Silverstream School Timeline 1924 - 2024

Timeline     Silverstream School
1924           School opened 02 July 1924
1924           School building two rooms with office
1924           Miss Cuddy teacher
1924           Mrs Maud Annie Rendell teacher assistant
1924           Miss Dulcie Evelyn Matthews (1924-1935)
1925           Tree planting Blue gums, Totara & Birch later Pohutukawa
1925           Silverstream school boy alerts train driver about log on railway line
1925           School roll over 80 pupils
1925           Albert Mouat head prefect (Dux)
1925           Reginald Langdon assistant prefect
1925           Kathleen Cross assistant prefect
1926           Additional classroom for school built
1926           Flagpole erected in school grounds 18 October 1926
1926           Miss Mary Shallcrass teacher (1926-1937)
1927           School closed mark visit Duke & Duchess of York 39 pupils went to Wellington
1927           Dux Board donated by the school committee.
1928           Dux 
1929           School picnic Days Bay March 1929
1929           Dux
1933           Dux N. Castle
1937           School pupils receive Coronations Medals (Kings Birthday June)
1938           Dux Athol Webley
1939           Dux L. Jordan
1940           Dux A.N. August
1941           Dux C.H. Newson
1942           Dux Marion E. Blair
1943           Dux John E. Ritson
1944           Nola Kenny girls’ sports champion
1944           Bernard Bucknell boys’ sports champion
1944           Dux L.N. Cox
1945           Dux Yvonne M. Kurth
1946           Dux Maurice J. Wellman
1947           Dux D.D. Robertson
1947           Pat Ferris sports champion
1947           Noel Harlen sports champion
1948           Dux N.B. Stevens
1949           Dux K.R. Millar
1950           Dux Graham R. Duncan
1950           Dorothy Cotton girls’ sports champion
1951           Dorothy Cotton girls’ sports champion
1951           Dux F.C. Cotton
1952           Alan Blundell sports champion
1952           Josephine Hodson sports champion
1952           Dux R.P. Bell
1953           Royal tour medals presented to school pupils
1953           Dux R.A. Collins
1954           Dux T.Collins and J.P. Wright
1955           Dux L. Castle
1956           Dux D Isaacs and B McKenzie
1957           Terence Morgan best boy
1957           Heather Ritzema best girl
 
Other awards
Time line    Silverstream School
1925           Albert Mouat head prefect September
1925           Reginald Langdon assistant prefect September
1925           Kathleen Cross assistant prefect September
1944           Nola Kenny girls’ sports champion
1944           Bernard Bucknell boys’ sports champion
1947           Pat Ferris sports champion
1947           Noel Harlen sports champion
1950           Dorothy Cotton girls’ sports champion
1951           Dorothy Cotton girls’ sports champion
1952           Alan Blundell sports champion
1952           Josephine Hodson sports champion
1957           Terence Morgan best boy
1957           Heather Ritzema best girl

Pam Crone Award for Highest Achieving Boy and Girl

House Group Captains

Our current house groups were established in 2014. There has previously been house groups at Silverstream School but had fallen out of usage by 1969. The original house groups were called Wakefield, Selwyn, Grey and Hobson.

Our more recent house groups dating from 2014 to the present day are:
Chatsworth - Rōpū Kikorangi/Kahurangi (blue)
Whitemans - Rōpū Kōwhai (yellow)
Gloucester - Rōpū Karaka (orange)
Gard - Rōpū Kākāriki (green)

School Heads/Principals

1925           James Philip Francis Fanning (1925 - 1927)
1927           Charles Arthur Eves (1927-1930)
1930s         John Rider (Jack) Lamason
1930s         John Redmond
1940           Arthur Huia Horsman Fryer-Raisher (1940-1941)
1942           Stephen Joseph McDonnell (1942-1945)
1945           Arthur Grenville Stephen (Jonne) Jonathan (1945-1959)
1959           Alexander Malcolm Matheson (1959 - 1962)
1962           Leslie Roberts Souniss (1962- 1965)
1966           Charles (Chas) Keys (1966-1972)  Ellice Keys - Infant mistress (1966-1972)
1972           George Napier (1972-1977)
1977           Lyn Underhill (1977 - 1989)
Boards of Trustees Established 1989
1990           Maureen Scott (1990 - 2002)
2003           Greg Mercer (2003 - 2005)
2006           Peter Gunn (2006- 2008)
2009           Mary Ely (2009-2016)
2017           Lisa Cavanagh (2017-2020)
2021           Lorraine Taylor-Tams (2021- present)