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Dear Parents,
Our Auburn North staff hope you and your children enjoyed a happy two-week vacation together. It was so heart-warming to see how excited the students were when they returned to school. I think one student summed up the views of all Auburn North students when she said to her teacher, “I really missed you.”
Why wouldn’t our students miss their teachers? Our girls and boys know that they are most fortunate to have teachers who are so lovely, who are so caring, and who work so hard for them. And, like you, our students know that each one of our Auburn North teachers is an excellent classroom teacher.
While we continue to miss having more than one hundred parents attend our daily whole-school assemblies, and parents participating in a variety of programs such as our ‘Harmony House’ programs and our ‘Parents as Partners in Learning’ program, we look forward to our daily community assemblies and our parent programs re-commencing sometime in the future when it is safe to do so.
In the meantime, please feel confident that your children are working so very hard and learning to the very best of their ability, and I have no doubt that this term will prove to be one of our school’s most successful.
Next week is the NSW Department of Education’s annual ‘Education Week’. As a school we would normally do something special to celebrate this occasion, including parent visits to classrooms however, due to social distancing restrictions, that is not possible this year. Therefore, classes will do something a little special next week to celebrate ‘Education Week’.
While all NSW schools celebrate ‘Education Week’ in some way, at Auburn North we believe that
‘Every Week at Auburn North is Education Week’
Please see below an article and a photo that will be published in next week’s edition of the ‘Auburn Review’ newspaper. As you read the article and look at the photo, I hope you feel very proud to be a member of our special school learning community. The student comments in the article reflect so positively on the learning environment our staff and parents have developed for our students.
Every Week at Auburn North is Education Week
The students, staff and parents at Auburn North Public School believe ‘Every week at Auburn North is Education Week’.
They believe Auburn North is the ‘Gateway to Success’ for all students, and staff and parents work together in perfect harmony to assist all students become the very best young people they can become.
Auburn North is a dynamic learning community for its students, staff and parents, and as a senior officer from the NSW Department of Education said last year, “Auburn North is achieving phenomenal results.”
Auburn North programs and practices have been selected this year by the Powerhouse Museum to be included in its new exhibition.
Last week some students wrote the following:
“I love coming to Auburn North because our teachers encourage and motivate us to become stronger within ourselves.”
“Auburn North is a beautiful, multicultural, diverse and harmonious community that makes everyone feel as if they belong to something extremely special.”
“Auburn North encourages us to strive and assists all of us succeed and move FORWARD.”
“I love coming to Auburn North because as soon as I walk through the gates I’m welcomed by smiling teachers and happy students.”
SEMESTER 1 REPORTS – A CELEBRATION OF STUDENT SUCCESS
Next Friday 7th August, students will take home their Semester 1 Reports. I am sure your children will want to sit down with you next Friday afternoon or night to 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.’
Earlier this week you would have received a note about parent-teacher telephone conferences. The note explained that in the past we have had 3-way conferences for parents, teachers and students in the hall to discuss reports and student progress. The note also explained that due to the present COVID-19 situation, we are going to be having parent-teacher telephone conferences instead. I encourage all parents to take the opportunity to discuss their children’s progress over the telephone with their child’s teacher.
CONGRATULATIONS MS MIRZAI
At the end of last term, we followed the merit selection process to select a new Assistant Principal. I am very pleased to inform you that Ms Mirzai was selected as our new Assistant Principal (AP).
Ms Mirzai is presently one of our two K-2 Deputy Principal Instructional Leaders but this is only a temporary position. Mrs Strong, is our second temporary K-2 Deputy Principal Instructional Leader. Until her promotion to AP, Ms Mirzai’s permanent position was classroom teacher.
On behalf of all members of the Auburn North Public School Learning Community, I would like to congratulate Ms Mirzai on her promotion.
I would like to thank Mrs Apaydin and Mrs Ashfaq, two of our delightful parents, for giving up a good deal of their time to be on the merit selection panel. I would also like to thank Ms Meier and Mrs Black, the Deputy Principal from Auburn West Public School, for being members of the panel.
