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SEASON’S GREETINGS

Accepting Challenges ISSUE 4 • DEC 2017

2017 was another very busy but highly successful year for

Auburn Girls’ High and it is due to the dedication and hard work

of both our students and our staff.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those

involved in each and every success we have had this year both

big and small. We would also like to thank our parents and

carers for encouraging their daughters and wards to participate

in the many activities and opportunities provided for their

children. Below is a photo taken of the 25 students who took

part in the Schools Spectacular which is just one example of our

students and staffs’ dedication and commitment.

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE Season’s Greetings 1

Principal’s Report 2 Deputy Principal’s Report Years 7 & 9 4 Deputy Principal’s Report Years 8 & 10 6

Deputy Principal’s Report Years 11 & 12 8

School News 9

Important Dates 11 Careers 14 English/History Faculty 15 Support Faculty 16

PDHPE Faculty 17 Maths/LOTE Faculty 18 Parent Information 21

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ISSUE 4 • DECEMBER 2017

Principal’s Report

Dear Parents and Students, As I reflect on the achievements of our students and our school over 2017 I am once again incredibly proud that we have

achieved so much progress, working together with our staff, students, parents and the community. We have enjoyed another successful year where enhancing the educational, academic, social and wellbeing outcomes for our students,

remain the core business of the school and the focus for all decision making.

In 2018 students will need to

wear school track pants for PE and Sport

2017 has been a year of reflection of both our successes to date and planning for the next

three years with the 2018-20 AGHS Strategic Plan. We have been reflecting and measuring the progress achieved with each of our three School Plan Strategic Directions: Engagement for Learning; Excellence in Teaching and Inclusivity for Learning. The Tell them from me

Survey data over the last 3 years reveals that students are increasingly satisfied with and engaged in school life and learning. This semester we have been forward planning and developing our plan for the next 3 years. We have completed our consultation process to

identify the priorities and projects to be implemented as part of the 2018-2020 school planning cycle. The school is now in the process of drafting the 2018-2020 School Plan following the school and community consultation that has taken place over the last two terms. I am looking forward to sharing the draft School Plan

with the school community early next year for final feedback prior to its publication at the end

of Term 1 2018. Principal’s Merit List Morning Tea Each term I receive a Merit List, a list of

names of students who have: attendance of 95% or more; all absences are explained; are always in uniform; and whose engagement and behaviour is worthy of commendation. I am very proud to say that the following students have appeared on the AGHS Merit List

for each of the four terms gaining a Principal’s ROSE GOLD Merit Award. Congratulations to our wonderful students and their parents.

Garima Mainali Dehlia Mang

Fatema Mansur Hai Mi

Falaq Shethwala Sharona Ta

Marwah Tanveer Carmen Wong

Year 8

Qian Feng Pauline Oo

Kanchan Sharma

Year 9

Safiya Alameddine Sharon Diep Muria Djohar Catherine Do Nosrat Fareha Nancy Fianu Claire Huang

Isabelle Khammy Latisha Lam

Xue Yi Li Anna Tran

Year 10

Sarah Akhtar Kubra Alacalioglu Rosanna Liang Olivia Milford

Year 11

Aamna Ahmed

Iesha Alameddine Shireen Alameddine

Saaima Awan Alyssa Borra Hasna Hadid

Sophia Huang Drishya Mainali

Zarin Mansur Jacinta Milford Gule Orozgani

Karan Tran Anna Wong

Year 7

Yumi Cailloce Iffat Fatema Chaudhari

Chloe Huang

Lavangiah Karunakaran Safiyyah Khan

Amy Khoa Grace Lahtaw

Kylie Le

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Safe Holiday and Thank You I would like to take this opportunity to thank

our parents of Auburn Girls for their support of the school throughout the year. I am especially grateful to our P&C President Mrs

Afzala Nazir, for her contribution and for being such an integral part of our school.

I would like to acknowledge our wonderful teachers, and staff at Auburn Girls who have

continued to work tirelessly to support our students this year and made successes

possible. My thanks to all our dedicated and

hardworking teachers who have taken on additional roles and responsibilities that

provide our students with many amazing opportunities, curriculum, co-curriculum and wellbeing that make a well-rounded

education.

My thanks to our School Captains, Prefects, Sport Captains and Student Representative

Council Leaders I would like to express my appreciation for their leadership on behalf of the school.

Congratulations to students, staff, parents

and our community for a wonderful and successful year.

Merry Christmas, have a safe and relaxing holiday and see you in 2018!!!

Anna Tsoutsa Principal.

