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Home Learning – Week 1 Term 4

Welcome to Term 4! I know this isn’t how we imagined starting back this term, however for now we need to keep safe in our bubbles and hope we can return to the classroom soon.

You can find links to our Home Learning Slides and our Extra Online Learning Options here. These will also be posted on your child’s Google Classroom’s this morning.

Extra Online Learning Options – Week 1 Term 4

Home Learning Slides – Week 1 Term 4

Term 4 Newsletter

Morena everyone,

Please see the attached Term 4 Newsletter from Mrs. Sutton.

Term 4 Newsletter

Notice for children of essential workers only: Term 4 2021

Apologies, the notice didn’t attach yesterday.

Notice for children of essential workers only: Term 4 2021

Newsletter Week 10 Term 3 and Talent Quest Results

Here is the link to this week’s newsletter.  Talent Quest Results are announced here also.

Newsletter Week 10 Term 3

Year 8 Camp Meeting TONIGHT

A reminder that there is a camp meeting for all parents of our Year 8 students. It begins at 7 pm.

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89672713811?pwd=YmZ6cDErckxlVEg1K0ErTFNDY0taQT09 Meeting ID: 896 7271 3811 Passcode: 7mFjut

If you haven’t seen it already, you can view our 2019 Camp Video here: 

Year 8 Camp 2019 – Video

Year 8 Camp Forms – Have you returned yours to school? We are processing these today. Please deliver to school if possible.

Alert Level 3 Update

Kia ora e te whānau,

As you heard today, Auckland moves into alert level 3 at midnight on Tuesday 21nd September. this means that our school is open for students who are the children of essential workers (from Wednesday the 22nd September) who have no other childcare arrangements.

If your child will be attending school in level 3, you must register them with Katrina Bush so we can add them to a bubble. There will be 10 students in a bubble and we have offered places to siblings to keep whānau in the same bubble. To register, email – kbush@bis.school.nz

Birkdale Intermediate will be open from 9am – 3pm each day and students must be dropped off and picked up from the front gate. Students must bring their own stationery, lunch and drink bottle and must adhere to level 3 health and safety practices. Unwell students must not attend school.

Once your child is registered, Mrs. Bush will confirm this with an email to you telling you what bubble your child will be in and what room they will work in.

At the start of the year, we planned and informed parents of a teacher-only day on Friday 1 October. We will be continuing with this teacher-only day meaning that the last day of term 3 will be Thursday 30 September.

JoAnne Sutton (she/her)
Principal / Tumuaki

Week 8 Newsletter and Assembly Link

Another week down! Who can believe there are only 2 more weeks until the end of term 3?

The link to our Week 8 Newsletter is also below, please read through this as there is some important information especially for our Year 8 Parents regarding our School Camp.

The link for our school assembly is also below.

Enjoy your weekend.

Newsletter Week 8 Term 4

Assembly Week 8 Term 4

Last chance to collect Home Learning Resources – school gates will be open from 10 – 11 am today.

Home Learning Packs

 For those who were unable to collect yesterday – please collect today. Our school gates will be open for you to drive into school between 10 am – 11 am to collect your packs.

It is important you collect your home learning pack today as our home learning from next week will be based around these resources.

You will need to bring a piece of paper with your child’s name, whānau number and year level written on it. You will swap this for a hard copy pack. It is important you bring this as we must provide the MOE with the names of students who have collected these packs.

You MUST wear a mask to collect and can not stay around and chat with the staff. It is simply pick up and go.

Home Learning Packs – Please collect today

A reminder that is important you collect your home learning pack today as our home learning from next week will be based around these resources.
Our school gates will be open for you to drive into school between 9 am – 12 pm to collect your packs.
You will need to bring a piece of paper with your child’s name, whanau number and year level written on it. You will swap this for a hard copy pack. It is important you bring this as we must provide the MOE with the names of students who have collected these packs.
You MUST wear a mask to collect and can not stay around and chat with the staff. It is simply pick up and go.
Year 8 parents will also be given important camp information (which will also be emailed out to you from your child’s Whānau teacher). Please read this carefully.

Home Learning Packs – PLEASE READ

The Ministry of Education (MOE) has delivered us Home Learning packs for all students.  It is important you collect these tomorrow as our Home Learning from next week will be based around these resources.

Our school gates will be open for you to drive into school between 9 am – 12 pm to collect your packs.

You will need to bring a piece of paper with your child’s name, whanau number and year level written on it. You will swap this for a hard copy pack.  It is important you bring this as we must provide the MOE with the names of students who have collected these packs.

