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Dear Parents,
We have now entered the final, exciting stage of our 2019 school year. Assisting students achieve outstanding wellbeing and learning outcomes will continue to be our school’s focus until Wednesday 18th December, which is the last school day for students.
Auburn North’s 2019 Auburn Review Citizenship Award – Alishba
Each year every school in the Auburn/Granville area is invited to nominate one student to receive the annual Auburn Review Citizenship Award. After a great deal of thought, Alishba was selected by our staff to be our school’s 2019 recipient of this prestigious award. Congratulations Alishba.
I had the great pleasure of attending the special presentation ceremony last week. All members of Alishba’s family and all members of our school learning community are very proud of Alishba. Please find below an explanation that outlines why Alishba was selected.
Auburn Review Citizenship Award Recipient Auburn North Public School
Alishba is a motivated and considerate student who always strives to exceed her full potential academically, emotionally, socially, physically and technologically. She is a kind and thoughtful friend to all students and is always willing to assist her teachers and peers. She consistently demonstrates our school values of respect, responsibility, friendship, fairness, kindness and honesty.
Alishba has demonstrated exceptional civic responsibility by communicating effectively with her peers and making positive contributions in all aspects of school life. She is an excellent role model who always displays a commitment to learning. Alishba has been a valued member of the PSSA Netball team. She actively encourages her peers to participate in all classroom and extra-curricular programs.
FLL Lego Robotics Competition
On Friday 15th November, 29 students from years 5 and 6 along with Miss McGrory and Miss Gerdes went to the FLL (First Lego League) regional robotics competition at Prairiewood High School.
Four teams represented Auburn North Public School on the day:
- City Crafterz
- City Generations
- The Next Generation
- Future City Technology
These teams competed against other primary schools and many high school students.
Each team had four areas they were judged on. These included:
- their research project
- the core values which are similar to our school values
- the design of their robot
- the robot missions
The research project involved presenting their teams solution to a problem that they had been solving throughout the term. This year’s theme was 'City Shapers' and students had to find a solution to a problem within the school. Some of the solutions included redesigning the bubblers, improving our COLA so wind and rain didn’t get in, renovating the Newcombe ball courts, and updating our asphalt areas to make them more interesting for kids to play on.
All teams demonstrated our school values on the day and showed character, citizenship and collaboration as things didn’t always go to plan.
While four teams entered the competition, all teams shared their knowledge and expertise to ensure that every team was successful on the day.
Two teams received a trophy on the day. They were:
- 'City Generations' received the ‘Mechanical Design’ award. This award was given to the team who had the best robot design and the best programs.
- 'The Next Generation' received the ‘Robot Performance’ award. This award was presented to the team that achieved the highest score during the robot missions. Teams had three opportunities to run their robot on the game mat to score the most points.
I would like to thank Miss McGrory and Miss Gerdes for taking the students on this excursion.
Thank You to the Mohammed Family
Last week Mr Khaja Mohammed and Mrs Asma Parveen, the parents of Ayesha who is in year 3, very generously donated a large number of brand new books and games to our school. These resources will be made available to our students and we know that they will thoroughly enjoy reading the books and playing the games with their friends. Thank you so much Mr Mohammed and Mrs Asma.
We Request Your Assistance
We are in the process of forming 2020 classes. Attached to today’s newsletter is a note. The top section is headed '2020 Leaver - Transferring to Another School.' The bottom section is headed 'Holidays - Returning Late'. To ensure that there will be minimal changes to our classes in Term 1 next year, we request your assistance.
- If your family is moving during the holidays and your child will not be returning to Auburn North, could you complete the section '2020 Leaver - Transferring to Another School'. Please return this note to school by 3rd December this year.
- If your child will be returning to Auburn North but will be returning later than Wednesday 29th January 2020, could you complete the section 'Holidays -Returning Late'. Please return this note to school by 3rd December. If you are travelling overseas can you provide the office with a copy of the flight tickets.