School Sports Uniform In line with parent and community

expectations, we are a full uniform school and continue to improve our standard of school uniform

available to students. From 2018, all students will be expected to

wear the correct sports uniform on Tuesdays and for PE lessons.

There has been extensive consultation with students, parents

and staff over the last two years to ensure that the new uniform looks smart, is comfortable and

affordable.

Students may wear the new sports uniform or the old sports uniform.

Black tracksuit pants, with or

without brand logo or black tights ARE NOT UNIFORM.

There has been extensive information about this change

throughout the year with students, with the P and C and recently a

letter has been sent home. Uniforms are available at OZ

Fashions. Student assistance can be sought from Mrs Matta as

required.

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Deputy Principal’s Report – Years 7 and 9 Term 4 has been filled with many opportunities for students to showcase their talents and make positive connections with the wider community.

LEARN, LEAD AND SUCCEED

Auburn girls learn, lead and succeed!

These powerful words are Auburn Girls High

School’s core values as endorsed by students,

parents and students.

To Learn – students need to be engaged as

active learners in the classroom and beyond.

This means always being equipped with the

correct books and participating with purpose

and focus. Asking and answering questions,

researching and consolidating understandings.

Learning is fun and it is a lifetime pursuit.

To Lead- as we learn and expand our

understandings of ourselves, others and the

world we become confident and articulate. We

can guide and mentor others and we can

identify issues and convey ideas to others. We

can debate and persuade to make a difference

to our world.

To Succeed- our learning allows us to be

valued by our society; you are the doctors,

academics, scientists, designers, architects of

the future.

At Auburn Girls High all teachers work

together to create vibrant and engaging

classrooms for students to maximise their

learning.

Mental Health Week- Auburn Girls High School. Auburn Girls High School has wellbeing at the heart of all it does. October was Mental Health Month and at

AGHS the school organised a week of workshops to explore issues of wellbeing and provide explicit teaching of resilience and self-esteem. The school provided not only student workshops but also parent and staff professional learning opportunities.

The focus of the week has been to:

1. build resilience and consolidate understandings of the benefits of positive psychology on personal wellbeing.

Some workshops included: • gratitude letter writing, • identifying personal strengths

• volunteering and fundraising for Garvan Institute, • cyber citizenship • healthy eating • fundraising for breast cancer research – Garvan

Institute • random acts of kindness with staff • staff meeting

• stress management • avoiding risks • being strong and confident • student perspective on personal mental health

journey • hope and optimism

• Positive Psychology for parents with our academic partner Dr Paula Robinson

2. promote local help seeking agencies in the

local community to our students, staff and parents.

Many local organisations presented workshops to our

students such as: • Auburn Youth Centre • Youth Off the Streets • Headspace Parramatta • Police from • Youth Command Auburn, -Australian Martial Arts

Academy

• Dooleys Students, parents and community groups valued the Mental Health Week. They also value the school’s on-going commitment to enhance the wellbeing of all stakeholders.

Students have enjoyed the interactive workshops, community groups have consolidated partnerships with the school and teachers and parents have better understandings of Positive Psychology and simple but effective interventions that they can use in their family life and classrooms to strengthen young people’s self-

esteem, resilience and confidence to effectively meet the challenges of life.

Below: Dr Paula Robinson who spoke about Positive Psychology to our parents.

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POSITIVE EDUCATION AWARDS

Congratulations!!!

Thank you for being excellent students. We commend you for your positive engagement

in learning and citizenship in our school community.

Year 7

Asmaa Ayouch

Badia Baghdadi

Cecilia Do

Naushin Hasan

Fariha Mahjabine

Year 9

Khatira Ahmadshadi

Maya Alameddine

Rezwana Anwari

Habiba Ghazie

Zagawar Lwin

Angelina Xia

These students were awarded 2 Principal Gold Awards and a $10 Canteen voucher.

Below: our students providing a musical

performance when visiting Granville Public

School

Year 8

Two recent events with Year 8 were: the

Public Speaking Competition which was won

by Jessica Lee with Rodah Elemam coming

second and Zoukah Fatfat third. The picture

below shows Ms Mahmoud, who ran the

competition, handing out prizes to

contestants. Also, the Year 8 Spelling Bee

held in Week 10 was won by Muna Mohamed

of 8E with Hafifa Sadiqi of 8L second.

Congratulations to all the winners!

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Ms Doyle with a fantastic booklet

which she put together with great

suggestions for the maintenance of

one’s mental health.


Years 8 and 10 As we come to the end of a very important term I would like to congratulate the following students in Year

8 and Year 10 for their outstanding effort and academic achievement.

