-
10 March 2020
Last Friday, 6 March 2020 marked International Women’s Day when sisters in our community came together for our "Great Women of Islam High Tea" function. For the evening, we had four wonderful student representatives: Year 12 students Hooda Mohammed Emin and Asma Mohamed were our MC’s for the night while Mariam Rashid Year 9 was our guest… Read more
-
6 March 2020
Al Siraat, in partnership with Whittlesea Interfaith Network and St. Monica’s College, hosted the interfaith Youth Forum Launch in the Fountain View Room of City of Whittlesea council on Wednesday, 4 March 2020. The Interfaith Youth Forum is a grassroots projects to counter racial and religious discrimination and promote greater inclusion… Read more
-
5 March 2020
Our Secondary boys from Years 7 – 9 participated in the Islamic School Sport Association Victoria ISSAV’s Basketball competition last Wednesday, 4 March 2020. Adam Najem, one of our fubulous Year 9B1 boys, has kindly written a summary of this sports event: "On the fourth of March 2020, Al Siraat College competed in the Islamic School… Read more
-
5 March 2020
Our Secondary girls from Years 7 – 9 participated in the Islamic School Sport Association Victoria ISSAV’s FUTSAL competition last Tuesday, 3 March 2020. Zaynab Nur Martin, one of our wonderful Year 9G1 girls, has kindly summed up the event: “I was chosen to be in our girls FUTSAL team. The girls were amazing. We all worked together and… Read more
-
5 March 2020
A representative of the Victorian Student Representative Council visited Al Siraat to run the first part of a workshop called “Teach the Teacher Ignite” with our Student Representative Council SRC members. The program is a student-led professional learning program for teachers that enables students to address issues affecting them. The… Read more
-
2 March 2020
Amongst many other activities during their Canberra Camp, our Year 5/6 and Year 9 students had the wonderful opportunity to visit Parliament House. During their visit to Parliament House, students and teachers met with Mr Andrew Giles MP Scullin Electorate, Victoria who spoke about his encounter with our College students that day in… Read more
-
28 February 2020
This week, our Year 7 boys cricket team participated in the 2020 School Sports Victoria competition SSV. The students played three games, winning two and narrowly losing to an extremely strong Coburg High team. Some excellent skill and sportsmanship was displayed with the boys, representing their family and faith amazingly… Read more
-
27 February 2020
We are in the hot phase with the new AFL season soon approaching and things are heating up. Al Siraat students and staff were privileged to have 4 footie players from Carlton Football Club coming for a meet and greet. Our students had a chance to ask the players questions and also received signed autographs by the players. Some lucky… Read more
-
27 February 2020
Representatives from City of Whittlesea’s Community Engagement & Prevention team gave a brief presentation at Al Siraat College this week about Road Safety around the school. Council members answered several questions from the community about plans to make the traffic flow easier around the school and shared some valuable information on… Read more
-
27 February 2020
Organic Instinct founder Derya Kucukali facilitated another inspiring Lunchbox Makeover & Healthy Eating Workshop earlier this week on Wednesday, 25 February 2020. Sharing some startling facts about the food industry, Derya offered some alternative, healthier ways to feed our families, recommending that people make small sustainable… Read more
-
21 February 2020
We had our very first Islamic Storytime session of this year on Wednesday, 18 February 2020, with a full group of 18 children plus moms attending. We started with the Arabic alphabet on "Alif is for ananas" and also spoke about saying "Bismillah" before starting the day and giving greetings of "Assalamu Alaikum" every day. Our wonderful… Read more
-
20 February 2020
Our SRC members participated in a Community Market event hosted by the Australian Peace Organisation APO in Fawkner last Saturday, 14 February 2020. The purpose of the community market was to help raise much needed funds for the firefighters and victims of the Australian bushfires. APO is a non-profit organisation based in Melbourne. The… Read more
-
16 February 2020
We are very excited to be welcoming back the founder and director of Organic Instinct Derya Kucukali to Al Siraat . this term to run the Lunchbox Makeover & Healthy Eating Workshop for our parent community. Registration is a must. These workshops are very popular, so please get in early. - Date: Tuesday, 25 February . - Time: 9.30am –… Read more
-
15 February 2020
Early on Wednesday mornings, curious little feet walk into the Musallah of Al Siraat College. Our wonderful storyteller Ms Serap reads stories, toys fill a chest along the back wall, there are arts and craft activities for little fingers, bubbles, nursery rhymes and nasheeds. We welcome all our 0 – 4 year old children along with their… Read more
-
14 February 2020
Al Siraat celebrated the College DUX of 2019 for Year 12: Abu Bakr Ayoubi scored the highest marks in the VCE examination and is a proud DUX recipient. Abu Bakr’s success and presentation was celebrated with our Years 10 to 12 VCE students in a special assembly this morning on Wednesday, 12 February 2020. Click here to view more… Read more
-
13 February 2020
Due to popular demand, we are continuing the THT Workout sessions in term one and this time they are held ON CAMPUS. Please find the details below and remember that registration is a must. FREE Ladies only tummy, hips & thighs workout sessions in circuit format, run by Rita from Eat. Sleep. Train. Our Ladies THT worksout sessions will run… Read more
-
11 February 2020
Due to popular demand, we are relaunching our ladies Qur’an Program. Registration is mandatory. This is a platform which brings together ladies from our community that want to TEACH and LEARN Qur’an reading basics in the Musallah. All volunteers looking to teach Qur’an reading will need to attend an assessment session with one of the… Read more
-
7 February 2020
Following the success of our pilot program in 2019, we are thrilled to announce that we have received community funding from the City of Whittlesea to continue our Healthy Lifestyles Program for another term. This program is designed to encourage greater participation of women in our community in sports & recreation and adopting healthier… Read more
-
6 February 2020
Due to popular demand we’re relaunching Ladies Pilates Fridays as a part of the Healthy Lifestyles Program proudly supported by City of Whittlesea. Our Ladies Pilates sessions will run every Friday in the Assembly Hall from 1pm – 2pm. Registration for the course is mandatory!. Session Dates. - 21 February. - 27 February. - 6 March. - 13… Read more
-
6 February 2020
There has been an increase of students being picked up early from school. As we have secured our site, the early pick up of a large number of students creates significant logistic issues for the College. When a student does not come to the office, we send a staff member to search for the student and bring them to the office. As you may… Read more