Therefore, as well as myself the permanent members of our school’s executive team are:
| Mrs Southgate: | Deputy Principal |
| Mrs Clift: | Deputy Principal |
| Mrs Tukuafu: | Assistant Principal |
| Mrs Strong: | Assistant Principal |
| Ms Camp: | Assistant Principal - Ms Camp is presently a temporary K-2 Deputy Principal Instructional Leader in a different school |
And of course, these executive leaders are strongly supported by our excellent grade leaders, who are:
| Ms Goicoechea: | Kindy |
| Ms Evans: | Kindy |
| Ms Lynch: | Year 1 |
| Ms Woodward: | Year 1 |
| Ms Wallace: | Year 2 |
| Ms Hamm: | Year 3 |
| Mrs Bou-Rizk: | Year 4 |
| Ms Harvey-Latham: | Year 5 |
| Ms Collins: | Year 5 |
| Ms Bazzi: | Year 6 |
UNIFORM SHOP INFORMATION
Please find attached to this newsletter a letter from our uniform shop. The letter includes very important information for Auburn North parents so I encourage you to read it.
CLASS REPORTS – KG, 3W, 5N
I would encourage you to read the class reports that are attached to this newsletter. I would like to thank the students from KG, 3W and 5N and their teachers Ms Goicoechea, Ms Whittaker and Ms Nguyen for their informative reports.
Mark Harris
Principal
| KE | Adam | For demonstrating a focused approach during maths lessons to correctly order the days of the week. |
| KG | Abdul Raheem | For demonstrating persistence in the classroom and always trying his best to complete all learning tasks. |
| KM | Nur Aisha | For writing a sentence independently that has a capital letter, full stop and spaces between words. |
| KP | Iram | For returning to school with a positive attitude towards her learning. Keep up the great work, Iram! |
| KSV | Batul | For independently writing a sentence about a story using a capital letter, spaces between words and a full stop. |
| 1C | Zahraa | For being a kind and thoughtful class member who is always willing to help her peers. |
| 1KZ | David | For approaching all learning tasks with improved focus and effort. Well done! |
| 1L | Macide | For her outstanding effort in math lessons to achieve her learning goals. |
| 1L | Behishta | For being a role model for her Dari peers by following the school values of Kindness and friendship. |
| 1L | Jovan | For starting the term with a positive attitude and a big smile. |
| 1P | Mohadesa | For always participating in and contributing great ideas to class discussions. |
| 1W | Maria | For starting the term with great focus and enthusiasm towards her learning. |
| 2C | Nadha | For showing kindness and friendship to her peers and teachers at all times. |
| 2K | Arnav | For using a range of objects to produce and describe different sounds in science. |
| 2K | Jing | For always showing the ANPS values of kindness and friendship. |
| 2M | Rahman | For demonstrating persistence when learning to use the jump strategy for addition and subtraction. |
| 2M | Mahdi | For beginning the term with an enthusiastic approach to all learning areas. Keep up the great work! |
| 2N | Azka | For showing critical thinking and determination when learning to skip count by 10's off the decade. |
| 3H | Muizz | For showing character and critical thinking during a challenging task in which there was no clear solution. |
| 3N | Reza | For demonstrating grit and resilience when attempting a group task with no solution. |
| 3N | Farishta | For settling well into Dari Community Class, and always following ANPS values. |
| 3SC | Rayhana | For demonstrating effective communication skills when working with her peers on group tasks. |
| 3W | Ecrin | For listening beautifully to her teachers and putting 100% effort into her classwork. |
| 4A | Mehdi | For identifying the seasons in Arabic. |
| 4A | Shaylee | For starting the term with great focus and enthusiasm to excel in all learning areas. Keep up the fantastic work! |
| 4B | Ibrahim | For transitioning back into the classroom smoothly by following the classroom rules and persisting during extension tasks. |
| 5C | Krishal | For settling into Auburn North Public School with a positive attitude towards all areas of his learning. Well done! |
| 5HL | Bilal | For his enthusiastic approach to learning Arabic. |
| 5HL | Mustafa | For demonstrating critical thinking skills when solving long multiplication problems. |
| 5N | Hafsa | For using her critical thinking to answer complex comprehension questions during reading. |
| 5R | Fatema | For producing a high quality narrative by using new vocabulary in her writing. Keep up the fantastic work! |
| 5R | Zayd | For starting Term 3 with a positive mindset and embracing new challenges with confidence. |
| 6B | Burak | For his excellent improvement in reading a dialogue text in Turkish with appropriate expressions and achieving the success criteria in comprehension questions. |
| 6B | Burak | For working collaboratively with his peers to research, locate and label the regions of Asia on a map. |
| 6E | Fatima | For always striving to achieve the learning goal in Maths lessons. |
In 5N, ‘We are all friends’ is the motto we stand by. This means that when we work together, we always help everyone. We always strive to be our very best, do what is right and to always be kind and good people. We have been learning many engaging and challenging things in our class.
