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Auburn North shines and stars ...again!
The Head of the NSW Department of Education is the Secretary, Mr Mark Scott. Each year a very small number of NSW public primary schools and high schools are selected to receive a ‘NSW Secretary’s Award for Excellence’. I am very proud to inform you that Auburn North Public School was selected to receive not one but TWO ‘2019 Secretary’s Awards for Excellence’.
From the more than 2,200 public schools in NSW, Auburn North was the ONLY school to receive TWO awards. In fact, our school was the ONLY school to be selected to receive both awards last year as well.
This extraordinary achievement reflects so positively on the outstanding quality of our school learning community and our students, staff, and parents.
Our Auburn North Public School Learning Community was selected to receive the:
- ‘2019 Secretary’s Award for An Outstanding School Initiative Award'; and the
- ‘2019 Secretary’s School Achievement Award’.
Our school was selected to receive the ‘2019 Secretary’s Award for An Outstanding School Initiative Award’ for our ‘Leadership for Whole-School Improvement’ initiative.
Research shows the quality of a school’s leadership team is one of the greatest factors that assist students achieve high quality learning outcomes. Therefore, leadership development has been a major priority at Auburn North for the past 20 years.
Auburn North’s 2018-2019 ‘Leadership for Whole-School Improvement’ initiative has significantly improved the leadership capacity of the distributed leadership team of 12 members and the knowledge, skills and abilities of each member and, according to data, led to Auburn North becoming an even better and more high-performing school for students, staff, and parents.
Auburn North leaders have participated in high quality leadership development programs and initiatives including the Executive Ready Program, researching most effective leadership strategies for improved team performance, and participating in weekly workshops. Leaders have then effectively used their skills in a variety of ways including:
- assisting students with their learning in classrooms;
- regularly meeting, mentoring and coaching Auburn North teachers;
- coordinating outstanding professional learning programs for teachers;
- organising grade workshops and collaborative planning programs; and
- analysing videos of themselves teaching or their teachers teaching lessons.
Our school was selected to receive the ‘2019 Secretary’s School Achievement Award’ for our ‘Parents as Partners in Learning’ program.
Auburn North’s ‘Parents as Partners in Learning’ program was developed and implemented in response to research that shows when parents are involved in their children’s education students perform better at school, and in response to the desire of Auburn North parents to further develop their knowledge and skills to assist their children’s learning.
As you know, the program has involved parents participating in small group, grade-based workshops where they have worked with their children’s teachers to develop an understanding of how their children learn literacy, numeracy, and technology in their classrooms, and have developed the skills to assist their children at home with their learning.
Evidence clearly demonstrates that the ‘Parents as Partners in Learning’ program has had a profound positive impact on participating parents and has assisted their children further develop their learning.
I hope you feel very proud to be the member of our multi-award-winning public school learning community that is recognised as being a leader in the area of education. I also hope you feel proud to be a member of a learning community that is always striving to become a better home-away-from-home for its students, parents, and staff.
FATHER’S DAY STALL
This year’s Father’s Day stall was a great success. All Auburn North students had the opportunity to select from a wide range of gifts to give to the Dads on Father’s Day to help their Dads enjoy a day they will always remember always.
The stall was a fabulous success due to the hard work of a number pf parents. In particular, I would like to thank Mrs Zenna Diab, Mrs Acar, and Mrs Zreika for purchasing and preparing the gifts. I would also like to thank Mrs Apaydin, Mrs Salem, Mrs Aho, Mrs Asfaq, and Mr Acar for assisting the children select their gifts from the stall.
