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“My name is Shiva and I have been learning ballet since the age of 3. This year I was invited to compete at the YAGP (Youth America Grand Prix) semi-finals. YAGP is the world’s largest ballet competition. I performed 3 dances: Giselle Peasant Pas de Deux, Paquita, and Vivaldi’s Primavera. My scores were high enough to qualify me for the New York City finals where, out of 5000 international applicants, only 250 soloists were invited to compete. I was honoured to be able to dance along side some of the world’s best at the New York City Centre and I truly hope to have the opportunity again!”

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Passion for Dance
“My name is Shiva and I have been learning ballet since the age of 3. This year I was invited to compete at the YAGP (Youth America Grand Prix) semi-finals. YAGP is the world’s largest ballet competition. I performed 3…

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SPA Fall News letter for the 2011/2012 school year.

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Sports Updates

The Athletic Awards were held on Friday, June 17, 2011. The event highlighted the successes that our teams had throughout this past sports season and congratulated our athletes and coaches for all their hard work, sportsmanship and dedication. Here is a highlight video of Sommerville's sports teams for 2011-2012! Check out our athletes in action throughout the year!

Arts in Focus

This year's Arts Night was held on Monday, June 6, 2011. The event was a huge success and featured student work, performances and the highly anticipated Film Festival. Check out this video from Arts Night 2011 featuring some of Sommerville's Grade 8 students.

The Grade 6 students have been hard at work creating stop motion animations in Drama and Art classes. Thank you to the Sommerville Parent Association for providing the digital video cameras. They can be viewed here.

Tech Updates

Check out this video of Stormbots: Sommerville's Robotics team. They had a hugely successful season and look forward to improving their skills for next year.

Want to know how our laptop programme is making a difference for our students? Contact us to find out.

Upgrades to our internet and wireless network have made the launch of the new laptop programme, cart system and Interactive Whiteboards a huge success. Keep checking here for updates on how students are interacting with these new innovations.

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Spelling Bee - Primary
Primary Readers Den
J/I Readers Den
Robotics
Choir (J/I)
Card Making
Choir (Primary)
Yearbook

Do you like to learn how to spell new words? Do you want to improve your spelling skills? Do you want to compete against other students to become the top speller for your grade, division or even the whole school? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then the Junior/Intermediate Spelling Bee Club is the club for you! We will be meeting on Wednesdays during lunch recess to practice, learn compete and eventually to make Sommerville's first ever Spelling Bee Team.

Do you like to learn how to spell new words? Do you want to improve your spelling skills? Do you want to compete against other students to become the top speller for your grade, division or even the whole school? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then the Primary Spelling Bee Club is the club for you! We will be meeting on Tuesdays during lunch recess to practice, learn compete and eventually to make Sommerville's first ever Spelling Bee Team.

Primary Readers Den runs all year on Thursdays from 12:20 to 12:45 in the library. This is a drop-in programme where students are welcome to listen to books on tape or CD, read 3-D books, or check out the shelves for new reading material. No registration is required and students may come any Thursday. It is a great opportunity to get to know the library better in a relaxed, unstructured environment. All primary students are welcome.

J/I readers den runs all year in the library on Wednesdays from 11:55 to 12:20. This is a drop-in programme for all students in grades 4 to 8. It is a great opportunity to search for new reading material, peruse some of our in-school resources, or just catch up on your reading. Students may attend any Wednesday, but must remain in the library the entire time.

The robotics team meets every Monday and Wednesday after school until 5pm. The team is preparing for their First Lego League Food Factor Tournament in December 2011.

J/I choir is held on Thursday at lunch recess.

The card making club is offered to students in grade 3. We will be making a variety of greeting cards based on special occasions and holidays depending on the time of year. This will be offered one Monday a month throughout the school year. Cards will include Christmas, Valentine's, Mothers Day, Fathers Day, Birthday, Thank you, and a free choice.

All students in grades 1, 2 and 3 are invited to participate in our Primary Choir which is held during the lunch hour each Wednesday. Primary Choir begins in October and we work on preparing songs for the Christmas concert; every year our Primary Choir is one of the major highlights of this concert and parents are always amazed by the calibre of their performance.

Choir members take a short break after the holidays and in March our weekly practices begin again as we prepare our repertoire for the end of year Musicfest concert. All of the songs we sing in primary Choir are FUN, and the children thoroughly enjoy themselves. Many songs are action songs, which the children particularly enjoy and there are also opportunities for solo performances for those students who wish to showcase their talents on stage. It is always a joy to work with the Primary children in choir; they certainly know how to enjoy music!

The Yearbook Committee works all year round to put together a fun and accurate representation on the school year. Our goal is to include the entire school body as we create a memorable book for each student to be able to look back on and remember.

We meet each Monday after school throughout the school year.