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TERM 3 (17 July - 22 September)

28 August to 5 September - Life Education truck at Vogeltown School

6 September - Vogeltown School Cross Country and Colour Run

8 September - Four Year Old Friday, 9:00am to 11:00am

11 - 15 September - Maori Language week

13 September - Wig Wednesday

13 September - New Plymouth Primary Schools Cross Country

20 September - New Plymouth Primary Schools Music Festival 6:30pm

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

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 Whare Hononga

17 November - Vogeltown Talent Quest final

24 November - Vogeltowner Awards

27 - 29 November - Paetoki team to Lake Rotokare

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 (7pm 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 newsletter for Week 7 of Term 3. It has been another very busy week. Welcome to Spring (according to dates), the sunshine and extra warmth has certainly made for a lot more outside learning and fun - it really has lifted the spirits after a wet winter!

This week we had the Life Education truck at our school along with the awesome teacher, Mrs Megan Lilley and Harold the Giraffe. Our kids have really enjoyed their time 'inside the truck' and have come away with some fantastic learning. The Life Ed truck leaves us on Tuesday, and we will be looking forward to Harold and Megan coming back in 2024.

A big thanks to everyone who came along last night to our 'open night'. We have only just begun doing this as a school to encourage another chance for whanau to come in and have a look around without any set agenda. It was a perfect evening last night - we even had the Life Ed truck open. Any feedback - improvements, ideas, on this night, please email me at principal@vogeltown.school.nz

We continue to have a lot of sickness at school - although I feel we have got through the worst of it (looking at our attendance data below). Just a reminder, if your child is sick and feels unwell, then please keep them home to recover and notify the office - we really appreciate it has been a very 'trying' winter.

Next week we begin the 'Fresh Air Challenge' - see the poster below. The next 2 weeks is all about encouraging the kids (and whanau) to find ways of coming to school that doesn't involve the car. Each day our Class reps will survey each class to find out which class has made the most 'Fresh Air'. We are also competing against other local schools - we would love to win this in 2023!

We are looking forward to Cross Country - make sure you check the times below, but we would love to see all whanau here for the 'Whanau colour run' at the junior school at 2pm - the more the merrier!

A happy Fathers day to all our Matua out there for Sunday - may your Fathers Day be better than your jokes!

Mr O and the VS Team

Research shows that regular attendance benefits academic achievement, the development of social skills and competencies and friendships. If children are unwell or absent, please inform the office. If there are other factors that are impacting attendance please contact us so that we can work together. The Ministry of Education benchmark for regular attendance is 70% of students attending school 90% of the time. At Vogeltown School we meet this target on most weeks, this week we sit at 87% - see the graph below. There has been a lot of flu and cold bugs going around.

A massive congratulations to these tamariki who earned themselves a Principal award this week. Our focus is respect this term, and it is great to see so many of the awards were supporting this.

Ka mau te wehi to these tamariki:

Bodhi Cleaver, Paddy Yukich, Brody Brien-Stokell, Ngakau Koha, Milla Scott, Drikus van der Linde, Penelope Boynton, Hunter Gray, Ameliah Jones, Micah Wilson, Dmitriy Jumashev, Zen Anthony, Jackson Pretty, Anouk Bonzon, Precious Ngapera, Carter Gibbins,

Lincoln Brears, Myra Salle, Aiden Johnson-Orange, Emerson Atkins, Zayne Fabish, Ivan Botha, Emma Johnson, Cooper Scott, Emma Wills, Willow Wiringi, Ruby Lett, Isabel Gernhoefer, Kahleesi Stubbings, Tyson Barnett, Chace Tiplady, Juval Burger

Tu meke whānau, congratulations!

Carla Visagie, who organised our orange and yellow (Daffodil Day) has helped Mrs Anderson bank the $400 the school earned! Tu meke to all our whanau!

Here is Carla handing the money over to Mrs Anderson.

