21 August 2024

Principal’s Report

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.

Kaya Families,

What a fantastic effort be every Australian Olympian, take some time to celebrate their stories and journey to success with your child, as they too are embarking on their own journeys for success.

Congratulations to the students who participated in the Clarkson Challenge last week, Shanae, Cormack, Sydney, Enaj, Zain, Jozef, Alliyah and Aryan. They were selected to represent Somerly Primary School.  The competition is a battle of the minds and success is determined by team work. Clarkson Community High School will be attending our school to present the students with the trophy in the coming week.

We were very fortunate last week to have the Member for Pearce Tracey Roberts MP attend our school to present our children with a seed library, consisting of vegetable, flower and bush tucker seeds. The aim is to develop a generation of junior growers who understand where food comes from and gain the knowledge and skills to grow their own.

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Book Week

We changed things a little this year and held the book parade on Monday, in two sessions, so that families could sit in the undercover area and enjoy seeing their children and their classmates in character costumes. We hope you enjoyed the morning, and we would love to hear your feedback on the event, please email somerly.ps@education.wa.edu.au.

I would like to thank Mr Gane for hosting the event, and our amazing staff who dressed up in amazing costumes to share in the joy of bringing story characters to life. We are so lucky to have a wonderful group of staff who find enjoyment in their profession.

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The Book Fair opened on Tuesday 20^th and runs until Friday 23^rd, please feel welcome to drop into the library and browse the selections available for purchase.

Our Grandparent’s Afternoon Tea will be held on Thursday 22^nd at 2.15pm, please RSVP attendance to the front office.

Save the Dates

• 20th - 23rd August – Book Fair
• 22ndAugust – Grandparent’s Afternoon Tea – please RSVP
• 23rd August – Rooms 1 and 2 assembly
• 30th August – Rooms 17 and 18 assembly
• 2nd September - Board Meeting
• 2nd September - P&C meeting 1pm
• 4th September – Indigenous Literacy Day
• 5th September - Father’s Day event
• 6th September - Athletics Carnival
• 13th September - Parent/Teacher Interviews

Parent/Teacher Interviews

A reminder that the parent/teacher interviews will occur on Friday 13th September.  The school will close early at 11:45am. If you require afterschool care TheirCare will be available from 11:45am.

An invitation to book for interviews will be opened from Friday 30thAugust until Thursday 12th September 2024.  Please book in early as the best spots fill quickly. The interviews will be available from 12pm until 5pm.

Our year 6 students will be hosting a bake stall and preloved stall as a fundraiser for their Year 6 events. We hope you can support them by either donating goods or buying goods from their stalls. TheirCare are organising a coffee van to be on site for the afternoon.  

P&C

The P&C will be meeting on Monday 2nd September at 1pm in the school conference room, all are welcome to attend. We hope to see school community members attend to help support our P&C with events that in turn help our children.

School Board

If you would like to be a part of our School Board, we have a position available for a parent to join. The School Board plays an important role in contributing to effective school governance so that resources are used efficiently, and community expectations along with the school’s priorities reflect the needs of the students. Ensuring diversity on the School Board leads to well-informed decision-making, new ideas, opinions, appropriate solutions and stronger connections with the school community. 

We have a Board meeting on Monday 2nd September at 9am.

 Please contact Louise Carroll via email if you are interested in this opportunity – louise.carroll@education.wa.edu.au.

New students

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

Louise Carroll
Principal

Stars

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Reading Superstars

Behaviour Focus

Our behaviour focus for Week 6:-

We are learning to: be safe in the playground by keeping our hands, feet and objects to ourselves.

This is because: everyone is entitled to play safely.

What we will see:

• Students playing in a responsible way.
• Rules being followed.
• Students using polite and respectful words when speaking to each other.
• Students seeking adult support when issues can’t be resolved.
• Sports equipment being used correctly.

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.

Art Project

Over the past few weeks Rooms 3 and 4 have participated in a special painting activity for our Somerly Primary School garden beds. The students chose their favourite colours and with guidance placed their handprints onto the garden beds to ‘make their mark’ on our planters. The students did an amazing job and enjoyed the opportunity to be a part of such a special project. Some of our year 1 students also helped to plant some wonderful new plants with Mrs Mulder into the garden beds.

Next time you are walking past rooms 3 and 4, don’t forget to check out this beautiful new area that the students have worked so hard on creating for us all to share. 

Miss Defty - Art Specialist

Science Week 2024

National Science Week runs from the 10^th -18^th August. This year’s theme was Species Survival - More than just sustainability. The theme aimed to highlight the importance of science and innovation in ensuring the survival and thriving of different species in an ever-changing world. To educate our students about this important topic we had an incursion for years 1 to 6.

