Wednesday 5 May Silverdale School Newsletter

Wednesday 5 May 2021

Kia ora, Talofa, Malo e leleli, Kia orana, Fakalofa lahi Atu, Taloha Ni, Ni sa bula, 你好, Namaste, 안녕하세요, Hola. 

Welcome Back

Welcome everyone to Term 2. A HUGE welcome to our new families. It was great to see so many happy faces coming into school on Monday for our Põhiri. 

If you have any concerns or questions about what is happening at school please contact your child’s teacher. 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. 

Mother’s Morning or Significant Females

Mother’s Morning or Significant Females morning is on Thursday 13 May from 8.55am to 10.30am. All mothers or significant females are invited to their child’s classroom to spend the morning with them. At 10.55am our Mother’s or Significant Females are invited to stay with the class and share morning tea with the class.

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 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:

Kate Friedwald – Monday, Tuesday, Room 18

Mrs Steph Kennedy – Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Room 18

Mrs Leanne Tarrant – Room 9

Welcome 

Welcome to Haru Lee, Angela Yin, Becky Yin, Kayla Ross, James Campion, Evelina Mikaelian, Eli Connell, Emily Hay, Brayden Huang, Jeffrey Pang, Sophia Albert, Amari Randeni, Aedan Randeni, Max McCollum, Zayn Flewellen, Fiona Hu, Wolfe Morales, Islay Nicole, Xandez Walsh, Henry Sandler and Andrew Change.

Our current roll is 824.

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday to Lazar Zikic, Danica Haywood, Lara Ridgway, Anaru Meadows, Seth Minnaar, Kaylie Du Preez, Tatum Harris, Piper Dodson, Jessica Gu, Salma Aboutaleb, Johanna Sayo, Amanda Zhao, Emma Chambers, Yi Ding, Sienna Dodson and Apolosi Vaea.

Book Week

Book Week will be taking place this term during Week 3, Monday 17 May to Friday 21 May. The Scholastic Book Fair will be held in the meeting room inside the library from Monday to Thursday. Please come in that week and look at the range of books and other items available for sale. Details of the times it will be open are below and will also be on notices around the school. 

On Friday 21 May we will finish off Book Week with our traditional Book Character Parade in the hall. Students take part in a parade dressed up as a favourite book character. All are welcome to attend.

For the Year 0-2 classes the Book Character Parade will take place in the hall at 9.10am.

For the Year 3-4 classes the Book Character Parade will take place in the hall at 10.10am. 

For the Year 5-6 classes the Book Character Parade will take place in the hall at 11.30am.

There will be other fun activities happening in classes during the week.

If you have any questions please contact your child’s teacher.

ANZAC Day Parade

Thank you to everyone who came along to the ANZAC Day parade during the holidays.

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.

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 safely. 

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.

2021 Term Dates

Mother’s Day hamper – $5 per ticket via Kindo.  Close off is the 7 May at 5pm.  The winner will be contacted on Saturday 8 May. 

Hamper includes the following:
– 45 min massage from Invive
– Matt Turtle sunglasses from Buckle & Bow
– Laser Honey sneakers generously donated from Buckle & Bow
– $35 Gift Voucher to Millie’s Cafe
– Cord Sherpa Stitch Throw from Hello Darling
– 1x bottle of Miontetto Prosecco and 1x bottle of Clearview Sauv Blanc from Millwater Fine Wines & Spirits

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