Year 8 Zynab Al Gureishy

Excellence in PDHPE

Excellence in History

Alaa Al Jabouri Excellence in Mathematics

Excellence in PDHPE

Excellence in Science

Excellence in Mandatory Technology

Mariam Al Naji Excellence in Mathematics

Excellence in Mathematics

Aya Alameddine

Excellence in Music

Fatima Ali Excellence in Science


Hajar AlSalemi Excellence in English

Saumya Amin

Equal First place in Year 8 History


Excellence in Visual Arts

Farahnaz Asad Ullah Excellence in Drama


Excellence in Visual Arts

Randa Assoum

Excellence in English


Excellence in English

Barin Azimi Excellence in Visual Arts

Khyle Banares Excellence in Music

Farbeen Barbar Excellence in Mathematics

Mirvat Belani Excellence in Drama

Aisha Chaudhry Excellence in Arabic

Mallak Dallal Excellence In History

Nora El-Sayed Hamed Equal First place in Year 8 History Zoukah Fatfat

– Excellence in Drama

Qian Qian Feng – First place in Year 8 French – First place in Mathematics – Excellence in Music – Melissa Ho – Excellence in Korean

– Excellence in Music – First Place in Year 8 PDHPE

Deniz Huseyin First place in Year 8 Turkish

– Excellence in Music – Year Adviser’s Peer Support Award –

Tanzeela Idris – Excellence in English

Leyla Karasu – Excellence in PDHPE

Dua Khan – Excellence in Drama – First place in Year 8 English

– First place in Year 8 Science – Excellence in Mandatory Technology

Shaniyah Khan – Excellence in Mathematics – Excellence in Science

Jessica Lee

– First place in Year 8 Korean – First place in Year 8 Music

Rayan Majzoub – Excellence in Visual Arts

Rohama Malik – Excellence in Visual Arts

Muna Mohamed

– Excellence in English – Excellence in PDHPE

Renin Mohammed Hamdan – Excellence in Drama

Basma Mosaid – First Place in Year 8 Arabic

Arzu Muratoglu

– Excellence in Drama – Excellence in Mathematics

– Excellence in Music – Excellence in Science – Excellence in Mandatory Technology – Excellence in Visual arts

Pauline Oo – Excellence in Italian

Hilal Ozen Excellence in History Excellence in Mathematics Jessica Pacini Excellence in Mandatory Technology

Excellence in Visual Arts Sevval Pehlivan Excellence in English Excellence in Science Tahmina Rahimy Excellence in PDHPE

Mehraz Shaik

Excellence in Science Excellence in Mandatory Technology Kanchan Sharma Excellence in French Hafifa Sidiqi Excellence in History

Jaweher Sobhie Excellence in History Jacintha Somantri Excellence in Turkish Excellence in English Umme Tazkia First place in Year 8 Italian

Yasmine Trad Excellence in English

Excellence in Mathematics Excellence in Science Excellence in Mandatory Technology

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Maha Zreika Excellence in Visual Arts Deniz Huseyin

Year 10: Peau Afu Excellence in History Excellence in PDHPE

Deniz Aksay Excellence in History Excellence in Geography Hoda Al Hassani Excellence in History Kubra Alacalioglu Excellence in Child Studies

Zainab Aljabri Excellence in English Amenah Al-Shaikhli Excellence in History

Danielle Amrie Excellence in English

First place in Child Studies Tamana Asad Ullah Excellence in Food Technology Ebru Balabanel Excellence in Geography Excellence in Commerce Iqra Bookbinder

Excellence in Child Studies Sabah Charif Excellence in Science Excellence in Drama Wafa Dehaiby Excellence in Mathematics 5.1 Fatma El Hassan

Excellence in Mathematics Douha Elrich Excellence in English Excellence in English Derya Elustu Excellence in Science

Excellence in Year 10 Visual Arts Sharifa Hafsah Excellence in History Excellence in Geography First place in Year 10 Design and Technology Fatima Haq First place in Year 10 Mathematics 5.3

First place in Year 10 Science First place in Year 10 IST Sitara Hassanzai

First place in Year 10 History First place in Year 10 Commerce Excellence in Commerce First place in Year 10 Food Technology

Adela Hussaini Excellence in Mathematics 5.2 Mariama Kamara Excellence in Mathematics 5.2 Arya Kc Excellence in Textiles Technology

Karla Manansala First place in Year 10 PA&SS Excellence in Design and Technology Muntaha Matloob First Place in Year 10 Drama

Iman Mehaiche Excellence in Science Excellence in Science

Naema Mohamed

Excellence in Science Saraf Narwar First Place in Year 10 English First Place Year 10 PHPE Excellence in PDHPE Excellence in Music Nisa Nur Tozlu

