Newsletter – Wednesday 1 May

Newsletter – Wednesday 1 May

Kia ora, Talofa, Malo e leleli, Kia orana, Fakalofa lahi Atu, Taloha Ni, Ni sa bula, 你好, Namaste, 안녕하세요, Hola, Xin chao, السلام عليكم. 

Manaakitanga Award Term 1

Manaakitanga is the demonstration of showing respect, generosity and care for others. Sandy Evans, was teacher aid at Silverdale School for 16 years. She died suddenly in a tragic accident in January 2012. Sandy had an enormous empathy for all students and particularly those she worked with.  

Silverdale School Board created a Manaakitanga Memorial for Sandy as they felt she embodied the principles of manaakitanga – extending the hand of friendship, finding positives in all activities, exemplifying tolerance, kindness and empathy to others. 

We have so many students at Silverdale School who consistently show our KERI values that it is always a very tough decision for teachers.

This term the recipient of the Manaakitanga memorial will be selected from Team Tui.

The student receiving this award consistently strives to do their best and is a positive role model to all students by their excellent attitude to work and their respectful manners. 

This student is a strong leader within our school and takes on any opportunity offered. This ‘give it a go’ attitude has led to representing our school in multiple zone days and being an enthusiastic member of our enviro group. They are a leader for kapa haka and a house captain.

This student shows kindness/atawhai through consideration, empathy and sensitivity towards others, both inside and outside the classroom. Their leadership as a KERI ambassador has supported many students during break times. 

This student understands that we are all interconnected and that our actions have the power to positively impact the lives of others.

I feel very privileged to present the Manaakitanga award to: Olivia Bowater

Please join me in congratulating Liv for this well deserved recognition.

Welcome

Welcome to Zihao Huan, Kaia Cook, Xikai Dua, Lea Yo, Nikolai Deshin and Leo Abel. Our current roll is 762.

Happy Birthday 

Happy birthday to Daniel Zhao, Kaden Scott, Olivia Bowater, Carter Jones, Ben Crossman, Thomas McPherson, Bella Pan, Angie Shang, Ellie Yu, Cameron Hand, PK Toongart, Emmy Smith, Isobel Biesiek, Hudson Frost and Arlo Huia.

Welcome Back

Welcome everyone to Term 2. A HUGE welcome to our new families. It was great to see so many happy faces coming into school on Monday. 

If you have any concerns or questions about what is happening at school please contact your child’s teacher. To contact your child’s classroom teacher there are a number of ways, phone, email or face to face. All staff email addresses are on our website. www.silverdaleprimary.school.nz.  If you would like to see me personally please contact the school to make an appointment.

Mothers/Significant Adult Morning

Mother’s/Significant Adult morning is on Friday 10 May from 9.00am to 10.20am. All mothers or significant adults are invited to their child’s classroom to spend the morning with them. 

Book Fair Friday 10 May to Friday 17 May 

We are very excited to have our Scholastic Book Fair and Book Week return to Silverdale School. This will be taking place this term during Week 2 and 3, Friday 10 May to Friday 17 May. The Scholastic Book Fair will be held in Room 31/33 from Friday to Thursday. Please come in that week and look at the range of books and other items available for sale.
On Friday 17 May we will finish off Book Week with our traditional Book Character Parade in the hall. Students take part in a parade dressed up as a favourite book character.
More information regarding times that the Book Fair will be open and about the Character Parade will be sent out next week.

Ngākau Manawaroa

Silverdale School Staff were trained in and ran The Resilience Project for two years.  During this time the staff taught explicit wellbeing lessons and provided feedback, helping to shape the programme to fit into the New Zealand context. Unfortunately, from 2024 the program was no longer available to New Zealand schools due to being deemed financially unviable. This was disappointing for us, as we saw great value in running an explicit well being programme and valued the research based approach from The Resilience Project. It did however give our kura the opportunity to use what we learned from the Resilience Project to create our own localised wellbeing programme, Ngākau Manawaroa (Resilient Hearts).

Ngākau Manawaroa draws on the main pillars of The Resilience Project –  Gratitude, Empathy, Mindfulness and Emotional Literacy to build resilience and mental well being. We changed the names of our focus areas to better reflect who we are as a kura. We incorporated Te reo Māori and the symbolism of hearts, placing inner strength and resilience at the centre of our tamariki.

