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What’s been happening at Silverdale School? Global Running Day with Dame Valerie Adams On Wednesday 6 June, on a very wet and muddy afternoon, the students from Silverdale School participated in Global Running Day. We were fortunate to have Dame Valerie Adams at our school to start the race. She also gave us an interview on how she shows excellence, which is one of our school values. Her advice was to set goals, rise to a challenge, strive for excellence and enjoy what you do. Valerie is such a great role model and we loved having her visit Silverdale School. Book Week Monday 11 June, Silverdale School was involved in Book Week, which was kicked off with a book character parade. During the parade, class after class walked up onto the stage with students dressed up as their favourite book character. These costumes were fantastic and represented a range of characters from Star Wars heroes to wacky goblins. The differences between the costumes was the key to this great book parade. Some of the characters even showed off their awesome dance moves on stage. The children all really enjoyed getting into character. New playgrounds Our old playgrounds are being upgraded to look better and to be safer. All the old bark has been taken away and replaced with spongy, foam matting. We have added bright signs that have our Silverdale School logo, our vision ‘Learn to Journey
- Journey to Learn/ Ako Ki te Haere - Haere Ki te Ako,’’ and our school values which are kindness / atawhai, respect / whakaute, excellence / hiranga and integrity / ngākau pono. Another exciting event is that we have just started building a brand new playground for our Pukeko team. We can’t wait till it’s finished to see what it looks like. It will be so much fun! By Alex and Alex Photo credit - Megan Catterall
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