31 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.

We are halfway through the term and the weather is cooling. Please continue to maintain good hygiene practices to ensure sickness is not spread. It is important that if your child is absent from school, you notify the school of their absence. This can be done via text message, Seesaw message, a phone call to the office or email.

Reconciliation Week

On Friday 26th May, Mr Gane, Mrs Brown and their students marked the commemoration of National Sorry Day and the start of Reconciliation Week with our school assembly. We continue to focus on working on our Reconciliation Action Plans - this year a focus on collaborating with our Clarkson cluster schools, enhancing our community engagement.

School Environment

Our classroom doors open at 8:30am. If students arrive before 8:30am they are expected to sit in the undercover area. Staff monitor the area from 8:15am. Please note that prior to 8:15am staff are not on duty. The end of the school day is 2:45pm. Students and families are expected to leave school grounds straight after school. 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 could leave the grounds as early as possible. Theircare Before and After School Care use the playgrounds as part of their areas. Thank you for your consideration of this matter. There is a playground in the park opposite the school that is a better location for families to gather.

Thank you to all families who have organised their parking arrangements since the changes at the start of this term. As a month has now passed, the City of Wanneroo will be issuing infringements to those who do not comply with the parking restrictions. Please be mindful of this and ensure you park safely and in compliance with the Regulations.

Western Australia Day

A reminder that Monday 5th June is the WA Day public holiday.

Thank you to Mrs Hill for organising WA Day packs for students to complete throughout the week, together with some literacy activities based on the theme.

Events Term 2

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

• 2nd June - Assembly Rm 17 & 18
• 5th June - WA Day public holiday
• 16th June - Arts Assembly
• 22nd June – The Fathering Project
• 27th June - Reports emailed
• Week 10 - NAIDOC excursion - Years 2 – 6. Incursions are planned during the term for Kindy – Year 1 students
• 30th June - Assembly Rm 9

Staffing

As Mrs Hadley-Hawley takes maternity leave, I will continue as Acting Principal for Term 3 2023. The position will then be advertised for Term 4 and 2024, this will be conducted by the Department of Education. Whilst I am in the position of Principal for Term 3, Miss Heather Barnwall, will continue as Deputy Principal.

A message from Mrs Zoe Hadley-Hawley

Dear Somerly Community and Staff

It is with a massive range of emotions that I share with you, I will not be returning to Somerly Primary School for the remainder of the 2023 and 2024 school years. I was granted leave for this period following the birth of my youngest daughter.

This was a decision that was not easy and came after many months of weighing up all the options available to me and considering my changed family circumstances. After having some time off with my family, I know that returning to fulltime work is not possible for me at this stage. In considering the best interest of the operational needs of the school and community, I have committed to this leave to allow some certainty and stability through the longer-term appointment of an Acting Principal.

I have been at Somerly Primary School since it opened, in many roles. I have numerous treasured memories and have gained a vast array of experiences.

As I continue to enjoy my parental leave, including coaching my daughters’ netball teams, being a school mum and looking after my gorgeous happy little baby, I wish you all the best for the remainder of the year. I am sending wishes of health and happiness to you and your families.

Sincerely yours

Mrs Zoe Hadley-Hawley

Consent2Go

We are excited to announce that we will soon be offering our families Consent2Go, a digital solution that easily enables you to keep your child’s health records accurate and provide consent for school events, excursions and camps in a secure and timely manner.

We are always looking for ways to enhance our student care and after careful evaluation of our requirements and of providers in the market, we have made the decision to use Consent2Go.

Consent2Go is a direct provider of services to the school and as such is required to comply with our Privacy Policy.

Consent2Go is used in many other schools across Australia and New Zealand and is proven to be highly effective.

Why are we changing?

For student safety it is vital that their information is as up to date as possible and complies with government regulations, the processes we currently use to support this are complex and time consuming for all involved and we have been looking for a superior solution.

Consent2Go will replace our current paper process and will be the channel that informs you about school incursions, excursions and camps, allows you to provide your consent and be the collection point for student health information.

It has an easy-to-use parent interface, including a parent app and I’m confident you will find it a much easier process for your child/children.

When will this change occur?

We are working through our implementation schedule currently and are looking to introduce the new system in the very near future. We will contact you again closer to this time and provide you with further instructions on using the new system.

