Silverdale School Wellbeing/Hauora Programme

Silverdale School Staff were trained in and ran The Resilience Project for two years.  During this time the staff provided feedback on the programme and helped to shape the programme to fit into the New Zealand context. From 2024 the program was no longer available to New Zealand schools. This provided the opportunity for our kura to use what we learned from the Resilience Project to create our own localised wellbeing programme, Ngākau Manawaroa.

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 Manawaroa consists of explicit lessons which are differentiated across all year levels. Whilst each lesson across the year levels has different content, they are organised in such a way that they are focusing 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. 

The lessons found in Ngākau Manawaroa incorporate our school values of Kindess/Atawhai, Excellence/Hiranga, Respect/Whakaute and Integrity/Ngākau Pono. The lessons are structured so that our Learner Assets are highlighted, enabling teachers to draw students focus to the type of learner asset they are using for a particular task. 

By incorporating our School Values, Learner Assets and Te Ao Māori we have developed a programme which is specific to our kura and is unique to us.