Dear Parents,

During one of our recent morning assemblies, a group of three students read out the 2022 school saying. As you know, the saying is:

‘It’s 2022, and we know what to do.

Work hard, be kind, and make our Dreams come true.’

Two of the students told our teachers, students, and the parents who attended the assembly that they were working so hard to make their 2022 Dreams come true.

The third student explained that her original 2022 Dream was to achieve a Gold Badge and that she had been presented with her Gold Badge this term. She then told us that her new 2022 Dream is to earn 60 commendations so she is invited to the principal’s morning tea at the end of the year.

All members of the Auburn North staff are so proud of every one of our K-6 students. We know that since the beginning of this school year every girl and boy has been kind and has been working so very hard to make their 2022 Dreams come true.

We also know with continued effort all students will see their 2022 Dreams become a reality by the end of the year.

SEMESTER 1 REPORTS – ‘A CELEBRATION OF SUCCESS’

I have read and signed each of the 635 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. 

OUR AMAZING LEADERS and TEACHERS

This term has been particularly challenging for our school staff, mainly because of the number of staff who had COVID or the flu. Despite these challenges, our ANPS staff team continued to work so hard and brilliantly together to ensure our students received an excellent education every single school day over the past 10 weeks.

It is such an inspiring team and our students are so fortunate to have this team guiding their future development.

YEAR 1 and YEAR 2 ‘PARENT as PARTNERS in LEARNING’ WORKSHOP

CLASS REPORTS KM, 4HA, Dari Community Language 

For your reading pleasure please find attached to this newsletter class reports from 4HA, KM and Dari Community Language. We would like to thank the 4HA students and their teachers Mrs Harrouk and Mrs Aholelei, KM students and their teacher Mrs Mancia, and the Dari Community Language students and their teacher, Mr Salempour.  

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

This term has been an exciting, productive, and successful term but it’s now time to enjoy a two-week holiday. I would like to thank our Auburn North office team, our leaders, our teachers, and Mr Ray, Mr Frank, and Johnny for their commitment to the wellbeing and learning of our students. THANK YOU ANPS STAFF TEAM.

I would like to thank our parents for their support this term and I would like to congratulate our students on their commitment to always doing their best and wanting to achieve excellence in each of their school pursuits.

I hope all members of the Auburn North FAMILY enjoy a happy and safe holiday and we look forward to all students returning to school on Tuesday 19th July.

Mark Harris

Principal

KRM has had a fantastic semester of learning. We do literacy and numeracy lessons in class every day, however we also learn about the school values. In KRM we have been working on showing the value of responsibility by taking care of our own belongings, such as jumpers, hats and lunchboxes.

Literacy

In term 1 we mastered our first set of sounds by saying the sound, learning to write the sound, and recognising the letter that makes the sound. During term 2 we have learned the next set of sounds, and we have been using the sounds we know to read our Decodable Readers. We are also learning to read and write high frequency words, such as “the” and “of”.

Numeracy

We have been learning how to make and continue patterns in our numeracy lessons. The students in KRM can use concrete materials, such as unifix cubes, to achieve their numeracy learning goals. When we were learning about fractions we practised cutting shapes in half, making sure that both parts were equal. Our favourite fractions lesson was when we made fairy bread and cut it in half.

Technology

One of our favourite learning experiences in KRM is when we go to the ANCLIC or the ANTEC to learn how to use the computers. The students have discovered how to use a mouse to navigate on websites and to play educational games online. We are also working on our typing skills so that we can type letters and words. Our favourite typing game is called Keyboard Zoo, which is on the Auburn North Library Links site.

Best wishes Mrs Rasuli!

Towards the end of the term we said a sad goodbye to Mrs Rasuli, who has gone on leave to have her baby. We can’t wait to meet the new member of the KRM and Auburn North family!

Learning in 4HA

This term 4HA have been busy learning new skills and forming close friendships within our class family.

Literacy:

During literacy sessions, 4HA have been studying quality texts and writing book reports on them. Our book reports feature a summary of the text, a description of the main characters in the text and our opinions and recommendations. Our literacy sessions have been both informative and engaging!

Numeracy:

In numeracy, 4HA have been further developing their skills in addition and subtraction using algorithm, multiplication and division facts, and using the inverse strategy, fractions and decimals and place value. We have also delved into learning about data and statistics, angles and time. In our classroom we really enjoy using hands on, concrete materials to make our learning more fun.

History:

We have been learning about celebrations and commemorations in history this semester. 4HA students were given an opportunity to work with a partner to research a celebration of their choice. They were taught how to present their research in the Microsoft PowerPoint application on the computers and they were very excited to learn how to add animations and transitions to their text and images.

We have had a wonderful term of learning and look forward to returning in term 3 to take our learning to new heights!

More than 120 students attend Dari community language classes. 

In semester 1 (term 1 and term 2), the following grades attended the Dari community Language classes: 

• Kindergarten 
• Year 2 
• Year 4 
• Year 6 

In semester 2 (term 3 and term 4), the following grades will be attending Dari Community Language lessons: 

• Kindergarten 
• Year 1 
• Year 3 
• Year 5

Every Dari-speaking student receives two hours of their mother language learning a week in an encouraging and friendly environment. 

Kindergarten students are learning about “farm animals” and “body parts”.  

Stage 1 students are excited to learn  about “Workers/Helpers in the Community” and “Growing and Changing”.

Stage 2 students are eager to learn about “Health and Hygiene” and “Effects of Growing and Changing”.  

Stage 3 students learn  about “Dari Literature and Cultural Diversity” and “Traditions and Practical Cultural Lessons”. 

As well as these topics, Dari-speaking students are improving their knowledge and abilities in all four components of their home language, which are talking, listening, reading, and writing. 

The following photos are from Dari lessons. 

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Last Day of Term 2             Friday 1st July

First Day of Term 3            Tuesday 19th July

Athletics carnival                Tuesday 26th July

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