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Dear Parents,
Last month I read a newspaper article where the journalist wrote about the benefits of explicit teaching or direct-instruction teaching compared to what can be called student-directed or inquiry-based learning.
Explicit or direct-instruction teaching involves teachers giving step-by-step instructions and explanations for students to practise, and to verify that all students have mastered content before moving to the next stage or lesson.
Inquiry-based learning on the other hand gives students a great deal of autonomy and responsibility in deciding what and how to learn.
At Auburn North, students at times do have the opportunity to take responsibility for their learning but explicit teaching has always been the focus and priority at Auburn North and will continue to be in the future.
Research and other evidence clearly show that explicit teaching has a profound positive impact on student learning. That is why we developed our own school’s explicit teaching model in 2016.
We call our explicit teaching model the Instructional Model or the IM. Our teachers have participated in and continue to participate in high-impact teacher professional learning programs to enable them to develop excellent skills in programming and teaching using our IM.
The IM is used by all Auburn North teachers in nearly all literacy and numeracy programs and lessons and it has assisted our students achieve excellent learning outcomes.
Our explicit teaching model is assisting our K-6 students develop outstanding literacy and numeracy skills, technology skills, and 21st century skills such as critical and creative thinking skills.
We want and have planned for all our students to have developed this skill set by the time they graduate from year 6 so they are ready to succeed from their first day in high school.
CONGRATULATIONS MRS CLIFT
Mrs Clift has taught at Auburn North for 24 years and she is such an important member of the Auburn North family. I’m delighted to inform you that this year Mrs Clift was selected to receive two very special awards. Mrs Clift received the:
- Metropolitan South’s Principals Network Award for ‘Excellence in the Role of School Executive Member at Auburn North Public School.’
- Metropolitan South’s Principals Network Award for ‘Dedication and Commitment to Auburn North Public School.’
According to the program, Mrs Clift received these awards for the following reasons:
“Mrs Clift has utilised her outstanding interpersonal skills, teaching knowledge and leadership expertise to collaboratively transform the teaching and learning culture at Auburn North Public School to become a culture of team teaching, collaboration, mentoring, reflective practice, wellbeing, 21st Century learning, active parent engagement, and high levels of collective teacher efficacy.
Through her various roles as a Teacher Librarian, Assistant Principal, and Deputy Principal, Mrs Clift has had a significant role in ensuring our students experience success in a variety of domains.
Mrs Clift has demonstrated her commitment to our students and network through her contributions to the Granville Schools Spectacular and PSSA sport.
Mrs Clift has had an extraordinary impact on the on the learning, engagement and wellbeing of the students, teachers, and parents of the Auburn North community over the past 24 years.”
Congratulations Mrs Clift. We are so proud of you.
EXCITING STAFF NEWS - WEDDINGS
I am very pleased to let you know that three of our teachers were recently married. Ms Rahimy’s married surname is Mrs Mehr. Congratulations Mrs Mehr.
Ms Meier’s married surname remains Mrs Meier. Congratulations Mrs Meier.
Ms Harvey-Latham’s married surname is Mrs Harvey-Lim. Congratulations Mrs Harvey-Lim.
Kindergarten Parents and Partners
On Wednesday 26th October, Kindergarten leaders held the final Parents as Partners in Learning workshop for Kindergarten families to attend with their children. The session had a focus on numeracy, specifically counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
During the session, parents learnt about the 2022 Kindergarten Mathematics Targets and how these skills are taught and developed at school.
So mathematics is fun, enjoyable and successful at home, parents were provided with some resources and practical activities to complete at home to support their child’s mathematics development.
During the session, the students of the parents who attended the session joined their parents in the ANLIC, further strengthening the partnership between students, parents and teachers. The students were able to demonstrate how much they have learnt this year.
The session was recorded and sent to families via Seesaw, with a resource pack, so that all parents could access this learning experience.
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Kindergarten Excursion – Golden Ridge Farm
On Monday 31st October, Kindergarten students and teachers visited Golden Ridge Farm for their very first excursion. With much excitement, the students boarded the bus and cheered as they approached the farm.
At the farm, students met Farmer Shey, Farmer Maddi and Farmer Belle. Students learnt about the different animals that live at the farm and how to take care of them.
Throughout the day, students had a tour of the farm and bravely fed the sheep, goats and alpacas some food. After the tour, the students got to milk Betty the cow and learnt about all the food milk is used to make, including ice-cream, yoghurt and butter. Students finished the day by bottle feeding the baby goats and holding a baby chick, duckling, rabbit and hamster.
The boys and girls in Kindergarten had a wonderful day at the farm with memories that will last a lifetime.
Kind regards,
Jana-Elyse Picken
This year, our wonderful Eco Warrior recycling and composting programs continue, helping to make ANPS a super sustainable school. Students are getting better at sorting their rubbish into landfill (red bin), comingled recycling (yellow bin) and organics (food and paper – green bin). All organic waste collected in the green bins is fed to our pet worms who live in our Subpod worm farms (pictured below). Our hungry pet worms eat all of these food scraps, turning them into rich, new soil to fertilise our beautiful school gardens. Thank you to our wonderful years 3-6 students on the Eco Warrior team who volunteer their time to feed our hungry worms every week. This stops huge amounts of food waste from going into landfill which produces dangerous greenhouses gasses that are warming our planet and changing our climate for the worse.