Excellence in Geography Year Adviser’s Peer Support Award Hannan Quadan

Excellence in English Excellence in Science

Grace Quang First place in Year 10 Music Apekshya Rai

Excellence in Dance Sahima Rostami Excellence in English

First Place in Year 10 Mathematics 5.2 Excellence in PDHPE Excellence in Science Muskaan Sharma Excellence in Geography Simran Singh Excellence in Mathematics 5.3

First place in Year 10 Dance Maybelle Thieu Excellence in PDHPE Nabiha Ullah Excellence in English Excellence in History

First place in Year 10 Geography

Weiyun Xu First place in Year 10 Textiles Technology Simiao Yang First place in Year 10 Visual Arts Rithe Zaman Excellence in IST

Shaymaa Zeineddine Excellence in Mathematics 5.2 Fiona Zhang Excellence in Mathematics 5.3 Iman Zreika Excellence in PDHPE

Year 8 and 10 School Reports will be issued to students in the last week of this term. A text message will inform parents that students have

received their report during the school day to be read that evening at home. Reports not issued due to student absence will be posted to home addresses.

I wish every student, parent and carer a safe and enjoyable vacation period. Next year Mrs Jackman will be taking over my role as Deputy Principal as I will be on extended long service leave. May I take this opportunity to thank the students, staff and community of Auburn Girls High School for making

my time at this school the most rewarding career a person could possibly have. Mr Rod Fisher Deputy Principal

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Years 11 and 12

As we come to the close of another productive

year at Auburn Girls High school, I would

especially like to congratulate Year 12 2017 on

the completion of the Higher School Certificate.

Students will be able to assess results on line

through NESA from Thursday 15th December.

Official records are posted through to students’

home addresses in January. Please check the

NESA website for details.

Year 11 students on the other hand have started

the Higher School Certificate course and they will

have completed one whole term of the Year 12

course work this term including the completion of

the first of many assessment tasks.

I am aware that there are already a number

of girls who have received course non-completion

warnings (N-warnings) for their HSC courses. The

satisfactory completion of a course requires

Principals to have sufficient evidence that the

student has:

• followed the course developed or

endorsed by NESA

• applied themselves with diligence and

sustained effort to the set tasks and

experiences provided in the course by the

school

• achieved some or all of the course

outcomes.

Students may receive N-warnings for any of the

above three reasons. It is very important that

students work with their teachers to redeem

these warnings. All students are now aware of

the importance of attendance, completion of

assessment tasks and school work as well as

developing and maintaining resilience and a

positive attitude in their final year of school. They

have been a wonderful senior cohort so far.

A reminder that sports afternoon is no longer

mandatory and Year 12 students are able to sign

out of the school at the beginning of lunch every

Tuesday. From next year if your daughter has a

study period at the end of the day she can also

leave early to study at home if she wishes and on

Friday afternoons from 1.35pm. However, your

daughter must have a good attendance record

and arrive at school on time to earn these

privileges.

I would also like to take this opportunity to

acknowledge the following Year 11 students for

reaching the third tier of our Positive Behaviour

Reward initiative.

These students have met the criteria of:

• 95% or greater attendance.

• All partial absences explained (or only one

unexplained partial)

• Always in uniform

• No Negative Incidents

As their award they each received a $10

canteen voucher and 2 Principal Gold Awards.

Also, congratulations to Monira Naim Year 11

for winning the Auburn Review Citizenship

Award. (See photo below.)

I would also like to take this opportunity to

thank Ms Scariot and Ms Garvey. They have

been fantastic Year Advisers to Years 12 and

11 respectively and are always looking at ways

to involve our students and to look after their

wellbeing.

Finally, after what has been a most dynamic

year, I wish everyone a safe, enjoyable and

relaxing summer break.

Belinda Diamond

Riya Amin

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School News

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS

Rosanna Liang – Year 10

Sport NSW sponsors the annual NSW Sports Awards.

The Sports Awards have been running since 1994,

and serve to celebrate the achievements of athletes,

coaches, officials, administrators and organisations on

an annual basis.

At the NSW Sports Awards for 2017, Gala Dinner held

on Monday 27 November 2017 at Rosehill Gardens,

Rosanna Liang’s goalball team won the award for the

‘Team of the Year - Disability.’

Above: Rosanna’s team

Auburn Review Citizenship Awards

Congratulations to Monira Naim of Year 11

shown here with the Editor of Auburn

Review at the awards ceremony. Below is

a photo of other students from other local

schools who also won awards:

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Our School Spectacular

On Monday 18th September, 25

students accompanied by Miss

Kavo and Miss Fagan attended

the Opera House for the annual

‘Our Spectacular’ showcase.

