Newsletter – Wednesday 7 August

Newsletter – Wednesday 7 August

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. 

Welcome

Welcome to Jacob Southgate and Juliette McGregor who started with us this week. Our current roll is 771.

Happy Birthday
Happy birthday to Aarav Vani, Noah Haycock, John-Henry Bronkhorst, Mia Mackesy, Jaiden Farnhill, Angela Gu, Oliver Louden, Victoria Fletcher, Ailin Ramazan, Ari Patel, Claudia Fenev, Indiana Rithivy, Florence Nguyen, Sophia Lyon, Eunice Masikip and Isaac Hart.

Team Pūkeko Whero Art Exhibition Whānau Open Day

Team Pūkeko Whero is excited to invite our whānau to come in and view our student artworks displayed in a special art exhibition. These artworks are part of a performance task to show their learning around creativity over the first half of the year.

What: Art Exhibition to celebrate our students’ creations

Where: Room 31/33 (Far end of the kura on the ground floor)

When: Open on Thursday 22 August from 8:30am to 4.00pm for whānau to freely come and view the artworks with their tamariki.

Please note: 

Between 9:15am and 3pm you may come directly to your child’s class, sign in there, and take your child through the exhibit, returning them to class when you are done. You will need to ensure that the teacher is made aware before you take your child and when you return them to class. Students must remain onsite at this time, going directly to and from the exhibition.

Sickness

During the winter months we have a lot of sickness going around the school. This sickness affects children and staff. Please make sure that if your child feels unwell or sick please don’t send them to school. At times during the term we find it hard to find reliever teachers to cover classes when our teachers are sick. When we have staff members away for an extended period of time due to sickness, we try our best to get the same reliever for the class but sometimes this is not possible, this is not ideal but this is something that is out of our control.

KERI Ambassadors 

All children at Silverdale School are using our school values of Kindness, Excellence, Integrity and Respect to solve minor problems involving conflict. As well as running the Cool School programme in our classrooms we have a group of specially trained Year 5 and 6 students who will be acting as KERI ambassadors. Our KERI ambassadors will be mediating minor conflicts between students during playtime and lunchtime, supporting them to use their conflict resolution skills to solve their problems.

Cool Schools Programme aims:

“Conflict is a part of everyday life; it’s how you deal with it that makes the difference.”

The Cool Schools Programme aims:

* to raise awareness of conflict and conflict responses.

* to develop empathy so that individuals listen to each other with understanding.

* to teach lifelong conflict management skills.

* to develop leadership in giving service to others through peer mediation.

* to empower individuals in making positive choices for building successful relationships.

* to grow respectful, global citizens who value diversity and human rights.

Kapa Haka

Last week some of our kapa haka group went to Kingsway Kindy to perform.

Principal Awards

Congratulations to our students who received principal awards at our last assembly.

Growth Mindset v Fixed Mindset

Mindset is a simple idea discovered by world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck in decades of research on achievement and success.

In a fixed mindset, people believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits. They spend their time documenting their intelligence or talent instead of developing them. They also believe that talent alone creates success, without effort. They’re wrong.

In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work; brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment. Virtually all great people have had these qualities.

Mindsets are beliefs, beliefs about yourself and your most basic qualities. Think about your intelligence, your talents, your personality. Are these qualities simply fixed traits, carved in stone and that’s that? Or are they things you can cultivate throughout your life?

People with a fixed mindset believe that their traits are just givens. They have a certain amount of brains and talent and nothing can change that. If they have a lot, they’re all set, but if they don’t… So people in this mindset worry about their traits and how adequate they are. They have something to prove to themselves and others.

People with a growth mindset, on the other hand, see their qualities as things that can be developed through their dedication and effort. Sure they’re happy if they’re brainy or talented, but that’s just the starting point. They understand that no one has ever accomplished great things—not Mozart, Darwin, or Lorde, without years of passionate practice and learning.

Travelwise Tuesdays – it’s back!

Travelwise Tuesdays is a schoolwide competition to encourage students to come to school using active modes of transport.  For example, students can scoot, walk, bike, or skate to school.  

Travelwise Leaders will collect the data from each class on Wednesdays. The winning class each term will receive a milo morning to congratulate them for their efforts.

Well done to our Term 2 winners – Rm 26!

Our goal is to promote fitness and fun when travelling to school as well as caring about the environment.

You will be able to purchase your child’s calendar art on the Kids Art website. This is a PTA fundraiser, our funding for 2024. This afternoon teachers will send home a printed letter with your child’s code and instructions on how to purchase the products. 

Purchases can only be made from Wednesday 31 July till Thursday 15 August. 

Available for purchase this year are calendars, notebooks, greeting cards, a mouse pad, diaries and a range of pens.

Once logged in you will have the option to either use your child’s artwork or load up a photo of your choosing. Any further questions please contact silverdalepta@gmail.com or jackieboyd@silverdaleprimary.school.nz

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