Newsletter – Wednesday 20 September
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.
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Welcome
Welcome to Yiqing Liu, Yihan Liu, Kingi Subritzky, Panhaboth Meng and Panhavatey Meng who have started at our school. Our current roll is 833.
Thank you
Thank you to everyone who has helped our school in any way this term. Your help and support is really appreciated by everyone here at school. We have strong community support for our school and we are very lucky to have this. Don’t forget that Country Show Day is on Saturday 28 October and early next term we’ll be asking for class volunteers to help supervise Country Show Day stalls. We will be asking for just an hour of your time on Saturday 28 October, so don’t forget to sign up for that next term.
Term 4
Term 4 starts on Monday 9 October and finishes on Tuesday 19 December.
Kids Sing 2023
Last week we took a group of children to Kids Sing in Auckland. They represented our school and themselves extremely well. We are all very proud of them. A massive thank you to Mrs Corli Husselmann who has been leading the choir all year. The commitment she has shown to our choir is fabulous as is the commitment of the children in the choir. The choir did so well and really showed their KERI values showing respect whilst listening to all other choirs.
Thank you to all our supporters who came along.
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Happy Birthday
Happy birthday to Zoe Grobler, Lila Benjamin, Zac Adams, Brodie Easton, Chloe Chui, Teagan Bouwer, Cruz Bloom, Rachel Niu, Rhea Shah, Allegra Olivier, Leandra Han, Harry Glatt, Ella Bogue, Emily Yi, Xuan Zhang, Ishaan Patel, Alston Ma, Violet Emery, Caden Huang, Emery Fan, Zylah Menehira, Ethan Bantjes, Alexa Gouws, Harlem Brahne, Yino Dong, Ethan Hefer, Bodhi Turck, Kaleb McPherson, Ezekiel Marsh, Audrey Shen, Alexander Kotze, Addison Grantham, Jainil Patel, James Gee, Rainny Niu, Harper Jiang, Nehru Harmes, Denis Rotko, Mia Southgat, Billie Holmes, Nihith Sureddygari, Chloe Pescott, Zac Guan, Summer Torbet, Byron Terhart, Jaxon Terhart, Oliver Henderson, Finnlay Everett, Lucy Cechova, Ruhab Muhammad, Troy Grapendaal and August Shaw.
Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori / Māori Language Week 2023
Last week we celebrated Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori / Māori Language Week 2023, everyone got involved and we had a fantastic week celebrating, speaking and understanding Te Reo Māori. I’m so very proud of our school/kura, teachers/kaiako and children/tamariki who fully embrace Te ao Māori within the school not just last week but throughout the year.
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Help shape the future of our school.
Thank you to the 108 people that completed the survey. Now that I have the data I will spend the holidays analysing the trends and will be sharing with our community the results.
Congratulations to
- Rebecca Adams
- Alice Zhou
- Jalynne Lee
- Geoff Thompsom
- Kevin Kanji
who were the winners of a $20 Millies voucher for completing the survey.
What’s Next?
We will be hosting face to face meetings/hui to discuss our draft 2024-2025 strategic plan. The meetings will be a mix of before school, after school, evenings and during the school day. The face to face meetings will be held in the new classroom Room 43, the ground floor classroom closest to gate 2. Everyone is welcome to attend, tea and coffee will be provided.
Before school meeting dates 8.30am-9.00am:
Wednesday 25 October
Thursday 26 October
Monday 30 October
Tuesday 31 October
After school meeting dates 2.30pm-3.00pm:
Monday 30 October
Tuesday 31 October
Tuesday 7 November
Evening meeting dates 5.30pm-6.00pm:
Wednesday 1 November
Thursday 2 November
Tuesday 7 November
During the school day meeting dates 11.00am-11.30am:
Tuesday 31 October
Wednesday 1 November
Tuesday 7 November
1.00pm-1.30pm:
Tuesday 31 October
Wednesday 1 November
Tuesday 7 November
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Edgewater College Concert
Thursday last week we were entertained by Edgewater College. They bought their Jazz Band, Choirs and soloists to our school for a very entertaining concert. The children and staff were blown away by the performance and felt like they were at a real concert.
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Mental Health Awareness Week
Mental Health Awareness Week is being held this week. Here is the link to their great website. In 2023, Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) will be held on18 September to 24 September.
MHAW is run annually by the Mental Health Foundation and has been since 1993. MHAW is endorsed by the World Federation for Mental Health and is marked in over 150 countries at different times of the year.
This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week theme is Five Ways, Five Days. Life has been a rollercoaster lately, with stress and overwhelm hitting us from all angles. We’ve faced uncertainty, unfamiliarity, and hardships that have left us with mixed emotions. That’s why we’re bringing you the Five Ways for the Five Days of MHAW, to give us a set of proven tools to boost our mental health when we need it.
Mā te whakarongo, ka mōhio
through listening, comes knowledge
Mā te mōhio, ka mārama,
through knowledge, comes understanding
Mā te mārama, ka matau,
through understanding, comes wisdom
Mā te matau, ka ora
through wisdom, comes wellbeing
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Cross Country Interschools
The weather was not in our side for the scheduled event but a week later, the sun was shining and the students took to the event with all their heart and soul.
All children who participated set personal best times and came out triumphant with Josh Johansen and Gemma Dunn both taking out third in their individual events. I was very proud of the year 5 and 6’s who were resilient throughout the whole day with many competing in the individual and relay races. Can’t wait to see what next year brings. A big thank you to all our parents who drive us to and from the event.
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Go Car Free on Friday 22 September!
Walk, scoot, bike, run, skip or dance to school on Friday – this movement helps our planet and our health and wellbeing. All students who come to school ‘car free’ on Friday can come to the courts to sign our Silverdale Car Free Day banner. Let’s see how many signatures we can get!
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We have lots of programmes and activities locally and across New Zealand on our Linku2 School Holidays website for the upcoming holidays,
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