The Resilience Project Children Survey
Earlier this year our Year 4, 5 and 6 students took part in a Resilience survey. The Resilience Survey measures resilience and wellbeing across 9 key domains: Understanding Self, Social Skills, Positive Relationships, Safety, Healthy Body and Healthy Mind, Learning, Positive Attitude, Positive Values and Positive Identity. The survey results are anonymous and we can’t identify any students. The results have been shared with us and we have gone through the key findings. Over the coming weeks I will be sharing with you some of our results.
To the question “I get at least 8 hours of sleep most nights”. Overall, it works out that for Silverdale Students in Years 4, 5 and 6 students – 36% never, rarely or only sometimes get 8 hours of sleep.
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2021
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2022
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Silverdale School Female
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71% responded yes
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68% responded yes
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NZ Female
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76% responded yes
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76% responded yes
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Silverdale School Male
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67% responded yes
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60% responded yes
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NZ Female
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73% responded yes
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73% responded yes
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Some Helpful Sleep Information
- Sleep is important for our tamariki and rangatahi growth, learning, mood and development. Harvard University cites, ‘Research suggests that sleep helps learning and memory in two distinct ways. First, a sleep-deprived person cannot focus attention optimally and therefore cannot learn efficiently. Second, sleep itself has a role in the consolidation of memory, which is essential for learning new information.’
- Sleep is one of the most important markers in terms of being ready to learn.
- Lack of sleep can also lead to increased worry, anxiety and even amplify emotions.
- 10 – 11 hours of sleep is recommended for pre-adolescent children.
Below is a link to a short video” Sleep and School Students – Why it’s important and setting good routines” from The Resilience Project.
https://youtu.be/l-woUy9SPOc
For more information on sleep and device management please click this link. Reclaiming control of your electronic devices
Welcome
Welcome to Bella Attwood, Indi-Rose Stratful, Judith Li, Harper Boughtwood, Paige Harris, Daniel Penn Sawers, Beau Taylor, Evie Gardner, Michael Huang, Liam Strydom, Chase Henderson, Oscar Shan, Victor Shan, Kayden Croucamp, Chengyin Wu, Liam Grobler, LJ Lyons, Mila Barkla, Olivia Schmidt and Sophia Schmidt. Our current roll is 825.
Happy Birthday
Happy birthday to Trelise Morgan-Ward, Ishana Noor , Ben Cooper, Lucas Xie, Liam Peyper, Madison Sims, Cody Adams, Nina Pfeiffer, Eva Chen, Lola Barrow, Hana Kernohan, Emma Cameron, Liam Coetzee, Erin Mans, Lienke Mala, Devon Edmondson, Tyla White, Leo Zhang, Eric Zhao, Sheldon Wang, He-Xun Lee, Narek Ford, Jessica Chen, Henry Wang and Miguel Agustin.
New Procedure at Pick Up Time
We are having issues at pick up time at the end of the day as our parents are parking in the school driveway along side Longmore Lane and this is stopping parents from Silverdale Kindy picking up their children from Silverdale Kindy. So with Silverdale Kindy we are introducing a new procedure for the afternoon pick up only.
- 2.00pm – A Silverdale Kindy teacher will put on a hi-vis vest and go out to gate 1. They will open the ‘closed’ half of the gate and allow Silverdale Kindy parents only to enter through here to pick up their child. Silverdale School parents will not be let through. Please go through gate 2 as normal.
- 2.00pm – 2.30pm – Silverdale Kindy teacher to stay at the gate and will only let Silverdale Kindy parents through that gate.
- 2.30pm – Silverdale Kindy teacher will close the gate again, and return to kindy, allowing for school pickups to resume as normal.
Barnes Dance Crossing
There is a Barnes Dance Crossing at the Bankside Drive, Longmore Lane and Millwater Parkway intersection. A Barnes Dance Crossing, also known as a ‘scramble crossing’ or ‘exclusive pedestrian crossing’, is an intersection where all pedestrians can cross on all crossings simultaneously and all vehicles must stop.
This crossing will be operating during school days. The times that it will be operating will be Monday to Friday 8.30am – 9.15am and 2.50pm – 3.30pm.
Please have a conversation with your child about road safety and appropriate crossing behaviour. The key points are;
- Remember it is only operational before and after school.
- Walk, don’t run.
- No dancing.
- If the count-down clock is under 10 you need to wait for the next phase before you cross.
- When crossing Longmore Lane please use the crossing.