New students

I would like to extend a warm welcome to Aston who recently commenced at Somerly Primary School.

Louise Carroll
A/Principal

Merit Certificates

Room 1: Elya and Xander; Room 2: Levi and Angela; Room 3: Darun and Zack; Room 4: Ayaana and Max; Room 7: Teleah, Riley. Raiden, Tina and Jai; Room 8: Issabelle, Sapphire, Aizayr, Lily, Aubree and Kalia; Room 10: Tison and Lily; Room 12: Kaiya and Layla; Room 13: Nathan; Room 15: Mik-ael and Susie; Room 16: Riley; Room 18: Nicolas and Jiya; Room 20: Lucas and Savanah; Science: Nyla – Room 10 and Deyana – Room 15; Music: Alfie, Cali Rose, Indi and Sami; Room 17: Tyde; LOTE: Classe 10, Tien – Classe 13 and Isaac – Classe 8, Art: Jaymie – Room 12 and Hazel – Room 13.

Stars

Behaviour Focus

Our behaviour focus for Week 6 is: -

• We put rubbish in the bin, even if it is not our own.

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.

Student Achievement

Congratulations to our Year 4 student, Kyra!

Kyra received the Rising Star Award at her recent Star Struck Dance Challenge, having achieved the following results:

• Top 5 soloist
• 1st place - Lyrical
• 2nd place - Jazz
• 1st place - Duo
• 2nd place - Jazz improvisation

3rd place - Lyrical improvisation

Well done Kyra - We are proud of you!

Apply to Enrol in 2024

Learning Focus

Room 5 – Year 1

Room 5's Year 1 students have been learning about information report writing. They have recently spent time writing a report, with some teacher-help, on frogs. Please enjoy their lovely pictures!

Physical Education

On Friday 26th of May our Year 5/6 students participated in the Lightning Carnival. This included Volleyball, Tag Rugby, AFL and Speedball hosted amongst schools in our sporting network. Our teams gave their top effort, and we had some great results such as Rugby finishing 2nd overall, AFL 4th (Boys)/5th (Girls), Speedball 5th (Girls)/10th (Boys), Volleyball 7th overall.

The great thing to see was students enjoying being active and part of a team environment with their friends. Thanks to all our staff for the preparation and effort they put into this event. We appreciate your help! Also special thanks to our Somerly Primary School mums Tania and Kelli with their help in the running of the AFL Carnival at Somerly Primary School!

Waste Wise Schools

Gardening Club

Gardening Club continues to run on Mondays and Wednesdays during lunch times. Our Year 1-3 students have been busy weeding our garden bed so we can plant new seedlings. On Monday we planted some more corn.

Don’t feed the fill!

This week we will be continuing with our Kindergarten and PLP Barnyard Farm incursion to help raise money to support our parents with the costs of the incursion.

So far this year we have collected 15253 containers from going to landfill.
Our term goal is to get to 20000 containers!
This week we will continue to have our Zooper Dooper Thursday!
So please continue to bring in your 10 containers!

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!

Waste Sorted Schools

Thank you, Waste Sorted Schools!

Somerly Primary School was a recipient of a Waste Sorted Schools Grant to continue our commitment to waste avoidance and resource recovery. This project is supported by the Government of Western Australia and administered by the Waste Authority.

A grant of $1845.80 was approved for funding from the Waste Authority to Somerly Primary School to purchase yellow and red wheelie bins and red bin lids to build on existing recycling and waste stream sorting.

The yellow wheelie bins were allocated to each classroom and are used to support our Containers for Change schemes. All containers are now placed in the classrooms and emptied into large bail bins supplied by The Good Sammy’s, who pick them up fortnightly.

We have forged a relationship with the Good Sammy’s Wanneroo to continue our support of our local community.

Three full red bins were allocated to the early childhood teaching blocks to assist our younger students with identifying the correct general rubbish bin. The red lids were allocated to all existing general rubbish bins to upscale and provide a more visually enhanced general bin throughout our school.

Once again thank you to Waste Sorted Schools for helping us with our waste management schemes.

This project is supported by the Government of Western Australia and adminitered by the Waste Authority

Foster Carer Recruitment

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