Our ANZAC biscuit baking

Pink Shirt Day

Today is 'Pink Shirt Day' to show a no-tolerance stand for bullying in our school and community. We couldn't wear a pink shirt today so we decided to make our own! We came up with our own slogans for our shirts and then gave them some sparkle...they look good enough to wear!!
Our slogens were

• No bullying here
• No bullying school
• Bullying; not my future
• Be nice, play nice
• Bullying free zone
• Leave me alone...(No bullying here)

We think it is an important message and one that every person needs to understand! Bullying is not cool nor acceptable!

Lest we forget...

This video shows us some amazing images of the Australian and New Zealand soldiers who fought bravely to keep our country's free. We are very proud of what these men and women did for us and it makes us sad to think of all the awful things they went through. We honour these men and women and have a lot of respect for them.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

In the dark, dark wood

Some fun for Easter...

What we learnt from Little Red Riding Hood

A twisted Tale...

Our house name sakes

At Botany Downs we have four houses, Hillary, Batten, Blake and Sheppard. This mural shows us their famous faces and is huge! We all stood by our house and talked about why each of these people are famous New Zealanders. We know that Hillary was the first man to climb Mt Everest; Batten flew solo in her plane across the ocean; Blake helped us to win the America's cup and was a tireless campaigner for keeping the oceans clean and Sheppard was a brave woman who fought for women to have the right to vote (and NZ was the first country in the world to let women do so).
We are very proud of our mural and want to thank the team of painters and staff who have put in many hours to create this masterpiece.