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Dear Parents,
As you know this week is the last week of this term. It has been outstandingly successful term for our students, staff, and parents in so many and varied ways. Congratulations students, staff, and parents on your hard work and achievements over the past 10 weeks.
The NSW Department of Education is very aware of the excellent quality of the Auburn North Public School Learning Community. The Department’s Leadership Institute has started to implement programs to support the further development of some of its high school and primary school executive members (eg Deputy Principals, Head Teachers, Assistant Principals) who are considering applying for principals’ positions in the next few years.
One of the Institute’s strategies to assist the further development of future school principals is to identify a small number of outstanding NSW public high schools and primary schools. It then intends on producing vodcasts that capture some of the unique features that help make these schools outstanding, and to then share these vodcasts with the future principals to further develop their leadership knowledge, skills, and abilities.
I am very proud to inform you that YOUR Auburn North school was one of the few to be selected. In fact, we were the first school to be selected. One of the main reasons Auburn North was selected was because of the way in which our students, staff, and parents teach, learn, and parent together in perfect harmony to achieve outstanding outcomes for all members of the Auburn North FAMILY.
The Institute’s Assistant Director and a film crew spent a whole day in our school last week filming our morning assembly, some of our lessons, and one of the Harmony House programs in operation. They also conducted filmed interviews with our executive members, including myself, and with some of our parents.
Some of the thoughts I shared with the film crew during my interview are outlined below:
“We believe Auburn North is a connected learning community of students, staff, and parents that is based on mutually respectful and trusting relationships. We work together as one united, cohesive team to ensure that each student achieves outstanding academic, social, emotional, and technological outcomes, and to enable them to be successful now and for the rest of their lives as lifelong learners.
Our school’s leaders, teachers, and parents are aware of the research that shows the four greatest factors that impact on student learning and wellbeing are the:
- Quality of a school’s leadership
- Quality of each individual teacher
- Level of collective teacher efficacy
- Level of parent engagement in their school and in their children’s education.
Over the years we have strategically developed, implemented, and evaluated successive school plans and their visions, missions, strategic directions, programs, and practices to ensure that our leaders, teachers, and parents have developed the knowledge, skills, and abilities to have maximise impact on the development of each individual Auburn North student.
Integral to the development of our connected learning community has been the selection of leaders and teachers who have had the nature and personality to be able to develop mutually respectful and trusting relationships with all children and adults.
Our connected learning community has produced a whole generation of outstanding adults, and over the past 3 years:
- at last 90% of students have achieved their aspirational term and annual learning targets with the other students being supported by individual learning plans ; and
- we have scored in the state’s top 2%-5% of value-added growth for K-3, Year 3-5, and 5-7.
Our learning community is never complacent and we are always restless and motivated to become an even better and more high-performing school for all its members. We have utilised a range of strategies to ensure we are always aware of and responding to the needs and interests of our students, parents, and staff. One highly successful strategy has been the development and implementation of our internal and external assessment and review schedule where we:
- Conduct annual surveys of students, parents, and teachers; and
- Request and participate in external school reviews. We have participated in six week-long reviews over the past 13 years. These have involved lesson observations, data analysis, surveys, and student, parent, and teacher focus group discussions.
Our students, parents, and staff are very proud of their connected learning community and they are very excited about its continued development.”
We hope to be able to upload the vodcast onto our website sometime next term. We will inform you when this has been done.
Student Reports-‘A Celebration of Success’
Students have today taken home their Semester 1 Reports. I am sure your children will want to sit down with you this afternoon or tonight and proudly share their efforts and achievements with you.
I have greatly enjoyed reading and signing each report and it is very clear that our motivated students, our excellent teachers, and our supportive parents have developed very strong and harmonious relationships with one another to facilitate students to learn very effectively and successfully this semester. Their reports really are ‘A Celebration of Success.’
Happy Vacation
This Friday is the last day of this term. I would like to thank the Auburn North staff for their outstanding work this term and their unrelenting commitment to achieving excellence in everything they do.
My staff and I hope you enjoy quality family time together over the next two weeks and we look forward to your children returning to school on Tuesday 23rd July motivated to continue their development in all areas and to achieve each of their DREAMs in semester two.
