Wednesday 10 February Silverdale School Newsletter

Wednesday 10 February 2021

Welcome Back

Welcome back everyone who is returning to Silverdale School. A HUGE welcome to our new families. It was great to see so many happy faces coming into school on Tuesday. Please contact your child’s teacher if you have any concerns. 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. 

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 new 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.

Welcome 

Welcome to our new staff:

Mrs Jenny Blick – Room 38

Mrs Becky Jeune – Room 2

Welcome

Welcome to Bella Zhong, Jackson Wallace, Aiden Anderson, Polly Xuan, Jackson Kennedy, Nicholas Harkins, Adam Nguyen, Mia McKeown, Stevie Holland, Sammy Grace, Alissa Coetzee, Layle Lalin, Jackson Liddle, Honour Macky, Max Clay, Joy Pang, Kari Du Preez, Vena Yu, Jacob Watkins, Max Hastings, Te Omeka Bain, Oliver Bowern, Christopher Patton, Fuzion Stevens, Summer De Los Reyes, James Liu, Alex Stevens, Alice Bowater, Austin Yan, Alexander Davis, Livi Peyper, Ali Aboutaleb Lucy Wang, Lyvia Dai, Charlotte Brown, Ryan Campion, Ethan Bantjes, Leanne Cilliers, Aidan Maylard, Eli Bruu, Sienna Dodson, CeCe Faraj, John Du Preez, Anna Xia, Xiante Pretorius, Sophie Collins, Mishti Uniyal, Archie Fletcher, Elsie Taiapa, William Gray, Bela Nair, Sophia Nair, Maggie Derriman, Louie Cox, Deacon Barnard, Ashley Page, Cory Allen, Sofia Brown, Ericko Uy, Nathan Cilliers, Amelia Sievers, Seth Connell, Kaitlin Page, Xane Pretorius, Liam Peyper, Michael Osborne, Nathan Bantjes, Piper Dodson, Laurence Mallinder and Arthur Kelly.

Our current roll is 800 students.

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday to Noah Peters, Kyla Kettle-Williams, Ruby Mafi, Tipa Alefaio, Max Briant, Josiah Toka, Clare Liu, Shawn Wang, Maggie Derriman, Anqi Yu, Mason Lusher, Jessie Cai and James Collins.

PTA 

At the start of each year our PTA has an AGM to establish the committee and key roles for the year.

This AGM will be on Wednesday 17 February at 7pm in the school staff room.

The PTA will be appointing the following roles

Chairperson 

Secretary 

Treasurer 

If you have any interest in one of these roles please contact the PTA, silverdalepta@gmail.com and they will be happy to discuss what’s involved with you further prior to the meeting.

Car Parking

There is no parent parking on the school site,  an option during drop off and pick up is to park away from the school and walk to school, a great way of building you and your child’s fitness and help reduce the carbon footprint at the same time.

The drop off zone that borders the sloping bank will be a ‘manned’ stop, drop and go area from 8.30am to 8.55am and again from 3.00pm to 3.15pm. In the morning our car park hosts will greet your vehicle and, if necessary, escort your youngsters to their classes. These students and staff will be wearing High-viz jackets. This means you will be able to stop, drop and go in a minimum of time. You do not need to get out of your car. In the afternoon your children will wait for you on the bank to be retrieved. The teacher on duty will pop your child in your vehicle and you can quickly depart. Again you do not need to get out of your car.

Our mobility car parks are in operation in both carparks, so please ensure that these are used only for the purpose they were designed.  Unless you have a mobility card and the card holder is in the car then the spaces must be kept clear.

Pick Up and Drop Off

With our increasing roll we are experiencing more and more cars coming into school to pick up and drop off children. Ideally we would like less cars coming into school. You can help with this by parking at Metro Park and walking into school for pick ups and drop offs. The first car park at Metro Park is 400m away which is about a 5 minutes walk, a great way to start the day. 

If you are coming into school then please see below maps of the correct way to use the car park on school grounds. 

In particular the Stop, Drop and Go there is no parking between 8.00am and 9.00am, and 2.45pm and 3.15pm. If you park in the stop, drop and go this causes congestion for people trying to pick up their children early from kindy or school and for anyone else trying to get into school. Once the school buses arrive and our parents are waiting in the Stop, Drop and Go area for school to finish and this blocks any traffic from coming into school. 

