Auburn North Public School eNewsletter

Dear Parents,

I am very proud to inform you that:

all K-6 students are continuing to focus on their learning and achieving outstanding outcomes so that they are ‘promoted’ to a higher grade in 2019 and will be well-prepared to succeed from the first day in their higher grades; and
we continue to work as one team to achieve our individual and collective dreams.

Visit by Secretary

Last Friday week Mr Mark Scott, Secretary of the NSW Department of Education took time out from his busy schedule to visit our school for ninety minutes. The purpose of the visit was for Mr Scott to meet our students and staff and to learn more about our school’s programs and practices that have contributed to our school’s outstanding successes in leadership, teaching, learning and parent involvement.

During his visit, Mr Scott met all members of our school’s distributed leadership team who shared a range of information with him under the heading ‘Auburn North – A World Family Living and Learning Together in Perfect Harmony’.

The team explained how we had strategically utilised the Department’s 2018-2022 strategic plan and its vision, purpose, values and goals to provide the framework for the development of our school’s 2018-2020 Vision, Mission and School Plan that were collaboratively developed in second semester last year.

The team also proudly shared some of our school’s outstanding results including our 2018 NAPLAN results such as:

Achieving in the Top 1% of all 1700 NSW public primary schools in terms of value-added student growth from both Kindergarten to Year 3 and from Year 3 to Year 5.
Achieving in the Top 5% for Year 5 to Year 7 value-added learning growth.

During his visit Mr Scott also enjoyed lunch with all members of staff, met all students during a K-6 assembly where he presented Principal’s Awards to six Kindergarten students, and he listened to our new staff choir sing our School Song that was written by Mrs Bou-Risk.

Mr Scott also had the pleasure of listening to some of the students explain why they love being members of the Auburn North family. For your reading enjoyment I have included below what was explained to Mr Scott by some of our students.

‘The three main features that make Auburn North Public School so special for me are its students, teachers and our parents. Every day, students of Auburn North wake up with a big smile on their faces, excited to go to school, to learn and have fun. This is encouraged by the teachers who come here every day to help engage students in learning and prepare us to engage in school activities and school festivals.

I love ANPS because it is an important part of my life. The moment I wake up every day I am proud to go to ANPS, as there are smiles surrounding me. I love this school because Auburn North is a multicultural place which has people who come from all over the world and who can speak many languages. This can help me to learn the way they live and I can teach them some things about my background.

Being a family member of ANPS has been part of my life for the past seven years. Throughout these years I have learnt basic skills that will help me progress in life, skills such as English, maths and writing. I have also learnt how to communicate effectively with teachers and other students which will help me in my daily situations in the future. These features will be part of my life forever.’

Tabina – Year 6.

‘Auburn North has had many positive impacts on me as an individual. In this school, I have learnt to embrace and collaborate with students from many other cultures and I have made friends with students from many different backgrounds.

Auburn North has helped me discover and achieve my absolute best potential in the class and outside the classroom. Auburn North has made me a better person. The people at Auburn North are all so kind, supportive and caring and they have inspired me to be the same.

In my eyes, Auburn North is certainly the ‘Best of All Worlds for 21^st Century Learners.’

‘A special feature that I love about Auburn North is that it is very multicultural and you never know who is going to join our class family. They could be from any number of countries and backgrounds.

I love that ANPS is always trying to improve, from building new classrooms to assisting students and parents become more involved in their school and in their learning.

As a member of the Auburn North family I have learned to live by our values of Respect, Kindness, Honesty, Responsibility, Fairness and Friendship.’

Feaim – Year 6

‘Good Afternoon Mr Scott,

I would like to explain briefly what I love most about our extraordinary school.

Everywhere you go around our school you see teachers teaching and students collaborating together in perfect harmony. Auburn North Public School provides a safe and caring learning environment for every student regardless of their culture, background or skin colour.

