17 May 2023

Newsletter Articles

Principal’s Report

Dear Parents/Caregivers

Our vision is to foster every individual’s academic and social development driven by high expectations for success and aspirations for them to become resilient, respectful individuals. We want this to happen within a safe, supportive learning environment that caters for the present and developmental needs of every student.

Thank you for a great start to the term, we are now in week 4 and busily working to achieve set goals. Students are enjoying their lunchtime activity clubs, some run by staff and others by our Student Leadership Team. Teachers are planning lessons to engage students in their learning, so it is important that your child has regular attendance to ensure they achieve their potential.

Last Friday, we were honoured to have a group of Somerly Primary School students participate in the Interschool Cross Country. These students proudly represented Somerly Primary School, demonstrating good sportsmanship and did their best to achieve their results. Thank you to Mrs Ochieng, Mr Robinson and Ms Sanders for supporting our students with this event.

This Friday, we have Room 11 presenting their assembly. It is also an opportunity to celebrate P&C Day and acknowledge our dedicated P&C team. We thank the P&C for the amazing things they do for our school community. Last term they paid for the dancing sessions for Harmony Week, purchased some toys for the Early Childhood play areas, raised funds through Dominoes Pizza Day and organised the P&C Fun Run. Through the funds raised by the P&C, our school will be able to fund:

• New take home reading books
• A long jump pit to be installed on our grounds.
• Two four square patterns in our senior block areas
• A selection of furniture for our classroom calming spaces
• A donation to our NAIDOC excursion

The P&C is continuing to raise funds to ensure improvement to our school environment. We thank them for their efforts in fundraising.

They also support other initiatives in our school community:

• Breakfast Club
• Sausage sizzle lunches
• Wastewise: Containers for Change
• The Fathering Project

The P&C always welcomes new members, so please feel free to approach a P&C representative to see how you can join.

24th May - National Simultaneous Storytime

National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) is held annually by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator, is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, pre-schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country. Somerly Primary School will be joining in this event with Mrs Lawrence hosting the event in our library. It is a colourful, vibrant, fun event that aims to promote the value of reading and literacy using an Australian children's book that explores age-appropriate themes and addresses key learning areas of the National Curriculum for Foundation to Year 6. This year NSS takes place on Wednesday 24 May 2023 at 11:00am and we would love it if you could join in and register to watch the online live reading of the book.

Lightning Carnival

On Friday 26th May, our years 5 & 6 students will be participating in the Interschool Lightning Carnival. Please ensure your child’s permission slip and payment has been returned. All Years 5 & 6 students have been training during their senior sport sessions to prepare for their sport. Students will travel to various schools to compete in their sport.

• Quinns Rocks Primary School - Volleyball
• Beaumaris Primary School - Girls AFL
• Kinross Primary School - Rugby
• Mindarie Primary School - Speedball
• Somerly Primary School - Boys AFL

I wish them the best of luck, and hope they enjoy the day.

School Environment

Our classroom doors open at 8:30am, if student arrive before 8:30am they are expected to sit in the undercover area. Staff monitor the area from 8:15am, please note prior to 8:15am, staff are not on duty. The end of the school day is 2:45, students and families are expected to leave school grounds after school. There is a playground in the park opposite the school that is a better location for families to gather. Our Cleaners busily try to clean our school at the end of the day, and this includes our playgrounds. It would be helpful to them if families leave the school grounds as early as possible. Thank you for your consideration with this matter.

Events Term 2

Just a reminder about some big events happening in Term 2.

