MANAGING ILLNESS IN YOUR CENTRE The Ministry of Health has put a range of information together to support schools and early learning manage the impacts of winter illnesses and COVID-19 which the Ministry. From this information the Ministry have pulled the key messages for parents, caregivers and whānau into one document which you may wish to send to your community (if you wish to access this document go to https://bulletins.education. govt.nz/bulletin/he-p%C4%81nuik%C5%8Dhungahunga/issue/update-4august-2022/date/2022-08-04 ). Some key messages included: ● Healthy young children can have up to 8 to 12 colds or upper respiratory tract infections each year. These are a normal part of childhood. ● A child should stay at home if they appear unwell or if they develop any of these symptoms: new runny nose, sore throat, cough, fever, vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, they are off their food and drink or show signs of feeling miserable. ● If a child has been unwell with an illness other than COVID-19, they can return to their early learning service 24 hours after they have significantly improved and are behaving/eating normally. ● If a child still has a runny nose or dry cough without any other symptoms such as a fever, vomiting or diarrhoea, they are unlikely to be infectious and could be considered well enough to attend their early learning service. ● It is a good idea to encourage children to play outdoors – they just need to be dressed warmly during the winter months! ● Being outdoors helps to boost children’s immune systems through exposure to fresh air and enables them to make vitamin D from exposure to the sun. THE NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS FOR CHILDREN WINNERS See nzbookawards.nz for the full list of winners. A book described as a taonga for this generation and the next, written and illustrated by one of the country’s most lauded authors, was crowned the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year at the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Atua: Māori Gods and Heroes by multi-awardwinning author Gavin Bishop was praised by the judges for its sense of magic and the way it validates matauranga and te ao Māori truths. As well as taking out the highest accolade in children’s publishing, Atua also won the Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction and the Russell Clark Award for Illustration. While Atua took out the lion’s share of the prizes, it was a cheeky lion who impressed the judges when it came to the Picture Book Award, which went to Lion Guards the Cake by Ruth Paul. The judges loved the masterfully blended words and images, calling it confident storytelling of the highest calibre. While the standard and beautiful flow of reo in I Waho, i te Moana, translated from Yvonne Morrison’s text by Pānia Papa and illustrated by Jenny Cooper, saw it awarded the Wright Family Foundation Te Kura Pounamu Award for te reo Māori. September 2022 { 13 }
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