Kia ora Vogeltown whānau, welcome to the newsletter for Week 9 of Term 3. We have had another busy week of learning and fun! We have one more week till the end of this term and then everyone will be ready for a term break and rest - everyone has certainly deserved it after this busy term!
We have been acknowledging a few celebrations this week with Te reo o wiki maori (Maori language week), Wig Wednesday (for child cancer foundation) and the Fresh Air Challenge! It is great to support these areas of our community. We raised $340 for Wig Wednesday - a massive thanks from everyone here at Vogeltown, Ka mau te wehi whanau!
On Tuesday night all of our staff went for a walk around the classrooms in the school and acknowledged (written and orally) how great our classrooms look and celebrate our learners work. One of our 4 teaching beliefs is 'celebrate student creativity in a quality room' and we are so lucky to have this at Vogeltown. A massive thanks to all our teachers who spend hours making their classrooms inviting and safe for our Vogeltown learners.
We ended this week with a great 'whole school assembly' where we celebrated our Tamariki involved in Cross Country, Academic awards, Rm 4 class work and our Principal Awards. It is so rewarding to get together as a school and celebrate as a family - we are certainly a lucky school with so many awesome kids and adults!
Next week we look forward to ending the term with some fun events. We have the New Plymouth Schools music festival on Wednesday night (with a practice on Tuesday) and the Paetoki team 'Social dancing' on Thursday at 2pm. The kids have been working really hard for both of these events! The Music festival is held at the TSB stadium - we still have some last few tickets for anyone wanting some. The Paetoki Social Dancing is open to everyone - it will be on the turf at the senior school.
Next Friday is the last day of Term 3. We begin Term 4 on the 9th October. A reminder for any whanau who began with us after the 18 August, that we will be having a Powhiri on Friday 13th October - we would love you all to join us.
Have a great weekend whanau!
Mr O and the VS Team
A massive congratulations to these tamariki who earned themselves a Tumuaki (Principal) award this week.
Our focus is respect this term, and it is great to see so many of the awards were supporting this and our tamariki living by our Vogeltown values of IROCK!
Ka mau te wehi to these tamariki
Arlee Zehender, Luca-Grace Gooch, Lucy Lett, Maja Cassidy, Noah Doney, Milania Milo, Skyla Cameron, Lexi Muller, Phillip Repia, Mela D'Ath, Raine Donnelly, Liam Van Zyl, Tawhe Patene, Madisyn Baker, Charlie Rippey, Nyah Jones, Noah Benton, Jayden Smith, Archie Hedley, Sianna Menezes, Elobea Telfer, Trevor Daming, Millie Cross, Mason Brough, Harpah Bowyer, Maddie Green, Ocean-Pearl Ardianta, Peyton Hodgson, Lealyn Coombe, Harrison Julian, Austen French, Liam Christensen
Tu meke whānau, congratulations!
You can try the hoodies on for size up at the GameChanger shop, which is just up on the corner of Carrington and Huatoki Streets.
The Home and School raffle is going amazingly well! We are having requests every day for more raffle books to sell. If you have received a book of tickets and are unable to sell them, please bring it back to the office so that we are able to reissue them. The prizes are fantastic and we are grateful for the amazing support we are receiving with so many tickets sold so far.
Hari Huritau, to these awesome Vogeltowners this week:
SALISBURY-MCINNES Lachie
BIRD Rosie
BELTON Ash
SMITH Bailey
BUSH Sophie
MCDONALD Azalea
GRAY Freya
COWLEY Anika
GILLUM Blake
VAN DER LINDE Drikus
NEWLAND Lewis
BLACKBOURN Kayla
SHOTTER Marlee
VOGELTOWN SCHOOL CONTACTS
Email: office@vogeltown.school.nz
Website: www.vogeltown.school.nz
Location: Vogeltown School Huatoki Street, Vogeltown, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Phone: (06) 753 6843