• 2nd June - Assembly Rm 17 & 18
• 5th June - WA Day
• 16th June - Arts Assembly
• 22nd June - The Fathering Project
• 27th June - Reports emailed
• NAIDOC excursion in week 10, years 2 – 6. Incursions planned during the term for Kindy – year 1.
• 30th June - Assembly Rm 9

Louise Carroll
A/Principal

Merit Certificates

Room 1: Savannah and Asher; Room 2: Ruby, Alfie, Archer and Mason; Room 3: Zara, Luna, Ollie and Michael; Room 4: Blake and Aria; Room 5: Alice, Rohan and Emily; Room 8: Jeremiah, Shanae, Issabelle, Isaac, Michael and Kalia; Room 9: Ayia, Alfie, Alia, Emily, Jordyn, Koby; Room 10: James, Thomas, Lexi and Zach; Room 11: Obi; Room 12: Liam and Sophie; Room 13: Hazel, Noelia and Nathan; Room 14: Adrian; Room 15: Memphis, Lily and Tyler; Room 16: Ryleigh, Ashley, Riley and Elsa; Room 17: Addison and Sophie; Room 18: Cameron and Jayden; Room 20: Farryn and Jenae; Science: Tabitha and Joseph; LOTE: Josie – Room 10, Emily – Room 9 and Classe 7.

Stars

Behaviour Focus

Our behaviour focus for Week 4 is:-

We walk quickly, quietly and respectfully around our school.

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.

Enrolments for 2024

Interschool Cross Country

On Friday 12th May, 40 students from Somerly Primary School attended the Interschool Cross Country event hosted by Quinns Rocks Primary School. The course was 1km for year 3 students, 1.5km for years 4 and 5 students and 2km for year 6 students with the course located around the ovals of Gumblossom Park. We were impressed by the courage of our students as they pushed themselves to complete the course. Thank you to Ms Sanders and Mr Robinson for their help on the day and well done to all students involved.

Pre-Primary Mother’s Day Event

Our Pre-Primary classes, Rooms 1 and 2 hosted a Mother’s Day/Special Person’s Event.

It was a successful event with a lot of positive feedback from our little people and their special big people.

Together they enjoyed reading a book, decorating a cookie, tracing and colouring each other’s hand, being pampered with a hand sugar scrub and having their portrait painted by their special little person. There were smiles all round.

Thank you to all attendees, Deputy Principals and our wonderful Education Assistants for helping make this event happen.

Learning Focus

Art Class Updates

Year 4 Art Classes:

This term students in year 4 have been busy working towards their Arts Assembly project. This has involved students researching Traditional Bongo Drums and learning how to firstly sketch them followed by etching them into a Poly block, whilst learning about the artistic printing process. Students have experimented with creating smooth gradient backgrounds using acrylic paints and have already created some beautiful backing pieces in preparation for the special assembly.

Year 6 Art Classes:

Year 6 students have been busy learning how to mix their own Tertiary Colour wheel colours and with this new learnt skill have created a Tertiary Colour wheel eye painting. Be sure to check out the display in the school's front office to see what our marvellous year 6 students have created. This project involved students experimenting with colour theory and mixing primary and secondary acrylic paint colours together to create a tertiary colour.

Lauren Defty - Art Specialist

Waste Wise Schools

Gardening Club

Gardening Club continues to run on Mondays and Wednesdays during lunch times. We are currenting digging out some garden beds to plant new seedlings. We are also growing potatoes, corn, beans, cabbage, tomatoes and basil. All are welcome to come and visit before and after school.

Don’t feed the fill!

Congratulations to our staff, students and families - we have collected as a whole community 3046 containers for our NAIDOC 2 Challenge to bring our year-to-date total to a huge 15253 containers, raising $1525.30 (20% is donated to Good Sammy’s)

Our Challenge winners!

Room 5 collecting 765 containers!

Classroom Totals

Congratulations to all classrooms and remember every container counts!

Our term goal is to get to 20000 containers!

This week we will continue to have our Zooper Dooper Thursday!

So please remember to bring in your 10 containers!

Our next Challenge is our Kindy Farm Incursion Challenge!

This will be running in weeks 5 & 6

We are raising money to help fund the Kindy farm incursion, so please support our little kindy kids!

Shout out!

We are looking for some local small businesses to support our Containers for Change fundraising, so please parents and carers if you know of any small businesses that could support our fundraising by donating their containers, please let us know.

Thank you for helping us to help you!

P & C