The amazing team from WA Wildlife came to our school on the 13^th and 14^th August and brought with them some local, scaley wildlife to teach our students about the animals, their vital role in our ecosystem, and importantly how we can work together to protect them.

Our students had an amazing time and for many it was the first time they have had the opportunity to get up close and personal with these animals, many faced their fears and touched a snake or a lizard. We also had several students write recounts of their favourite things about the incursion and all our classes completed morning literacy activities that linked to Science Week.

Morning Activities:

Clarkson Challenge 2024

Another exciting event run during Science Week is the Clarkson Challenge. The Clarkson Challenge is an annual academic problem-solving program in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths), where 2 teams of 4 students from Years 4-6 interested in science are set problems to solve using scientific knowledge, technology skills and teamwork, all while following a design process.

On August 15^th the students visited Clarkson Community High School for the day and competed in the challenge for the chance to win free tickets to Sci-Tech and a giant trophy. In line with this year's science week them, Species Survival - more than sustainability the students were given an endangered species and together in their groups of 4 they had to create a model of their animal or plant out of recycled cardboard and then they had to create a PowerPoint explaining what their species was, why it was endangered and how they could help save it. Both our teams represented our school positively, showing maturity, teamwork and problems solving skills to complete the task. At the end of the day both teams had to present their presentation in the auditorium for judging.

I would like to congratulate the ‘Somerly Warriors’ who came first, beating the teams from Clarkson and Merriwa Primary Schools. They presented some amazing facts and ideas about how to save the Kimberley Death Adder. Well done to Zain, Shanae, Jozef and Enaj!

Mrs Mulder

Waste Wise Schools

Gardening Club

Kaya Somerly community, we have started term three with a bang, we are working hard to clear and prepare our garden area for our new greenhouse which will be starting in October! Three garden beds were removed and two were placed in the year one area and the seven composting bins had to be emptied and removed. A special thank you to our P & C sustainability subcommittee for helping in our garden too!

Don’t feed the fill!
Be the Change!

Thank you to all our staff, students, and community for continuing to support our Containers for Change challenges!

Congratulations!

2023 Total 51526 containers!
2024 Goal 60000 containers!
Our current total is 36978 containers!

Congratulations as a whole community we collected 7153 containers for Helping Hand Challenge and congratulations to Dominic and his family from room 3 who won the family zoo pass, Dominic and his family donated an amazing 1100 containers to help our year 6’s get to camp!

Our Challenge winners were

Other Classroom totals were:

Room 1 – 684   Room 2 – 824   Room 3 – 456   Room 4 – 2493   Kindy 5 – 38
Kindy 6 – 333   Room 7 – 119   Room 8 – 198   Room 9 – 26   Room 10 – 2
Room 11 – 62   Room 12 – 104   Room 13 – 311   Room 14 – 44   Room 15 – 287
Room 16 – 336  Room 17 – 262 Room 18 – 322   Room 20 – 66   Room 21 – 143
Eating areas - 534

Our next challenge is

We have some great prizes for our students, parents, and teachers.

Bring in your 30 containers and receive a ticket into the draw for a ROBLOX $50 voucher!

This will be drawn in week 10 at our Monday morning communications meeting!

We have had some great competition from our ECE Block 1 so everyone please get involved!

Let’s Celebrate

We were featured in the Waste Sorted Schools’ newsletter again, here is the link to the article and we are also through to the finals for the Waste Sorted Schools’ Awards so congratulations everyone!

So please help us to Save our Planet Save our Future!
We are the Change!

Chess Club

Mrs Johnsen has been running Chess Club for our Years 3 to 6 students, which is being held at lunchtime on Thursdays each week.

School Board

The Somerly Primary School Board wishes to inform the community that Sharni Coster has stepped down from her role as a parent member of the board. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Sharni for her valuable contributions during her time with us. Sharni has shown unwavering dedication to improving our school and community through her work on the board, and we deeply appreciate her efforts in making a positive impact.

While Sharni's insightful presence on the board will be missed, we are excited to see how she will continue to support our school and community through her focus on the P&C. Her ongoing commitment to Somerly Primary School is a testament to her passion for student wellbeing and community service. We look forward to seeing all that she achieves in the future and wish her every success in her endeavours.

If you, or a fellow parent, are interested in making a meaningful impact on our school by joining the board, please reach out to Louise Carroll via the office.

Warm regards.
Harry Turnbull - School Board Chair

P & C