Dear Parents,

On behalf of all members of the Auburn North staff I would like to welcome our students and parents back to Auburn North, including our new students in Year 1 to Year 6 and their families. I would especially like to welcome our 2024 Kindergarten students and their families into our school learning community or, as we like to call it, OUR Auburn North FAMILY.

I would like to thank all of you for ensuring your children began their new school year well-rested, immaculately dressed in their school uniforms, and excited about the new school year ahead.

Our school's four main priorities are to assist:

1. Our students love school, love learning, and become happy, lifelong learners.
2. Our students develop outstanding literacy, numeracy, technology, and 21st century skills such as critical and creative thinking and collaboration.
3. Our students live and breathe our six school values that are honesty, kindness, respect, fairness, friendship, and responsibility.
4. Our parents become active participants in their school and in their children’s learning.

We will strategically use our People, Programs and Practices (3Ps) to achieve outstanding outcomes in all four priority areas.

At the end of the 2023 school year  I wrote in the school newsletter that I believed 2023 was our school’s most successful year in the 24 years I had been the principal of Auburn North. I wrote that I believed it was our most successful year in terms of our leadership, teaching, student wellbeing, student learning, and parent engagement and participation.

I also wrote that we had achieved excellent outcomes in each of these areas because of the way all members of our multi-award-winning Auburn North FAMILY of students, staff and parents had worked tirelessly together and in perfect harmony during the year.

While 2023 was very successful, we have planned for and we expect 2024 to be even more successful for our students, staff, parents, and our school.

We have always had excellent school leaders, classroom teachers, and school administration staff (our wonderful office team and general assistants) however, in 2024 we have assembled the most outstanding team of leaders, teachers, and administration staff I have seen assembled in any one school during my 44 years in education.

We have also developed a range of excellent new teaching and learning programs and practices to implement in 2024 to complement the outstanding programs and programs that are already being used in our classrooms. 

Our students are so fortunate to have such loving, supportive parents, such caring and dynamic leaders and teachers, and have access to best-practice programs and practices.

These factors, combined with our students self-motivation will inspire our K-6 students to THRIVE and ACHIEVE in 2024 and become the happiest and brightest young people they can become.

2024 IS GOING TO BE A VERY EXCITING and SUCCESSFUL YEAR.

FORTNIGHTLY NEWSLETTERS

Our 2024 newsletters will go home with students every second week on a Friday. I would like to thank Mrs Serhan and Mr Salempour, who will work together to ensure newsletters go home fortnightly with students. They will be published in two different languages to ensure that you are well-informed about YOUR school.

https://auburnnps.schoolzineplus.com - Newsletters are also available online through the Schoolzine App and website using the link. Please click on the link below to subscribe to our digital newsletter. Schoolzine: https://auburnnps.schoolzineplus.com/subscribe There is also information on how to download the SZapp in this link and attachment with the newsletter.

The online version of the newsletter allows for users to translate the information into more than one hundred different languages. It also allows you to see all the wonderful photos in full colour and they can be enlarged on the device on which you are viewing the newsletter.

TEMPORARY CLASSES

While our Kindergarten to Year 6 students began learning as soon as they entered their classrooms this year, please understand their classes in weeks one, two and three are only temporary classes.

New students have enrolled in our school this year and because some of our 2023 students moved to different suburbs during the holidays, our total student enrolment number is significantly different to our anticipated figure.

As a result, some students will need to change classes. If we don’t make changes some classes in some grades will have far more students than other classes in the same grade. This would not be fair.

Changes to Kindergarten classes will take place next Monday 12^th February. Parents whose children move from one class to another class will be informed of the change on Monday 12^th February. 

Final changes for Year 1 - Year 6 students will take place on Monday 19^th February. Parents whose children move from one class to another class will be informed of the change on Monday 19th February.

MEET THE TEACHER PROGRAM – THURSDAY 22^nd FEBRUARY 3.10pm – 4.30pm

We would like to invite all parents and students to attend our very important ‘Meet The Teacher’ program. It will take place on Thursday 22^nd February from 3.10pm – 4.30pm. We hope all parents and students will be able to join us and meet their child’s teacher.

More information about this program will go home next week.

STAFF INFORMATION 

We would like to welcome three excellent new teachers to the Auburn North Family. They are Ms Jillian Beltran, Ms Jennifer Nguyen, and Ms Lizzie Olle.  

2024 SCHOOL LEADERS

Our 2024 Executive Leaders are:

Our 2024 Grade Leaders are:

We will include a full list of classroom teachers and specialist teachers in the next edition of the newsletter.

Mark Harris

Principal

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Tiered Award System

The awards from our Tiered Award System can be achieved by earning commendations. Commendations are earned when students demonstrate the school values or the ‘6Cs’ of 21^st Century learning.

Our school values are:                                                

1. Respect
2. Honesty
3. Fairness
4. Friendship
5. Responsibility
6. Kindness

Students collect commendations throughout the year and earn the following tiered awards:      

We encourage all students to set a goal which will assist them to achieve all of the wonderful awards that our school offers. Students may find these steps helpful in assisting them to achieve their goal:

1. Set a goal
2. Make a plan
3. Ask for help if you need it
4. Stay focused
5. Reflect regularly and honestly on your progress

If students follow these steps, they will be closer than ever before to making 2024 their best year ever.

Mrs Southgate and Mrs Clift

Deputy Principals