Did you know that food waste rotting in landfill makes a harmful greenhouse gas called methane, which is 25 times WORSE for the planet than carbon dioxide from cars?! Composting your food waste is an extremely effective way to fight global warming and climate change.
You can do your bit for your children’s future at home by collecting your family’s food waste in a compost bin to fertilise your garden. Let’s all do our bit to help our planet!
| KBA | Safa | For writing a compound sentence that includes a describing word. | |||||
| KBA | Umaiza | For consistently working hard in all learning areas and being a great role model for her peers. | |||||
| KE | Samira | For achieving her personal goal in literacy and writing descriptive sentences. Keep it up! | |||||
| KE | Ibrahim | For consistently being a fantastic role model to his peers and demonstrating kindness all the time! | |||||
| KM | Mele | For successfully using position words to describe directions in mathematics lessons and digital technology lessons. | |||||
| KM | Ammar | For achieving his writing goal of using the conjunction "and" in his sentence. | |||||
| KS | Ayesha | For constantly working hard and improving in her writing by making sure she includes adjectives and conjunctions in her sentences. | |||||
| KS | Judah | For continually being a good role model for his peers by demonstrating all of the school values | |||||
| KZ | Mohammad | For showing determination during math lessons when learning to tell the time on an analog and digital clock. | |||||
| KZ | Zara | For continually being a good role model for her peers by demonstrating kindness and respect at all times. | |||||
| 1H | Ammany | For being a focused and motivated learner in all key learning areas. Keep it up! | |||||
| 1H | Vicky | For her outstanding effort in writing an information report about koalas. | |||||
| 1HL | Shaina | For using her critical thinking skills to solve place value problems in mathematics. | |||||
| 1KL | Omer | For settling in well to ANPS and coming to school every day with a big smile. | |||||
| 1KL | James Hoi Yeung | For approaching all learning activities with outstanding focus and trying his best at all times. | |||||
| 1P | Manha | For working hard in maths lessons to measure, record, compare and estimate volume of different containers using uniform informal units. | |||||
| 1P | Sanvee | For successfully rounding numbers to the nearest ten in maths lessons. Well done! | |||||
| 2K | Jibran | For showing commitment to his dream of earning a gold badge by demonstrating the ANPS values. | |||||
| 2K | Mehmet | For showing character when completing challenging tasks. | |||||
| 2M | Hajar | For demonstrating critical thinking when learning to describe time until an upcoming event in hours, days, weeks and months. | |||||
| 2N | Elyas | For always persevering through challenging tasks. Well done! | |||||
| 2N | Basim | For consistently demonstrating the ANPS values of friendship and kindness. Keep it up! | |||||
| 3CD | Behishta | For showing determination and enthusiasm in all maths lessons. | |||||
| 3CD | Pharell Brian | For using the success criteria to help him improve his writing. | |||||
| 3M | Benny Tak Wing | For his outstanding focus and critical thinking when solving challenging worded math problems. | |||||
| 3M | Fatma | For her focus and determination to achieve her maths targets. | |||||
| 3W | Shiza | For showing the value of kindness by taking the initiative to help others in the classroom. | |||||
| 3W | Mohamad | For demonstrating the value of responsibility by following all instructions and remaining focused on learning tasks. | |||||
| 4C | Hansa | For always listening carefully to feedback and persevering to try and produce her best work. | |||||
| 4C | Suhaib | For demonstrating the 21st century learning skills of critical thinking and collaboration when completing a challenging maths puzzle with his group. | |||||
| 4HL | Jana | For showing respect by being engaged in all lessons through participating and actively listening. | |||||
| 4L | Myar | For composing a well-structured exposition including a range of high modal words and persuasive devices. | |||||
| 4L | Faiza | For confidently using her knowledge of patterns and algebra to identify, continue and describe number patterns. | |||||
| 5C | Laith | For taking responsibility for his learning by consistently seeking feedback to further improve his writing. | |||||
| 5C | Rayhana | For demonstrating success in identifying the author's perspective of a text by writing statements about tone and mood with supporting evidence. | |||||
| 5R | Jia Long | For being a hardworking student who always tries to find new ways of improving. | |||||
| 5W | Sheza | For bringing a positive attitude to her new class home. Welcome to the Auburn North family! | |||||
| 6E | Umar | For outstanding use of dialogue in the orientation to a narrative writing piece | |||||
| 6E | Rosemary | For insightful contributions to class discussions about an author's perspective. | |||||
| 6H | Donna | For always being kind and respectful to her teacher and peers and being a valued member of the 6H family. | |||||
| 6H | Nusayra | For being an excellent ambassador of Auburn North while at Sydney Zoo by demonstrating all of our school values. | |||||
| 6V | Maheen | For demonstrating creativity through characterisation when writing a narrative. | |||||
Kindergarten Enrolment 2023
We are now accepting enrolments for Kindergarten 2023.
If your child turns 5 before the 31st July 2022, please request an enrolment form at the school office. The enrolment form can be filled out at home then returned to school with an Australian Birth Certificate or Passport/Visa if born overseas. If either parent was born overseas, we require evidence of Australian Citizenship or Permanent Residency for either parent. We will also require your child’s Immunisation Record and proof of your current residential address.
If you know of any neighbours, friends or relatives who do not have any children at Auburn North Public School, but they have a child who should start Kindergarten next year at Auburn North, please pass on this information to them.
Our office hours are 8:30am – 3:00pm during school days.
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