Teacher Only Day – Thursday 6 April
Our school will be closed on Thursday 6 April for a teacher only day where our staff will be completing professional development for the day.
Grandparents Morning/Special Person Morning
Grandparents/Special Person morning is on Friday 31 March from 8.55am to 10.55am. All grandparents/special persons are invited to their grandchildren’s classroom to spend a morning with them. At 10.55am our grandparents/special persons are invited to stay with the class and share morning tea with the class.
Welcome
Welcome to Chloe Holton, Phoenix Cole, Max Wen, Gareth Murisa and Sereen Umar who started with us. Our roll is 755.
Happy Birthday
Happy birthday to Abby Weakley, Daniela Greco, Thea Li, Chloe Liu, Lola Tongiahoe, Aidan Basil, Sophie Cornelius, Alex Wait, Freya Melville, Mia Uys, James Best, Andre Jex, Beckett Parker, Alexander Eade, Mason Collier, Molly Wiles, Ryder Hodgkiss and Tristan Tipace.
Silverdale School Cyber Safety Hub
We are delighted to introduce you to this resource made available to you through our partnership with Family Zone – our school Cyber Safety Hub.
The purpose of the Cyber Safety Hub is to provide you with practical guidance and information to further support you in engaging with your children in their digital development. These tools and resources also allow the school and parent body to work together on creating a holistic approach to guiding each student’s online journey.
You can access the Cyber Safety Hub using the link below:
https://silverdaleprimary.cybersafetyhub.nz/
or from our website
https://www.silverdaleprimary.school.nz/parent-cyber-safety-hub/
About the Parent Cyber Safety Hub
The Cyber Safety Hub provides expert advice from leading cyber experts, ySafe, on the most pertinent issues and frequently asked questions around platforms like TikTok, Fortnite, Instagram, and more. There are app reviews with age and safety recommendations, along with a range of guides to help ensure healthy boundaries around screen-time and gaming, plus step-by-step instructions for using parental controls and filtering out inappropriate content.
We are very excited to be able to offer you this level of expertise and support in an area that we know has been challenging for many parents to manage. We look forward to working closely with you as we develop the cyber safety conversation within our school community.
Scooters and Bikes
Please remind your children that if they ride their scooters or bikes to school, they must walk them on school grounds and they must wear a helmet. Please also talk with them about riding their scooter or bike safety on the footpath before and after school. We have had a number of complaints that children are weaving in and out of people walking on the footpath.
Sit Less, Move More, Sleep Well Physical Activity Guidelines for Children and Young People
For school-aged children and young people (aged 5 to 17 years) high levels of physical activity, low levels of sedentary behaviour and sufficient sleep each day achieves greater health benefits.
A healthy 24 hours includes:
- quality uninterrupted sleep of 9 to 11 hours per night for those aged 5 to 13 years and 8 to 10 hours per night for those aged 14 to 17 years, with consistent bed and wake-up times.
- an accumulation of at least one hour a day of moderate to vigorous physical activity (incorporate vigorous physical activities and activities that strengthen muscles and bones, at least three days a week).
- no more than two hours per day of recreational screen time.
- for the remainder of the day:
- sitting less, moving more – break up sitting time.
- participating in structured and unstructured light physical activities.
Preserving sleep, trading indoor time for outdoor time, and replacing sedentary behaviours and light physical activity with additional moderate to vigorous physical activity can provide greater health benefits.
P.E.A.K.S (Participation, Effort, Action, Knowledge, Skills)
P.E.A.K.S (Participation, Effort, Action, Knowledge, Skills) is our home learning programme where we celebrate the effort and commitment of students who take on a challenge and complete it in their own time. It enables us the chance to recognise the depth and wealth of learning opportunities students engage in in their leisure time.
Each team offers slightly different challenges they can engage in and there is also the opportunity to design their own challenge.
Each year level has a set number of challenges to achieve in the year. Those that complete these will be awarded a trophy at the end of the year in recognition of their efforts.
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