Auburn Public School Term 4, Week 7 Page 1

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Term 4, Week 7 November 2013

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Principal’s Message

Congratulations Adam Manna & Emily Haskell Well done Adam being awarded Junior Sportsperson of the Year for our area at a special Award ceremony recently. Also well done to Emily Haskell who also attended another Award presentation to be named Auburn Public School Citizen of the Year and was featured in the Auburn Review recently. What an amazing effort well done to both of you!

Music and Games Night What a great night! Thank you to all the teachers who helped to organise the night. Well done SRC for your great organisation and all your hard work! Congratulations boys and girls for your wonderful behaviour on the night!

School Photos Thank you to everyone who ordered school photo packages when our recent photos were taken. Parents, school photos should be available before the end of the year.

Kindergarten 2014 Orientation and Transition Mornings Over the last two weeks we have welcomed all our new Kinders for 2014 and their parents to Auburn Public School in special morning meetings. We showed all the wonderful things our school does and the children got the

opportunity to go into our Kindergarten classes during the morning. A big thank you to all our teachers who assisted to make this a memorable event. A special thank you to Ms Shearman for her organisation of the event. A great time was had by all!

Dance Sport This week some of our students participated in a Regional Dance Sport competition. Thank you to all our children who took part and to Miss Parisi and Mrs Soussa who trained our team. Thanks to Ms Hansell, who also attended with our team to support them and our teachers. Great job everyone!

ASPA Meeting Our next ASPA meeting will be on Thursday November 21st at 9.15am in the Kinder Hall. Interpreters will be available to assist you. Hope to see you all there to discuss all the wonderful things happening in our school!

Auburn Public School Beatrice Street, Auburn 2144

Phone: 9646 2200

Fax: 9749 1654

School Email:

auburn-p.admin@det.nsw.edu.au

Principal’s Email: lisa.markey@det.nsw.edu.au

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End of Year Reports

Reports will be sent home on Friday December 6th. It will be a great chance to see all the improvement the students have made in their classwork in all subject areas. Teachers take a great deal of time and care when writing reports and I encourage you to keep them somewhere safe at home for future reference.

Year 6 – End of Year Activities

Already great planning is underway for the end of year events for Year 6 as they get ready to leave Auburn Public School and move on to High School. We have planned a Year 6 fete and a wonderful farewell evening. As well the students will be attending their High School Orientation Day shortly where they will learn all about their new school for 2014. It is an exciting time for them and we wish them well!

Presentation Days

We will be conducting our annual Presentation Day assemblies shortly. Years 3-6 will be on Wednesday December 11th and K-2 will be on Thursday December 12th. We hope to see you all there as we give out awards to our students for achievement, citizenship and improvement during 2014. We also present other awards including- Library, Recycling, Sport and many others. Ms Lisa Borg Principal

General News

On Thursday 7

th November, Ms Borg, Ms Houghton, Mrs

Hansell along with the parents of Thalha Omar and Wahida Yaqubi attended the Directors Choice Awards at the State Sports Centre at Olympic Park. On this special night the students were presented with their Highly Commended Certificate and their art work by the South Western Sydney Executive Director Mr Murat Dizdar. The students did an outstanding job of presenting individual talks about their art work to various Principals, Teachers and School Education Directors at the event. These students need to be congratulated on their outstanding achievement. Mrs Hansell Assistant Principal

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Sydney Dancesport Championship – 2013 On Tuesday 19

th November students from Auburn Public

School competed in the Sydney Dancesport Championship 2013 at Penrith Sports Stadium. After many months of rehearsals under Ms Parisi’s dance instruction, the following dancers made it to the semi-finals on the day: Stage 2: Slow Rhythm Taupue Samatana (3/4K) Faith Falanitule (3/4A)