You MUST wear a mask to collect and can not stay around and chat with the staff. It is simply pick up and go.

Year 8 parents will also be given important camp information (which will also be emailed out to you from your child’s Whānau teacher).  Please read this carefully.

This weeks Newsletter and other information

Kia ora,

This week’s assembly is ready for viewing, most students will have watched this with their whānau class. 

Also, here is the link to this week’s newsletter.

Have a great weekend everyone

Assembly Week 6 Term 3
Newsletter Week 6 Term 3

Level 4 Lockdown Update

I hope this email finds you well and safe inside your bubble. We are all missing school and wishing we could return sooner rather than later. The letter attached confirms our continued state of lockdown and advises how we will be working for the next 2 weeks. Please stay connected with your child’s teachers and let us know if you need additional supports.

JoAnne Sutton
Tumuaki/ Principal

Level 4 Update 30/8

Paper copies of this weeks learning

Kia ora families,

If you have made arrangements with your child’s teacher to collect Paper copies of this week’s work, they are waiting to be collected from school. 

The school gate will be open from now until 1 pm for you to drive in and collect a copy from the box in the driveway.  Please only take 1 copy per BIS student in your bubble.

Board of Trustees Meeting – this Tuesday evening

Board of Trustees Meeting will be via zoom on Tuesday 31 August at 7pm. Board meetings are public meetings and this is no exception. To get the Zoom access code, please email jsutton@bis.school.nz. The code will be sent out with an invite on Tuesday afternoon by 4pm.

Week 5 Assembly and Free Online Webinars for Parents

Thanks for all of your hard work this week, we know how challenging working from home and managing online learning can be with your children so we all hope you’ve been able to find some balance and find time to spend together as a family.

Below is the link to this weeks assembly, most of the students were able to watch it today with their Whānau Classes  

Also attached is a flyer from Linewize, they are offering free Webinars to support families with the pressures of learning from home during lockdown.   

Have a great weekend everyone.

Assembly Week 5 Term 3
Linewise Online Seminars
Webinar Registration

A letter from the Principal

Letter to the Community

Level 4 Update

Thank you all for your support of our online learning programmes while we are at alert level 4.

Our staff are all prepared for zoom meetings/google meets and email contact from students. We have made up and delivered 70 hard copy packs of learning materials over the weekend. Some of these are still being delivered today. These will be delivered to a letterbox so there is no contact. Teachers have identified students who need hard copies based on their access to a digital device. We are awaiting MOE guidance about what we will send out if level 4 continues.

As you are aware, the virus is in and around our community. We currently have 6 staff members who are in self-isolation due to being in an area of interest. Some staff are required to be tested for covid due to places they’ve been or people they have been with. This could mean that a teacher may be unavailable for online contact as they wait to be tested.

We ask for your continued support and encourage you to find ways to enjoy this enforced family time. The sun is out today so I urge you to get outside and STRETCH your legs.

Ngā mihi nui

JoAnne Sutton (she/her)
Principal / Tumuaki

This weeks Newsletter

Kia ora Everyone, We hope you are all staying safe in your bubbles. Here is the link to this week’s Newsletter 

Your child’s Whānau teacher will be in contact on Monday. to outline home learning tasks.

Enjoy the sunshine and the unexpected family time this situation brings.

Newsletter Week 4 Term 3

Open Evening Postponed

Kia ora everyone, Due to our Level 4 situation, our open evening has been postponed until further notice. When we have more of an idea of when we can re-open we will make arrangements to either hold an open evening on another night or hold an online meeting (like we did last year).

COVID LEVEL 4 UPDATE – SCHOOL WILL BE CLOSED from tomorrow the 18th of August for at least 7 days

As you will have heard tonight, Auckland is now in level 4 for the next 7 days. This means that school is closed.

All whānau teachers will be spending the day tomorrow making contact with all of the students in their whānau classes to check on wellbeing and to ensure that we can be in contact with you.

All students should have home learning tasks (homework) for the week that they can work on tomorrow. Whānau teachers will outline the plan for home learning tomorrow so that students can have learning tasks to work on at home.

However, the learning environment is now your home and we want to emphasise that wellbeing is the priority at the moment. Spending time with whānau in your bubble is important and learning tasks should not impact quality time and family dynamics.

Please continue to check our website for updates. Stay well and look after each other.

Reminders for next week – Week 4 Term 3

Thanks to everyone who supported our Jump Jam for StarJam fundraiser today!