We celebrate our own and each other’s cultures every day but every two years our wonderful school community, including teachers, staff, parents and students come together and we all take part in a special event called ‘Community Festival Day’. On this day, our proud students perform different cultural dances and our lovely parents bring in all sorts of delicious cultural foods for us to try.

What also makes Auburn North Public School so successful is our dedicated teachers. Our teachers’ ways and methods of teaching are mesmerising since we always learn new things and extend our minds beyond the box.

Our teachers allow us to exceed our potential in the classroom and also in programs outside the classroom. Thanks to our kind and caring teachers who gave up a lot of their lunch times, this year I was excited to represent my school in the Granville Schools Spectacular, where over 60 of our choir and dance students performed at the Sydney Opera House in front of over 2000 people!

Did I mention that my father and aunty attended this school a long time ago and that my sister Aleyna was one of the school captains in 2016? You could say that Auburn North is part of my family history.

This multi-award-winning multicultural school really makes me and everyone feel special because we are the ‘Best of All Worlds’, we are always moving Forward, and we work as one happy team to achieve our dreams.’

Beyza – Year 5

Mr Mark Harris

Princpal

Dear Parents,

To continue to make our school an even better school for our students and parents we are presently evaluating all 2018 programs and we would love to hear your views about these programs and what you would like to see happen in the future.

We value your views so could we ask that you compete this short survey by Tuesday 27^th November. This survey will help us to improve our school and plan for 2019.

Click on the link or type it into any internet browser

Parent Survey

Each year our school has the opportunity to nominate one Year 6 student who has been an outstanding school citizen to receive the ‘Auburn Review Citizenship Award’. Ms Cortejos, Ms McGrory, Mrs Varley and Ms West found it very difficult to select just one student from Year 6 as there were many students who met the criteria for selection. However, one student stood out as being an outstanding school citizen who always demonstrated the school values. We are very proud to say that the recipient of the 2018 Auburn Review Citizenship Award was Hussain from 6H.

Hussain and his very proud family were invited to a special ceremony in Week 4, where Citizenship Awards were presented to one student from each school in Auburn. Hussain, his family and Mr Harris beamed with pride as Hussain received his trophy and posed for photographs with other award recipients. It was a very special evening that we are certain Hussain and his family will remember for a very long time.

When Hussain received his special award, the presenters read the following reflection about what made him such an outstanding school citizen. This was written by Hussain’s teachers.

“Hussain is an enthusiastic and caring student who always strives to exceed his full potential academically, emotionally, socially, physically and technologically. He is a kind and generous friend to all students and is always willing to assist his teachers and peers. He consistently demonstrates our school values of respect, responsibility, friendship, fairness, kindness and honesty.

As a sports house captain, Hussain has demonstrated outstanding leadership skills, especially when working with younger students. He has been a valued member of the PSSA Softball team. Hussain loves learning and actively encourages his peers to participate in all classroom and extra-curricular opportunities.

Hussain is a worthy recipient of the 2018 Auburn Review School Citizenship Award.”

We look forward to presenting Hussain with his trophy in front of all 3-6 students and many parents at our Presentation Day Assembly.

On behalf of the extended Auburn North family, I would like to congratulate Hussain and his family on this extraordinary achievement.

School Development Days – Term 4

School Development Days are vital to the ongoing professional development of all ANPS staff, and occur every term. During School Development Days students do not attend school. In Term 4 there are two allocated School Development Days, however schools are able to change these days with approval from the Director.

This year one of our Term 4 School Development Days will occur over two ‘twilight sessions’ during the term. This will replace the allocated School Development Day on Friday 21^st December. Our two ‘twilight sessions’ are on Wednesday 14^th November and Wednesday 28^th November. On these days teachers will stay at school from 3:15pm – 6:15pm to engage in professional learning around the new Science and Technology Syllabus.

The second Term 4 School Development Day will be on Thursday 20^th December.

The office will be open on Friday 21^st December from 8:30am – 3:00pm.

