Bizzy Buddyz Ltd - An alternative quality education and care service for babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers in trained Educarers homes.

Welcome Back to Term Two

Another term is upon us, with some warm autumn days and cooler evenings and mornings. Remember to dress the children for four seasons, who knows how it will turn out and we want to be prepared.

A warm welcome to our new Educarers, Tia Ratapu, Jolene Cutler, Natalie Livingstone and Toni Elmiger from Opotiki. We hope you will all enjoy being part of the Bizzy Buddyz community.

We say a sad farewell to Katie and Ruth Paton. Good luck with your new endeavours and we wish you well.

Term Dates for 2010 -Term 2: 19 April – 2 July Term 3: 19 July – 24 Sept Term 4: 11 Oct – 14 Dec

Playgroups for this term:

April 21st Wednesday- Moko the friendly Dolphin. Moko’s Minder (Peter Cavanagh) will come and speak to the children about Dolphins @ McAlister St Play Ground meet @ 10.00am

April 27th Tuesday- Mother’s Day Activities @ 7 Sisam Place The Office @ 10am

May 5^h Wednesday – The Clown Experience @ 9am-10am @ Little Orchard Pre School, Douglas Street for 3-5year olds. At 10am meet at the Heads Play Ground for everyone to attend for a play date.

May 11^th Tuesday- Pyjama Day (wear sleeping attire) with Milo and Toast @ 36 Olympic Drive, Rachel Adams home @ 10am

May 19th Wednesday- Autumn Fun @ The Office 7 Sisam Place @ 10am

May 25^th Tuesday – On Your Marks for Little Hearts @ Poroporo Rugby Field meeting at 10am for a fun event. 50 metre dash etc. Fundraising for Heart Children. Children to bring gold coin donation

June 2nd Wednesday – Recycling Centre. Meet at 10am @ Te Tahi St Recycling Centre. (Plenty of parking) Please wear closed in shoes and warm clothing. Postponed if wet. RSVP to office because we need to know numbers. Thank you.

June 9^th Wednesday – Dental Health @ 10am at 7 Sisam Place

June 15^th Tuesday- White Pine Bush Walk – Collect natural resources. Bring blankets and morning tea for a picnic. Meet @ Rowing Club at 9.45am.

June 23^rd Wednesday – Gymnastic Club @10am start Lovelock St and cost $2.00 each child

June 29^th Tuesday - Road Safety with Community Officer @ 10am @ Office. 7 Sisam Place.

During playgroups can all Educarers be aware of their children’s whereabouts at all times.

The Easter Egg Hunt was a great success the children had to work together to follow the clues to find the Easter eggs. When they found them in a basket under the Kowhai tree, the best part was opening the small plastic eggs to find a wee chicken and Easter egg.

Family Tax Receipts have been sent out with accounts. If you have not received one can you contact office? Thank you.

First Aid Course is to be scheduled for Saturday 8th May at REAP, 8.30am -12.30 for refresher and full course is 8.30am – 4.30pm. So if you need to sit your first aid or complete a refresher, please ring the office to book in.

EDUCARERS APPRAISALS- we will conduct Educarer Appraisals. During this exercise we will be checking children’s Profile Books, your programme planning, training that has been completed and your attendance to Professional Development meetings. These documents will be going out to the Network 2 Educarers next week.

TIMESHEETS-These are always an on-going concern. Educarer’s you need to have timesheets in the office by 4.30pm on Tuesday this will make Maree’s job easier. There have been a lot of errors and this is very time consuming. Children’s hours are booked and if you are finding the children are attending at different times please complete a GREEN form to accurately reflect the children’s hours. These are a Ministry of Education documents and if there is no signature there is NO pay. NO TWINK PLEASE!

Members of the Social Club: Tuesday 20^th April, MOVIES EVENING to see BOY, then dinner at the Office. Val Clayton will notify of the time.

Waiheke Island trip is planned for the 15^th -17^th Oct 2010, Wild on Waiheke, Contact Val Clayton if you are interested.

NZHBECEA (New Zealand Home base Early Childhood Education Association) CONFERENCE is to be held in Auckland 17^th – 19^th September 2010. This is a great opportunity for our staff and Educarer’s to be involved in some quality professional development. The weekend is lots of fun, learning and networking with other early childhood colleagues. If you are interested contact the office for more information.

Another exciting activity for the children to attend is:

African Drumming and Dance organised by REAP.

Place: Coastlands Early Childhood Centre,

Day: Friday 28^th May 2010

Time: 11-12

Professional Development for Educarer’s and Parents.

April 29^th Thursday 2010

Nathan Mikaere-Wallis

Brain Research and Learning: What we need to know.

Cost: $10.00 RSVP Please

Venue: REAP Time: 6.30pm – 8.30pm

Nathan spoke at Conference and is an amazing and inspiring speaker. A great opportunity to get some insight into how great Home Based care is for the brain development of all the children in our care.

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