| KB | Iman | For displaying so much effort, talent and creativity in learning the community festival day dance. |
| KB | Ameer | For working to his very best in all learning tasks. Welcome to the Auburn North family! |
| KD | Prayan | For always working hard to reach his learning goal in writing. |
| KD | Tayyab | For always showing the value of friendship within the classroom by helping his peers when needed. |
| KG | Benny Tak Wing | For working hard during Maths lessons to correctly compare the area of two objects. |
| KM | Daniel | For learning to take numbers away by removing some objects, counting how many are left and recording his answer. |
| KM | Wajiha Fatema | For working hard to independently write sentences that include a capital letter, spaces and a full stop. |
| KP | Fiona | For using the book "One is a snail and 10 is a crab" to make and explore different combinations that make the number 12. |
| KP | Fatma | For achieving her writing goal by using the word "and" to join two ideas together in one sentence. |
| 1C | Emily | For consistently taking care to produce high quality book work. |
| 1C | Ethan | For showing the 21st century learning skill of critical thinking by working systematically to solve challenging maths problems. |
| 1F | Beyzanur | For coming up with creative and interesting ideas in writing. |
| 1L | Mahdi | For staying focused and motivated in guided reading lessons to improve his reading level. |
| 1L | Ege | For consistently demonstrating all the ANPS values and being an excellent role model for his peers. |
| 1T | Kasim | For the excellent commitment she shows in all areas of her learning. |
| 1T | Izaan | For showing consistent determination and focus in all lessons. Well done! |
| 1W | Arnav | For showing determination in maths to estimate, measure and record the area of different shapes. |
| 1W | Faiza | For showing determination to work out how many tens and ones are in a two-digit number. Well done! |
| 2A | Abdullah | For thinking critically when learning to tell the time at a quarter to and quarter past the hour. |
| 2C | Muhammed Rashdan | For showing determination when interpreting a treasure map to find treasure around the COLA. |
| 2M | Jia Long | For demonstrating character by participating in Community Festival Day performance practices with great enthusiasm |
| 2M | Mujtaba | For working diligently when learning to tell the time to 'a quarter past' and 'a quarter to' the hour. |
| 2N | Hamza | For his enthusiasm and commitment during all Community Festival Day dance practices. Keep it up! |
| 2W | Rida | Positively settling into 2W and the ANPS family with an open mind and an enthusiastic attitude. |
| 3N | Faiza | For always demonstrating the ANPS values of respect, kindness and responsibility. |
| 3N | Sikandar | For working diligently to identify angles as acute, obtuse or right angles. |
| 3R | Elaine | For always demonstrating the ANPS value and 21st Century skill of fairness and collaboration when working with peers. |
| 3R | Ayesha | For working hard in mathematics to correctly compare and identify angles as acute, right and obtuse. Keep it up! |
| 3W | Yannie | For showing critical thinking in maths by investigating how many right angles and acute angles can be found in every letter of the alphabet. |
| 3W | Neloofar | For showing determination in maths to identify and compare right, acute and obtuse angles. |
| 4/3H | Aishah | For always showing the Auburn North Public School value of responsibility by actively participating in all learning activities. |
| 4/3H | Ali | For working diligently during grammar lessons to correctly use quotation marks to show character speech. |
| 4A | Rubina | For continually showing good character and kindness and constantly showing eagerness to help her peers and teachers. |
| 4A | Mohammad | For demonstrating friendship, kindness and sportsmanship during class sport lessons. |
| 4B | Zara | For being an exceptional role model to her peers by trying her best during all learning tasks. |
| 4B | Talha | For showing character by consistently striving to exceed his personal best in all KLA's. |
| 4E | Muhammad | For striving to achieve his personal best within all learning activities by implementing feedback received from teachers and peers. |
| 4E | Mohammad Rafiul | For working diligently within maths lessons to compare and sort the capacity of objects. |
| 4T | Ariba | For settling in well as a kind and respectful member of the ANPS family. |
| 4T | Madiha | For always demonstrating the ANPS values of friendship and kindness. |
| 5C | Bibi Shoukiria | For demonstrating friendship and kindness to her peers and teacher. |
| 5C | Najib | For demonstrating the 21st century learning skill of critical thinking while collaboratively planning scenes for his groups appropriation of text presentation. |
| 5HL | Inayatulla | For demonstrating character by consistently being a self-motivated learner. |
| 5HL | Burak | For demonstrating outstanding character and positive attitude during swim scheme. |
| 5P | Christian | For using feedback effectively to help him improve on his learning in Mathematics. |
| 5P | Kelly | For demonstrating character and critical thinking in all learning tasks. |
| 6HI | Khadija | For developing confidence in stating an opinion during classroom discussions. |
| 6HI | Usman | For showing character and determination in all learning areas. |
| 6M | Abdullah | For confidently making connections between equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages. |
| 6V | Ayhan | For his positive approach in all of the key learning areas in Turkish and for also becoming a role model with his enthusiasm and with his great dance performance for Community Language Festival for the third time this year. |
| KB | Kaan | 3N | Rawan |
| KB | Abdu-Rahman | 3N | Abhilesh |
| KD | Vibutha | 3R | Ayesha |
| KD | Xiao | 3R | Murtaza |
| KG | Abeeha | 3R | Shoaib |
| KG | Arisha | 3W | Mehdi |
| KM | Sasha | 3W | Gianna |
| KM | Ibrahim | 3W | Reza |
| KP | Kautsar | 4/3H | Ya Xuan |
| KP | Arshali | 4/3H | Aayesha |
| KP | Aiyana | 4/3H | Shafay |
| 1C | Mohammed | 4A | Mohammad |
| 1C | Zafreen | 4A | Nafas |
| 1F | Faiz | 4A | Azeem |
| 1F | Ayan Singh | 4B | Nayyar |
| 1F | Abdullah | 4B | Yikemaiti |
| 1L | Zarwa | 4B | Victor |
| 1T | Tasnimul Hoque | 4B | Hafsa |
| 1T | Meshaal | 4B | Ayden |
| 1T | Nour | 4E | Hatice Hazal |
| 1T | Indira | 4E | Sireen |
| 1W | Mustafa | 4E | Muhammad |
| 1W | Faiza | 4E | Kabir |
| 1W | Ali Shah | 4T | Hareem |
| 2A | Aliya | 4T | Narjis |
| 2A | Laith | 5C | Evan |
| 2C | Farhan Ali | 5HL | Amal |
| 2C | Rayhana | 5HL | Mahdi |
| 2C | Hamza | 5P | Layal |
| 2M | Yasin | 5P | Hiba |
| 2M | Zak | 5P | Somayah |
| 2N | Ithrat | 5P | Arabella |
| 2N | Hamza | 6HI | Usman |
| 2N | Malaez Mohamed | 6M | Benaia |
| 2W | Shaagithiyan | 6M | Mohammed |
| 2W | Abdullah | 6M | Bilal |
| 2W | Sama | 6M | Abass |
| 3N | Mohamad | 6V | Hannan |
On Thursday the 29th of August, Mrs Turk, Mrs Bou Rizk, Mrs Bazzi, Mrs Mcbriarty, Ms Evans, Ms Whitaker, 28 dancers, 28 choir students and 4 drummers had the privilege to perform in front of thousands of people at the world famous Sydney Opera House.