Zayd	KB	For always completing his work to a high standard.
Bulut	KB	For showing great character and determination in guided reading and writing. Keep it up!
Sarah	KD	For working hard in class to write three sentences about Lions using a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop.
Faiz	KD	For showing character on the classroom to reach his writing goals each week.
Abdulwahab	KG	For being a kind and respectful classmate to his peers at all times.
Renya Shrestha	KG	For an excellent start and settling well to Auburn North Public School. Welcome Reyna!
Alina	KM	For writing an informative text about Lions using adjectives to describe a Lion.
Sakina	KP	For always demonstrating the ANPS School Values and being an excellent role model to her peers.
Aida	KP	For showing determination and persistence when learning how to write a sentence independently.
Fatema	KV	For her outstanding effort to write a detailed report about pandas. Well done!
Muizz	1C	For being very eager student to listen and learn Dari Community Language, and always being polite and respectful to his teachers and peers.
Abdullah	1C	For his increased focus and determination in all learning areas.
Zainab	1C	For working hard in Dari class to achieve her reading and writing goals, and always following the ANPS Values of "Respect", and "Kindness".
Sehrish	1C	For consistently working hard in writing lessons to achieve the learning goal.
Baran	1K	For showing excellent body language and facial expression to represent an emotion in drama lessons.
Farhan Ali	1K	For striving to achieve his gold badge by improving his focus in class.
Sahra	1M	For consistently demonstrating the values of fairness and friendship in class.
Yonis	1M	For exceeding his personal best by writing a paragraph each day for his information report.
Azlan	1S	For being a thoughtful class member who is willing to help out at all times.
Bilal Ibrahim	1S	For being an enthusiastic team player during all sport activities.
Moqtada	1W	For showing dedication and focus during all writing lessons to meet the learning goal.
Elaha	1W	For being a polite and motivated student who strives to meet the learning goal in Dari lessons.
Hannah	1W	For writing an outstanding information report on echidnas using adjectives and a range of conjunctions.
Nakhwah	2B	For demonstrating creativity during art lessons by using lines, patterns and shading.
Tazkia	2C	For using her critical thinking skills when recording, displaying and presenting data.
Aayan Suleman	2C	For showing character when writing a competition story complete with two very interesting characters.
Ali	2M	For working diligently in class to collect data using tally marks and display this data in a picture graph with symbols, baseline categories and a key.
Feher	2M	For demonstrating great perseverance and determination to achieve the jump and split strategies.
Neloofar	2W	For demonstrating resilience to achieve her subtraction maths target.
Raabia	2W	For asking open-ended questions to extend her understanding.
Jackson	3C	For his determination and creative ideas in planning and composing of a narrative.
Syeed Ali	3H	For his hard work and focus during Mathematics to problem solve when finding the perimeter of a football field.
Rovaid	3R	For always displaying determination and effort to complete all set tasks and being an excellent role model for his peers.
Amani	3R	For striving hard to achieve the learning goal when adding two lengths given in different units. Well done!
Fadi	3S	For the wonderful way he has settled back into the Auburn North Public School family.
Raiqa	3S	For working independently to multiply two-digit numbers by one-digit numbers.
Nasreen	3S	For always displaying the ANPS values of respect, friendship and kindness.
Narjis	3W	For demonstrating critical thinking during mathematics lessons to multiply two and three digit numbers.
Ahmmed	3W	For his outstanding effort to improve his reading in Arabic language.
Saaqib	3W	For settling well into 3W and always showing the values of responsibility and fairness.
Kumayl	4E	For striving to achieve his dream of receiving a gold badge by demonstrating respect and responsibility.
Somayah	4E	For making an excellent start at ANPS by immersing herself within all learning activities.
Qing Yang	4M	For always showing the ANPS values of respect and kindness to both his peers and teachers.
Haroon	4T	For always displaying the Auburn North values of honesty and fairness.
Pritisha	4T	For using her critical thinking skills when calculating the missing values to find the perimeter.
Zohra	5C	For being an excellent role model for her Dari peers and doing an outstanding Dari classwork.
Bahir	5C	For consistently demonstrating a determined and motivated approach towards his learning.
Zara	5C	For continually using teacher feedback to improve all aspects of her learning.
Keessa	5HM	For her active participation of a Dari class topic about "Natural Disasters" by answering all comprehension questions in Dari.
Andy	5HM	For continuously challenging himself during numeracy lessons.
Mahasin	5HM	For exceeding her full potential in all learning area. Keep it up!
Ahmet	5P	For settling into Auburn North Public School with a positive attitude towards his learning.
Fatima	5P	For demonstrating character when learning to solve two-digit by two-digit multiplication.
Syed Mohammad	6H	For making different types of connections and inferences about the texts, 'A Novel Solution' and 'Salty Sea Science'.
Maryam	6H	For having a positive attitude towards her learning in Arabic.
Maryam	6H	For her effort in researching and writing a speech about her dreams for the future.
Simran	6M	For using a sample size to make predictions about a population during chance experiments.
Haider	6M	For consistently demonstrating all of the Auburn North values.
Hayden-Stephen	6V	For demonstrating the school value of friendship and character by positively engaging with peers and all aspects of learning since joining 6V.
Hadi	6V	For consistently demonstrating critical thinking skills when reading and answering comprehension questions.

