Auburn North Public School eNewsletter

Dear Parents,

The other members of the Auburn North staff and I hope you are well.

SPECIAL AWARDS FOR OUR SCHOOL

Each year a limited number of NSW public schools are selected to receive the NSW Department of Education ‘Secretary’s Awards for an Outstanding School Initiative’ and ‘Secretary’s Award for School Achievement’. From the more than 2,200 NSW public Schools, less than 20 schools received an award in each category.

I am delighted to inform you that Auburn North Public School was selected to receive BOTH a ‘Secretary’s Award for an Outstanding School Initiative’ and a ‘Secretary’s Award for School Achievement’. In fact, Auburn North was the only school in the state to be selected to receive an award in both categories.

This reflects so positively on our students, our staff, and our parents and the way in which we work together so harmoniously to create and maintain a truly outstanding school learning community.

We should all feel very proud of ourselves and each other.

The awards were for our:

• ‘Whole School Instructional Leadership to Assist All Teachers Become Their Very Best’ initiative.
• ‘Developing the Mathematician Teacher Professional Learning Project’.
Our school’s ‘Whole School Instructional Leadership to Assist All Teachers Become Their Very Best’ initiative was developed and implemented to improve the quality of the school’s instructional leadership, assist all teachers become their very best, and improve student learning outcomes.

To improve whole school instructional leadership and teacher knowledge and skills so all teachers become their very best, Auburn North developed and implemented integrated, differentiated leadership and teacher professional programs, strategies, and practices.

Our school-based data and our outstanding 2023 NAPLAN results demonstrate how the quality of our whole-school instructional leadership has assisted the quality of each teacher’s teaching to significantly improve and assisted students achieve outstanding learning outcomes.

Auburn North’s ‘Developing the Mathematician Teacher Professional Learning Project’ was developed in response to the new K-2 NSW Mathematics syllabus and draft 3-6 NSW Mathematics syllabus.

Strategies to increase teacher knowledge and skills in using the syllabuses to assist K-6 students achieve outstanding maths outcomes, especially in the ‘working mathematically’ strand, included the development of a school-based K-6 Mathematics Scope and Sequence, development of teacher professional learning program, and the purchase of resources.

Data showed the project increased the capacity of leaders and teachers to use the new syllabuses to develop exemplary maths programs and lessons and has assisted students achieve excellent maths learning outcomes.

2023 FATHER'S DAY STALL

We would like to thank the following adults for organising this year's very successful Father's Day Stall:

Amina Zreika
Sakeena Zreika
Ahida Zreika
Georgette Mrish
Neslihan Apaydin
Lara Clingan
Dilek Acar

2023 BOOK WEEK

Please find attached to this newsletter information about and photos from our very successful 2023 Book Week program.

We would like to thank the following teachers for coordinating this year's Book Week Program:

Ms Xie and Ms Saidi
Ms Prenter
Ms Wang
Mrs Brennaan
Ms Lau
MrsWilkins
Ms Ng
Mrs Varley
Ms Hamm
Mrs Bazzi
Mrs Bourizk
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CLASS REPORTS – 5N and 2W

For your reading pleasure, please find attached to this newsletter class reports written by 5N and 2W. I would like to thank 5W students and their teachers, Ms Ng, and the 2W students and their teacher, Ms Wang.

Mark Harris

Principal

5N have had a fabulous term so far!

We have been working so hard in our classrooms and participated in and celebrated so many events such as Peer Support, Book Week and very excitingly, practicing our Community Festival Day dance!

In literacy, we have been learning to write appropriated texts where we plan and write about fractured fairytales. One example is turning the very popular Cinderella into Cyberella by making her drop her phone instead of her golden slipper! In numeracy, we have been working hard to solve word problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and this has definitely got our brains nice and sweaty.

Peer Support has been a great way for us to develop our leadership skills by explaining, demonstrating and leading sport for our Year 2 friends. We have worked collaboratively with our group to plan fun, engaging sports activities and we have really enjoyed being a leader!

This year for Book Week, we participated in a scavenger hunt where we answered questions about different books that we have read and showed off our creative costumes in a character parade. We loved these activities, especially dressing up as our favourite book characters for the day.

