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NEWS | Issue 12 VANGUARD NEWS | Issue 12 2 Vanguard News JUNE 2015 EFFORT BRINGS REWARD PRINCIPAL’S REPORT ROCKLEY MONTGOMERY Welcome to the June edition of the time flying could be attributed to Terms the end of the year and then compete Vanguard Military School newsletter. one and two having been so full-on in all with the thousands of other students all areas. The academic programme has looking for a job. They can, as soon as progressed on track and according to their schooling is complete, choose to plan, with fantastic results for most. In move on to the next phase of their lives. Term two our basketball teams, both This could include but is not limited to, a the boys and the girls have made us all career in the forces, a job in the very proud to be associated with workplace, higher education or even Vanguard. It is not only the fact that after developing the required attitudes these teams are performing and behaviours learned at Vanguard, exceptionally well, it is more the way return to their old school to study they are playing with a never give up subjects not offered here. attitude, the way they are conducting themselves on the court with a hard but Term two has seen a number of our fair approach to play and this all being recruits achieving their planned goals topped off with amazing support from and qualifications and have moved on the parents and fellow recruits; fantastic successfully. We do miss them not being to have this as part of our education here, but we wish them all the very best programme. for the future and look forward to catching up with them and their parents Another very pleasing aspect of at graduation at the end of the year. It is almost with surprise that we find Vanguard Military School for us all is the ourselves at the midpoint of this year; school’s multiple exit point system for It was also a happy/sad moment when the time seeming to have gone by in a graduating recruits. This is a system that we had to farewell Rachel Cowie, but flash. It feels like just yesterday we were allows our recruits’ to plan the optimal luckily only for maternity leave. Rachel introducing all our new recruits to the pathway through their secondary has been a fantastic member of our school and now they are hardened schooling and into the real world as a admin staff and she will be missed veterans of Vanguard, already looking productive citizen of New Zealand. Once around the school by all. a recruit has achieved their academic forward to the end of a successful year. A possible reason for this impression of goal and desired qualification, they do not have to wait around at school until VANGUARD NEWS | Issue 12 2 Term two finished on a high note with organiser and driving force behind the with a huge amount of enjoyment. Well two extremely successful events. The whole event. done Vanguard, this is what education is first event held on the second last Friday all about. The Vanguard Amazing Race was the end of term Inter Section Competition I wish all the recruits and staff a safe and organised by Staff Van Stripriaan. Based well-deserved break during the coming on the television programme, the holiday. recruits in their sections had to get from checkpoint to checkpoint as fast as possible and on arrival at each HISTORY checkpoint complete a series of challenges. It was a privilege to be part LESSON: of a team and run along with them. Every section had its amazing stories of ELLIOTT how recruits demonstrated teamwork, determination, personal sacrifice, that never give up attitude, intellectual skills SECTION cracking codes very quickly and again all Continuing our history lesson, this month we are looking at Keith Elliott, a New Zealand soldier who served with the New Zealand Military Forces during the Second World War. of the term was the Vanguard Fair, held as a fund-raiser for the mother of two of our recruits who is fighting off cancer and the second event held on the last day of the term was the Vanguard Amazing Race. The fair was a resounding success with the entire school community getting behind the event with innovative ideas, donations and a huge amount of fun on the day. A big thanks to all our recruits, their parents and caregivers, the staff and particularly Staff Wilson the Keith Elliott Elliott was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in the First Battle of El Alamein. Born in Apiti, one of nine children of a farmer and his wife. He was educated in nearby Feilding, but was unable to complete his formal schooling because in 1933, he had to drop out to work on the family farm. VANGUARD NEWS | Issue 12 3 Elliott was a farm manager when the He retired from the priesthood in 1981 An unjustified absence is an absence Second World War began. He and died eight years later at the age of where an explanation for the absence volunteered for service abroad with the 73. was accepted by the school as the Second New Zealand Expeditionary reason for the absence, but the reason Force (2NZEF) and was posted to the Elliott donated his Victoria Cross to his does not fit within the school’s policy as 22nd Battalion, former school, Feilding Agricultural High a justifiable reason to take the student School, 1972 and it was later loaned to off school. This also includes overseas He saw action during the Battles of the QEII Army Memorial Museum in absence not approved by the principal. A Greece and Crete and then in North Waiouru for display. parent’s note does not provide Africa. By now a sergeant, during justification. Operation Crusader in November 1941, he was one of 700 New Zealanders made FROM THE a prisoner of war when his position was NZQA NEWS overrun by the Germans. Freed two ADMIN DESK months later, he was serving as a FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE platoon commander during the First MARILIZE ERASMUS, Battle of El Alamein. AMINISTRATION MANAGER The purpose of financial assistance At dawn on 15 July 1942, their battalion is to ensure that fees are not a was attacked on three flanks by tanks. barrier to participation in Sergeant Elliott led the platoon he was qualifications for students in low- commanding to the cover of a ridge, to-middle income families. during which he sustained a chest wound. He then re-formed his men and Each year the government provides led them to a dominating ridge a few limited funding for eligible students hundred yards away, where they came enrolled in New Zealand secondary under heavy enemy machine-gun and schools who are entering for assessment mortar fire. Sergeant Elliott led seven against standards on the New Zealand men in a bayonet charge across five Compulsory attendance Qualifications Framework and for New hundred yards of open ground in the Zealand Scholarship. face of heavy fire and captured four Attendance of students at school is a enemy machine-gun posts and an anti- legal requirement for all those under 16. Applications for financial assistance for tank gun, killing a number of the enemy Parents/Caregivers are liable for 2015 has been sent home in May. and taking fifty prisoners. prosecution if a student is unjustifiably If you think that you are eligible for absent from school. Although badly wounded in four places, financial assistance, you need to Sergeant Elliott refused to leave his men Our school administrator, Hannah complete and return the form to the until he had reformed them, handed Rasmussen, will contact caregivers of school soon as possible or contact the over his prisoners, and arranged for his students each morning who have not school if you have any questions. men to rejoin the battalion. had their absences excused by note or phone call. Sergeant Elliott sustained only one PHOTOLIFE casualty amongst his men, and brought Any student who is absent for 20 days or him back to the nearest advanced more without explanation, will be PHOTOS dressing station. removed from the school roll and refereed to “Non Enrolled Truancy PhotoLife Studios have visited our After the was awarded his VC, he was Services”, a branch of the Ministry of school earlier this year and returned on promoted to second lieutenant, sent Education. the 17th of June. Individual, Section and home to New Zealand and discharged Sports Team Photos were taken on from the 2NZEF. Please, if your child is absent from these respective days. school, contact us before 0830 on 09 443 Returning to civilian life, Elliott married 2969. Our school made use of the prepaid in February 1944 and had five children. envelope system which had to be He resumed his farming career, but in Unjustified absences completed and returned to the school 1948 became a priest. He shifted around before photo day. the lower half of the North Island for the Students are required to maintain their next several years, serving in a number unjustified absence rate below 3%, as All of the prepaid envelopes from all of churches. He was also a chaplain in per the school’s attendance charter. classes were collected and are currently the Territorial Force. being processed. VANGUARD NEWS | Issue 12 4 Completed orders will be delivered to Rachel is currently taking maternity BOYS TEAM the school over the next few weeks. leave – we wish her well! 4 June, 28 – 34 WIN against Westlake, Please note that late orders and We are pleased to announce the POD Kaylin Robson payments can be made by contacting appointment of Hannah Rasmussen as PhotoLife Studios directly on 0800 50 the new School Administrator.
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