Ngākau Marino – Having a calm heart is about mindfulness. How do we practise mindfulness? Mindfulness activities help us to be present in the moment and often create a feeling of calm. We practise this through slowing down and concentrating on one thing at a time. 

Ngākau Mataara – An understanding heart refers to emotional literacy. Being aware of our own emotions helps us to understand them. When practising Ngākau Mataara  children develop their language to convey how they are feeling. 

Ngākau Reka – A grateful heart refers to having gratitude. What is gratitude? It’s about paying attention to the things and moments we have right now, and not worrying about what we don’t have. We practise gratitude by noticing the positives that exist around us, and by being thankful for things, places and people in our lives.

Ngākau Aroha – A loving heart represents having empathy. Empathy and kindness are closely linked. So are empathy and compassion. To be empathetic is to put ourselves in the shoes of others to feel and see what they are. We practise this by being kind towards other people.

Ngākau Manawaroa – Consists of explicit lessons which are differentiated across all year levels and taught weekly. Whilst each lesson across the year levels has different content, they are organised in such a way that all tamariki focus on the same theme. This enables us to share a school wide focus for the week which is reinforced through our KERI assemblies which are held fortnightly on Monday mornings. 

Week 1 of Term 2 will be filled with engaging well being learning opportunities to launch our new programme. This will culminate with a special ice block treat and a non-uniform day on Friday, May 3. Students are encouraged to wear the colours of our resilient hearts – red, purple, yellow and green but are welcome to dress in other colours as well. Please let your child’s classroom teacher know if you do not want them to receive an ice block. (Tip Top lemonade flavour.) Many thanks to PAK’nSAVE’ Silverdale for providing the ice blocks for us. 

Mufti/No Uniform Day – Friday 3 May

On Friday May 3 we will have a Mufti/No Uniform Day to celebrate Ngākau Manawaroa. Students are encouraged to wear the colours of our resilient hearts – red, purple, yellow and green but are welcome to dress in other colours as well. No donation is required.

Our Mission 

To actively prepare each child to take responsibility for their own life-long learning, values and behaviour, in partnership with the home and community.

Our Values

Our Silverdale School values are:

Kindness/ Atawhai

Excellence/ Hiranga

Respect/ Whakaute

Integrity/ Ngākau pono

As a school we strive to support our whanau and community to establish strong values in our children. We look forward to working together with you to instil these wonderful values in our tamariki.

Our Learner Assets

Our Silverdale School learner assets are:

Self Manager

Communicator

Collaborator

Innovator

New Staff

Please welcome Daveena Gornall who is starting with us as a learning assistant.

2024 Term Dates

Teacher Only Day

The school will be closed on Friday 31 May for an Kāhui Ako ki Orewa teacher only day with Orewa Primary School, Wainui School, Dairy Flat School and Orewa Beach School, Orewa College, Ahutoetoe School and Nukumea School.

PTA Mothers High Tea

Reminder to get your tickets for our Mother’s Day High Tea

Get together with your mum, sisters, grandmothers and friends for a Mothers day high tea. We have had the most amazing donations to go towards this fabulous event! A special thank you to Katsubi – Silverdale for sponsoring our backdrop and Bayleys Hibiscus Coast and Golstruct Homes. With more amazing sponsors to be announced. If your company would like to donate some products or a voucher, please contact the PTA silverdalepta@gamil.com. 

When: Sunday 5 May

Where: Wainui Golf Course function room

Time: 2.00pm – 5.00pm

Cost: Tickets are $60 including high tea, drink on arrival (Prosecco or  juice) and the chance to win our Mothers day hamper

Goodie bags, quick fire raffle and live auction

To purchase your ticket, please email the PTA: silverldalepta@gmail.com or you can purchase a ticket on Kindo, under PTA fundraiser. You can buy a single or multiple tickets. If you wish to book a table of 8, please email the PTA.

New Bell Times for Term 2

After a trial of new bell times during term 1 and feedback from teachers and children we have modified our bell times for term 2 and the rest of the year.

The Blues are launching their annual Boot collection campaign, called Blues Best Foot Forward. This year it will be in collaboration with local charity call ‘Boot IT’.
Silverdale School is taking part and have a collection point at the school office. We will be collecting boots until the 17 May 2024. 

The collected boots will go to children and clubs who need them.  

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