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Dear Parents,
The Auburn North staff hope you are well and that the mothers of our students enjoyed a very special mother's day last Sunday.
In the previous edition of our school’s newsletter we outlined our school’s new 2021 – 2024 Vision Statement and Mission Statement. Our Vision Statement is:
‘To be a truly outstanding outstanding future-focused for all members of the Auburn North family.’
We explained that importantly we had defined what we believed ‘future-focused’ meant. Our school’s leaders and teachers believe that if our students are going to be successful today and tomorrow, and become successful lifelong learners then they need to develop outstanding:
- Basic Skills in literacy and numeracy.
- Technology Skills.
- 21st Century Skills such as critical and creative thinking, collaboration, and communication.
We also believe if our students are going to be successful now and in the future then they need to live and breathe or six school values which are respect, kindness, fairness, honesty, friendship, and responsibility.
Our school has developed and started to implement a range of very exciting programs, strategies and practices to assist our students develop outstanding TECHNOLOGY skills, and to ensure that technology is not a stand-alone program but is purposefully and effectively integrated into student learning programs in all key learning areas (ie subjects).
These programs, strategies and practices include:
- Purposeful Integration of Technology – ANPS K-6 ICT Skills Acquisition Framework
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- Development and implementation of a dynamic ANPS K-6 ICT Skills Acquisition Framework (ie K-6 scope and sequence plan) to utilise as a school-wide tool for teaching and learning programs and ICT assessment.
- Development and implementation of high-impact teacher professional learning programs, including coaching and mentoring for all teachers, to assist all teachers further develop their skills and abilities to authentically integrate technology into all subjects.
- Engagement of students in high-impact teaching and learning programs, enhanced by purposefully integrated technology.
- Selecting Mr Prendergast to be a full-time technology teacher to work with Ms Gerdes.
Miss Gerdes who has been our excellent full-time technology expert for a number of years. These two teachers will be team-teaching K-6 ICT and Digital Technology skills, managing the school’s ICT systems and networks, providing IT support to the whole school community, coordinating lunctime Minecraft Club groups and implementing the ‘Forward’ program, which is a program for some senior students.
- Developing three digital technology learning spaces.
These learning spaces are ANCLIC (the library), ANTEC (located in upstairs I block), and (F)ANTEC (located in upstairs F block).
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- ANCLIC (Library) - has 15 desktop computers and 20 laptops catering for 1:1 use of devices during lessons. There are also 21st century technologies that have been borrowed and purchased to integrate purposefully into teaching programs. These technologies include Blue Bots, Spheros and Lego WeDo.
- ANTEC – caters to the learning needs of K-2 classes. There are 16 desktops and six laptops providing 1:1 devices for all students.
- (F)ANTEC - is a large multi-purpose learning space for years 3-6. There are 30 brand new laptops for students to use during technology lessons. This space will also be used for the ‘Forward’ program during the robotics component of this program.
- Purchase of additional resources
Our school has purchased 50 new laptops that can be booked by any class throughout the school if they require them for their lessons. This is in addition to every Year 2-6 class have a minimum of 8 laptops per classroom and every K-1 class will have 6 iPads per classroom by the end of this term.
- Techy Brekkie
Techy Brekkie is an additional teacher professional learning program before school from 8am – 8.45am one morning per week. The purpose of this program is to further assist leaders and teachers develop their abilities and skills to embed technology purposefully in their lessons.
HAPPY EID
Many of our wonderful Auburn North families celebrate Eid at the end of Ramadan, their month of fasting. On behalf of all members of the Auburn North family I would like to wish our students and parents who will be celebrating Eid a happy and joyful Eid. EID MUBARAK.
CLASS REPORTS – 1P and 4W
For your reading pleasure please find attached to this newsletter class reports that have been written by 1P and Ms Pham and 4W and Ms Wilkins.
I would like to thank these students and teachers.