Congratulations to the 86 Gold Badge recipients from the latest Gold Badge assembly.

All students who have received a Gold Badge this year will be attending the Gold Badge movie reward at Reading Cinemas on Monday 17 December.

Peter	KB
Bulut	KB
Ahana	KD
Khizar	KD
Zaidaan	KD
Reyna Shrestha	KG
Aarth	KG
Mohammed	KG
Tihami	KG
Eray	KM
Muhammad Wali	KM
ZamZam	KP
Taha	KP
Suvashish	KP
Zayan	KV
Ali Shah	KV
Matin	1C
Hallima	1C
Abdullah	1C
Zak	1K
Yassin	1K
Yonis	1M
Bilal Ibrahim	1S
Ibrahim	1S
Hamza	1W
Imad	2B
Mohammed Arhan	2B
Aayan Suleman	2C
Sikandar	2C
Mohamad	2C
Muhammad Azan	2D
Mehdi	2D
Ahmed	2D
Yousef	2D
Maira	2D
Feher	2M
Ali	2M
Daniel	2M
Ibrahim	2W
Zain	2W
Yusuf	2W
Jackie	3C
Basim	3C
Razia	3C
Nayyar	3C
Jackson	3C
Ecrin	3C
Kabir	3H
Shanzay	3H
Yikemaiti	3H
Zulfiqar	3H
Hareem	3H
Yahya	3H
Bibi Nadia	3R
Amir Hossein	3R
Mujtaba	3R
Sohaib	3R
Omer	3R
Yusra	3S
Suman	3S
Mahad	3S
Sakina	3S
Zainab	3S
Khalid	3W
Azeem	3W
Amir	3W
Saaqib	3W
Rayyan	4E
Somayah	4E
Nadira	4M
Murad	4M
Sarullah	4M
Evan	4T
Rafe	4T
Fasiha	4T
Mehdi	5C
Muhammad	5C
Suliman	5HM
Ahmet	5P
Kawsar	5P
Fartun	6H
Erdem	6H
Abraham	6M
Mehmet	6M
Hayden-Stephen	6V
Zahra	6V

KD have been learning all about Living and Non Living things in Science this term. This week we were so excited because we got to plant some seeds. We know that all plants need five important things to help them grow.

Air
Water
Space
Soil
Sunlight

KD are making sure to water our special garden every day. We cannot wait to watch our plants grow and change.

KD will also be keeping a ‘Plant Diary’ over the next term so we are able to watch and record the different stages of our plants growth.

This semester our 3H geographers have been hard at work!

We have been using laptops to research all about Australia and its many features. We started by collaboratively researching each state, territory and capital city. We discovered their population, special landmarks and where they are located, so we could plot them on our maps. We also researched some of Australia’s deserts and discovered their names and where they are located. Well done 3H!

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