WELCOME back to school everyone.
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The students and staff have returned from their summer holiday refreshed and ready to begin another busy, productive year.
We welcome Mr Nicholas Clark to our staff who will be mainly working with the K-2 students in literacy and numeracy. We were sad to see Mrs Cupples leave us at the end last year however we welcome Mrs Jodie Markwick to our staff as the new Student Learning Support Officer (SLSO).
We also welcome our new enrolments in Kindergarten, Matthew Pollard, Sophie Hook, Keisha Johnston and Matilda Holden.
Sadly we said farewell to our Year 6 student, Tiara Markwick who has gone to high school in Tamworth, and to Ben Gardner, who went into year 6 in Gunnedah.
We trust they are settling in well and are making lots of new friends.
This year we have 16 students attending Somerton Public School.
Due to the increase in numbers we have decided to split the classes again and have a K-2 class taught by Mr Clark and a 3-6 class taught by Ms Reid.
In the afternoon the students will combine to form one class and do afternoon lessons. Thank you parents - the students look fantastic in their school uniforms and they are all well equipped with their hats, drink bottles and school equipment.
Sports uniforms are to be worn on Fridays.
Summertime Reading
In the last week of term in 2015 each student took home a pack of books for reading over the holiday break.
Congratulations to all those students who read and recorded their reading over the holiday break.
As a reward students received a "Bluey" for every 10 books read and recorded in the reading folder.
We are excited to announce that from those packs returned, the students at Somerton PS read a combined total of 235 times over their holiday break.
This wonderful response demonstrates our students' commitment to their learning as well as supporting the retention of their knowledge and skills in learning to read. Well done.
Congratulations to our champion reader Charlotte Heywood who read a total of 82 times and earned eight "Blueys" for her effort.
Cooking
Cooking classes will continue this year. Ms Reid's class will cook on Wednesdays and Mr Clark's class will cook on Thursdays.