Welcome
Welcome to Jasper Fang and Easton Page who started with us this week. Our current roll is 814.
Happy Birthday
Happy birthday to Nicholas Basson, Osborn Tian, Jordan Rossiter, Olivia Tian, Hannah Shaw, Reynard Van Rooyen, Alex Baker, Elithaf Melladi, Emily Wang, Josh Johansen, Akira Douglas, Jaxon Sung, Oliver Mackintosh, Maggie Huang, Chloe Langmore, Bryan Huy, Isla Bigwood, Julie Huang, Kabir Anand, Brady Walton and Jasmin Brown.
Learning Conservations – Wednesday 15 June and Thursday 16 June
The learning conversations are three-way conferences with the teacher, child and parent. Three-way conferences take the form of a conversation between the child, the parents and the teacher as they sit together and talk about the child’s learning, with the child taking an equal role. This approach give children an opportunity to share with their parents their growth as a learner. The three-way conferences are designed to achieve one or more of the following goals:
- to help children demonstrate evidence of learning,
- to teach children the process of reflection and self-evaluation,
- to facilitate the development of child’s organisational and oral communication skills and to increase their self-confidence,
- to encourage children, parents, and teachers to engage in open and honest dialogue,
- to encourage children to accept personal responsibility for their learning.
Times for Learning Conversations are:
Wednesday 15 June 12:30pm – 5:30pm and Thursday 16 June 3:15pm – 6:00pm
On Wednesday 16 June the school will close at 12.00pm, can you please collect your child at this time this is only for Wednesday 15 June.The Stillwater bus will be running the normal time on Wednesday.
Each learning conversation session lasts for 15 minutes.
To make an interview booking go to www.schoolinterviews.co.nz. The school code is vvn5b
School Closing Early on Wednesday 15 June
School will be closing early on Wednesday 15 June for Learning Conservations at 12.00pm please arrange for your children to be picked up at 12.00pm on Wednesday. Thank you.
Mid Year Reports
We are now ready to share your child’s Mid-Year Achievement and Progress Report with you on Friday 10 June. This will be emailed to you directly from SchoolTalk.
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has had a profound impact on all New Zealand kura. Schools in Auckland have been particularly affected due to numerous cases and extensive lockdowns. It has been uplifting to have our tamariki back in school, busy learning and engaging with their teacher and peers for the last 16 weeks. Teachers have been attending to student’s well being and our tamariki are thriving with face to face teaching.
At Silverdale School we use real time reporting through the use of Schootalk, where progressions are marked off as content is taught and when children have achieved them. The reduced time in classrooms for children over the last few years has meant that there have been less opportunities for teachers to teach, observe progress and mark off progressions. For this reason some children may not have made the academic progress that would be expected over this time.
When looking at your child’s report you may find that there are specific areas on SchoolTalk where it appears your child is below the expected level, or has made no or limited progress, e.g. Geometry. However, rather than indicating that your child is struggling in this area, it may simply be due to this content not being taught in class yet. The upcoming Learning Conversations next week will be the perfect opportunity for you to discuss this further with your child’s teacher.
This report gives a snapshot of where your child is currently at. It will show a graph of achievement outlining how your child is progressing against each of the New Zealand Curriculum expectations for Reading, Writing and Mathematics and three next steps that your child will be working towards.
In conjunction with this report we will be holding learning conversations on Wednesday 15 June and Thursday 16 June.
How to read your child’s Mid-Year Achievement Report?
Reading, Writing and Mathematics Reporting
The report shows you how your child is achieving against each of the areas of Reading, Writing and Mathematics. The achievement snapshot can be broken into three parts:
- The first graph shows your child’s achievement on a continuum of working towards the expected level (yellow), working within or working above the expected level (green). As your child moves through the school it will track their progress across each year level. This is displayed by the white dots and the connecting blue line. Please note that the year level at the bottom of the graph indicates the end of that year level.
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