With costumes in tow, hair in

noodles and lots of excitement,

we left Auburn Girls High School

at 9am for a 14 hour day

rehearsing, preparing and

FINALLY performing on the

Opera House Stage!

This year’s theme was ‘Around

the World’. Each school

represented a country and a

cultural dance. Auburn Girls

represented Brazil, performing a

fusion of dances relative to the

Rio Carnival Festival. Colourful

costumes were complimented

with the cha cha, samba and

salsa and the song ‘Samba Do

Brazil’.

We would like to congratulate

the girls for their outstanding

commitment throughout the

year preparing, and of course,

a spectacular performance on

the night!

The students involved should

be so proud of how amazingly

they represented our school and

its talent!

Look out for auditions for next

year’s ‘Fun in the sun’ - 60s

beach inspired dance!

Students involved: Momina Shuja, Carmen Wong, Tugba Egilmez, Layal Charif, Melissa Ho, Jessica

Lee, Leyla Karasu, Rowena El-Ghoul, Deniz Huseyin, Zoukah Fatfat, Isabelle Khammy, Asina

Mohammed, Anna Tran, Aisheeya Huq, Rawan Al-Shammaa, Latisha Lam, Layla Sabbah, Simran

Singh, Muskaan Sharma, Kameriya Celik, Drishya Mainali, Sheetal Burathoki, Hasna Hadid, Asiya

Mohammed and Kubra Atatug

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IMPORTANT DATES

TERM 4, 2017

WEEK 10

15 Dec. 2017 Last day of Term 4 for

students

TERM 1, 2018

WEEK 1 30 January 2018 Years 7, 11 & 12 Return

31 January 2018 Years 8, 9 & 10 return

WEEK 2

9 February, 2018 Swimming Carnival

WEEK 4

21 February, 2018 Year 7 Parent information

WEEK 5

28 February, 2018 P & C Meeting

WEEK 7

16 March, 2018

School Photo Day

WEEK 9

28 March, 2018 P & C Meeting

WEEK 10

13 April, 2018 School Cross Country at Mona

Park

Last day of Term 1

POSITIVE PARENTING

As part of Mental Health Week on 18 October

our parents attended a workshop with Dr Paula

Robinson from Positive Psychology Institute.

Parents were given a range of practical

strategies to use at home to build resilience and

encourage positive behaviour in their families while

they take good care of themselves.

Dr. Robinson is our academic partner and has

worked with both staff and students in 2016 and

2017.

WHITE RIBBON EVENT

On the 22 November our parents attended the

White Ribbon Assembly led by the School Captain and

Vice-Captain where they spoke about the history of

the White Ribbon Day and said:

“In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly

declared 25th of November the International Day for

the Elimination of Violence against Women. Each

year, men and women are called to wear a white

ribbon or wristband as a visual symbol of their

commitment and oath”.

This event is highly valued by our school

community and this year we were honored to have Mr

Murat Dizdar, The Deputy Secretary, and School

Operation and Performance NSW Department of

Education.

NSW Department of Education

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Annual Fashion Show

The Annual Fashion Showcase was held on Tuesday 28th

November 2017. The Year 9 Textiles students presented

their Spanish Inspired Apparel which they individually designed and created.

Next years’ theme will be

inspired by French Designers!

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Library News

One door shuts and another

opens

“A book is like a door. You walk through the

cover and you don't know what you're going

to find.” So said Australian author of fantasy

Emily Rodda, whose books are in our library

at AGHS.

This year an especially large number of

students walked through the covers of an

especially large number of books and

completed the NSW Premier’s Reading

Challenge. They ‘escaped to everywhere’,

which was the theme for this year’s Book

Week. We celebrated their completion of the

PRC by inviting them through our library

doors to our Book Week’s official opening of

the library and celebration of completed

renovations to receive Principal’s Gold Awards

and congratulations from our principal, Ms

Tsoutsa, then cake.

Mr Brackenbury entertained the crowd, which

included book characters such as Ms

Mahmoud, who had returned from the Land

of Oz, with the ancient history of the library

and its evolution to its present state. Also

invited were students who have participated

in the library’s Biggest Reader Challenge this

year as well as the librarian's weekly Book

Club members. Winners of the Book Week

poster competition also earned Principal’s

Gold Awards and prizes, as did winners of the

library’s writing competition for Literacy and

Numeracy Week.

Congratulations to all and keep walking

through our library doors because you never

know what you might find!

