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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 4

31 October - Car Free Day

November

1 November - School Photos

1 November - Highlands Orientation for Year 6 VS students (11:30am at Highlands)

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

3 November - Four Year Old Friday

6 - 16 November - Vogeltown School Talent Quest auditions and heats

8 November - 400 Day Celebration

10 November - Whānau 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, 2pm

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 - Whānau Tabloids

13 December - Yr 6 Leaving assembly 10:30am

13 December - Yr 6 Leavers evening (6:00pm)

15 December - Last day of 2023! School finishes at 3pm

Kia ora Vogeltown whānau, welcome to the third newsletter for Term 4, another busy and shorter week. This week our focus on the senior side has been our Kapahaka roopu and our Puanga performance. We had to return our taonga that we won last year on Thursday morning and then our performance was this morning at 8am - a big thanks to all our caregivers and supporters! Big thanks also to Mr Ransfield and Whaea Raewyn for all their hard mahi to get our Roopu to the amazing standard we saw today - Ka Rawe whanau!

Next week we have a couple of big events coming up:

School photos

These are on the 1st November. We have a timetable that will accommodate the Yr 6 classes with the Highlands orientation first followed by the remainder of the classes. You will receive an email in a couple of weeks about the photos and how to order - we will let you know as soon as we know.

Highlands Orientation

A reminder to all Yr 6 whanau that this is on Wednesday at 11.30am at Highlands. We will not providing any transport or taking any of the Yr 6 kids down, it is up to parents/caregivers to transport your child to Highlands. Please remember to sign your child out at the senior office on this day.

Vogeltown Hangi

We have our annual Vogeltown Hangi scheduled for Friday 3 November, with our Yr 6 learners staying over at school on Thursday night. With the weather not looking too flash, we may change this date - we will let you know on Tuesday whether we are going ahead.

A big thanks to everyone who has donated items - we really appreciate all items and we put everything we receive in the ground. A reminder to bring a peeler on Thursday, maybe wrapped up in some paper in your child's bag.

Car Free day

This day is scheduled for Tuesday. The idea behind this day is to come to school by any other means than car (or just park 500 metres away and walk in). We will be providing pancakes and fruit for breakfast on this day!

All the kids will be coming home talking about Talent Quest. This is another annual and exciting time on the school calendar. The Huatoki (middle) auditions are on the 6th November, the Paetoki (senior) are on the 7th November. The Taranaki (junior) auditions happen in their class over this week. The Talent quest final is on the 17th November.

A reminder that we have a Teacher Only Day on Monday 13th November. This is in line with the Ministry of Education's curriculum refresh. We are meeting with other New Plymouth Schools at Te Whare Hononga and doing a day around our localised curriculum - incorporating Pukākā Pa (Marsland Hill) and St Mary's Church.

A reminder that we do not ask our whanau for $ for school donations, we have opted in to the Ministry of Education scheme again for 2024 to cover curriculum extras that we offer.

Have a great weekend whānau - go the All Blacks!

Mr O and the VS Team

Ka mau te wehi to all the tamariki that earned a Principal's Award this week!

Mack Cozens, Aria Allen, Eli Jones, Fox Erickson, Iwan Van Der Linde, Frankie McLean, Kiaan French, Joe Zimmermann, Tai Ransfield, Cooper Smith, Lacey Pitcairn, Wairua Rangiwai, Nailah Molan, Cayden Baker, Carter Cross, Amelie Francis, Coen Price

Marlee Shotter, Moana Bonzon, Anoushka Anu, Lily Flay, Austin Falconer, Bowie Kinge, Jake Holland, Thomas Flitcroft, Ashleigh Lowry, Alfie Frost-Snashall, Siena Duckett, Tawhe Patene, Emily Bush, Dylan Hall, Kai Takahashi

These awards are well deserved whanau!

Vogeltown School has just reached 400 learners! This is the first time Vogeltown School has ever had this many learners at the school - a massive milestone.

This also means the school is becoming an even busier place than usual, as we have more kids, staff and whānau in our Vogeltown family!

To acknowledge this milestone, we want to have a '400 day' to celebrate. We are going to have this day on Wednesday 8th November. The day will be a celebration of the number 400. All the kids can dress up in their PJ's for this day. Each Vogeltown learner will be designing a 'hat' that represents their whānau and the number 400 - we will then be having a school parade on the turf at the senior school at 2pm, followed by a photo of all of our learners from a drone on the back field and then some celebration kai to finish (ice cream/ice block cake!)

All whānau are welcome to come and join us on this day at 2pm to be part of this celebration!

With Miss Cam Hedley leaving us at the end of the year for her exciting move to Australia, we have had to fill this teaching space for 2024.

We would like to announce that we have appointed Mrs Sussanah Pitcairn to Vogeltown to teach in the Year 3 and 4 team. Sussanah comes to us from Bell Block school, where she is currently teaching Yr 7 and 8 learners.

Sussanah is an experienced teacher of 20 years and has taught overseas and in NZ. She is very creative and enjoys teaching the core subjects at school and getting massive progress from her learners!

I know you will all help welcome Sussanah when she starts with us in 2024.

Nga mihi nui Sussanah.

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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.

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:

Calendar artwork - we have opened a second window for orders, this is the final chance to order your child's artwork. Your child will have brought home a piece of paper with information about this. Each child has a unique code which you can use to order online at www.kidsartworks.com. The second window for orders close next Tuesday 31st October so get in quick!

If you do not know the code for your child, give Suzy or Annie in the senior office a call and they can get it for you.

Below is an example of what the order form looks like and another picture of the prices for each item.

Thanks whanau!

My ghost is called Candy.

On Halloween Candy flies around keeping an eye on people to make sure everybody is safe.

Candy is kind and caring because she sprinkles candy in to peoples baskets.

Candy is a ghost, she wears black leather boots and has shimmering purple bow. She is white as a cloud.

Her eyes are blue as the crashing eaves at the beach. She has two powers - teleportation and invisibility.

The devils names is Devil Tawhe. He is mean because he steals everyone’s candy.

He has black shiny eyes and brown ears.

He has a curly beard and a sharp pointy trident. He has a dark red body. He is evil because he sneaks up on people and he has a black strip on his feet.

Ka rawe to the Kowhai whānau who won the IROCK tokens for week 3!

1,311 tokens have been handed out over the last 2 weeks - that is amazing!

We have 3 whānau events this term - sing off, tabloids and athletics!

Hari Huritau, to these awesome Vogeltowners this week:

Poppy TELFER

Luke YUKICH

Harry AHKUOI-HOTENE

Luke ACKERMAN

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 and the Taranaki Bulls take out the games again this weekend!

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