Mark Harris
Principal
| KB | Aagrim | For his improved determination in all learning areas and showing respect and kindness towards his teachers and peers. |
| KB | Abdu-Rahman | For working to the best of his ability in guided reading and always showing kindness. |
| KB | Inayah | For her wonderful enthusiasm and positivity in all learning areas and being an exceptional role model for her peers. |
| KB | Sameeha | For being a quiet achiever in Dari lessons and always being kind and respectful towards her peers and friends. |
| KB | Marwa | For always being an eager student to participate in Dari class discussion and answer the questions in Dari. |
| KD | Waleed | For always enthusiastically participating in all classroom activities. |
| KD | Vibutha | For working hard during writing to remember a capital letter, spaces between words and a full stop. |
| KD | Anas | For working hard during guided reading to read with expression to sound like the characters in the text. |
| KG | Mohamad | For an improved effort to complete work to the best of his ability in all learning areas. |
| KG | Abdul Rahman | For demonstrating persistence during Maths lessons to join groups together and say and record how many altogether. |
| KG | Hedda | For showing determination to write a sentence about balloons using equal spaces, a capital letter and a full stop. |
| KM | Aamin | For demonstrating character in writing lessons by not giving up. He has learnt to say his sentence then write the sentence. |
| KM | Wajiha Fatema | For working hard in writing to say her sentence, write her sentence and include spaces between her words. |
| KM | Hadi | For writing descriptive sentences which start with a capital letter, end with a full stop and have spaces between words. |
| KP | Aamena | For using words around the classroom to help her write a sentence independently. |
| KP | Kautsar | For working hard to read and write all the gold and red sight words to improve her reading and writing. |
| KP | Safaa | For cutting various objects into two equal parts to make half during maths fractions lessons. |
| 1C | Zafreen | For showing determination and enthusiasm in all maths lessons. Keep up the excellent work! |
| 1C | Muhammad Wali | For achieving his learning goal in writing by using persuasive language, capital letters and full stops. |
| 1C | Suvashish | For the commitment he has shown to improve his reading. |
| 1F | Ehipa | For listening and applying feedback during guided reading. |
| 1F | Faiz | For always contributing insightful and thoughtful ideas during class discussions. |
| 1F | Aida | For being a kind and respectful member of our class and being an excellent role model. |
| 1L | Zarwa | For her consistent effort in trying to improve her reading. |
| 1L | Aarth | For showing determination in maths lessons by staying focused and achieving his learning goals. |
| 1L | Jana | For showing determination during maths lessons by staying focused and completing her work to the best of her ability. |
| 1T | Taha | For his improved focus in class and for showing great friendship to our new 1T class member. |
| 1T | Meshaal | For your increased confidence and participation in all lessons. Well done Meshaal! |
| 1T | Reyna Shrestha | For being a respectful student who strives to do her very best in all lessons. |
| 1W | Ella | For the outstanding progress she has made in reading and writing. Keep up the fantastic work! |
| 1W | Maan | For showing the 21st Century Learning Skill of creativity by planning and writing interesting ideas in writing groups. |
| 1W | Zoha | For showing determination in maths lessons to learn her doubles and halves! |
| 2C | Meryem | For her creativity and collaboration when building a sustainable home with a water tank. |
| 2C | Meryem | For her excellent improvement in reading and responding as well as in writing in Turkish class. |
| 2C | Janice | For her creativity when writing a persuasive letter to Mr Harris about why we should have a water park at ANPS. |
| 2C | Muhammad Dawood | For his use of creativity when responding to the text 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff' by writing a 'Wanted' poster for the Troll. |
| 2M | Hasiba | For constantly striving to achieve the learning goal by giving all tasks her best effort. |
| 2M | Nathaniel | For applying himself during numeracy lessons when learning to share a collection into equal groups, rows and columns. |
| 2M | Farhan | For demonstrating a focused approach when learning to estimate, measure and record the length of items in metres. |
| 2N | Zainab | For being a motivated learner in Dari lessons who always tries her best. |
| 2N | Ithrat | For showing the 21st Century learning skill of critical thinking during our 'chance' Maths lesson when learning about likely or unlikely and certain or uncertain. |
| 2N | Emir | For showing resilience during our division lesson when sharing objects into equal groups. |
| 2N | Tyisha | For showing the 21st Century learning skills of collaboration and creativity when working on her Science project with her group. |
| 2W | Francis | For demonstrating creativity by using his imagination to invent new lands, places and worlds in the planning stage of his writing. |
| 2W | Reza | For always showing respect and kindness within the Dari classroom and playground. |
| 2W | Yassin | For confidently sharing a collection into equal groups in front of his peers. |
| 2W | Reza | For using multiple strategies such as prediction, background knowledge and the visuals to answer comprehension questions during guided reading. |
| 3N | Rawan | For working diligently during maths lessons to subtract using an algorithm. |
| 3N | Issra | For working diligently during maths lessons to add using an algorithm. |
| 3N | Mohammad | For demonstrating perseverance in all lessons and always striving to achieve the learning goal. |
| 3R | Bora | For consistently contributing to all class discussions positively and with great insight. Keep it up! |
