Dear Parents, 

All members of the Auburn North staff hope you and your families enjoyed a very special time together in late December and January. 

On behalf of all members of the Auburn North staff I would like to welcome our students and parents back to Auburn North, including our new students in Year 1 to Year 6 and their families. I would especially like to welcome our 2025 Kindergarten students and their families into our school learning community or, as we like to call it, OUR Auburn North FAMILY. 

I would like to thank all of you for ensuring your children began their new school year well-rested, immaculately dressed in their school uniforms, and excited about the new school year ahead. 

Our school's six main priorities are to assist: 

1. Our students love school, love learning, and become happy, lifelong learners. 
2. Our students develop outstanding literacy, numeracy, technology, and 21st century skills such as critical and creative thinking and collaboration. 
3. Our students live and breathe our six school values that are honesty, kindness, respect, fairness, friendship, and responsibility. 
4. Our leaders become the very best leaders they can become.
5. Our teachers become the very best teachers they can become. 
6. Our parents become active participants in their school and in their children’s learning. 

We will strategically use our People, Programs and Practices (3Ps) to achieve outstanding outcomes in all six priority areas. 

At the end of the 2024 school year, I wrote in the school newsletter that I believed 2024 was our school’s most successful year in the 24 years I had been the principal of Auburn North. I wrote that I believed it was our most successful year in terms of our leadership, teaching, student wellbeing, student learning, and parent engagement and participation. 

I also wrote that we had achieved excellent outcomes in each of these areas because of the way all members of our multi-award-winning Auburn North  FAMILY of students, staff and parents had worked tirelessly together and in perfect harmony during the year. 

While 2024 was very successful, we have planned for and we expect 2025 to be even more successful for our students, staff, parents, and our school. 

We have always had excellent school leaders, classroom teachers, and school administration staff (our wonderful office team and general assistants) however, in  2025  we have assembled the most outstanding team of leaders, teachers, and administration staff I have seen assembled in any one school during my 45 years in education. 

We have also developed a range of excellent new teaching and learning programs and practices to implement in  2025  to complement the outstanding programs and programs that are already being used in our classrooms.  

Our students are so fortunate to have such loving, supportive parents, such caring and dynamic leaders and teachers, and have access to best-practice programs and practices. 

These factors, combined with our students’ self-motivation will inspire our K-6 students to THRIVE and ACHIEVE in 2025 and become the happiest and brightest young people they can become. 

2025 IS GOING TO BE A VERY EXCITING and SUCCESSFUL YEAR. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

FORTNIGHTLY NEWSLETTERS 

Our 2025 newsletters will go home with students every second week on a  Friday. I would like to thank  Mrs Serhan and Mr Salempour, who will work together to ensure newsletters go home fortnightly with students. They will be published in two different languages to ensure that you are well-informed about YOUR school. 

https://auburnnps.schoolzineplus.com - Newsletters are also available online through the Schoolzine App and website using the link. Please click on the link below to subscribe to our digital newsletter. Schoolzine: https://auburnnps.schoolzineplus.com/subscribe. There is also information on how to download the Schoolzine app in this link and attached to this newsletter. 

The online version of the newsletter allows for users to translate the information into more than one hundred different languages. It also allows you to see all the wonderful photos in full colour and they can be enlarged on the device on which you are viewing the newsletter. 

TEMPORARY CLASSES 

While our Kindergarten to Year 6 students began learning as soon as they entered their classrooms this year, please understand their classes in weeks one, two and three are only temporary classes. 

New students have enrolled in our school this year and because some of our 2024 students moved to different suburbs during the holiday our total student enrolment number is significantly different to our anticipated figure. 

As a result, some students will need to change classes. If we don’t make changes some classes in some grades will have far more students than other classes in the same grade. This would not be fair. 

Changes to  Kindergarten classes will take place on Monday 24th February. Parents whose children move from one class to another class will be informed of the change on Monday 24th February. 

Final changes for Year 1 - Year 6 students will also take place on Monday 24th February. Parents whose children move from one class to another class will be informed of the change on Monday 24th February. 

‘MEET THE TEACHER’ PROGRAM - WEDNESDAY 26th FEBRUARY

Our very important ‘Meet The Teacher’ program will be held on Wednesday 26th February. This is a time when parents are able to meet their children’s 2025 teacher after school from 3.10pm – 4.10pm. 

More information about this program will go home next week. 

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OUR SCHOOL’S OUTSTANDING 2025 DISTRIBUTED LEADERSHIP TEAM  

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Our 2025 Executive Leaders are: 

Our 2025 Grade Leaders are: 

We will include a full list of classroom teachers and specialist teachers in the next edition of the newsletter. 

Mark Harris 

Principal