All teachers and students arrived at school by 7:30am, hopped on a big bus and travelled to the Opera House ready for a fun-filled day. When we arrived, we very quickly got dressed in our costumes for a full dress rehearsal. After our very successful dress rehearsal, we had the opportunity to watch other schools practice their items on the big Opera House stage. The Opera house choir students also did a fantastic job at rehearsing 8 different songs together in harmony with many other schools from the Granville district. Afterwards, we joined the choir on stage to practice our fabulous finale to the song ‘September’ by Earth, Wind & Fire.
After our rehearsals, we were then ready for a delicious dinner as an Auburn North family. We braved the heavy rains and walked over to ‘City Extra’ for dinner and dessert. After dinner we were ready for our big performance on stage. By this time, we were all very excited for our performance and to see all our wonderful parents who had travelled to watch us perform. After our very successful performances on stage we travelled back to school very quietly as lots of students fell asleep on the bus. We all had a fantastic day and night and all the teachers were incredibly proud of all of the effort students put in over the past 3 terms for this spectacular event.
Maths
We have been learning to make and recognise number combinations that make 10 using a ten frame.
We are learning how to recognise a small collection of objects quickly and without counting.
We are learning to compare length by directly placing object side by side and aligning the ends to determine which object is longer or shorter with everyday objects.
Writing
We are learning to write interesting sentences. We can use pronouns in our writing. We can use describing words to add more detail to our writing. We can join two ideas together using conjunctions. Here are some of our outstanding work samples!
Geography
We are learning about maps. Here is a map of the story “We’re going on a bear hunt”. We used symbols to represent different places in the story.
We are learning how the location of Aboriginal places such waterholes, meeting place, campsites can be represented using Aboriginal symbols through pictorial maps.
3R celebrated Book Week by creating these ‘super’ artworks inspired by this year’s theme: “Reading is my secret power”. We designed our own superheroes and used newspaper for the background. We then accompanied our heroes with comic-style onomatopoeia. Our class was very impressed by how they turned out and believe our superheroes are definitely news worthy.
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 School Community Garden. Join 4E week 10 for our next gardening time.
- SPORTS group for 3-5 year old children was fun as children learnt to balance, run, hump, hop, dance, take turns, listen, and grew in self confidence.
- Learn ENGLISH by qualified teachers on Mon & Thurs
- Eat a healthy BREAKFAST for children on Mon, Wed & Fri. We are serving breakfast to between 70 to 100 children each day.
- 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 program for women on Wed. Mothers are saying they feel so relaxed, pains have gone and lost their fear of water.
- Stretch & relax at YOGA on Fridays
- Breakfast for Dads on Saturday 31st August 9.30-12 at Auburn Centre for the Community. Healthy food choices were served to approx. 150 people
- PLAYGROUP for children with developmental needs
- PLAYGROUP at Auburn Public School. Wednesdays
| Playgroup on Tuesday | English Class Monday & Thursday |
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Invitation to :
- PAINT AUBURN READING DAY for parents and children from birth to 5 years of age: Auburn Town Hall on Wednesday 16th October from 10:00am-12:00pm
- COMMUNITY FESTIVAL DAY Thursday 31st October GREAT day for all our families and children.
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.
If your child turns 5 before the 31st July 2019, please fill out the form on Schoolzine or request an enrolment form at the school office. The enrolment form can be filled out at home then returned to school with an Australian Birth Certificate or Passport/Visa if born overseas. If either parent was also born overseas, we require evidence of Australian Citizenship or Permanent Residency for either parent. We will also require your child’s Immunisation Record and proof of your current residential address.
If you know of any neighbours, friends or relatives who do not have any children at Auburn North Public School, but they have a child who should start Kindergarten next year at Auburn North, please pass on this information to them.
Our office hours are 8:30am – 3:00pm during school days.