Ms Park, Librarian

Great News for VET Business Services!

Aalia Sadiqi was offered part time

employment while on work placement

at Fly Bys Fun in Redfern.

Congratulations!

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Careers This has been an incredible term for our girls at AGHS in terms of their future career planning.

Our graduating Year 12 students have already

been successful in gaining a number of early offers to university. A few positions were gained with Macquarie University and University of Wollongong as a direct result of significant roles in leadership, community or extra-curricular activities like the Duke of Edinburgh. Mid November then saw confirmation of another 37 early offers through the School Recommendation Scheme

(SRS) to Western Sydney University and Macquarie. HSC results will be released on Thursday 14 December and there may be offers based on high results in associated subjects. After the ATARs are released the following day, further offers will be made on 21

December. There will then be two additional rounds in

January and another two in February. I have encouraged our girls to accept all offers

(this is not enrolling, just accepting) and remove that course from their list on the UAC portal. Further offers can then be made, with some girls in a position to have multiple offers by the end of February.

Our Year 10 students have just completed a

week of Work Experience, trialling a number of careers and gaining a better understanding of the world of work. We have had students in Art Galleries, Fire Service NSW, Australian Museum, Taronga Zoo, Vet clinics, Design studios, Law firms, Primary schools and Child Care Centres, as well as many in a variety of retail stores. The overwhelming feedback from students, visiting

teachers and host employers has been positive, with a number of students now saying this is a potential career

path. However a few did say they found it hard to cope with long hours and now plan to stay at school to complete Year 11 and 12 so they don’t have to work in a job that requires being on their feet all day!

Congratulations to everyone for the fantastic effort made this week – I am very proud of our girls.

TRANSITIONS

This term 20 students in Year 9 participated in SAP Work Inspirations and 16 students from year 10 completed a Certificate 1 in Financial Literacy, both programs running over two full days. The girls showed dedication and maturity throughout the programs.

Selected students from years 10 and 11 were also given the opportunity to participate in the Vocational

Industry Pathways (VIP) program at Bankstown TAFE. Students were given information of various course options, participated in hands- on activities and provided with a beautifully catered lunch. This was followed up a week later by visits to Industry workplaces, so they could

see how the courses at TAFE would lead to real jobs. It was a fantastic couple of days with a number of girls commenting that they had found the future career they want to pursue. Left: Nuro and Naema at Chemist Warehouse

Top: Iman Zreika at NGM Lawyers

Below: Olivia Milford at the vet clinic

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English/History Faculty

presented the negative side of the debate, and awarded Smiths Hill High School as the winners of the debate.

Later on, we walked to a nearby food court

where we had our lunch and then went back to Auburn Girls High School and were dismissed.

The experience taught me many new things about debating, and presented all of us with the motivation to work harder in order to hopefully debate on that stage one day. Roba Goreishi, 7S

Note from Mr Bailey (Debating co-ordinator)

All the girls who participated in debating in both competition and training have made significant improvements. The improvement shown by all our girls gives me great hope that one day it might be

Auburn Girls High School in a state final.

Debating Wrap Watching the Debate Finals

On Friday the 10th of November 2017, the Year Seven and Eight debating teams along with several other students departed from Auburn Girls High School on an excursion to watch the Year Nine and Ten State Finals in the hope of learning more about debating by watching the two finalist teams debate.

Once we arrived at our destination, Everest Theatre, Seymour Centre, in which the debate would be held, we took our seats towards the front of the

theatre and skimmed through a small booklet explaining the debate topics and finalists. As we finished, the two teams came onto stage. The debate topic and speakers were introduced and the debate

began. When the debate came to an end, the adjudicators presented the flaws of both teams and

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Support Faculty

Welcome to the families and friends of Support Unit at Auburn Girls High school.

I cannot believe that we are coming to the end of another school year. 2017 has been an exciting, challenging and extremely rewarding year.

I have enjoyed working with our staff, students, parents and the wider community. Students will now have received their school reports, which will give parents a snap-shot of their girl's achievement, but also provide students with tips and ideas of how to improve and move forward.

As always, our fantastic Support students

deserve the greatest thanks for our successful year.

We are so proud of the many achievements during 2017. I also thanking them for their cooperation, the positive attitude and school spirit displayed by our students make this a unique Auburn Girls High School. Teachers and visitors constantly praise their maturity and responsible behaviour.

We have many smiling faces around the Support Unit every Tuesday. Insp!re Café has made exceptional debut into the school and staff can’t wait for their expertly made Cappuccino, Cupcakes and Soup.

