Dear Parents, 

Every Auburn North student has worked very hard this year to exceed their potential in all learning areas, and each student’s achievements are being celebrated today, the day when semester two reports have gone home. 

As you know, this year our school SAYING has been: 

At the beginning of the year our students developed their GOALS to assist them shine BRIGHT this year, and our teachers developed high-quality, engaging, harmonious class families that supported each student to shine BRIGHT in 2021. 

While 2021 has presented all of us with many challenges, I am very proud to say that our students, staff, and parents have worked BRILLIANTLY as one cohesive and harmonious team  to assist our students achieve excellent outcomes this year.  

CONGRATULATIONS everyone. 

Semester 2 Reports - A 'Celebration of Success' 

I have read and signed each of the 670 reports and each one is a ‘CELEBRATION OF SUCCESS’. The reports reflect your children’s progress over the past six months and demonstrate how effectively and successfully our students, teachers, and parents have worked together collaboratively and cooperatively all year to facilitate student success.  

I encourage you to sit down with your children this afternoon to join in their celebration. 

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Thank You Staff 

The quality of education that a student experiences in a school is very much dependent on the quality of a school’s leaders and teachers. Auburn North students have been blessed this year to have been educated, cared for, and nurtured by the very best leaders and teachers. 

I would like to thank and congratulate all our K-6 classroom teachers and specialist support teachers for their commitment to maximising the learning and wellbeing outcomes of our students, and for working so very hard this year. 

I would also like to thank our teachers for making learning fun and rewarding for our students and for assisting our students love their school. 

Our teachers have been an absolute pleasure to work with this year and I wish all of them a relaxing and happy holiday. Thank you, TEAM. 

I would like to thank and congratulate all members of our grade leadership team  for their inspiring leadership, for their unrelenting pursuit of excellence in everything they have done this year, and for developing their high-performing grade teams using their exemplary leadership knowledge and skills. Thank you, TEAM  and congratulations to: 

• Mrs Picken 
• Ms Woodward 
• Ms Lynch 
• Ms Whitaker 
• Ms Rahimy 
• Ms Harvey-Latham 
• Ms Hamm 
• Ms Edwards

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Our  executive team is ‘SIMPLY THE BEST’. Despite the challenges this year, our executive team has ensured that Auburn North's high expectations have underpinned all 2021 programs and initiatives, and the quality of their whole-school management and organisation has been exemplary. Thank you, TEAM and congratulations to: 

• Mrs Clift 
• Mrs Southgate 
• Mrs Tukuafu 
• Ms Mirzai 
• Mrs Strong 
• Ms Wallace 
• Ms Bou-Rizk  
• Mrs McIntyre 
• Mrs Acar

Our wonderful office team  of Mrs Acar, Mrs Abouraad, Mrs Serhan, Mrs Iannitelli, Mrs Shekoush, Mrs Ashfaq and Ms Helmy has continued to provide the very best and most caring support for our students, parents, and staff, and always with a big smile. Thank you, TEAM. 

Our two  general assistants, Mr Frank and Mr Ray, have worked exceptionally well together to ensure our school grounds and equipment were well maintained to facilitate high-quality teaching and learning, and to enable children to play in attractive surroundings.  

And Johnny, our pedestrian crossing friend, has ensured that our students, parents, and staff were always able to safely cross Adderley Street.  

Staffing Information and Farewells 

Some of our teachers are temporarily or permanently leaving us this year. Ms Nguyen has decided to experience teaching in a different school for 12 months, and Ms Gerdes has decided to take leave for at least 12 months. 

We would like to thank Ms Gerdes and Ms Nguyen for everything they have done for our students. We wish them all the best and we hope to see them back at Auburn North in 2023. 

Ms Davies lives on the central coast and successfully applied for a position much closer to her home, We thank Ms Davies for everything she has done for our students and we wish her all the very best in her future career.  

Ms Tieu will be taking maternity leave next year. We look forward to Ms Tieu coming to school one day next year to proudly show off her little bundle of joy.  

Finally, Mrs Strong will be leaving us at the end of this week after 13 outstanding years of teaching and leadership at Auburn North. During this time, Mrs Strong has been a Deputy Principal Instructional Leader and an Assistant Principal, and she has used her knowledge, skills, and commitment to have a profound positive impact on the wellbeing and learning of our students, staff, and parents.  

However, Mrs Strong and her husband decided to move to a suburb quite a distance from Auburn, and Mrs Strong successfully applied for an Assistant Principal’s position in a school close to where she will be living.  

We would like to thank Mrs Strong for everything she has done for so many people over those 13 years and we wish all the best in her future career. 

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Happy Holiday

After our school family’s exceptionally successful year it is now time for students, staff, and parents to enjoy a well-earned holiday. On behalf of my staff, I wish you a safe and peaceful holiday. 

Tomorrow is the last school day of the year.  Students return to school on Tuesday 1st February 2022 (Year 1 to Year 6), while our new 2022 Kindergarten students commence the following week on Monday 7th February. 

CLASS REPORTS: KM, 2C and 6N and Year 6 Farewell Report  

For your reading pleasure, please find attached to this newsletter wonderful class reports that have been produced for the students in KM, 2C, 6N and Year 6 Captains speeches. I would like to thank these students and their teachers Mrs McBriarty, Ms Lynch, Ms Nguyen, and Ms Edwards. 