'Schooldocs' login:

Username: vogeltown

Password: huatoki

Congratulations to Kowhai who got the most amount of IROCK tokens over the last 2 weeks!

We had over 2,000 tokens given out over the last 2 weeks - all given out to our tamariki for showing the Vogeltown values.

Tu Meke whanau!

Kia ora whanau,

As mentioned last week, we are trying something new with our Vogeltown Cross Country this year. We are asking for children to 'enter' in to the championship events this year. They can enter with their teacher through a doc on our daily notices.

(Please note the change of times from last newsletter)

The times are a guide and we will try and stick to them as best we can on the day.

7 year old boys 11.35am

7 year old girls 11.40am

8 year old boys 11.45am

8 year old girls 11.50am

9 year old boys 11.55am

9 year old girls 12.00pm

10 & 11 year old boys 12.05pm

10 & 11 year old girls 12.10pm

After the champ events above, we will have a non champ event (1 lap) for anyone wanting to run the senior field.

ALL WHANAU are invited to the 2pm Colour run at the Junior school - after which, if whanau are here, all children can go home from (once signed out).

Our Year 5/6 basketball team (Vogeltown Thunder) have made it to the semi finals of their competition. They are playing at TSB Stadium this Monday 4th September at 6pm if you would like to go and support them. Go Vogeltown!

Term 4 Summer Sports

Registrations for all Term 4 Summer Sports are now open through our Kindo Shop. Options available are:

• Touch Rugby (years 1-6)
• Summer Hockey (years 3-6)
• Netball (years 0-2)
• Summer Soccer (years 0-6)
• Cricket (years 0-6)

For information about each sport please sign into your Kindo account. If you do not yet have a Kindo account please use the following link for first time users. http://www.vogeltown.school.nz/kindo-shop/

Also available again is Fun Sticks Hockey for year 1 & 2 students (see flyer below). Please register directly with Taranaki Hockey for this programme using the following link. https://www.playhq.com/hockey-new-zealand/register/e4900d

If you have any queries at all please do not hesitate to contact me on michelle.sleep@vogeltown.school.nz

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 some amazing art work around the school - we really do get a lot of mahi done in one week of school.

Check out the wonderful mahi below:

Our Vogeltown Hoodies are available to order again this term. To order, go to https://www.gamechanger.org.nz/shop?Category=Vogeltown+School

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.

KiA ORA WHANAU - PLEASE SUPPORT THIS KAUPAPA,

We have 2 major fundraisers this term - the annual, massive, huge raffle! and the 'Jingo' night!

The raffle has great prizes and we are sorting prizes right now for this - if anyone want to donate prizes to this raffle, please see Jeremy or Suzy in the office.

Kids will be bringing home a raffle book - 10 tickets in a book, and selling them for $2 per ticket - more information will come out soon. You can sell as many as you want!

Jingo night - see the poster below. Limited tables, but what an awesome night this will be - think bingo, but music!

Nga mihi nui

Home and School whanau

Hari Huritau, to these awesome Vogeltowners this week:

TAYLOR Marley

CHAPMAN-SADLER Mila-Anne

CHAPMAN-SADLER Skyla-Blue

SMITH Chael

SMITH Cooper

PENBERTH Isabelle

SMITH James

HALL Reid

TAKO-TAHU Miah-Angel

VAN DEN BERG TJ

BURGER Juval

We hope you all had a great birthday! From all the VS whānau!

Do you live in our school zone and have a child coming to Vogeltown School in 2024? Please get in touch with the school office if you would like to find out more information and pick up an enrolment pack. We are already planning for 2024 and it is very helpful with our planning if we have as many enrolments confirmed for next year as possible. You can check if you live in zone at the following website: www.educationcounts.govt.nz/find-school

Thanks whānau!

Stay safe and be kind to each other. Thank you for the ongoing support of Vogeltown School, we appreciate the community we live in. If you are involved in sport this weekend - give it heaps!

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