On Monday 23rd of October, a number of

students from support unit went to Vision Valley Camp for quality outdoor education and a memorable teaching and learning experience. With strong teamwork, rich motivation for success and plenty of hard work to face their fears our girls

enjoyed most of challenging activities such as flying fox, canoes, archery, high robs and water slide. The

girls showed their never give up attitude and were constantly praised for their maturity, manners and fun-loving attitude.

Thank you to all families who have finalised school contributions and subject fees. If you are still to do so, payment can be made via Payments on Line on the school website. These contributions

make a real difference to the resources and facilities they enable our school to provide for our students.

Orientation Day On 15th and 23rd of November incoming Year

7 students and their parents attended Orientation

Days for support unit. We introduced the subjects’ students will studying at high school and toured our school with their 2018 Peer Support leaders and

parents attended an information session. Morning tea was provided to the parents and students.

Finally, I would like to thank all Support staff for their efforts this year. I would like to also wish our staff, students and school families a safe and festive Christmas break and I look forward to work

with the whole school community in 2018. Ms A Saleh

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PDHPE Faculty

It has been a busy term within the PDHPE department with lots of events and excursions

occurring. On Friday 15th September, all of Year 7 was invited to Auburn PCYC to participate in

a sports activities day. This was a fantastic opportunity for students to try new activities and

work together with their peers. All students had the chance to participate in a gymnastics

workshop, which involved trampoline skills and a gymnastics circuit where the girls were guided

through cartwheels, forward rolls and the parallel bars. Students were also given the

opportunity to participate in European Handball, Basketball and Oztag. It was fantastic to see

everyone having a go in each of the sports and activities. At the end of the day, 3 students

were awarded for their participation and great sportsmanship. I would like to congratulate

Maryam Fahmi, Badia Baghdadi and Dia Chaker who were each awarded with a Basketball

for the effort.

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Mathematics Faculty

The Mathematics faculty has had a

busy and productive year with a variety of

activities and events organised to promote

the importance of Mathematics. There

were many highlights:

Year 9 Stage 5.1 (both 9LM and

9CM) had an assessment task where they

took on the role of a teacher. In groups,

they prepared a PowerPoint presentation

and worksheets on an allocated topic.

They provided examples on the board and

gave out a quiz. Students found the task

valuable and enjoyable.

7MM, 7LM and 7CM are working on Rates

and Ratios. In one activity they created

recipe bookmarks where they wrote down

their favourite recipes and adjusted the

measurements to cater to different

numbers of people.

7SM made jelly during a practical lesson

this term as part of the ratio topic and

enjoyed eating them. Photos below:

Similarly, Year 8 presented topics

in Mathematics where groups planned

teaching strategies, activities and

assessments for their allocated topic and

delivered a lesson to the class.

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Year 7 and 9 prepared and sat for

NAPLAN this year and we saw

improvement in our NAPLAN results. It

was pleasing to see the value added

results for our students in Year 9

Numeracy. Two thirds of our students

achieved greater than or equal to

expected growth. We achieved the best

results our school has ever had. As can

be seen from the table below, and graph

to the right, 95% of Mathematics Stage

5.3 students achieved a Band 8 or above.

No student in Year 9 Numeracy achieved

a band 5 or below the national minimum

standard. I’d like to thank students, staff

and parents for their effort and support

in this wonderful achievement. We look

forward to our continued growth and

excellence in Mathematics.

Year 10 will be going to Luna Park on

8th December for a Welfare-run excursion and

they will be involved in numeracy activities

that include doing calculations on speed, time

and force. It should be a fun filled day.

Once again this year, the Mathematics

International Competitions and Assessments

for Schools (ICAS) run by the University of

NSW was a great success amongst students

that participated. This year we achieved three

distinctions, six credits and two merit awards.

We are very proud of our students and

encourage many more students to participate

next year.

The recipients of the Mathematics Competition for 2017:

Distinction

Kylie Li (Year 7) Carmen Wong (Year 7) Claire Huang (Year 9).

Credit

Fizza Fatima (Year 7) Roba Goreishi (Year 7)

Chloe Huang (Year 7) Helen Mi (Year 7)

Qian Qian Feng (Year 8) Doha Goreishi (Year 9)

Merit

Amy Khoa (Year 7) Sharona Ta (Year 7).