We ask that you not park in the Stop, Drop and Go area until after 2.45pm. This will help the flow of traffic arriving and leaving the school. 

Thank you to everyone who is following the rules, it does make a difference.

A couple of reminders:

1. Both car parks are for staff cars only, please do not park in any of the carparks.
2. No parking in the stop, drop and go area until after 2.45pm.
3. At stop, drop and go please do not get out of your car.

Dental Clinic Parking

A reminder to parents that you must not use the dental clinic car park to drop off or pick up children, thanks for your cooperation in this.

 

Hats 

Please make sure that your child has their school hat at school. The wearing of the school hat is compulsory during term 1. Children not wearing a school hat will have to sit in a shaded area during play and lunch times.

Getting to and from School

If your child/ren are walking/biking/scootering to or from school can you please go over with them how to do this safety. Over the past few weeks we have had a number of reports of our children not being very safe when they are walking/biking/scootering to or from school. Below are some general tips.

How to stay safe when walking

• Use pedestrian crossings or cross at traffic signals.
• Stop and check at every driveway.
• Walk on the footpath, close to the houses and away from the road.
• Hold hands if walking with a young child near roads or in carparks.

Crossing the road, when there’s no pedestrian crossing

• be patient and cross the road only when it’s safe to do so (it takes time for a vehicle to stop)
• then use the kerb drill:

1. Stop one step back from the kerb.
2. Look and listen for traffic coming from all directions.
3. If there is traffic coming, wait until it has passed and then look and listen for traffic again.
4. If there is no traffic coming, walk quickly straight across the road.
5. While crossing, look and listen for traffic, wherever it may come from.

When using a pedestrian crossing

• Use official crossings where possible – in fact, if you’re within 20 metres of a pedestrian crossing, the law requires you to use it.
• Check that approaching vehicles have seen you and can stop before you step out.
• Cross as quickly as you are able.
• For crossings with signals, only cross when the green person or message shows.

School Donations

Our school donation is $200 per child. This money was used to pay for a large number of additional curriculum resources, subsidise a number of school wide activities such as swimming, production, art, dance and drama resources, sporting functions, developmental material and related photocopying and other essential resources.  No child was excluded from using these resources but it does seem that quite a number of families relied on the goodwill of others to support their child.

Each term the BOT puts all the names of those donations that have been made into a draw to give one child the chance to have their fees paid for the following term. The families that have received these in the past have been very grateful. We understand that a donation is voluntary and that it can be at times very difficult to manage. Mrs Reid in the office, is very happy to discuss possible arrangements for meeting this cost for your child.  Each small contribution adds up across the course of time and helps to enhance the substance of this school.   

A huge thank you to all those families who paid their donation last year.

Newsletters  

Newsletters will be sent home each Wednesday. We will be emailing newsletters to each family.  If you wish to have a paper copy please let your child’s teacher know. If your email address has changed from last year please send us your new email address so we can update our records. 

 2021 Term Dates

Term	Start	Finish
Term 1		Friday 16 April
Term 2	Monday 3 May	Friday 9 July
Term 3	Monday 27 July	Friday 1 October
Term 4	Monday 18 October	Monday 20 December

 

Blues Rugby

Join the Blues whanau and their southern rivals, the Crusaders, for a pre-season re-match at New Zealand’s first dedicated summer rugby festival, the Blues Footy Fest!

Fans are encouraged to bring the whole whanau and arrive well before the 3.35pm kick off (gates open at 1pm) so they can enjoy the Kids Zone, live local music, food trucks, garden bar, marketplace and much more, whilst supporting community charities and businesses.

A portion of ticket sales from the Blues Footy Fest will be donated to children’s charities;  I Have a Dream Charitable Trust and KidsCan.

Supporters who buy a ticket to the Blues Footy Fest will also have the opportunity to gift a $9 ticket to the Graeme Dingle Foundation, who will invite deserving young Aucklanders to share in the festival celebrations who would not otherwise have had the opportunity to attend.

Tickets available from TicketMaster at the family friendly price of $20 per adult. Kids go free with a paying GA adult ticket.

 You are. I am. We are. The Blues.

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