Mark Harris
Principal
| KB | Uzair | For being an enthusiastic and creative learner who effectively communicated his findings of living things in the environment. |
| KB | Mohammad | For being an enthusiastic learner in reading and maths tasks and showing the values of respect and fairness. |
| KD | Khulaid | For showing determination and character to create an interactive book using the app Book Creator to document the growth of a plant. |
| KD | Zunairah | For showing determination in writing to use exclamation marks in the correct places. |
| KD | Sayed Mehran | For being a kind and polite Dari student, and also being an active listener in Dari lessons. |
| KG | Abdul Rahman | For always demonstrating the ANPS values of responsibility and kindness and being an excellent role model to his peers. |
| KG | Agrata | For working hard during Science to care for a plant and document its growth using the iPad. |
| KM | Hadi | For demonstrating imagination and creativity when investigating and writing about the kindergarten crime scene in the 5P classroom. |
| KM | Iram | For writing sentences that include a capital letter, spaces between words, a full stop and adjectives to make it more interesting. |
| KP | Amelia | For writing interesting sentences by using appropriate punctuation including exclamations marks and question marks. |
| KP | Wasila | For describing and comparing the capacities of containers and the volumes of objects. |
| KP | Syed Abbas Musawi | For showing determination to learn Dari vocabularies about "Farm Animals", and being a respectful Dari student towards his teachers and peers. |
| 1C | Mahdi | For the effort and determination he is applying to achieve his dream of getting a gold badge. |
| 1C | Serenity | For showing perseverance during maths lessons to create 2D shapes on a geoboard. |
| 1F | Fatima | For trying her best in every lesson. Well done! |
| 1F | Saadia | For writing an excellent recount of our Featherdale excursion using time connectives and paragraphs. |
| 1L | Ahmad | For showing determination during math lessons by staying focused and completing his work to the best of his ability. |
| 1L | Zarwa | For showing determination to reach her full potential in all areas of her learning. Keep it up! |
| 1T | Tasnimul Hoque | For showing excellent improvement in all areas of his learning. Keep it up! |
| 1T | Rifqa | For writing a well structured recount using interesting adjectives and paragraphs. |
| 1W | Sarah | For showing focus and determination in maths, to round of numbers to the nearest 10. |
| 1W | Alina | For writing a well-structured recount with a variety of time connectives, adjectives and conjunctions. |
| 2C | Ahmed | For showing character and creativity when creating an abstract galah during art. |
| 2C | Muhammed Rashdan | For planning and writing an excellent persuasive text all about why children should play sport, complete with a statement of position and a sneak peek. |
| 2M | Jordan | For challenging himself during Writing Jungles to add rhetorical questions to his persuasive text to make it more convincing. |
| 2M | Eren | For working diligently during numeracy lessons to describe the number of hours, days, weeks or months until an upcoming event. |
| 2N | Emir | For showing commitment and determination in writing a recount in Turkish using correct grammatical structures. Well done! |
| 2W | Sama | For composing a structured persuasive paragraph with a text connect, topic sentence, an example and a reminder on the topic 'All children definitely must play sport.' |
| 2W | Zoya | For demonstrating creativity and critical thinking while creating a word problem related to a given number sentence. |
| 3N | Mohammed Arhan | For demonstrating outstanding effort and determination during maths lessons. |
| 3R | Mehdi | For demonstrating the 21st century skills of collaboration and critical thinking when working in a group to measure the capacity of containers. Well done! |
| 3R | Wajeeh | For working diligently to improve the presentation of his work by consistently using pre-cursive, neat handwriting. |
| 3W | Mehdi | For showing determination in Reading Factory and reaching the Year 3 reading target. Well done! |
| 3W | Azaan | For using success criteria effectively and taking on feedback to improve the quality of his writing. |
| 4/3H | Wilson | For demonstrating critical thinking during writing to compose a discussion text that included arguments for and against students playing sport everyday. |
| 4/3H | Bassam | For his increased effort to demonstrate respect both in and outside the classroom. Keep it up! |
| 4A | Zulfiqar | For composing a well-written exposition that included persuasive devices of rhetorical questions, facts and exaggeration. |
| 4A | Azeem | For showing an increased focus and determination in all aspects of his learning. |
| 4B | Mohammad | For showing determination during math lessons by demonstrating a 2D shape reflecting, rotating and translating as well as creating a symmetrical pattern. |
| 4E | Kabir | For demonstrating creativity and critical thinking during maths lessons by creating a tessellating design using 2D shapes. |
| 4E | Emman | For composing a well-written persuasive text which included the persuasive devices of rhetorical questions, facts and exaggeration. |
| 4T | Asad | For displaying an excellent understanding of symmetry by independently creating a symmetrical design. |
| 4T | Narjis | For being a positive role model to her peers by displaying the ANPS values of respect and kindness. |
| 5C | Najib | For writing a high quality and well-structured speech on how climate change has impacted the world we live in. |
| 5C | Fatemeh | For demonstrating character during writing lessons to prepare a speech on the topic 'War on Waste' |
| 5HL | Kawsar | For showing a great improvement in her attitude to Dari learning, and being a respectful student towards her teachers and peers. |
| 5HL | Jana | For displaying character since returning to Auburn North Public School. |
| 5HL | Inoke | For planning and writing an excellent and persuasive speech on climate change. Well done! |
| 5P | Fatima | For being a polite and kind Dari student who always shows respect to her teachers and friends. |
| 5P | Arabella | For demonstrating character and responsibility to improve in all learning tasks. |
| 5P | Isabella | For her commitment to actively seek feedback to improve in her writing. |
| 6HI | Jenny | For striving to achieve her potential across all areas of learning. |
| 6HI | Saurav | For consistently producing his homework to a high standard. |
| 6M | Hirah | For developing convincing arguments with examples and evidence when writing a debate. |
| 6V | Zara | For consistently striving to achieve her best in all learning areas. |
Featherdale Wildlife Excursion
On Monday the 4th of November, all the students of Year 1 went on an amazing excursion to Featherdale Wildlife Park! All this term we have been learning about the Australian animals that live at Featherdale, and have been writing incredible information texts about these animals.
