Kia ora whānau, welcome to the end of week 6 - another fantastic week here at Vogeltown! This week was shortened by the Teacher Only Day on Monday, a massive thanks to everyone for your support of this day. The Vogeltown staff were lucky enough to be involved in some amazing professional development around our local New Plymouth environment - St Mary's Church, Te Whare Hononga and Pukākā (Marsland hill). It was great to be able to discuss, analyse and reflect on the use of these places over the years. We will be building this PD in to our Vogeltown hikoi at the beginning of next year.
Week 6 means we only have 4 weeks left in the term. It is going to be a busy 4 weeks, as it is every year, so please check the calendar for dates and lock them into your diaries. There are going to be some syndicate 'fun weeks' in week 9 and 10 involving water, teddy bears and bikes - so, please keep an eye out for these notices (we will put them on Facebook and Skool Loop too).
We have just begun training up our Year 5 road patrollers for 2024. A big thanks to everyone for your patience as these learners develop the skills of being an efficient road patroller. There is a big training day for the Year 5 road patrollers on the 30th of November with our Community Constable. A big thanks to our parents who help out with road patrol every day - we really appreciate your support.
Our kaiako (teachers) are busy finishing end of year reports and getting the last pieces of data entered for the year. These 'summative' reports will be shared with all whānau on Monday 11th December. You will also have on these reports your child's class for 2024. We spend a lot of time sorting classes for each year and we make sure we get the connection of teacher, student and classmates correct. On Wednesday 13th December, all our learners get to meet their new teacher for 2024 for 30/40 minutes.
Property update: You will have noticed a lot scaffolding around the senior school over the last couple of weeks. We are finishing up the re-roof of the office block, the back of the office block and the toilet block beside the library. These should all be finished by the end of next week.
Then we begin the re-roof of the junior school (Rooms 2, 3, 4, 5 and office area). This is a massive piece of work and will hopefully be completed over the Christmas break.
UPCOMING NEXT WEEK:
We have our Talent Quest Final - a big congratulations to all the kids who made the final! Also, well done to all the kids who got up and performed in the heats - we have some very talented Vogeltowners here!
The final begins at 1.50pm Monday. Rumour has it there might be a teacher dance again this year....watch this space!
The Vogeltowner Assembly is on next Friday 24th November - this is our most prestigious award at Vogeltown. A big congratulations to the Vogeltown learners who have earned them. Remember we keep it a secret till the day!
A NOTE ABOUT SCHOOL PHOTOS
Photolife will send the shoot-key to all families, we will have a copy of the code in the office, but it may pay to check your spam/junk for Photolife emails. As soon as we know they have emailed families, we will send out some comms to let you know.
Have a great weekend whānau!
Mr O and the VS Team
Well done Dayna, you are an amazing teacher and we are very lucky to have you here at Vogeltown School - I know all of the school (especially the kids in Rm 11) are extremely proud of Dayna's hard work over the last 2 weeks! We celebrated Dayna's 'graduation' at a special (and quite early) breakfast on Monday.
Ka Rawe Mrs Lewis!
A reminder to our whānau that all of our Vogeltown learners must wear a bucket hat in Term 4. The sun becomes more intense over the term, so the bucket hat is the best way to protect faces and necks.
You can purchase a school hat from the senior office for $17 but any bucket hat is fine to wear.
We also have sunscreen in the classrooms.
Hari Huritau, to these awesome Vogeltowners this week:
BUSH Sophie
MCDONALD Azalea
GRAY Freya
COWLEY Anika
GILLUM Blake
VAN DER LINDE Drikus
NEWLAND Lewis
BLACKBOURN Kayla
SHOTTER Marlee
BARRACLOUGH Ashton
LETT Lucy
TELFER Elobea
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
