TERM CALENDAR – Put all these dates in your diary or your phone!
Remember to check the school calendar on our website. We will put all updates on Facebook & the website. Link to school calendar: http://www.vogeltown.school.nz/calendar/

TERM 3 (17 July - 22 September)

22 September - Last day of Term 3

TERM 4

9 October - Term 4 begins

13 October - Powhiri for our new learners and whanau

16 October - 1 November - 'Keeping Ourselves Safe' (in conjunction with NP Police)

20 October - Four Year Old Friday - 9:00am to 11:00am

23 October - School closed for Labour Day

27 October - Kapa haka performance at Puanga (held in Waitara)

November

1 November - School Photos

3 November - Whanau Hangi Day (in line with November 5th - Parihaka)

3 November - Four Year Old Friday

6 - 10 November - Vogeltown School Talent Quest auditions

10 November - Whanau Athletics

13 November - Teacher Only Day - Staff involved in Cultural Awareness at Te Whare Hononga

17 November - Vogeltown Talent Quest final

24 November - Vogeltowner Awards

29 November - Starting School the VS way (5.30pm @ Junior School)

December

1 December - Four Year Old Friday

5 December - BOT Meeting

7 December - Cultural Evening (6pm in school hall)

8 December - End of year summative reports come home

8 December - Whanau Tabloids

13 December - Yr 6 Leaving assembly 10.30am

13 December - Yr 6 Leavers evening (6pm)

15 December - Last day of 2023!

Kia ora Vogeltown whānau, welcome to the last newsletter for Term 3, what an amazing term we have had! Despite the cold and wet weather and lots of inside lunchtimes, the tamariki and our kaiako have had a wonderful term. We met as a leadership team yesterday for our 'targeted meeting' and the progress that the majority of our kids have made over this term is outstanding!

Looking back over this term we have:

* Had learning conferences in the first week

* Got Room 1 open for our 18 awesome tamariki and fantastic kaiako

* Had the NPPA sports finals

* LEAD conference for our Class Reps

* Paetoki Speech finals

* Welcomed our 2nd cohort of tamariki

* Celebrated Daffodil Day

* Had a visit from Harold and Life Education

* Had our school Cross Country

* Had our school colour run

* Had our Open Night

* Participated in the New Plymouth and Taranaki Cross Country

* Celebrated 'Wig Wednesday'

* Celebrated 'Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori'

* Participated in the NPPA Music Festival

* Celebrated our Paetoki 'Social Dancing'

And above all, we completed some amazing learning through our 'Whirling Worlds' unit of work!

Next term our topic will be 'The art of narrative'. This is going to be based around our local curriculum here at Vogeltown, involving our Huatoki domain and local environment and the 'arts' (music and drama). It is going to be a great topic and will be developing an area of our curriculum we often do less.

A big thanks to all whanau who gave us some feedback around our strategic plan for 2024. We received 111 responses, and these responses gave us some detail of what our Vogeltown community and whānau want for our school in 2024 and beyond. We have also received feedback from our learners and our staff. We will be meeting with our local iwi next term to discuss how we can incorporate successful learning and teaching for our Maori learners too. We are looking forward to sharing our strategic plan with whānau by the end of the year.

Next term our school roll will hit 400 kids, this will be the first time the Vogeltown School roll has been on 400 in its history! We are thinking of ways we can celebrate this milestone and we will let you know early next term - we envisage a whānau/community event!

A reminder that Term 4 begins on the 9th of October. Until then, have a great holiday break, whānau! Enjoy and optimize the time with your tamariki and get outside and enjoy this warmer weather! We will see you all back here at Vogeltown in 2 weeks!

Nga mihi nui, have a great holiday break, whānau!

Mr O and the VS Team

Yesterday we had 10 runners head down to Hawera to participate in the Taranaki Cross Country event. A big thanks to all the whānau who helped transport and manage our running team.

The team was:

Lewis Zimmermann

Oscar Hurley

Cooper Scott

Ted Cozens

Jackson Cowley

Reggie Rei

Isabel Gernhoefer

Claudia Yukich

Imanii Osborne

Bailey Smith

We had some great results!

Claudia Yukich - 8th place in 10 year old girls

Ted Cozens - 6th place in 10 year old boys

Tino pai to our team - you all ran with courage and enthusiasm!

As with every year, we have changes in staffing and 2023 is no different. We have reluctantly accepted Cam Hedley's resignation for 2024 as Cam and her partner Simon (also a teacher) move to Australia to take up teaching positions.