Reminders for next week – Week 4 Term 3
Monday – Tree Planting Day, for those involved remember old clothes and gumboots, please.
Tuesday – NSIS Girls Basketball Zone Day, 6.30pm BOT Meeting in the staffroom, all welcome.
Wednesday – NSIS Boys Basketball Zone Day, BIS Open Evening, 6.30pm start (Fundraising committee will be selling hotdogs from 6 pm)
Thursday – 9am Parent/Student Tours for prospective 2022 students

Have a great weekend everyone!

There will be an assembly today at 2.15 pm in the hall, all welcome.

Friday 13th August – Jump Jam for Star Jam. Come in PE uniform or house colours and a gold coin donation.

Jump Jam for StarJam

Join us for a JUMP JAM session tomorrow Friday the 13th of August at 9 am to support StarJam, an organisation helping young kiwi kids with disabilities unleash their potential! Please show your support and bring a $2 donation and you’ll get a StarJam wristband. 

www.starjam.org

Our Internet is back up and running again, we have access to phones and emails now. Thanks for your patience while we resolved this issue.

NO INTERNET AT BIS

Kia ora everyone,

The internet is down at school at the moment, which means we have no internet, phones or access to absences on our app.

Please email kdalton@bis.school.nz with any absences or urgent messages for staff and she will pass them on.

School is open as usual and we will keep you updated as to when it might be online again.

Ngā mihi nui

JoAnne Sutton

Principal/Tumuaki

Reminders for next week – Week 3 Term 3 and our Newsletter

Monday – This week is Maths week
Wednesday – NSIS Cross Country Zone Day
Thursday – Esports competition at Manurewa Intermediate
Friday – Jump Jam for Star Jam

Newsletter Week 2 Term 3

Fundraising Newsletter 1

Reminder – Book Character Dress-up Day tomorrow

Reminder – Tomorrow marks the end of our Book Week – thanks to everyone who came along and supported our Book Fair.

Tomorrow students can come dressed as a book character, all of our teachers have been working really hard to put together their costumes for tomorrow. If students don’t wish to dress up, they will wear uniform as normal.

Very important reminders for today – Cross Country and Fun Run Day!

Today is Cross Country and Fun Run DAY!
A few reminders to help make today a success:
* The competitive races start at 11.15 am with the fun run happening at 2.15 pm. All parents and whānau are welcome to come along to support our students.
* Children should come to school in their uniform and then change into their house colours for their run – this way they have something clean and dry to go home in.
* Children should bring an old towel and a plastic bag to take their running clothes home in – It’s going to be muddy!
* Our fabulous fundraising committee will be selling hotdogs for $3 and Chocolate bars for $2 at lunchtime so send along some change (parents you’re welcome to purchase as well).
* The book fair will be open from 11.15 am onwards for the day so please pop in and say hi and see what books are available for your children to purchase.
*.If we need to cancel the Cross Country and Fun Run we will let you know as soon as the decision has been made via the app and Facebook.

Have a great day everyone!

Reminder today is National Scout scarf day – Scouts can wear their scarves to school for the day!

Reminders for next week – Week 2 Term 3

Next week is book week this will be held in the library and open for parents from 8.10 am-8.40 am.  See the notice below for more information.

Monday 2nd August:  National Scout Scarf day – All scouts can wear their scarves to school today!

Wednesday 4th August:  Whānau Day – School Cross Country and Fun Run.  See the notice below for more information.  There will be hotdogs on sale at lunchtime for $3 and Chocolate bars for $2.

Thursday 5th August:  Last day for the book fair in the library.

Friday 6th August:  All students can come dressed as their favourite book character!

Don’t forget you can keep up to date with all things happening at BIS by downloading our school app or liking our Facebook page.

Our student notices and most recent information can be found by scrolling down our home page;  https://bis.school.nz/

 
Cross Country and Book Week Information

Red Nose Day Tomorrow

Tomorrow we are raising money for Cure Kids by supporting Red Nose day. For a gold coin donation, students can wear red clothes (or dress up in red) for the day. A group of students will Go to https://rednoseday.co.nz/ then click on About Red Nose Day and Get a Nose to take a photo of your virtual red nose. We will also be running a bake sale with goods being sold at break time.

So students if you can spare a few dollars of pocket money, wear some red and support this wonderful cause!

Cure Kids – Red Nose Day Fundraiser

This Friday we are raising money for Cure Kids by supporting Red Nose day. For a gold coin donation students can wear red clothes (or dress up in red) for the day. A group of students will also be running a bake sale with goods being sold at break time. So students if you can spare a few dollars of pocket money, wear some red and support this wonderful cause!