Community Festival Day is just around the corner and we have been working so hard to learn and perfect our dance so we can show off our talented dance moves next term! We cannot wait to celebrate Community Festival Day with our school community, enjoying the delicious food from around the world and especially performing and watching all of the dances from every class!

2W have had a fantastic year! Recently we visited the Sydney Sea Life Aquarium where we marvelled at all the colourful, incredible sea creatures. We have also been busily practising our Community Festival Day dance, placing the finishing touches with fans. Although it can be challenging to dance to the beat of the music and keep in time, we have worked so well as a team.

Can you guess which culture we will be representing?

2W have also been representing the mass of classroom objects with the units of MAB longs.

It has been a busy year but we are so excited to see what Term 4 has on offer for us.

KH	Sana	For independently writing interesting sentences about Batman using correct pronouns and punctuation. Keep up the amazing work.
KH	Inshirah Aroosh	For being a good role model for her peers by demonstrating kindness and respect at all times. Keep up the amazing effort.
KM	Muhammad Musa	For persevering in technology lessons when learning to navigate to the Library Links webpage.
KM	Umaima	For always showing the values of friendship and fairness at school.
KS	Omar	For working successfully in mathematics to compare the length of various objects.
KS	Prasiddha	For striving hard to achieve the learning goal within all lessons. Keep it up.
KW	Hamza	For being a motivated learner by staying on task and trying his best.
KZ	Max	For demonstrating creativity and determination when writing interesting sentences about farm animals that include pronouns and adjectives.
KZ	Mrynal	For always taking the initiative to be kind and caring to all her peers and teachers.
2L	Umar	For displaying outstanding behaviour at the 'Sydney Sea Life Aquarium' excursion.
2L	Rihana	For always being a caring and kind friend to her peers.
2M	Hamza	For using his phonemic knowledge learnt in phonics lessons to help decode words when reading.
2O	Muntaha Noor	For always demonstrating the ANPS values by showing respect to all her teachers.
2O	Rushal	For always demonstrating the ANPS values in the classroom and in the playground.
2W	Sidra	For demonstrating interest, and enthusiasm in all aspects of the Year 2 Sydney Sea Life Aquarium' excursion.
2W	Aaron	For demonstrating creativity and critical thinking by creating a detailed map of his house from memory. Well done.
3CD	Muhammad	For being a kind and thoughtful class member who is always willing to help his teachers and peers.
3CD	Medi	For showing determination to identify the main idea in a text during whole class reading lessons. Keep it up.
3H	Haroon	For demonstrating persistence when trying to accurately review and edit his writing.
3H	Umamah	For demonstrating the values of kindness and friendship towards her peers.
3P	Ela	For being a wonderful role model to her peers by consistently demonstrating all the ANPS values in the classroom and on the playground.
3P	Azlaan	For doing his part to save our environment by picking up rubbish and putting it into the correct bins. Keep it up.
4/3L	Ryan	For improving his writing by including figurative language and rich description to engage the reader.
4/3L	Sameeha	For showing kindness by always looking after her friends on the playground.
4C	Abdul	For demonstrating a high level of collaboration when working with a group to measure and compare capacities.
4HO	Ameer Hamza	For demonstrating an increased enthusiasm in all areas of his learning.
4HO	Abbas	For demonstrating an increased level of effort in all learning tasks. Keep up the hard work.
5C	Roshni	For composing a creative fractured fairytale using the 'show don't tell' strategy to engage the reader.
5C	Flora	For contributing relevant ideas in reading lessons and showing a strong understanding of a text.
5N	Ishac	For being a kind and respectful member of the 5N classroom. Welcome to the Auburn North family.
5N	Abdul Rasheed	For showing creativity when writing his appropriated text on 'The Three Little Pigs'.
5W	Fatema	For showing positivity and resilience in the classroom and on the playground.
6E	Sohail	For his improved focus during all learning tasks.
6E	Derrick	For his developing confidence in the classroom.
6H	Zainab	For using critical thinking and her knowledge of the relationship between various angles to name and also calculate the size of a missing angle.

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