At the end of last term, we learned about electrical circuits. We created these circuits and put them in our modelled house. At first it was challenging to create our models but with perseverance and ingenuity, we worked together and achieved many great things together. As you can see in our photos, we believe that we succeeded! It was astonishing to see the circuits fit into our homes and to see them light up.
This term, we are challenging ourselves to become great leaders by participating in the Peer Support Program that will take place in Week 4. We are very excited and nervous at the same time. We want to do our very best and not let our peer buddies down. In order to prepare, we looked at different scenarios and did some role plays to look at strategies on how to become the best leaders that we can be.
KG students have had a great first week back and have enjoyed being back in the classroom learning. This week, students have been working hard to write sentences independently. This week we wrote about kangaroos. Students have been practising using capital letters, a full stop and spaces between words. There were so many unique and interesting sentences that students thought of all by themselves! Well done KG.
Class Report: 3W
It has been a truly wonderful beginning to term 3 in 3W. This week, we have focused on developing the 21st Century learning skills of collaboration, character and communication. Each day, we have defined these skills as a class and put these skills into practice through collaborative challenges.
Collaboration
In one of our collaboration tasks, students worked in groups of four to answer the question ‘Are wild animals more free than humans?’ Students were assigned a particular role that played to their individual strengths. These key roles were called the harmoniser, organiser, scribe and reporter. The teams began the task by collaboratively completing a cutting and sorting activity, which allowed students to clearly understand their role within the group. By having a clearly defined and specific role, it was evident that all students had a purpose and a shared sense of ownership of the task.
Communication and Character
The communication and character tasks were quite challenging and tested students’ resilience. However, the determination and grit they showed as a team allowed them to successfully solve the tasks as a group. It was wonderful to see students actively listening to each other and valuing the perspectives and ideas of their peers. They communicated clearly and respectfully with each other which allowed each group to accomplish the challenge.
FAZ UNIFORMS PTY LTD
15/364 Park Road
Regents Park NSW 2143
3rd July 2020
Dear Customers
Re: Covid-19
As Covid-19 situation continues to evolve, we would like to update our customers on our position.
Our aim is to focus on the wellbeing of our staff and Customers, our approach to be sensible and respectful to our diverse community.
We are always listening to the Australian authorities and the medical advice.
Therefore, a number of measures we are undertaking to minimize the health risks of our staff and customers:
- Limited number of customers will be allowed at the shop
- Social Distancing is to be maintained
- Online Ordering is available via our Online Shop: www.faz.com.au/uniformshop
- All New Students for 2021 (K-Year 7) must purchase their school uniforms as soon as acceptance letter is received.
We do recommend our Customers use our Online services and would like to ensure our priority is to maintain Our customer service and minimise disruption.
Be assured we will remain fully operational; our business is stable and we will continue to provide the high-quality service you expect from us.
Thank you for your continued support.
