26 July 2017

Newsletter Articles

Principal’s Report

Dear Parents/Caregivers

I wish to extend a warm welcome back to school for all our students, staff, parents and caregivers.

Term 3 promises to be extremely busy with many activities planned.

Dates to place in your calendar:

8th August Year 4 PEAC Testing
21st August Book Week – Around the World
23rd August Grandparents’ Morning Tea – 10am
24th August Parent Information Session – How to support your child with reading
30th August Jumps and Throws
1st September Athletics Carnival
8th September Interschool Athletics Carnival
11-22 September Swimming Lessons (PP-6)

Uniforms

Commencing 2018 Nell Gray will be supplying our school uniform. The shop is located at 3/86 Winton Road, Joondalup. There will be no changes to the colour of the uniform.

Consequently the P&C is selling all existing uniform stock at a bargain sale price of $10 per item. Orders can be placed in an envelope (please insert cash payment and write the child’s name, room number, items required, size and quantity on the envelope) and post in the P&C mail box at the front office. Stock is limited and orders will be filled on a first come first served basis. Please click on the link below to access the stock availability as at 25th July 2017.

New Students

I would like to extend a warm welcome to Jacob, Kale, Destiny, Chase, Raiden and Rashaad who recently commenced at Somerly Primary School.

Tracey Renton
Principal

Behaviour Focus

For our behaviour focus for Week 2 is:-

SAFETY;

WHOLE SCHOOL

• Keep hands, feet and objects to yourself

Merit Certificates

Room 2: Jaxon and Thiana; Room 3: Bonnie and Jenny; Room 4: Kuol and Jessica; Room 7: Taj, Katy and Kayla; Room 8: Kaitlyn and Mathew; Room 9: Hayley and Josh; Room 10: Bradley and Andrew; Room 11: Coby and Kavan; Room 12: Kai and Dylan; Room 13: Ashlee; Room 15: Irene and Jamaine; Room 16: Michael and Harlow; Room 17: Sophie and Izaiah; Room 18: Jensen and Jasper; Room 20: Daniel and Moses; Room 23: Heath and Shah; LOTE: Bree – Rm.9, Bradley – Rm.10, Damen – Rm.13 and Room 10; Music: Kevin – Rm.17, PP1 and PP2; Art: Natayla and Malik.

SOMERLY STARS!

Kindy Enrolment for 2018

Kindergarten enrolments for 2018 are due to close shortly. If you have a child that was born between 1 July 2013 and 30 June 2014 please come into the front office for an application form.

As Kindy is non-compulsory, enrolments will be on a first in basis.

When applying we need a copy of your child’s birth certificate or passport, visa if applicable, current Medicare immunisation details and proof of address.

If you know someone who has a child due to start Kindergarten next year, please let them know that enrolments are open.

Students Late to School

If your child arrives late to school, they are missing critical morning routines and learning activities. The school day begins at 8:40am and students will be considered late if they do not arrive by this time. If your child arrives after 9:00am you are required to enter through the front office and provide us with a reason for the lateness. A late slip will be printed for you to give to the class teacher.

Not Feeling Well?

If your child is not feeling well before school, please keep them home and notify the office by phoning 9407 7142 or sending an SMS to 0437 480 486.

Late Collection of Students

Somerly Primary School has a student finish time of 2.45pm each day. If your child has not been picked up before 3pm, you will be required to come to the front office to sign them out.

Swimming Lessons

Swimming lessons will take place in Weeks 9 and 10 of Term 3. If you would like to begin paying for swimming lessons, instalments are gladly accepted. Please see the swimming letter below for payment details. A hard copy of this letter was sent home to families last week.

Please Note - If you are making payment via Direct Deposit, please quote the student surname and room number in order for us to allocate payment to the correct student account.

Waste Wise Winners

Congratulations to these awesome Waste Wise winners!

Woolworths Earn & Learn 2017

Dear Parents

This year we will be participating in the Woolworths Earn & Learn program. Through this program we will be able to get new educational resources for our school and all we need you to do is shop for your groceries at Woolworths.