Our day started with a fun bus ride all the way to the park and we talked about all the animals we were excited to see. When we arrived at Featherdale, we saw lots of animals like echidnas, emus, dingoes, wombats and ghost bats.
During the day, all Year 1 classes visited the Learning Burrow where we met Lauren, the zookeeper. Lauren taught us all about the animals at Featherdale and showed us how to carefully pat them. We met four animals. Their names were Leo the Koala, Hazel the Quokka, Luigi the Shingleback Lizard and Winston the Snake.
After that, we walked around the park and looked at other animals like wallabies and kangaroos. We were able to go into the kangaroo enclosure which everybody loved! We were careful to shut the gate behind us so the kangaroos couldn’t escape. Miss Mirzai was so kind and surprised us with kangaroo food. The friendly, hungry kangaroos kept following us to get their delicious lunch.
The best part of the day was the crocodile feeding! We watched patiently as the zookeeper amazed us with interesting crocodile facts. Using a pole, the zookeeper then tempted the crocodile with a delicious piece of raw chicken. While the zookeeper was talking, suddenly, the crocodile launched itself one metre out of the water and ripped the chicken off the pole. The crowd was so excited to witness such a spectacular sight!
Finally, it was time to come home on the bus. Every Year 1 student showed all of the Auburn North values throughout the day so they were rewarded with delicious ice blocks when we returned to school.
From Year 1
In 3N we have been learning to describe 2D shapes. During these lessons we used paddle pop sticks and blue tack to create our own regular and irregular 2D shapes. After some critical thinking we decided to add a brace to our shapes, this made them rigid!
This term in 3N we are learning to write a persuasive text. We have been using a range of persuasive devices including rhetorical questions, high modality words, emotive language and cohesive devices while composing our texts. After composing our texts we self and peer edit to further enhance our writing. Some students in 3N have earnt their pen licenses, this means they have consistently demonstrated neat pre-cursive hand writing in their publishing books. We are very eager to be using pens this term!
More than half way through Term 4!
2N has had a fabulous start to Term 4 and we cannot believe it’s already more than half way through Term 4. Our highlights so far this term have been Community Festival Day and our ANTEC lessons.
In our first week of ANTEC, we used different materials such as straws, marshmallows, blutac and sticky tape to create a structure that could hold a book for 10 seconds. We showed our 21st Century learning skills of critical thinking, collaboration and communication with our peers throughout the whole activity. Some of the structures were successful and we celebrated by cheering our friends on. Some structures were unsuccessful but this allowed us to reflect and think about what we could do better next time. We think that this is so important because reflecting allows us to become better! In another week, we used Spheros which is a robotic toy that can be controlled through an iPad to move in whatever direction we control it. We had so much fun practising to move them around, and we even had a race with our class! The reason why we are using Spheros this term is to develop our information and communication technologies skills. We have created a map from Auburn North Public School to the Auburn Botanic Gardens and we will be using the Spheros to direct us from one place to the other! We are so excited and we cannot wait to continue using the Spheros throughout the term.
2N has had an amazing Term 4 so far and we cannot believe that there are only a few weeks left until the holidays where we will be in Year 3 when we come back. We are so excited to move onto Year 3 so that we can learn new things and make new memories, while cherishing the old ones.
There are many important events coming up at the end of this term. Make sure you know when they are happening by checking the Schoolzine calendar.
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 4 2019 Week 6 Parent Initiatives
- COMMUNITY FESTIVAL DAY was an unforgettable day. Thank you to all the parents for the food and help you gave us.
- School Community Garden. This Thursday we are cooking pizzas with 4E students from the vegetables they planted at our school community garden.
- Parents are learning ENGLISH by teachers on Mon
- Eat a healthy BREAKFAST for children on Mon, Wed & Fri.
- Parents learn to have fun with your child and see them grow & develop at PLAYGROUP Tuesdays
- YOUNG PARENTS under 28 years of age Project: Excursion to Manly in Nov
- PLAYGROUP for children with developmental needs
- PLAYGROUP at Auburn Public School. Wednesdays
- Beginning School Well Program. I invite children who are starting school in 2020 to attend this preparation for school program. It will be held on Thursdays in November.
- Diwali celebration lunch was held on Thursday 24th Oct 12 noon at Harmony House. Thank you parents and sharing lunch with us.
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.