Celebration of
Learning
Regional Cross Country
On Tuesday the 31st of May, our student Kobee represented Somerville Primary School at Division Cross Country. After a hard race, Kobee came in at 9th place, securing herself a spot at the next race;
On Tuesday the 15th, Kobee competed in the Regional Cross Country race at Hastings Foreshore. Somerville Primary are stoked to have her representing our school, district and division at the event! What a fantastic opportunity.
Well done Kobee!
Indigenous Studies
Year One and Two students have been learning about the importance and significance of an Acknowledgement of Country during Indigenous Studies lessons. We understand that an Acknowledgement of Country is an opportunity to show respect to the Traditional Owners and their continued connection to the land. Somerville Primary is located on Boon Wurrung/Bunurong Country.
In class, we have looked at many examples and then had a go at writing one as a class. Today’s newsletter includes Year 2R’s Acknowledgement of Country at the beginning of the newsletter. It is also proudly displayed in their classroom. Look out for Acknowledgements of Country from different classes in future newsletters.
Danielle Antoniou
Somerville Primary School Artists
Year 1 ‘Bees’
Year 3 ‘Space’
Year 4 ‘Snow landscapes’
Melbourne Museum Year One Excursion
Last week on Monday 6th June the Year One’s went on an Excursion to The Melbourne Museum to explore more about our Inquiry Unit on Mini Beasts. We visited the Bugs Alive Exhibition where there were over 5000 Mini Beasts on display for us to explore and learn more about. We also participated in a lesson run by the Museum called Bugs Bugs Bugs! The students experienced being investigators and identifying the different features of some of the mini beasts we had seen in the exhibit. See what our investigators thought of the day;
Billie: My favourite part was the big hairy tarantulas.
Sonny: I liked the dinosaur bones and when we saw the Fire Ants.
Nixon: We went to the Bugs Bugs Bugs!. We learnt what a bug is.
Skye: My favourite was the Red Back Spider as it has a red dot on its bottom.
Evie: I went into the big Ant dome.
Addison: I loved seeing the spiders.
Apolosi: We saw Bugs Bugs Bugs in some glass and there were about 5000 bugs.
Kai: We went on the bus and I loved the bus.
Ashton: My favourite one was the tarantulas. They were brown and they are hairy and big.
Quinn: I liked going into the Ant dome!
Archie: My favourite part was seeing all the mini beasts.
Zienna: I liked going into the ant dome. The ants were crawling around.
Macey: I liked the Redbacks because they have a little bit of red!
Thomas: We got to do fun work in the Bugs Bugs Bugs and I loved it!
Zoe: My favourite bug was the beetle. It was fantastic.
Tom: My favourite was the red back.
Koa: I liked all the bugs at Melbourne Museum.
Willow: We saw butterflies and we saw ladybugs.
Olive: My favourite was the spiders. We had the best time.
Gaia: There were 2 million bugs at the museum!
Madison: My favourite was the bees, butterflies, spiders and centipedes.
Alizal: I enjoyed looking at 5000 bugs.
Elijah: I loved all 2 million bugs.
Oscar: There were 5000 bugs on display but 2 million bugs altogether at Melbourne Museum.
Hugh: My favourite was the Christmas beetle.
Carter: I looked at all of the spiders.
Lila: The butterfly and ladybug was my favourite.
Alex - The museum was big and there were 2 million bugs there
Michaela - My favourite part was seeing all the butterflies
Theo - I learnt that insects have 3 body parts
Ryder - I saw ants in a colony and I put my head in a dome that was in the colony!
Hunter - We got to go in a lab and learnt about the bugs
Ruby - my favourite thing was seeing the butterflies
Marhli - We got to go on a big bus that took an hour or more
Zayden - Wesaw ants carrying different things
Cody - We got to see an Owl butterfly
Middle Swimming
Middles have enjoyed swimming last week and today was their final one, they did well walking up in a week of wet weather.
Senior Lightning Premiership snaps
