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8 December 2016
Our current Year 6 students as well as newly enrolled students for Year 7 in 2017 explored the new world of Secondary School over the course of two days this week. The future Senior School students also greatly enjoyed spending time in a lab performing experiments. It is our primary focus to ensure our students moving into new classes to… Read more
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8 December 2016
What a productive year of 2016 for our interfaith ambassadors!! The year finished on a high note and with lots of appreciations from our College principals, the Mayor of the City of Whittlesea Cr Ricky Kirkham and Helen Kapalos, chairperson of the Victorian Multicultural Commission. A great moment for all the interfaith ambassadors as a… Read more
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8 December 2016
Our Junior School student Mariam Moeladawilah was representing the College and our Council of Whittlesea at the reception with the Governor of Victoria, the Honorable Linda Dessau AM at Government House on Friday, 2 December 2016. Mariam was invited in her role as “Young Citizen of the Year 2016”. She won this award at the City of… Read more
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7 December 2016
“Dress Up for Orphans” Day – Tuesday, 6th December was an non-uniform day, where students contributed gold coin donations for the Orphan Project. The colourful event was a tremendous success, exceeding all our expectations, by raising over a $1200! Allahu Akbar! My Hifz students and I were blown away, once again, by the wonderful… Read more
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6 December 2016
The Qur'an Department of the College is proud to announce that several of our students have recently completed the 11-books series "Ma'alim – us-Siraat", leading them to being able to read our Noble Qur'an. The students and their teacher Ms Maryam celebrated with some delicious cake and yummy cupcakes before being handed their Qur'ans… Read more
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6 December 2016
The Al Siraat Cycling Team would like to share the following exciting news with you: The 2016 Great Cycle Challenge has raised a record-breaking $2,946,740. That’s nearly 3 million Dollars to fight childhood cancer! As in previous years, all funds raised will support research into the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of childhood… Read more
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5 December 2016
Phase 2: Prevent, Rehabilitate and Protect!. The Phase 2 visit is usually held 3 – 8 weeks after the first visit. We had the school dental team visiting our Year 3 and Year 4 students last week and were able to prevent problems arising from the student’s teeth, by applying Fissure Sealants to some of their molars. If the student did have… Read more
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2 December 2016
The Al Siraat cycling team has been featured in the latest December edition of AMUST Australasian Muslim Times. AMUST is a high quality award winning publication in Australia, sharing positive news and views on Islam and Muslims: To read the full article online, please CLICK… Read more
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1 December 2016
The Parents and Friends Forum PFF of the College is delighted to announce that the total funds raised from our latest Bake Sale fundraiser for shade sails resulted in the fabulous amount of. $1295.35. We are very grateful and would like to thank everyone who helped by contributing to the bake sale to make it yet another successful… Read more
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1 December 2016
The College hosted an Afternoon Tea after yesterday’s successful Bake Sale to show its appreciation and gratitude to all our wonderful and hard working members of the Parent and Friends Forum PFF of Al Siraat. The success story of our PFF continued in 2016. Their hard work in running and supporting fundraisers and other school functions… Read more
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1 December 2016
After a successful project in 2016, we are excited to announce our new interfaith ambassadors for 2017 who are motivated leaders not only learning about different faiths, but also about social issues that impact us regardless of our faiths. We will focus more on our humanity. We welcome our 12 interfaith ambassadors who are ready to make… Read more
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30 November 2016
Last Friday, a small group of our newly appointed Interfaith Ambassadors for 2017, attended a Student Leadership Conference at Templestowe College. These Year 8 girls enjoyed listening to a motivational keynote speech from Ant Williams who is ranked 8th in the world for freediving. He highlighted his 3 key ingredients for… Read more
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25 November 2016
CREATIVELY BRINGING THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER. The annual Art-Astic Art Exhibition held by the College last week’s Friday, 18th November 2016, truly captured the essence of community engagement. Hundreds of families attended the event, local community groups were invited and special appearances were made by key partners, including Cr. May… Read more
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24 November 2016
Al Siraat is supporting the 2016 White Ribbon Day. White Ribbon runs violence prevention programs and campaigns across Australia with the aim of ending men’s violence against women, as silence and inaction will only let this violence continue. College Principal Ms Rahat Arain represented the College on today’s White Ribbon Day event at… Read more
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22 November 2016
Cricket Victoria/Melbourne Renegades Clinic Program at Al Siraat. Junior School students from Year 6 participated in a Cricket Clinic program, organised and planned out by Cricket Victoria/Melbourne Renegades' David Hall, Waddington Mwayenga and assistants Luke and Rachel. The four Cricket Vic representatives had carefully planned the… Read more
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21 November 2016
Al Siraat will be celebrating the concluding ceremony of our 2016 Interfaith Dialogue Project to appreciate the wonderful work our student interfaith ambassadors have done throughout this year. The project was launched in 2014 and has since enabled students to collaborate with each other and to thereby develop mutual respect and… Read more
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17 November 2016
In Humanities this year, the Year 8A and 8B classes have studied mountain building, including volcanic landscapes. Today, the Year 8’s visited the Organ Pipes National Park in Keilor North and were able to investigate some of the structures that were created by volcanic eruptions which occurred thousands of years ago. The students got to… Read more
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11 November 2016
Al Siraat students and staff observed a Minute of Silence today at 11am sharp to honour "Remembrance Day". Remembrance Day in Australia is dedicated to Australians who died as a result of war, particularly from World War I onwards. A minute of silence is dedicated to the deceased, especially for soldiers who died fighting to protect the… Read more
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11 November 2016
Our cycling team of six female staff members and one student, successfully participated in this year’s Great Cycle Challenge and helped raise funds and awareness for kids fighting cancer. The Challenge officially came to an end on Monday, 31st October with "Team Al Siraat" having. - raised $8,344.68 and . - ridden 811 km. The Great Cycle… Read more
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10 November 2016
Today, both male and female Senior students from Year 7 went to the Chinese Museum. The museum is located in Melbourne’s China Town, near Little Bourke Street in Melbourne’s CBD. After studying Ancient Chinese history, it was great to be able to see so many amazing artefacts and find out some really interesting facts. The students also… Read more