Stage 3: Cha Cha Adam Manna (6K) Farrah Tobbie (6K) Congratulations to these outstanding dancers and to the impressive performance of all the dancers from APS who competed on the day: See dance teachers for these awards A special thank you to Harun Iman in 5/6P for being our wonderful helper on the day of the competition and throughout our rehearsals. A special thank you for Mrs Hansell for her support on the day. A very special thank you to Ms Parisi for her dance tuition and expertise. Mrs Soussa Support

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Football United’s Annual Primary School Gala Day 2013 Auburn Public School competed in Football United’s Annual Primary School Gala Day on Friday the 15

th of

November at Ray Marshall Reserve, Granville. Auburn entered two teams in the soccer competition, captained by Zahra Mogul and Ali Zada Karimi. Both teams played incredibly well on the day of the competition. Auburn’s teams displayed fairness and sportsmanship during all games. Both teams reached the grand finals and both teams came second in extremely close games.

Overall Auburn achieved the highest points in the competition. The teams were expertly trained by Ms Isbister leading up to the competition. All students who competed should be incredibly proud of their achievement. Ms Ryan Organising Teacher

Our two captains with the players from Sydney FC.

The girls team on the field.

Auburn Public School boys soccer team with the players from Sydney FC.

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The girls team pre-finals cheer.

The boys in action in the semi-finals.

The girls team with their medals and trophy for highest points out of the competing schools.

Remembrance Day - 2013

District Awards Congratulations to Emily Haskell who was Auburn Public School’s nominee at the recent Auburn District Citizenship Awards. Emily received a lovely glass trophy in recognition of her achievement. During her time here at Auburn, Emily has been a wonderful role model for others and displayed outstanding citizenship. We are all very proud of Emily! Congratulations to Adam Manna who was Auburn Public School’s nominee at the Auburn District Sports Awards. Adam’s sporting talents in a range of sports including swimming and water polo were recognised as he was named the winner of the 2013 Primary School Sportsperson award. This is a wonderful achievement! Congratulations, Adam!

Stage 3 News Term 4 is always a very busy time for Stage 3 with lots of extra activities and events. Important Dates are: Tues, 26

th Nov Year 6 Fete

Thurs, 28th Nov Year 6 P.D. Day

Wed, 4th Dec High School Orientation Day for all

Year 6 students attending a government high school next year.

Thurs, 5th Dec Prefects Speeches 9am James

Waters Hall

Thurs, 12th Dec Year 6 Farewell at Auburn R.S.L. Club

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Year 6 Fete All parents are invited to this year’s fete which will be held on Tuesday the 26

th November, 2013 from 11.20am-

1.20pm. Year 6 are busy organising their stalls which include Face Painting, Hair Dressing, Rides, Games and a variety of food. It promises to be a fantastic time! Kim Boyd Assistant Principal/Stage 3 Supervisor

K-6 Assembly On Friday 15

th November our school held a K-6

assembly in the James Waters Hall. It was lovely to see many parents at this assembly. Thank you to the captain, vice-captain, prefects and teachers who assisted with the organisation on the day. A big thank you to Junior dance group for performing ‘Can You Feel It? dance routine . They looked great and danced so well! A big thank you to Ms Parisi & Ms Smith for teaching the group this dance. Mya Nazha 3/4I has been learning Tai Kwon Do and has participated in many competitions around Sydney and has won many medals. Mya recently won a Red Belt medal. Mya demonstrated some moves she has been learning. Congratulations Mya on fine your performance! Lejla Pervanic 3/4J performed a beautiful and graceful ‘free movement’ ballet dance. Lejla has been learning ballet since 2009 and has performed at the Opera House many times. She has won many competitions and awards. What a wonderful performance Lejla! We look forward to seeing you at our next assembly. Mr Probert and Mrs J Heathcote Assistant Principals

K-6 Assembly Awards Winners Please see your child’s class teacher for these awards.

Classroom News

This Term in 3/4K we are learning how to write an Explanation. We have looked at the structure of the text and the language features used to make our writing more informative and descriptive. Yoonis Ali from 3/4K independently wrote an explanation on 'How to Play Snakes and Ladders'. He then typed it up using Microsoft Word. Below is his Explanation. Well done Yoonis!