Traffic Concern 1
Please make sure that you stop at the orange light at the traffic lights outside of school. Before and after school is a busy time with children and parents using the lights to cross the road, we do not want an accident to occur because you ran the red light. Please reduce your speed and look out for children. An orange signal means stop, unless you are so close to the intersection that you can’t stop safely. An orange signal indicates that the lights will soon turn red. If you fail to do this then the penalties are $150 fine and 20 demerit points if you fail to slow down and stop when traffic lights turn orange (unless you cannot stop safely).
Traffic Concern 2
There has been an increase in parents dropping their children off on Longmore Lane, by the roundabout. For your own safety, and the safety and convenience of other road users, there are certain areas where you must not park. You risk being fined $60 and/or having your vehicle towed away if you park in these areas. You must not park or stop your vehicle:
- where it will be in the way of other people using the road (including pedestrians)
- on a marked bus stop or taxi stand
- in front of, or closer than 1 metre to, a vehicle entrance
- on ‘no stopping’ lines (broken yellow lines) marked within 1 metre of the edge of the road, which you may see near pedestrian crossings, intersections, driveways or narrow roads
Garden to Table Garden Report by Karen Miller our Garden Specialist
“Wow, what a wonderful term,
so much done,
so much discovered,
so much learned!”
PREPARE / LEARNINGS / JOBS :
We talked about Hugerkulture beds, observed the one made last year, and started a new one.
We topped up beds with new soil, and mulched them for the winter.
We made trenches and dug in seaweed and coffee grinds into some of the beds, adding organic matter to feed the soil.
We fed the garden beds with manure tea and comfrey tea.
We collected valuable leaves from around the school, added these to our compost bins (we have 2 bins cooking), our worm farm, mulched beds with it and created a special leaf compost area.
We Cut our Asparygus and mulched and fed the bed for the winter.
We created an entirely new bed, using cardboard, soil, leaves and seaweed.
We can’t wait to see what it grows us!
We repositioned strawberries into the Hugerkulture bed.
We Weeded and Mulched around the Citrus trees.
We cut the bunch of Bananas down.
A Wonderful opportunity to learn the life cycle of the Bananas and use a handsaw to chop the stem into smaller pieces.
We shared these with as many GTT classes as we could and 3 bags have been frozen for use next term.
GROWING / PLANTED :
We sowed carrots and parsnips seeds directly into beds.
We planted Leeks, Kale, Kohlrabi, Chinese cabbages, cauliflower, cabbages and broccoli, salad greens.
We sowed green crops : Lupins, peas and oats, to add nitrogen back into the soil.
We sowed Broad beans and peas that were looked after by Room 11. These were then planted out into beds in the garden.
We planted some flower seedlings in the Bee and Butterfly side of the garden as well as the garden by the Office.
For Matariki we sowed some Native seeds, Kakabeaks, Kowhai and Hebes.
We also took cuttings of Pineapple Sage, we hope to sell these at the Country Day.
Room 31 sowed marigolds, cosmos and Holly hocks, these will go back into the garden for Summer.
Room 27 in their last session sowed seeds : Bok choy, Kale, Celery, leeks, savoy cabbage, fennel.
All will be able to be planted out into the garden next term.
HARVESTED :
Below is a list of what we harvested the from the garden this term:
Carrots, Daikon radishes, parsley, rosemary, thyme, broccoli, cabbages, salad greens, Tomatillos, Celery, Jerusalem Artichokes, Chokos, Bananas
I think the highlight was the Jersulum Artichokes, it was like discovering Gold!!
DISCOVERIES :
Frogs : We had lots of Toads and Frogs in our garden.
We attempted to created a home for them with pots.
Drained the bath and will let the rain refill it.
Hoping to recreate an environment so the frogs will return again. So much fun.
Chickens : The kids loved feeding the Chickens their buckets of weeds and always hoping to find an egg in the Chicken Coop, some were lucky.
Fungi : the kids discovered “devils fingers’ and ‘orange fungi’ in the garden. A great learning opportunity.
Worms : we looked at the difference between earth worms and tiger worms.
We added more tiger worms to our worm farm to help it produce soil faster.
Sunflowers : We discovered that you can grow Sunflowers in Winter
Seeds that were sown by the kids in the first term bloomed mid / end of term 2.
Butterflies : so many wonderful monarchs in the garden to highlight the life cycle.
One boy held a butterfly for the first time ever, this was super special.
Edible flowers: We Cut flowers from the garden to decorate the tables. This literally brought the garden to the table. Alot of thought from the kids in picking the flowers and the placement on the table.
Matariki : we painted a rock each.
I will seal these and return them to the garden. I asked the children to take a moment and think what they are grateful whilst in the garden and draw something to reflect that. Lots of wonderful drawings and discussions had during this session.
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