Mark Harris
Principal
| KA | Ibrahim | For approaching technology lessons with great enthusiasm and successfully using a mouse and keyboard. |
| KA | Mehdiya | For successfully writing an interesting sentence about parrots that included spaces between each word. |
| KE | Arsal | For always displaying character and enthusiasm while engaged in classroom discussion. |
| KE | Sumeet | For trying his best to write interesting sentences and being creative in guided writing lessons. Well done! |
| KM | Mashal | For always being a fantastic role model to her peers by demonstrating kindness and respect at all times. |
| KM | Suhana | For demonstrating character in writing lessons by always trying her best to write a sentence. |
| KP | Enaya | For actively participating in technology lessons when learning how to log-in to a computer. Well done, Enaya! |
| KP | Mohamed | For demonstrating character during writing lessons to write an independent sentence. Keep up the great work, Mohamed! |
| KS | Husna | For working hard and showing determination to improve in all areas of her learning. |
| KS | Manha | For independently writing sentences about parrots using spaces and a full stop. Keep up the good work! |
| KZ | Aun | For showing determination during maths lessons when learning to take objects away and count how many are left over. |
| KZ | Soha | For independently writing an interesting sentence about parrots that included spaces between each word. |
| 1H | Affan | For displaying patience and kindness when collaborating with his peers in technology lessons. |
| 1H | Ali | For being intrinsically motivated to extend himself when completing extra homework tasks. |
| 1KL | Muhammad | For approaching all learning activities with outstanding focus and trying his best at all times. |
| 1KL | Zara Zainab | For being a motivated learner and trying her best in all learning activities. |
| 1N | Batul | For effectively using a range of addition strategies to add two numbers together. |
| 1N | Furqan | For showing character during all lessons by always striving to do his best. |
| 1P | Elyas | For working hard to show his understanding that the difference between two numbers relates to subtraction during number sense activites. |
| 1P | Fasnan | For demonstrating 21st century skills including critical thinking and problem solving during technology lessons. |
| 1W | Fiona | For showing critical thinking in maths when partitioning a number into many different combinations. |
| 2C | Ali | For demonstrating the 21st century learning skill of communication by confidently contributing to class discussions. |
| 2D | Abeeha | For always being a helpful and happy member of the Dari classroom and for always being eager to learn Dari Language. |
| 2D | Eeman | For displaying perseverance and character when completing the jump strategy in maths. |
| 2D | Ryan | For happily settling into the 2D classroom. Welcome to the Auburn North family! |
| 2N | Alarah | For applying the skills she has learnt in our jump strategy maths lessons to answer worded maths problems. Well done! |
| 2N | Wajiha Fatema | For showing a huge improvement in her reading and answering literal comprehension questions. |
| 2TI | Daniel | For always showing the ANPS values of kindness and responsibility in Dari lessons. |
| 2TI | Daniel | For showing resilience and determination during new learning tasks. |
| 3M | Minsa | For her enthusiastic attitude and outstanding effort towards all aspects of her work. |
| 3VC | Jana | For successfully applying her knowledge of subtraction strategies to calculate the change needed in a transaction. |
| 3VC | Ryan | For his outstanding effort to include all the success criteria in his narrative writing. |
| 3W | Ahmet | For settling into the classroom environment with a positive attitude towards his learning. Welcome to the Auburn North family! |
| 3W | Hansa | For showing determination in maths to name and describe a variety of 3D objects. |
| 4C | Batool | For successfully using inverse operations to identify a missing number in a number sentence and applying the strategy to other areas of her learning. |
| 4C | Ismail | For demonstrating character and collaboration during music lessons by supporting his group to compose a quality vocal and percussion performance. |
| 4HL | Aisha | For always being a considerate and helpful member of the 4HL family. |
| 4HL | Muhammad Dawood | For being a dedicated student and completing all learning tasks to the best of his ability. |
| 4W | Yusuf | For his increased level of self-confidence in the Dari classroom, and for showing a more active participation in class discussions. |
| 4W | Zainab | For striving to meet the learning goal during all Dari lessons, and always demonstrating all of the ANPS values, especially "respect" and "responsibility". |
| 5HL | Ibrahim | For persuading Miss Harvey-Latham by writing an excellent exposition on why cricket Australian should abolish hard balls. |
| 5HL | Raabia | For demonstrating critical thinking skills to successfully review and edit her narrative writing. |
| 5R | Mehdi | For successfully solving long division problems using the grid method. Keep up the great work! |
| 5R | Rosemary | For producing a high quality exposition that includes persuasive devices, connectives and high modality words. |
| 6/5V | Ayaan | For always demonstrating the six school values and supporting his peers. |
| 6H | Omer | For showing character during maths lessons when adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators. |
| 6N | Anayah | For demonstrating critical thinking and using feedback to improve on her learning. |
| 6N | Rovaid | For putting in his best effort and using feedback to improve on his learning |
In maths, 1P were able to recognise, copy and continue given number patterns that increase or decrease through differentiated maths activities that included concrete materials.
1P have been learning about fractions in maths. Today 1P were able to recognise and describe one-half as one of two equal parts of a whole.
Number sense activity of the week. 1P were challenged to place their pegs in as many different ways as possible to show two different amounts that could be combined together to make the total. Some students were able to extend their thinking by showing three or more digits that could be combined together to make the same total.
NAPLAN is an annual assessment for all students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. It tests the types of skills that are essential for every child to progress through school and life. The tests cover skills in reading, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation, and numeracy. The Year 3 and Year 5 students at Auburn North PS will complete these assessments in Weeks 4 and 5.
| Date | Assessment |
| Friday 14th May (Week 4) |
Language Conventions Writing |
| Monday 17th May (Week 5) | Reading |
| Tuesday 18th May (Week 5) | Numeracy |
This year one of the goals at ANPS is to become more sustainable. One way we are doing this is through improving our waste management practices. Students are now disposing of rubbish at school in 3 different bins - landfill (red), recycling (yellow) and organics (green). Our red landfill bins contain a lot of single-use plastic items that could be reduced by sending food in reusable containers.
Can you make a swap with one or more items in your child's lunch box to reduce waste?
- Swap plastic wrap for reusable containers.
- Swap plastic cultery for reusable cutlery.
- Swap zip-lock bags for reusable containers.