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Dear Parents,
AUBURN NORTH
IS A
WORLD-CLASS SCHOOL
During the recent school holiday I had the absolute privilege of visiting some excellent primary schools and high schools in Canada and Finland. The purpose of the visits was to learn from these excellent overseas schools to assist Auburn North become an even better school and to provide me with information to write a report and develop a school and teacher resource that will be published next year.
The title of the report will be “THE WAY FORWARD: Best-Practice Policies, Programs and Practices to Assist New South Wales Newcomer Students Achieve Outstanding Emotional, Social, and Learning Outcomes.”
The report will be a culmination of what I have learned from NSW public schools over many years and what I learned from these excellent Canadian and Finnish schools in terms of how they very successfully support their students who have arrived in their countries in the past one or two years, and how they assist these students achieve outstanding outcomes.
I selected Canada and Finland to visit because their education systems and their schools are acknowledged as being amongst the world’s best systems and schools. During my visits to individual schools, my discussions with school leaders and teachers, and my observations of classroom lessons I learned that the Finnish and Canadian education systems and schools are indeed amongst the very best in the world.
I learned something else that was also very important. I learned that Auburn North Public School is a WORLD-CLASS SCHOOL in all areas but especially in the following areas:
- School Leadership
- Teaching
- Stimulating Classroom Learning Environments
- Student Engagement and Learning
- Parent Participation
- School Organisation
- Large, attractive play fields
- Developing a sense of Community and developing a harmonious, unified, happy school learning community.
I also learned that our school administration team (ie our office team) is also world-class.
I look forward to writing the final report and developing the resource and making them available to all NSW schools and the Finnish and Canadian schools that were kind enough to open their doors to me. I hope the report and resource will assist newcomer students, including our newcomer students, achieve even better emotional, social and learning outcomes.
COMMUNITY FESTIVAL DAY – Thursday 31 October
I know all members of our school learning community are very excited about our upcoming Community Festival Day (CFD) program next Thursday 31 October. We hold this special event every two years and while every program since 2000 has been an unqualified success I believe the 2019 CFD will be our exciting and successful ever. I can’t wait.
Mark Harris
Principal
| KB | Yusra | For working independently to write a detailed recount about the Kindy farm excursion with interesting describing words. |
| KD | Arhaan | For showing respect during the Kindergarten excursion to Golden Ridge Farm. |
| KG | Aaliyah | For demonstrating enthusiasm and responsibility when practising the class Community Festival Day dance. |
| KM | Abubakar | For working hard to always follow all classroom rules and ensuring he demonstrates the ANPS values. |
| KP | Muhammad Salar | For demonstrating enthusiasm and determination when learning the Chinese Dance for Community Festival Day. |
| KP | Aamena | For independently writing an interesting recount of her holiday by adding extra information to her sentences. |
| 1C | Muhammad Wali | For writing a well-structured information report on kangaroos with headings, sub-headings and paragraphs. |
| 1F | Sania | For her dedication and focused approach to write a fantastic information report about kangaroos. |
| 1F | Eray | For his increased focus and determination to all of the key learning areas in Turkish. |
| 1F | Narges | For settling well into Dari lessons and always being a polite and kind Dari student towards her teachers and peers. |
| 1L | Fatema | For showing determination and enthusiasm in all math lessons. Keep up the excellent work! |
| 1L | Arisha | For her caring nature and consistent commitment to her learning. |
| 1T | Peter | For settling in beautifully to Term 4 by showing great determination and responsibility. Well done! |
| 1W | Abdul Rasheed | For showing outstanding focus and commitment during all writing lessons. Keep up the excellent work! |
| 2C | Essa | For his enthusiastic attitude when practicing our Community Festival Day dance! |
| 2M | Farhan | For developing strong arguments to justify his opinion when learning how to plan and write a persuasive text. |
| 2W | Aisha | For demonstrating resilience whilst learning to bridge the decade for subtraction. |
| 2W | Tristian | For critically thinking of reasons to justify his opinion on a given topic. |
| 3N | Teki-Mautoko | For showing perseverance and dedication during all CFD practices. |
| 3R | Yusuf | For demonstrating character in maths to successfully round numbers to the nearest ten, hundred or thousand. Well done! |
| 3W | Mahnaz | For being a responsible and respectful newcomer to Dari class who participates well in class discussions. |
| 4/3H | Ahmed | For showing character during rehearsals for Community Festival Day by supporting his peers to perform to the best of their ability. |
| 4A | Hadia | For starting the term with great focused and determination within all learning tasks. Keep it up! |
| 4B | Rovaid | For showing character during numeracy by never giving up until he achieved the learning goal. |
| 4E | Umaima | For consistently being a good role model and always trying her best during rehearsals for Community Festival day. |
| 4T | Zoya | For settling in well as a kind and respectful member of the ANPS family. Welcome back! |
| 5C | Dipsi | For consistently demonstrating outstanding effort and determination to achieve her learning goal. |
| 5HL | Zain | For an outstanding start to term 4 especially, his punctuality. |
| 5P | Iram | For her commitment and responsible attitude to all areas of her learning. |
| 6HI | Shaan | For his focused approach towards all mathematics lessons. |
| 6M | Kyal | For using creativity to develop an effective argument in a debate. |
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.