| 3R | Rayan | For consistent effort, focus and participation in all lessons. Keep up the hard work! |
| 3R | Ahmed | For striving to successfully solve formal algorithms to add 2- and 3-digit numbers with carrying. Well done! |
| 3W | Gianna | For showing determination in maths when learning her multiplication and division facts. |
| 3W | Ahmet | For displaying the ANPS values of respect and kindness to his peers and teachers. |
| 3W | Faria | For always having a focused approach and displaying consistent effort in all learning areas. |
| 4/3H | Umar | For working diligently during Mathematics to solve multiplication and division problems using arrays. |
| 4/3H | Yusra | For successfully using the formal written algorithm to solve subtraction problems involving three-digit numbers. |
| 4/3H | Busra | For successfully using the formal written algorithm to solve addition problems involving three digit numbers. |
| 4/3H | Busra | For showing character and determination to achieve all of the success criteria in all of the learning areas in Turkish class. |
| 4A | Zuha | For showing critical thinking and working diligently within maths lessons to represent data. |
| 4A | Azrah | For always showing determination and a focused approach within all aspects of her learning. |
| 4A | Nafas | For being an excellent role model to her Dari peers and always being a respectful and kind member of Dari Class. |
| 4A | Daniya | For successfully comparing, drawing and classifying angles as acute, right, obtuse, straight, reflex or a revolution. |
| 4B | Suikar | For consistently showing friendship and kindness to his teacher and peers both inside and outside of the classroom. |
| 4B | Fershta | For being an honest and reliable student in Dari class and always striving to achieve her Dari lessons learning goals. |
| 4B | Hafsa | For successfully describing an angle as less than, greater than or equal to a right angle. |
| 4E | Ali | For demonstrating a focused approach within all learning tasks. Keep it up! |
| 4E | Hameed | For working diligently within maths lessons to display data in a table with tally marks. |
| 4E | Narges | For successfully identifying the visual literacy techniques of colour and salience within the text 'The Duck and the Darklings'. |
| 4T | Nia | For always displaying the ANPS values of kindness, respect and responsibility. |
| 4T | Shamsullah | For successfully representing data in a table using tally marks. |
| 4T | Sakina | For successfully multiplying three single-digit numbers independently. |
| 5C | Nayab | For writing a detailed comparison between the book, movie and musical of Matilda. |
| 5C | Saadet | For producing a well-structured chapter review on Matilda including a summary, character analysis, language features, comparison and opinion and recommendation |
| 5C | Asadullah | For consistently persevering in all learning areas to achieve the learning goal. |
| 5C | Pritisha | For demonstrating outstanding commitment in all learning areas. |
| 5HL | Kaynat | For displaying outstanding teamwork skills and research skills throughout science. |
| 5HL | Inayatulla | For writing a sophisticated and detailed chapter review including a clever and well-planned comparison between the book, movie and musical. |
| 5HL | Mohammad | For consistently demonstrating the Auburn North Public School values, especially respect and honesty. |
| 5P | Isabella | For her persistence and effort to always improve in all learning tasks. |
| 5P | Hiba | For demonstrating a positive attitude towards all learning tasks. |
| 6HI | Kevin | For his significant improvement across all areas of writing during Term 2. |
| 6HI | Mohammad | For his improved focus during independent learning tasks |
| 6HI | Lani | For demonstrating the ability to identify and analyse language features in a text. |
| 6M | Hirah | For describing the plot, characters, language features and themes in her book review of 'James and the Giant Peach'. |
| 6M | Bahir | For using his communication skills to explain the roles and responsibilities of local, state and federal government. |
| 6M | Abass | For always demonstrating the Auburn North values of respect and responsibility. |
| 6V | Merve | For showing character and determination in all of the key learning areas in Turkish class. |
| 6V | Mahasin | For writing a detailed book review that included an analysis of how authors use language features to engage readers. |
| KB | Mohammad | 3N | Murtaza |
| KB | Yusra | 3N | Nusayra |
| KB | Shiza | 3R | Aymen |
| KD | Khulaid | 3R | Ashaz |
| KD | Zainab | 3W | Fiza |
| KD | Adeena | 3W | Yannie |
| KG | Alamdar | 4/3H | Aishah |
| KG | Hedda | 4/3H | Zahra |
| KM | Pharell Brian | 4/3H | Donna |
| KM | Eeman | 4A | Daniya |
| KM | Zara | 4A | Azrah |
| KP | Sarina | 4A | Ecrin |
| KP | Riyon | 4B | Bushra |
| 1C | Suvashish | 4B | Pithursika |
| 1C | Hawraa | 4B | Rovaid |
| 1C | Serenity | 4B | Fatima |
| 1F | Sania | 4B | Suikar |
| 1F | Muhammad | 4E | Umaima |
| 1F | Kayana | 4E | Hameed |
| 1L | Ansar | 4E | Remas |
| 1L | Latifa | 4T | Anam |
| 1L | Arisha | 4T | Adeem-Mohamed |
| 1L | Khadeeja | 4T | Fatema |
| 1L | Suhaib | 5C | Fatemeh |
| 1T | Rayeed | 5C | Najib |
| 1T | Rifqa | 5C | Aziza |
| 1W | Maryam | 5HL | Inoke |
| 1W | Zoha | 5HL | Shebratu |
| 1W | Ella | 5HL | Mohammad |
| 2A | Muizz | 5P | Mehdi |
| 2A | Arsalaan | 5P | Daniel |
| 2C | Habiba | 5P | Jasmina |
| 2C | Janice | 6HI | Mohamed Izwath |
| 2C | Zaid | 6HI | Khadija |
| 2C | Aarushi | 6HI | Ahmet |
| 2M | Jordan | 6M | Iosefa |
| 2M | Jia Long | 6M | Afia |
| 2M | Setayesh | 6M | Nida |
| 2N | Aahil | 6M | Roqaia |
| 2N | Azlan | 6M | Baneen |
| 2W | Farwah Zahra | 6V | Nawid |
| 2W | Mohamed Uwais | 6V | Arsh |
| 2W | Yusuf | 6V | Parniyon |
| 3N | Ibrahim | 6V | Jana |
Mission: Auburn Schools as Community Centre or Harmony House seeks to provide a holistic service to parents, families and individuals to promote their health and wellbeing.
