Kia ora koutou parents and whānau,

Welcome back to school everyone! As we start this new term, I’d like to extend a warm greeting to all of the new students joining our school. Your journey at Vogeltown School is about to unfold with many exciting learning opportunities and new friendships waiting to be made.

We welcomed our new children, whanāu, and staff at the powhiri today and we will have some photos of this in our next newsletter. Well done to all of our children for their behaviour and participation in this, and in particular, our kapa haka group who showed high levels of confidence and independence.

Looking ahead, let’s embrace this term with enthusiasm and a determination to learn and be the best version of ourselves, while also modelling our value of inclusiveness with whatever we may be doing.

There is already a sense of anticipation about the place as children in the Paetoki syndicate begin their ‘Build a Business’ work, while those in the junior and middle areas are latching onto the Olympics as the context for their learning. I'm really looking forward to seeing what comes from all this!

Mā te wā! See you later!

Ryves

Kia ora whānau,

The next Vogeltown Home and School Committee meeting will be held on Tuesday 30th July at 6:30pm in the senior staffroom. You are all welcome to attend. We will be discussing fundraising activities for Term 3 and 4 and how to allocate the funds we have raised to date. We will do our best to keep the meeting length to 60 minutes. We look forward seeing some new faces!

Nga mihi,

Ange

We're thrilled to announce our Term 3 and 4 Class Reps for 2024! These students have been selected because they show great leadership qualities:

Room 8: Eli Rawhiti and Emelia Gooch

Room 9: Ocean-Pearl Ardianta and Nailah Molan

Room 10: Audrey Coutts and Eldon Price

Room 11: Sophie Flitcroft and Katie Xu

Room 12: Raine Donnelly and Elsie Stone

Being a Class Rep is a significant responsibility. It involves modelling our school values, undertaking important tasks throughout the school, and demonstrating the 'go forward' part of our vision.

We've observed that in the past our Class Reps often transition into leadership roles at their next schools. This is because they gain valuable leadership experience here at Vogeltown.

Congratulations to our newly appointed Class Reps! We have no doubt that you will excel in representing our school and serve as positive role models for others. Keep up the excellent work!

Many thanks to all those that attended the parent and teacher learning conferences and to our teachers for their time and efforts. Attending a parent-teacher interview is beneficial for several reasons:

• Building Relationships: It fosters a partnership between parents and teachers, promoting open communication and collaboration in supporting learning.
• Understanding Progress: It allows parents to gain insights into their child's academic and social progress, including strengths and areas needing improvement.
• Setting Goals: Parents and teachers can clarify learning and behaviour goals, and look at ways of supporting this in both environments.
• Addressing support needs: It provides a platform to address any concerns or challenges the child may be facing, allowing for timely interventions and support plans.

If there is anything from these that needs to be followed up further then please feel free to contact the class teacher to arrange a time.

The graph below shows the percentage of learning conferences that took place per class.

Take a look at some of the action from our whanau gumboot throw late last term. No children were harmed in the making of these photos!

Attendance at school is an important ingredient for success with learning and also maintaining a positive attitude towards school. Days away from school makes it difficult for teachers to deliver programmes where there is continuity of learning. They also need to make decisions around whether to leave work unfinished or to revisit material for children who are away and either way, there are consequences that affect the teacher, the child who has been absent, or others in the class.

We ask that parents ensure children attend school regularly, inform the school of any absence (and communicate the reason for this), and have children at school in plenty of time to get settled for the start of the day.

We’re keen to work with you to ensure all children have access to regular learning. If you have any aspects of attendance that you need to discuss, I recommend making a time to talk with your child’s teacher.

We are keen to ensure any issues or concerns are resolved at the lowest level possible. Anyone who has a concern or complaint should raise it as soon as possible with the most appropriate person. This is usually the staff member directly involved.

Simply contact the person involved to arrange a time to discuss the matter privately. Indicate what the concern is about and let them know if you’ll bring a support person to the meeting. Be prepared to listen to different points of view and try to work towards a resolution. In some cases, finding a resolution may require another meeting and/or involve senior management.

It is important that we know if you have a child starting school sometime in the remainder of this year or next year. This will allow us to put organisation in place for new students - especially those starting school, and to understand our predicted roll throughout the year.

You can do this by contacting the office to confirm that we have your child on our records, or by completing an enrolment form (which can be collected from the school or downloaded off our website).

If you know of anyone else living in zone that may be looking to enrol then please share this message with them.

TERM CALENDAR

Put all these dates in your diary or your phone! Remember we will put all updates on Facebook, Skool Loop and Seesaw.

TERM 3

22 July - 27 September

29 July - Zac Reid speaking to Huatoki and Paetoki syndicates

30 July - Home and School meeting

5 August - Vision and hearing testing

6 August - Vision and hearing testing

6 August - BOT meeting, 6pm

7 August - Highlands Intermediate Info Evening, 6pm at Highlands

9 August - Four Year Old Friday, 9:00am to 11:00am, Junior School

23 August - Four Year Old Friday, 9:00am to 11:00am, Junior School

26 August - Cohort entry #2 starts

30 August - Highlands Intermediate Out of Zone enrolments close

5 September - Market night - Build a Business

6 September - Four Year Old Friday, 9:00am to 11:00am, Junior School

13 September - Whole school assembly

16 September - Māori language week starts

20 September - Four Year Old Friday, 9:00am to 11:00am, Junior School

TERM 4

14 October - 13 December

1 November - Four Year Old Friday, 9:00am to 11:00am, Junior School

15 November - Four Year Old Friday, 9:00am to 11:00am, Junior School

29 November - Four Year Old Friday, 9:00am to 11:00am, Junior School

Stay safe and be kind to each other. Thank you for the ongoing support of Vogeltown School, we really appreciate the efforts everyone makes to ensure our kura is such a great place to learn and work!

On behalf of the Vogeltown team, ka kite ano!

Ryves Hunt and the VS team

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

Our school policies, like many schools, are now in an online system through a portal called 'Schooldocs'. Any time you want to bring up a school policy, just log in to schooldocs and you can access the policies.

The login is: vogeltown

The password: huatoki

The website link to Schooldocs is below.