An explanation on how to play snakes and ladders

Snakes and ladders is classic game, it is fun and not dangerous and don’t take it too seriously. Firstly, bring the game out. Before playing, you need a dice and two counters then get a friend. Then the first person rolls the dice. After, look and see what number you got then move the counter. Secondly, here comes the tricky part, now on your board there are snakes and ladders. The snakes are bad because they make you drop and the ladders are good news!!! They make you go high. Thirdly, now it’s your turn, snakes and ladders it’s easy, you just roll the dice then look at the number. The number you get is where you put your counter. Now you know how to play snakes and ladders. If you are bored you can play the snakes and ladders game with a friend. Enjoy!!! Written By Yoonis in 3/4K

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Community Room

Parents’ Excursion

Last week parents went on an excursion to the University of Technology, Sydney. Despite the rain, parents met at the school in the morning and left in a bus for their informative excursion accompanied by Meric Uyanik – President of the P&C, Auburn Public School

Important Dates to Remember

Cooking Class Mondays Shape Program Tuesdays from Week 2 Toddler Group Thursdays English Class Thursdays Beginning School Well Fridays Parents Craft Fridays

In the Kindergarten Hall from 9.00am – 11.00am.

There is limited childcare available for all these programs.

Merit Certificates

Congratulations to the following students who were presented with their merit awards at recent assemblies. Class Certificate of Merit PBIS

KA Fardin Nasiri Saba Sharokhi KB Omar Alturki Mohammed Al Ruqaishi KM Samir Zreika Sereen Jideh KS Rihanna Ahmad Hudhaifah Ashkar KT Jafar Alsultany Sireen Yaghi 1C Haysam Hamdan Reeda Hussaini 1K Baran Tosun Leighla Lin 1J Erfan Akbari Guneet Sachdeva 1R Kiera Nguyen Juelz Dufton-Brennan 1/2S Ruwayna Alqahtani Sara Al Dujaily 2C Azra Kilic Khulood Mahamoud 2D Can Cetin Kamila Ehsani 2T Johnny Guan Mina Ibrahee 2V Aisha Sherif Emran Hussaini 2/4N Christopher Sahiouni Araf Khan 3/4A Yeping He Mehnaaz Hossain 3/4C Sophia He Hassan Qenaey 3/4I Eric Zheng Wadea Al Masri 3/4J Shadi El Bardouh Jiali Ma 3/4K Hena Hamdard Salma Habane 3/6D Mustapha Amoud Yiteng Yu 3/6H Emmanuel Abdullah Thalha Omar 3/6M Zaheir Oueik Ali Al Hindawy 3/6R Jana Alqahtani Moain Khan 5W Senwei Tan Doha Goreishi 5/6B Amin Saidi Amraoui Rifat Yuksel 5/6P Harun Iman Seval Appak 6K Ali Rizarie Zam Zam El Moubayed

Term 4, 2013 Tues 26

th Nov Year 6 Fete

Thurs 28th Nov Year 6 P.D. Day

Wed 4th Dec Year 6 High School Orientation

Wed 4th Dec K-2 Funarama visit

Thurs 5th Dec K-2 Funarama visit

Thurs 5th Dec Prefects Speeches 9am James Waters Hall

Fri 6th Dec Reports Go Home

Fri 6th Dec Kindergarten Graduation

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Wed 11th Dec 3-6 Presentation Day

Thurs 12th Dec K-2 Presentation Day

Thurs 12th Dec Year 6 Farewell Auburn RSL

Fri 13th Dec K-2 Assembly

Wed 18th Dec End of Term 4 – Students’ Last Day

Thurs 19th Dec Staff Development Day

Fri 20th Dec Staff Development Day

Term 1, 2014 Wed 29

th Jan Students Return Years 1-6

Thurs 30th Jan Kindergarten Students Begin School

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