Kindergarten Enrolment 2020
Years 1 – 3 NAP Group
We have had a very busy start to term 4 and we are loving it! This term will be focussing on writing informative texts on variety of Australian animals. We will also be reading fun stories which have Australian Animals in them such as Wombat Stew by Marcia Vaughan and Possum Magic by Mem Fox. In week 1 we wrote about kangaroos and focussed on their appearance, diet, habitat and interesting facts.
Here are just a few of our amazing pieces of writing, we hope you enjoy reading our informative reports on kangaroos.
Every morning in our New Arrival group we engage in a variety of literacy based experiences. These highly engaging experiences focus on enhancing our reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. Below are just some literacy activities which all NAP students engage in daily.
During literacy groups we participate in activities like alphabet puzzles, writing spelling words and sentences, guided reading groups and speaking and listening activities.
In 4T, students have been focussing on their typing skills through Typing Tournament, a program designed to allow students to practice their typing. Students go through a series of games and challenges that tests their speed on identifying the letters on a keyboard using the correct hand and finger placements. 4T have really enjoyed using Typing Tournament to practise their typing skills and every single student has demonstrated a massive improvement since beginning the program!
The first thing we did was board the big bus which took us to the farm. When we arrived, we listened to Farmer Josh as he told us all about the animals they care for on the farm. We then went for a walk around the farm to meet the animals. We fed bread to the goats and the sheep. We also went into the animal pen to pet the baby animals. One of the most exciting parts of the day was getting to milk the huge dairy cow, Sassy. After we had lunch, we got to feed the baby animals their lunch too! They loved drinking the milk that we bottle fed them. The last thing we did was cuddle and pet lots of tiny animals, including a duckling, a rabbit, and a chick.
We were all very tired when we arrived back at school after such a big day meeting all of the animals on the farm. Now we are back at school we are using all of the knowledge we have about farm animals in our learning!
Thursday 31st October (Week 3) is our Community Festival Day.
How can you and your family help celebrate our special day?
Contributing Food
We would greatly appreciate if all families could donate food from their country of origin that can be shared with our whole school community.
Please select a dish that is easy to serve. We ask for NO SOUPS or FOODS WITH NUTS. You will receive a label to inform us if your food is HALAL and to indicate if you would like your container back.
On the Day
- You or your child can bring food to the COLA between 8:30am and 9:15am. There will be a team of teachers to assist you.
- Please like to bring the food in a large plastic container or large ice-cream container. Disposable is best. You will receive a label for your container next week.
- NO LUNCH ORDERS FROM THE CANTEEN ON THIS DAY.
What Can Students Wear?
Students may wear clothes that represent their country or
clothes they might wear on their country’s special festival days.
Kindergarten – Year 6 students:
- May wear their national clothes to school or their school uniform.
- They will change into their performance costume at school.
What is acceptable clothing?
- National clothes
- T-shirts with national flag/emblem
- Green and Gold shirts (Australian colours)
- Shoes that cover your toes/sneakers/running shoes/school shoes
What is NOT allowed?
- High heels (girls)
- Open toe shoes/sandals/thongs
- Football t-shirts or jerseys
