12 December 2018

Newsletter Articles

Principal’s Report

Dear Parents/Caregivers

Book Ward Assembly

It was with great pleasure we recently hosted our Book Award Assembly. To those students who received a Book Award congratulations on your achievements.

The recipients are Room 5A – Korinne and Aaliyah; Room 6A – Kaylee and Ethan; Room 6B – Cali-Rose and Abraham; Room 1: Poppy and Lily; Room 2: Jai and Bonnie; Room 3: Thiana and Kaia; Room 4: Hania and Liam; Room 7: Jade and Alfie; Room 8: Tori and Oscar; Room 9: Kyle and Isaiah; Room 10: Esther and Ella-Rose; Room 11: Deacon and Ainara; Room 12: Aaleyah and Riley; Room 13: Ashley and Brayden; Room 14: Billy and Temwani; Room 15: Jenny and Shad; Room 16: Annalisa and Hayley; Room 17: Emily and Aisha; Room 18: Jessica and Amber; Room 23: Miah and Jordyn; Music: Scarlet; Art: Czarina; LOTE: Deacon.

Year 6 Graduation

Today we fondly bid farewell to our Year 6 students as they graduate from primary school. I wish to congratulate our graduating seniors and wish them all the best in the coming years at your chosen high school. I hope you take fond memories of your time at Somerly Primary School, we would love you to visit to tell us of all of your successes.

The Award recipients are Maths: Kaitlyn; HASS – Natalie; Literacy: Zhan Daeniel; Music: Czarina; Sport: Paige; Art: Zhan Daeniel; LOTE: Czarina; Science: Steven and Zhan Daeniel; HASS: Layla; Dedication to Personal Excellence: Asante; Commitment to Excellence: Zhan Daeniel; City of Wanneroo Citizenship Award: Melisa and Declan.

Early Childhood Play Space

I’m extremely excited to announce that over the coming Christmas break the final stage of our nature playground will be constructed in the early childhood area. The playground has been designed to support children’s creative and imaginative play whilst also developing their physical agility. The plan of the playground can be viewed at the front office.

Staff changes

Sadly, several staff members won’t be returning to Somerly Primary School in 2019, we are saying fond goodbyes to Mrs Sumegi who is commencing maternity leave. Miss Barlow, Mr Collie and Mr Stanton will be working at alternative schools and Ms Searle is retiring. I would like to extend a huge thank you to them for their wonderful contribution to our school and wish them well for the future.

The first day back for students in 2019 is Monday 4th February.

Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the wonderful staff and students at Somerly Primary School and wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Year.

Tracey Renton
Principal

Stars

Behaviour Focus

Our behaviour focus for Week 10 is:-

RESPECT;

CLASSROOM

• We welcome new people and experiences

Reading Eggs

What a great start we have had to our Reading Eggs and Reading Egsspress program. So far our Reading Eggs students have totalled 837.4 hours and our Reading Egsspress students have totalled 448.8 hours since we started in Week 7.

It is really important in the program students read a balance of Fiction and Non Fiction texts from their bookshelf. Teachers will start setting Non Fiction books for students to read as tasks. They will need to complete these tasks first before using any of the other activities.

How Can I help over the school holidays?

• On return to school we will be asking for 5 x20 min sessions per week. When you have a spare 20 mins let them log in.
• Going on holiday and don’t have a lot of room for books? Take a device with you to access Reading Eggs and the over 2000 books in the library.
• Going somewhere special like the Zoo, AQWA, The Beach, The City, on a Train – you could read a Non Fiction book from the library on a related topic before you go.

Eggceptional Readers

Well done to our Eggceptional readers for Weeks 7 and 8 who have shown dedication and commitment with their reading

• Alisha
• Aarav
• Danielle
• David
• Ruby
• Shehbaz
• Grace
• Aston
• Kyle
• Lua
• Zion
• Calli-Rose
• Mia

Zoe Stenhouse - Deputy Principal

Learning Focus

Block 4

Wow - what a year it has been! It has been an absolute privilege to teach your beautiful children and to see all the amazing progress and development that has occurred throughout the year.

This term we focussed on the theme ‘Under the Sea”. The children had to research a variety of sea creatures, shipwrecks and natural disasters. The children had to use a range of ICT skills in order to present their information to their group or class. We then implemented this research into different forms of writing techniques, such as persuasive, narrative and information reports.

Last term the children created a book for the Elephant Nature Park after the inspiring talk from Mrs Marshall about her experience in Thailand with the elephants. The book was sent off to Thailand and is now on display in the main office for a variety of tourists and nature park workers to view at their leisure.

The children have been fortunate this term to be signed up to Reading Eggs. The Year 2’s absolutely love this program and it is so exciting for us teachers to see the amount of reading that has been occurring at home. We would like to thank all the parents and caregivers who have supported their child with this fantastic program. Please continue the amazing effort over the summer holidays.

In our Mindup program, the children have been learning about gratitude and how we can positively express our gratitude to people that have an influence in our lives. The children created a gratitude tree in class and it was lovely to hear the things that they are grateful for.

We wish all our families a truly beautiful Christmas, and may 2019 treat you all exceptionally well.

With thanks and very best wishes.

Mrs Fawcett, Miss Hamand and Miss Mundy

Music

Miss Olsen would like to wish all the students and families at Somerly a wonderful and safe Christmas break. The students have spent the past few weeks preparing for the Christmas Concert where each year group will sing a different Christmas-y song. Some of the songs will include props such as guitars in Run Run Rudolph; Candy Canes for Candy Cane Lane by Sia and GRINCH MASKS for the Year 4’s, You’re A Mean One, Mr Grinch. Other year groups have been learning dances/movements to go with their songs. It’s going to be an awesome time!

Room 9

On Friday the 7th of December, Room 9 visited Room 15, Miss Hamand’s class to share a very special experience. In ICT, Room 9 had been working with the App ‘Book Creator’ to plan, create and design a book aimed for Year 2’s with an ‘Under the Sea’ theme. Room 9 sat and read their finished products with the Year 2’s, showing off their plots, illustrations and special features! The Year 2’s were super excited and some even got to learn how to use the program and how they could make their own book!

Thank you, Room 15 and Miss Hamand for having us!

Miss Olsen, Room 9 Classroom Teacher

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 6206 4200, sending an SMS to 0437 480 486 or emailing somerly.ps@education.wa.edu.au.

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.

Somerly Dental Therapy Centre

This clinic will be closed from Wednesday the 19th of December and will reopen on Wednesday the 30th of January 2019.

Our clinic answer machine will have a detailed message regarding emergency arrangements for the period we are closed.

If you have an appointment with us over the next couple of weeks and are unable to keep the appointment, please contact us to arrange an alternative time.

Thank you.

The Staff at Somerly Dental Therapy centre