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22 October 2019
We kicked off our new Sisters Walking Group with a wonderful and sunny first outing in early September and will continue our weekly walks this coming Thursday, 10 October. MashaAllah, we usually walk roughly 6500 steps while celebrating our sisterhood and being out and active together. Please feel free to join us on Thursday mornings at… Read more
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18 October 2019
For the third year in a row, an Al Siraat College staff member participated in the annual Emergency Services “Blessing of the Fleet” ceremony on Saturday, 12 October 2019. The Whittlesea Interfaith Network WIN and Whittlesea Council host the event each year in October at the start of the new fire season. It is a beautiful open air… Read more
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17 October 2019
We have finally commenced our Islamic storytime in the musallah to our beautiful community and their children from 0 – 4 years old. Alhamdulillah, what a wonderful turn out we had this week at storytelling. We had over fifteen joyful children attend the session. The kids had so much fun engaging and learning about Allah’s creations. The… Read more
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16 October 2019
Just over a year ago, the PFF engaged in the SRC project to provide winter essentials for the people in Syria. For this project we ran knitting classes so sisters could learn a new skill of knitting while making scarves. It was such a successful exercise for us that we wanted to continue our new found skills and move onto another project… Read more
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14 October 2019
Why not come and join us every Tuesday morning? As long as the weather is fine, we will be there, inShaAllah. You can walk and talk, jog, run or see how many laps you can do in 15 minutes to beat your personal best. Bring your family and friends great way to start your day. We have had our regulars join how about you come along and join… Read more
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10 October 2019
Our very own Ms Tanya and her daughter Mariam were invited to give a radio interview on World Cancer Research Day about their annual participation in the Great Cycle Challenge for kids fighting cancer. Thank you Denise Kuchmar from local radio station Plenty Valley FM 88.6 for giving us the opportunity to talk about our annual fundraiser… Read more
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4 October 2019
We are approaching the final term of the year and it’s time to officially launch the much awaited Healthy Lifestyles Program. We have a full 6 weeks of activities planned including weekly: - Positive Parenting Sessions . - THT Workout sessions . - Sisters Walking Group. - Ladies only swimming. - Pilates Fridays . - Islamic Storytime. -… Read more
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25 September 2019
We had our very first Positive Parenting session this week with facilitator Jaweria Khalid from the Australian Muslim Women’s Centre for Human Rights AMWCHR. . We had over 30 women attend the session which focused on a variety of introductory topics relevant to leadership parenting. The session was generously catered by AMWCHR and they… Read more
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25 September 2019
We relaunched our much awaited Islamic Storytime program in bright and beautiful sunshine on Wednesday, 18 September with a wonderful group of mums and bubs in our newly renovated ladies side of the Musallah. The Islamic Storytime program was originally developed to connect the youngest and cutest members of our community with the… Read more
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25 September 2019
Thank you to everyone who joined us today at the community garden for the launch of our Sunday Gardening Club. We had a great turn out, & had a very productive day. We met some lovely people & all made new friendships. Here are a couple of photos. Our next catch up will be on Sunday, 6 October at 9:30am. All Al Siraat families are welcome… Read more
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25 September 2019
Please find below the AMUST e-newsletter article on our recent R U OK Day event at the College. Thew e-newsletter is circulated to over 20,000 readers each month. The printed version of AMUST will be available in the office. "Thursday, 12 September marked R U OK? Day, a day dedicated to initiating meaningful conversations with family… Read more
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19 September 2019
Al Siraat proudly hosted a group of delegates as a part of the Australia-ASEAN Muslim Exchange Program, facilitated by Mr Rowan Gould on Wednesday, 18 September 2019. The leaders arrived from various countries, including Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Phillipines. During their visit the delegates had an opportunity to do a tour of… Read more
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18 September 2019
Students from Al Siraat participated in the annual art exhibition held by Independent Schools Victoria ISV at The District Docklands Gallery on Tuesday, 3 September 2019. This is the fourth year that we have been chosen to participate in an ISV exhibition. It is excellent to see that our students are receiving public exposure and… Read more
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18 September 2019
Female students from our Year 5/6 cohort participated in the "Super Muslimah" program over the course of tfour weeks this term. The "Super Muslimah" program aimed to educate students about friendships and remind them that each one of them has a Super Muslimah within them, and that they can choose to activate that power to do good every… Read more
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12 September 2019
We had a wonderful Ladies Morning Tea at the Thomastown Recreation & Aquatic Centre TRAC this week, facilitated in collaboration with our good friends at TRAC and City of Whittlesea. The ladies had a tour of the facilities including the ladies only gym, the childminding facilities and the Saturday ladies only swimming program. We will be… Read more
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12 September 2019
12th September is national "R U OK? Day" and Al Siraat College students were invited to attend a lunchtime R U OK? Day Conversation Cafe this year for the first time. The purpose of this was to raise awareness for this important cause and give our students some basic skills on how to start a conversation with family and friends that may… Read more
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11 September 2019
Our Year 5/6 students successfully participated in the Basketball Hoop Time competition. The students worked very hard in competing against students from other schools. Al Siraat scored a few points on the day which was a highlight, and seeing our students improve in their skills was so positive playing in an indoor basketball stadium for… Read more
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10 September 2019
"Jump Rope for Heart", the iconic annual fundraiser for the Australian Heart Foundation, has brought much joy to all, practicing and improving skipping skills. Skipping can be done by all ages from Foundation all the way up to Senior School. Our students improved over a few weeks to get their rhythm up to scratch ready for the jump off… Read more
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10 September 2019
As part of the Epping Tennis Club’s FUN FOR ALL program, 30 selected Year 3 girls and boys were involved in the Hot Shots tennis coaching program where they learned the fundamental skills and rules of tennis. The program went for 3 consecutive weeks. We had a tennis poster challenge with great give away prizes up for grabs for the… Read more
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9 September 2019
MashaAllah, we have had over 42 registered students from Foundation to Year 6 take part in the after school Auskick Program. It has been great seeing our youngsters getting involved in Aussie rules football. So many students have never actually been to a game or watched it on tv. Thus, learning about AFL was challenging for some students… Read more
