Kia ora e te Whānau

Ko te reo kia tika, ko te reo kia rere, ko te reo kia Māori!

Get the reo right, let the reo fly, make the reo normal!

We are on our second to last day of swimming.  A reminder that we have Teacher Only Day on Friday so keep your children home!  Papanui High School and Casebrook Intermediate are also closed as are other local primary schools.  Teachers and staff are all going to Casebrook Intermediate to learn about neurodiverse learners for the day.  We are sorry for the inconvenience – we know it’s not easy to manage finding childcare sometimes.  Thanks for your understanding.  

If your child has Care Cards waiting or is waiting for other school rewards, please be aware that as I’m driving the van for swimming, I am struggling to fit other things in.  Patience for children is a  great life lesson!! 

Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE)

During the latter part of this term Bishopdale School will be teaching RSE.  This is an important component of the health and physical education learning area of the curriculum. While some may see the word sexuality and think that this part of the curriculum is only relevant to older students, RSE is actually a comprehensive and holistic programme that covers many topics. For younger learners, these topics include life skills, identity, respect, friendships and feelings, as well as the biological topic such as body parts and how reproduction works. For older students, topics such as puberty, intimate relationships, contraceptives and sexually transmissible infections feature. In the following charts, you can see what topics will be covered in each year with the Navigating the Journey resource.

Our school has chosen to use Family Planning’s resource Navigating the
Journey: Relationships and Sexuality Education to assist with their delivery of a comprehensive, age-appropriate RSE programme. This resource was created alongside educational and health promotion experts to ensure that all of the material aligns with the Ministry of Education’s guidance.

Welcome to New Students

We would like to welcome 2 new students to our school, Loki Olsen in Mataī and TeRangi Haeata-Pairama in Koromiko.

Newsletter Competition

The newsletter question for this week is – What was your favourite part of swimming over the last 2 weeks – in one sentence.  Remember every sentence starts with a capital letter and has a full stop.

Write your answer on a piece of paper, named, and pop it in the kete in the office – 3 Care Cards for Juniors, 3 Care Cards for Seniors.  Last week this was won by Rayyan Ashenafi and Dipika Aryal.

Attendance

Last week the voucher was won by  Sarvesh Vignesh Jaipal for being at school every day and on time.  He won a KMart voucher. 

Kahikatea won the class attendance for having the highest percentage attending for the week. 

Care Cards

Students who have earned their next 20 Care Cards are:- Manaia Diedrichs.

40 Care Cards: Khalea McCausland.

60 Care Cards: Hadi Shafiyee, Josiah Wells and Mikaere Coster.

80 Care Cards: Reuben Froom, Caitlyn Matthews and Marshall Purcell-Sanders.

100 Care Cards: Karlos Charlett-Cant and Tyree McCausland-Ellwood.

120 Care Cards: Nadia Omidi, Laelani Wilson, Emeline Vaea, Sefearah Cooper and Sanuli Kotte Acharige.

140 Care Cards: Fatimah Shafiyee, Sarvesh Vignesh Jaipal and Zainabjaan Afshar Haydari.

160 Care Cards: Noah Edwards, Rayyan Ashenafi, Sarthak KC and Kabeer Kashif.

Ngā mihi

Jill McArthur/Mrs Mac

Tumuaki (Principal)