Term 3 2019 Parent Initiatives
- NEW FREE Breakfast for Dads on Saturday 31st August 9.30-12 at Auburn Centre for the Community
- NEW School Community Garden gardening for fun with parents 1.30-2.30pm Monday 12th August
- NEW 3-5 year old children SPORTS group Friday
- Learn ENGLISH by qualified teachers on Monday & Thursday
- Eat a healthy BREAKFAST for children on Monday, Wednesday & Friday
- Learn to have fun with your child and see them grow & develop at PLAYGROUP Tuesdays
- YOUNG PARENTS under 25 years of age Project: Barista training
- Learn to Swim group program for women on Wed
- Stretch & relax at YOGA on Fridays
- PLAYGROUP for children with developmental needs
- PLAYGROUP at Auburn Public School
Contact: Auburn North Public School
Harmony House: 100 Adderley St. Auburn 97487606
Twitter: @AuburnHarmony
Website https://auburnnth-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/
Links to Auburn North Public School Plan 2018-2020 Strategic Directions 3. Engage families as partners in learning.
School holidays are from 6th July to 22nd July.
Students return on Tuesday 23rd July.
Many Highlights From Turksh Community Language Classes
‘Our Vision is to be Australia’s most outstanding future-focused learning community.’
Vizyonumuz öğrenen toplumumuzu Avustralya’nın en seçkin, geleceğe odaklanmış öğrenen toplumu olmasını sağlamaktır.
‘Merhaba’
The Turkish Community language learning is connected with our school’s 2018-2020 School Vision and collaboratively developed, implemented and evaluated scope and sequence programs and practices to meet each individual student’s immediate and future needs and interests.
The students had many highlights in Term 1 and during Term 2 including reading books, writing poems, narratives and creative stories in Turkish, independent research using information technology and presentation for project work on topics such as ‘‘The Famous Person in Turkey or in Australia’ and ‘ The Turkish Story book review and independent Story writing’ .
The students have further improved their reading comprehension skills on ‘fiction’ and ‘non-fiction’ story books in Turkish’ in each stage level . Most of the students had the opportunity to read Turkish books from beginner to advanced levels both in Turkish classroom as well as in ANCLIC.
In writing the Turkish Community Language students have further developed their independent writing skills especially in using compound and complex sentences with correct structures.
The Kindergarten students learnt the sounds of ten letters in Turkish alphabet and learnt to write simple sentences using the learnt vocabulary. The students learnt the numbers 1-10, 2D shapes, main colours and singing the educatıonal children songs like ‘Arı Vız Vız’,’Mini mini bir kuş’, nursery rhymes and circle games like ‘ On Tane Yeşil Şişe Sallanıyor’, ‘Yağ Satarım Bal Satarım’. The topics covered are ’Me and the Family members’ and ‘The School Environment’.
The Stage 1 students further developed their listening and responding, reading and responding skills and improved in writing compound and complex sentences on topics such as ‘Growing and Changing’ and ‘The Calendar’.
It has been a wonderful learning experience for Stage 2 students with heighlights such as creating art works on the unit of work ‘Natural and Built Environment’ and improved their independent writing skills on ‘describing the features of places and connections people have with places’.
The Stage 3 students have further developed their project based learning and independent writing skills in Turkish using laptops and Ipads for thier research on topics ‘ An Australian and a Turkish Famous Person’ as well as ‘ The Turkish Story book review and independent Story writing’.
I would like to congratulate all of the Turkish Community Language students as well as the parents whom have actively participated in their children’s Community language learning,
Please take your time to read some of our students’ work samples with their photos attached.
Mr Mehmet Kayacan
Turkish CL Teacher
