19 September 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

Athletics Carnival 2024

Thank you to all who attended our Athletics Carnival, it was a perfect day with so many children participating in activities and challenging themselves. We introduced a new badge of honour, our Star Sportsmanship badge. Which was presented to students who displayed good sportsmanship qualities throughout the day. Congratulations to those students, you can feel very proud of being selected. A big thank you to all the staff, it is always an exciting day, you are amazing for all you do behind the scenes and during the day to keep the children participating at their best.

Thank you to our P&C for organising the sausage sizzle, coffee and ice-cream vans and thank you to all the parents who assisted throughout the day.

Congratulations to Alkimos as our winning faction, and well done to all our competitors who put in their best efforts. Mrs Ochieng will be notifying the students who have qualified to compete in the Interschool Athletics Carnival on Friday 18^th October (Week 2). Parents, please remind your child that to represent Somerly Primary School in the Interschool Carnival they also must maintain their Good Standing to attend this event. Please check Consent2Go for permission and payment due.

Congratulations to the students who attended Principal’s Lunch on Thursday 12^th September, it was lovely to see all the respectful students we have at Somerly Primary School, they were especially happy with their ice-creams.

Thank you to all the parents who attended our Parent Teacher interviews, it is always valued when we can discuss our shared expectations for your children and share their journey with the clear intentions of progress and success. The Year 6 students appreciated the support with their fundraiser, they will use the funds to helps reduce the cost of their end of year excursion and graduation. Thank you to Theircare for organsing the coffee van, we hope you enjoyed their service.

WasteSorted Awards 2024

If you haven’t heard already Somerly Primary School won the WasteSorted Award for 2024, competing against other schools we were successful in winning the award due to the initiatives we currently run in the school, and with the support of the school community. The outstanding work we are doing with sorting rubbish (especially our cleaners who always do the right thing), recycling paper, FOGO bins, compost, worm farm, Waste Warriors, Captain Recycle, Containers for Change, supporting Good Sammy’s and the collaboration with P&C Sustainability Subcommittee. Through the leadership of Mrs Mulder and Ms Sanders we all contribute to make this award possible.  Thank you, as we say “Save our planet to save our future”, congratulations to everyone who has supported our sustainability journey. We look forward to the next part of this journey.

If you would like to see more please take a look at our video Somerly Primary School I Containers for Change WA (youtube.com) and or the article written in the WasteSorted newsletter Term 3 Newsletter 2024 | Newsletter | WasteSorted Schools | Waste Authority WA

Changes to Reporting Requirements

The Department of Education has advised schools of changes to Reporting requirements. Somerly Primary School will:

• continue with reporting strand grades and overall grades for each learning area.
• there will be no learning area comments.
• include a general comment.
• information on the student’s attitude, behaviour and effort/personal and social learning will also be included.

Parents can request teacher meetings to gain information regarding a student’s achievement relative to the performance of the student’s peer group.

Save the Dates

• Monday 16th – Wednesday 18^th September – Year 6 camp
• Friday 20^th September - World Peace Day Assembly Rooms 15 and 16
• Friday 20^th September - Last day of Term 3
• Monday 7^th October – First day of Term 4
• Wednesday 9^th October - First day of Swimming for PP - Yr 4 students
• Wednesday 16^th October – Thank you Cleaners and Gardeners Day
• Friday 18^th October - Interschool Carnival

New students

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

Wishing everyone a safe and happy holiday break. We look forward to seeing you back for Term 4.

Louise Carroll
Principal

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Behaviour Focus

Our behaviour focus for Week 10:-
We are learning to: Follow all instructions given by staff as soon as possible.
This is because: everyone is entitled to learn in a safe and calm environment.

What we will see:

• Students completing tasks as requested.
• Students listening and responding to instructions.
• Students seeking adult support when they do not understand.

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.

Planning 2025

The complex process of planning for 2025 class structures and assigning staff has begun. It is important that detailed and accurate planning is completed so that we have enough staff for the commencement of the school year. If you are leaving Somerly Primary School and have not yet advised the front office, please do so as soon as possible. 

Planning classes for 2025 is no easy task and staff spend considerable time and effort to ensure suitable placements, balancing every individual student’s needs, including academic, social, emotional, and behavioural. We do ask that if you have any specific requirements or considerations, please put these in writing and pass to the front office as soon as possible. Please note that all requests will be considered but cannot be guaranteed.

Pre-Primary Father’s Day/Special Person’s Day Event

Thank you to all the dad’s and special people who made it out to the Pre-Primary Father’s Day/Special Person’s Day event. 

We loved watching you read stories, build blocks, popstick face shave, make paper planes and more together. 

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 5465containers for our Save our Planet Save our Future challenge. Our winner of the Sci Tech family pass will be drawn on Monday. Good Luck!

Our Challenge winners were

Room 2 collecting 647 containers!

Other classroom totals

As it is our last week of term, we as having a

Day on Friday so bring in your 10 containers or a $1 donation!

We are looking forward to a big term four to get to our target of 60000 containers!

We are the Change!

Music Update

Guitar Students for 2025/2026

Congratulations to our new fabulous five students who have earned a place in the IMSS Guitar program for 2025/26.

Amali, Jozef, Nicolas, Mariia, and Brent.

More Exciting News

In Mental Health Week, week 4, Term 4 we will have two fantastic live music performances coming to Somerly Primary School. Akwaaba Drumming Group will bring drums to all our students on Thursday 31^st October - PP to Year 6 can learn African Rhythms. The incursion is being fully funded by the school as part of our whole school health and wellbeing endeavours. WASO (Western Australian Symphony Orchestra) will also be bringing their String Quartet for two free concerts on the Tuesday so we can experience live the instruments we have been learning about.

Watch the Consent2go space!!!

Sports Carnival

Somerly Athletics Carnival Results 2024

Individual Medal Winners

Somerly Athletics Carnival Results 2024

Somerly Sportsmanship Stars

Overall Faction Results

School Board – Janelle Smith

I am a Wagyl Kaip, Gnaala Karla Boodja Nyoongar Yorga living on and having kinship connections to Whudjuk Boodjar.

I have been a parent of the Somerly Primary School community since 2022. I am also on the P&C supporting the school community with sharing knowledge and education about culture and school events such as NAIDOC week. I also volunteer with NAIDOC Perth opening day.

I am currently working with Karla Kuliny (Return to Campfire) Aboriginal Organisation to support Aboriginal children in Out of Home Care. I hope to be able to support the Somerly children, families, and Community with my skillset around Early Childhood Education and Development to build stronger futures.  In my spare time I enjoy spending time with my family, painting and reading.

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