Mark Harris  

Principal 

KM students have enjoyed being back in the classroom learning. It has been wonderful for the students to again grow their friendships that have been disrupted throughout the year. KM have been learning about living things. This has included growing plants and investigating the school gardens to find and investigate living and not living things. This was so much fun!

KM love to create beautiful art pieces. We enjoyed listening to the story ‘How the crayons saved the rainbow’ by Monica Sweeney. We then enjoyed creating our own colourful rainbows that included the sun and clouds.

In KM, we love to learn, we love to play, and we have had a great time in kindergarten, but it is almost time to move to year one. This week we celebrated our successes at the Kindergarten Presentation Day Assembly. Congratulations to everyone in KM, you are all stars!

This term, 6N have been reflecting on their last year at Auburn North P.S. Many of them are excited for their next journey into high school. Here are some of the things they have thought about and would like to give the following advice for future and current Auburn North P.S students.

What has been the best thing about being in Year 6?

The best thing about being in year 6, is that you are now a role model and you set examples for younger students. I also feel more confident, independent and respected. – Anam

Having fun in each lesson with my teacher – Remas

The best thing that has been about being in year 6 is the teachers and that I can make friends. – Talha

Write about a fun memory from any school year.

Getting the white t-shirts - Busra

I found it funny that Miss Nguyen always had something funny to say to the class, she always adds jokes and brightens the room. A funny moment would be when she continuously bugged a student in my class to bring a tissue box since he ended up using most of it, after 3 terms, the guy finally brought a tissue box in! – Anam

Year 2, I really liked 2B. She helped me push myself and rewarded nicely, she was super nice. I also liked Y1. Miss Mohammed gave candies to whichever table got the most points by the end of the week. I liked it because our table always won, I loved the banana candies ( we mainly won because Maheen was in our table ) – Zuha

In year 3 my teacher was Miss Hamm and I remember it was her birthday and she said we were going to do a test but instead of doing a test she tricked us and gave us cupcakes. - Busra

What will you miss most about your school?

I will miss all the caring teachers, funny classmates and atmosphere that I grew up with since kindergarten. I would also miss all the parties and fun we had, as I know in high school I wouldn’t have much time to relax. - Anam

My teacher, my friends,my classmates and all the fun we had together – Remas ❤

I will miss the library and Fantec a lot because it was a really relaxing place to hang out in. - Zuha

The most I would miss about my school is the whole of year six as I've known all those students since Kindergarten, and of course the wonderful class teachers and grade leaders I have had. – Zebunnisa

I will miss my friends and my lovely teachers. - Zaki

If you could go back in time, what advice would you give to yourself on your very first day of school?

“It’s okay you’ll make tons of friends, just make sure you don’t make wrong ones. There'll be many people to comfort you, just try to think ahead as to make sure what you’re doing is right. You will have your lows but best not to think about them, but one thing you must do is keep the brightest smile on your face and everything will work out.” – Amir

Be confident, don't be shy, always stand up for your friends and be respectful to your teacher and to always have fun and be happy – Remas

Work harder, study more, make as many friends as possible. – Zuha

I would tell myself to not be quiet and make friends quickly so that in the future I will already have someone to talk to and also to choose my friends carefully because I have made wrong choices with friends in the past years. I would also tell myself to never give up and keep trying hard. – Zebunnisa

I would say don't be nervous and just try your best. - Zaki

2C have had such an amazing year this year. All students worked so hard and have always strived to achieve the learning goal of every lesson. 2C have developed such positive relationships with each other and the rest of Year 2 and I am so proud of every single one of them. They are SO ready to go to Year 3 next year and I am going to miss them so much!

2C Technology News

This year, all Year 2 students have visited the library once a week to develop their technology skills with Mr Prendergast. This term, we have been developing our coding skills on Minecraft. All students created their own mazes and then programmed a robot to find their way out. Students have also experimented with making pickaxes, collecting coal and wood, building houses and rollercoasters. 2C’s technology skills have blown me away!

2C Science News

In science this term, all Year 2 students have been exploring and recording the properties of a range of materials. Students looked at the similarities and differences between sun protective items and discussed when we should wear them. Last week, students designed and created a sun protective outfit for their own teddy bear! They had so much fun doing this and showed critical thinking when selecting materials for different components of their outfit.

Captain’s Speech 2021

Welcome to the 2021 graduation ceremony. For year 6. 2021 has been a challenging year but we didn’t let that stop us from shining bright. We faced the challenges and succeeded in the end. Now we are standing here to have congratulate the year 6 students who have completed Primary school and will soon be entering high school.

We would like to thank our teachers who have spent their time teaching us new ways of learning through out primary school. We would also like to thank our principal Mr Harris for running this school smoothly. We will forever keep Auburn North in our hearts. We have all enjoyed many fun days at Auburn such as crazy hair and sock day, book week, community festival day, mufti day, excursions and so much more. We have all made many memories in past years in primary school and like Mr Harris says “Once a member of the Auburn North family always a member of the Auburn North Family.”

When we leave this school, we will show the Auburn North values even after we leave this school not just in high school but everywhere we go. I have been in this school since Kindergarten and I have watch this school grow. I have seen many students come and go and they have all wore their school uniforms with pride.

When we leave this school we wish for Auburn North’s good reputation to stay the same. We would once again like to thank the staff, teachers, students and of course, Mr Harris. We wish the future year 6 the best of luck as you will be the next leaders of the school. We are confident that you will be very successful leaders and that Auburn North will benefit from your leadership. Thank you for listening to our speech and good luck to everyone graduating in the Year 6 ANPS class of 2021.