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20

40

60

80

100

Stage5.1

Stage5.2

Stage5.3

Year 9

Below Band 8

Band 8 or above

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Band

Stage 5.1

Stage 5.2

Stage 5.3

Year 9

Count % Count % Count % Count %

Bands 6 & 7 29 100% 52 81% 2 5% 83 61%

Band 8 + 0 0% 12 19% 40 95% 52 39%

Total 29 64 42 135


LOTE Faculty

This term the HSC Mathematics Extension

2 class is running at Auburn Girls High

School. Students are enjoying having

access to both Ms Hijazi and Mr Kim as

they are team teaching this class. This

gives the students and staff the

opportunity to develop and learn the

complex content within this course.

At Auburn Girls High all students have had

free access to Maths Online. This is a great

resource for students as it includes

teaching videos, worksheets and topic

tests. This encourages independent

learning where students can revise at their

own pace and in the comfort of their

home.

Our Mathematics after school

tutoring program continues to be a

success. It runs on Monday and Thursday

from 3:15 – 4:15 pm each week. The

tutors are ex-students from AGHS who are

studying at university. Students can ask

questions on any topic they are currently

doing or where they have difficulty. If you

would like to attend please see your Maths

teacher or Ms Vij in the Mathematics

Faculty.

My staff had professional

development and are now preparing

programs and resources for the new Stage

6 Mathematics Standard course for 2018.

Term 4 also saw Year 12 students

sitting for the HSC. The Mathematics

faculty wishes all students the best in their

academic attainments.

My staff and I wish all a very

peaceful and safe break. If you have any

problems concerning your daughter’s

progress, please do not hesitate to contact

me.

Ms Fidanboy

Head Teacher, Mathematics

On Wednesday the 13th of September, Year 8 Turkish class went on an excursion to Sahara Turkish Cuisine at Parramatta as we studied a unit on Eating and Drinking. We

walked from school to Auburn Station and we took the train to Parramatta. We arrived at the restaurant early. A waitress showed us to

our reserved seats. The manager introduced himself and explained what we were going to eat for lunch. We had Adana kebab, lamb shish, chicken shish and four types of

homemade fresh dips with warm Turkish pide bread. After the delicious meal we were served Turkish apple tea. We enjoyed listening to Turkish music in the background while we ate.

The restaurant was packed after a bus

load of customers and business people arrived for their lunch. The manager took a group photo of our class and thanked us for being respectful and polite. It was a lovely day out on an excursion. From: Dilara Ayse Murt & Dilara Sivri (8TU)

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Parent Information

MAKING ONLINE PAYMENTS

It is now possible for parents to make online payments to the school for amounts owing for students, via a secure payment page hosted by Westpac. Payments can be made using either a Visa or MasterCard credit or debit card, and can be made via computer, tablet or mobile phone. The payment page is accessed from the front page of the school’s website by selecting:

$ MAKE A PAYMENT SECTION ON THE WEBSITE

Items that can be paid include voluntary school contributions, subject contributions, excursions, sales to students and creative and practical arts activities (these include band, drama and dance). There is also a category called ‘Other’ this to cover items not covered in the previous headings. ‘Other’ can be used to make a complete payment of a school invoice.

These details are entered each time you make a payment as student information is not held within the payment system.

There is also the option to enter the Student Registration Number and

Invoice number if you are aware of them, these are optional fields OR

there is also the option to enter the Student Registration Number and Invoice number these are not used at our school, please leave blank.

This is a secure payment system hosted by Westpac to ensure that your credit/debit card details are captured in a secure manner, these details are not passed back to the school.

You have the ability to check and change any details of the payment before the payment is processed. Receipts can be emailed and/or printed.

Details of the payments are passed daily to the school where they will be receipted against your child’s account. As a receipt has been issued from the payment page a further receipt will not be issued by the school.

For any enquiries regarding the Online Payment process please contact the School Administration Office.

When you access the “$ Make a payment” you must enter:

– the students name, and

– class and reference number

OR

– the students name, and

– date of birth

READING

Parents and teachers think that children who are mucking up in class or who have lost interest in schoolwork are simply de-motivated when they could actually have a problem with reading.

• Children often attach reading and writing to school work only, whereas everything going on

around them is virtually dependent on the ability to read and write.

• Even though you may not feel confident in your understanding of high school subjects, helping out with your child's

homework – and showing them you're interested in it – makes a big difference to how they can improve their reading and writing.

• Encourage your child to read/use any kind of material on topics that

interest them —websites, books, social networking

sites etc – and don't pressure them immediately to then pick up on their school work. Be patient.

• Let the school know you are committed to helping your child improve their reading skills.

• If you struggle with reading or writing, know there is a community of support out there to help you.

• If you struggle with reading or have a language background other than English, use the help that's offered

through the school and local community centres. Don't be scared to help your child – just being there with them, even if you're struggling together, will provide them with

valuable support to help overcome difficulties

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