pm

Tuesday 12 November / Thursday 14 November – Transition Interview In Person or On-Line  3.30pm – 7pm

Wednesday 13 November – Band Information Evening  MBIS Hall - 7pm

Monday 25 November to Saturday 30th November and Tuesday 28 January to Friday 31 January – Uniform Sales

The children will bring home enrolment information following their transition visit to MBIS on Tuesday 13 August.

Northcross Intermediate School

Northcross Intermediate School have asked for the following dates to be passed on to parents who have a child attending their school in 2025:

Tuesday 20 August - Year 6 Orientation Visit to Northcross Intermediate

Wednesday 28 August - Parent Information Evening - 6.00pm

More information from the school has been emailed to parents who have indicated that their child will attend the orientation visit.

School Events

Netball News

The Year 4 Browns Bay School Magic netball team participated in the Primary Mid Season Tournament held at North Harbour Netball in the school holidays. They played extremely well, and won all 4 of their games convincingly. They played teams from the Hibiscus Coast as well as teams from the North Shore.

Well done Team Magic!

Mrs Burn visits the ESOL Class

Mrs Burn came to visit our ESOL class to see the progress the children have made throughout the term.

For bookings and more information:

https://www.skids.co.nz/locations/browns_bay/

3rd North Shore Girls’ Brigade

A truly awesome group for girls aged 5 years and over.

We are an International and Interdenominational Christian girls’ organisation.

We are an organisation that helps girls to learn new skills and experience new challenges and adventures, while working in a safe, caring environment. We encourage them to grow and discover their potential. Providing an opportunity for them to meet new friends and having a whole lot of fun

in the process. We meet on Monday evenings at the Milford Baptist Church, Dodson Avenue, during school terms, from 6p.m to 7.30p.m.

Come along and see what we do. For further information please phone one of the following (after 6p.m). Marion 444-9556 or Angela 09420-3101.