Although we still have a term to go in the year, we wanted to let all whānau know of Cam's plans in 2024 as we begin to recruit for another awesome kaiako to replace Cam.

In the meantime, Cam will continue to provide the fantastic teaching in Rm 14 she has shown us throughout this year.

Yesterday we celebrated the end of the 'Social dancing' unit of the dance curriculum! We had an awesome dance off and celebrated with our tamariki and whānau - a big thanks to all the whānau who came along!

A big thanks to Mr Ransfield and his awesome team who have managed to make what can be a daunting and anxious time for the kids a happy and engaging time! Ka mau te wehi, whānau!

We had a great evening on Wednesday, celebrating our choir and ukelele team who entertained us, along with 21 other schools and 770 other kids, in the music festival.

Our learners did an amazing job and sang with passion, played with purpose and entertained with excitement! They did all while being watched by an audience of 1600 whānau!

A massive thanks to Ms Pretty and Mrs Lewis who trained our choir and to Mrs Melody who trained our ukelele team - thanks so much team!

A huge thanks to our community for their generous donations to the Foodbank today. The Nguyen family organised this collection and took all your donations to the Foodbank this morning. The Foodbank were absolutely over the moon to receive all the donations at a time when their stocks are very low. Thanks again, whānau!

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If you would like your child to be part of the Weetbix tryathlon in 2024, then please enter below. We have set up a Vogeltown School group entry site to make it easier and even get the race pack delivered to Vogeltown School for your child(ren).

• After you enter the participants details on the entry form, you will be asked if you would like to "join a School Group". Search for your School Group when prompted and click on the group to add the participant to it.
• When joining your School Group we will be notified that you have entered and it will help make our school eligible to win prizes.

The day of this event is Wednesday 27th March 2024.

Use the link below to enter:

We have had a fantastic response to our raffle. We still have quite a few raffle books to come back - please have these ready to return back to school on the first day of Term 4, whether they are sold or unsold we do need them back. Thanks whanau!

Hari Huritau, to these awesome Vogeltowners this week and over the holidays:

GRAY Hunter

CARLEY Noah

WRIGHT Zachary

MASON Bodhi

ARDIANTA Aubree

DONNELLY Pearce

DUCKETT Siena

ANDERSON Alexis

NGUYEN Claude

DALLEG Keiran

MCDONALD Lukah

BREWER Aubrey

TAYLOR Aila

HIYAMA Cocone

PAYNE-CRAIGIE Fraya

We hope you all had, or will be having, a great birthday! From all the VS whānau!

OUT OF ZONE ENROLMENTS 2024:

Enrolment at Vogeltown School is governed by an enrolment scheme, details of which are available from the school office or from our website.

Next year there will be two enrolment periods.

The first enrolment period will run from 30 January 2024 to 12 April 2024.

The second enrolment period will run from 29 April 2024 to 5 July 2024.

The Board has determined that 0 places are likely to be available for out of zone students turning 5 in the first enrolment period. The Board will determine how many places are likely to be available for out of zone students turning 5 for the second enrolment period by Wednesday 14th February 2024. The exact number of places will depend on the number of enrolments received from students who live within the school's home zone.

For students seeking enrolment within the second enrolment period, the deadline for receipt of out of zone places is Friday 23rd February 2024. Application for enrolment for an out of zone student is made by completing an out of zone application form (available from the school office and from our website). Applications can be sent via email to office@vogeltown.school.nz or delivered directly to the school office.

Parents and whanau who live in the home zone and intend enrolling their child for 2024 should apply by Friday 6th October 2023 to assist the school to plan effectively for the 2024 school year.

For the second enrolment period, if the number of out of zone applications exceeds the places available, students will be selected by ballot in accordance with instructions detailed in the enrolment scheme. If a ballot is required, it will be held on Monday 26th February 2024. Parents and whanau will be informed of the outcome of the ballot on Tuesday 27th February 2024.

Vogeltown School Board of Trustees

Stay safe and be kind to each other. Thank you for the ongoing support of Vogeltown School, we appreciate the community we live in. Hopefully our All Blacks take out the game this weekend!f

Up the wahs!

On behalf of the Vogeltown team,

Ka kite ano

Jeremy Ogle - Principal/Tumuaki

Email: office@vogeltown.school.nz
Website: www.vogeltown.school.nz
Location: Vogeltown School Huatoki Street, Vogeltown, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Phone: (06) 753 6843