From Wednesday 26th July to Tuesday 19th September or while stock lasts, we are collecting Woolworths Earn & Learn Stickers. You will get one Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker for every $10 spent (excluding liquor, tobacco and gift cards). Place the Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker onto a Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker Sheet and when it’s complete, the Sticker Sheet can be dropped into the Collection Box here at the school or at your local Woolworths.

At the end of the promotion, we’ll be able to get some great new equipment. The range is extensive and offers lots of items ideal for our students – including resources for Maths, English, Science and some fantastic fun supplies for Arts & Craft, Sport and for our library. If you’d like to know more visit the link below. A link to the sticker sheet can be accessed below if you require this.

Pre-Primary Assembly

Congratulations to our Pre-Primary pirates for putting on an amazing assembly for us on our last day of Term 2.

Learning Focus

Maths

Year 1 Coin Detectives!

Welcome back everyone! What an exciting first week of maths it has been at Somerly! During week 1 Year 1 students have been ‘Coin Detectives’ and have really enjoyed using magnifying glasses to take a closer look at money.

The children were being 5 cent coins! (There’s an echidna on it’s back on this coin)

The children were being $2 coins (There is an Aboriginal tribal elder with a long beard on this coin)

There is so much to learn about money and all year levels from Pre-Primary to Year 6 will have a learning focus in Money and Financial Mathematics.

Some of the concepts from Pre-Primary to Year 6 include learning about coins, notes, change, calculating and solving shopping problems, creating financial plans and working out percentage discounts…

I’m sure you’ll agree that there is too much to learn in a year and so the WA Department of Education (SCSA) and Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) identify which parts each year level are to be taught. So for Year 1 students the focus is on being able to recognise, describe and order Australian coins by their value.

The Year 1 teachers have devised some great activities and learning opportunities for money math rotations and the students have been doing:

• Rubbings of the front and back of the different coins;
• Using a magnifying glass to look at the different features, words, animals, textures, shapes, sizes and colours;
• Playing shop;
• Skip counting, sorting and classifying bags of coins;
• Investigating the relationship between the value and size of coins;
• Looking at ways to write dollars and cents;
• Talking about money in real life;
• Money from different countries and of course describing the shape, colour, animals and textures of the different coins;
• Computer Games- view the link below

You can try some of these activities at home too!

Remember maths is FUN… NY!

Vikki Longthorn - Level 3 Teacher & Numeracy Curriculum Leader

Kindy

At the end of last term in Kindergarten, we completed our first Big Talk. To prepare for the Big Talk we explored the topic of farms and animals throughout Term Two. We did this with the purpose to develop the students’ oral language skills, particularly vocabulary and descriptive language.

The Old MacDonald Farm incursion served as the stimulus that would precede their Big Talk, as well as providing them with a hands-on experience to meet the animals. The task for the Big Talk was for the students to draw a picture of their favourite animal and colour it with dye. They were then asked to talk about the animal they drew which the teacher then scribed.

Attached are some photos of the Old MacDonald Farm incursion and some work samples that are on display in the Kindy classrooms.

Aneka Rosielle – Kindergarten Teacher

P & C

We're Fundraising with The Entertainment Book

Order forms can be collected from the school office.

Alternatively, you can order your book or your Digital Membership securely online by visiting the link below:

Books are available immediately and can be collected from the school office.

20% from every membership sold contributes to supporting our fundraising.

Community Notices

Kurlangas Aboriginal Playgroup

This term we will be looking at the numbers 1-5 and the colours red, yellow, blue and green.

We will have coloured playdough, make collages and cellophane windows, do paintings and pasta gluing.

A lot of our work will be based around the “Very Hungry Caterpillar” book.

Please note our new time of 12.30pm-2.30pm. Playgroup is FREE, and held every Wednesday at Somerly Primary School during term times, for Aboriginal children up to 5yrs of age and their carers.

An afternoon tea of fresh fruit is provided for the children, and tea, coffee and biscuits for the adults. You do not need to have a child attending this school to attend.

Hope to see you there!

Aboriginal Early Years Team