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14 September 2022
On Thursday, 1 September 2022, Al Siraat College, RMIT University and the City of Whittlesea hosted the community engagement event "Making Ground: The Participation of Muslim Girls in Sport and Recreation", as part of Dr Tuba Boz’s and Prof Hariz Halilovich’s RMIT’s research with our school community: In the Game: Overcoming barriers and… Read more
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13 September 2022
The annual Bachar Houli Cup is always a massive event we look forward to every year. It reminds us that come September, footy finals are just around the corner. In preparation, our Year 5/6 girls have been training every single lunch time in anticipation of this big day. The girls have been working on possession, handballing, kicking… Read more
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9 September 2022
"R U OK? Day" happens every year in September on the second Thursday. This year, "R U OK? Day" was held on the 8th of September 2022. The day seeks to inspire and empower everyone to meaningfully connect with the people around them and start a conversation with those in their world who may be struggling with life. You don't need to be an… Read more
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8 September 2022
Our English Department in collaboration with Humanities Department organised its inaugural "Battle of Speakers Contest" in our new auditorium on 2 September 2022. It was attended by Secondary students and teachers from Years 7 to 12. The Battle of Speakers featured 18 budding students who spoke at the event by adopting the personas of… Read more
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8 September 2022
Thank you to everyone who helped make our Footy Colours Day on Wednesday, 7 September so much fun, mashaAllah. Students and staff proudly displayed their favourite team colours while our PE Department ran active sports activities outdoors. At lunch time, we welcomed Jake Murphy and Alia Pera from AFL Victoria on site who engaged our… Read more
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7 September 2022
On Tuesday, 30 August 2022, our Year 5/6 boys competed in the annual SSV Basketball competition and mashaAllah, the team played amazingly well. The team won all 4 games and topped the ladder coming 1st in the B league competition. The kids had a lot of fun and are eager to compete in A league next year. View some action shots… Read more
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7 September 2022
This week, our Year 4 students have been celebrating the end of their Arabic inquiry unit "At the restaurant" with an authentic assessment task. The students had a wonderful experience, applying their conversational knowledge to order their food in Arabic. It was a lot of fun, a lot of yummy food and most importantly, a lot of practical… Read more
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2 September 2022
Our Year 3 students were very excited this week to welcome the amazing crew from our local Epping CFA Fire Station on campus, demonstrating their heavy safety equipment and answering many questions from their attentive audience. Our Arabic Department had invited the firefighters to the College as part of an evaluation phase of our Year 3… Read more
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31 August 2022
Our Year 5/6 girls participated in the School Sports Victoria SSV Basketball Tournament at the Craigieburn Sports Stadium earlier on today’s Tuesday, 30th August 2022. Although the girls lost their match, they played with lots of enthusiasm and resilience, portraying sportsmanship, team work and cooperation. We are looking forward to… Read more
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31 August 2022
Last Friday morning, the team from Archery Ascension came to our College for an incursion with our Year 6 students. Archery Ascension’s aim is to revive tradition, create culture & community, and transform lives. What an amazing opportunity this was for our Senior Primary students. The introduction was very thorough and included learning… Read more
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31 August 2022
Our Year 7 and 8 students successfully participated in two Maths Games Day excursions in celebration of the current Numeracy and Literacy Week. The aim of this program is to challenge high ability students in a fun, challenging, collaborative and competitive Maths-based games day. Our students competed for a variety of prizes including… Read more
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29 August 2022
Episode 12 of our popular video Community News Report is now available. This is the very first video newsletter where our student "Media Club Leaders" owned the process from the start to the end, mashaAllah!. In previous episodes, the videos were recorded by our Media Leaders but the editing was done by Mr Sameer. For this edition, we… Read more
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28 August 2022
We invite our community to join the event "Making Ground: The participation of Muslim girls in sport and physical activity", co-organised by ASC with the City of Whittlesea and RMIT University on Thursday, 1 September 2022 from 6:15pm – 8:15pm 5.45 pm arrival for networking and light refreshments for a 6:15 pm start. This community… Read more
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26 August 2022
While Book Week 2022 has now drawn to a close this afternoon, we invite you to look back with us on the past five days of truly wonderful celebrations across Primary School of all things reading, creativity, story telling and imagination. We started Book Week with our fun and fabulous Book Character… Read more
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25 August 2022
We have wonderful news to share: Not one, not two but SIX healthy and super cute baby goats have been born at our ASC farm enclosure this week. Did you know that a baby goat is called a kid?! A group of kids is called a tribe or a herd of kids. Did you know that baby goats are born with rectangular pupils?! This allows them to be able to… Read more
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25 August 2022
It has been a busy week at the SSD office with planning and preparations for our new program called "The Positive behaviour Bus" PBB. The PBB is a great initiative to encourage our students to make good and positive choices. Researches shows that it generally takes anywhere between 21 – 28 days to create a new habit. Meaning, the first… Read more
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25 August 2022
We warmly welcomed Sheikh Alaa El Zokm to the College as our esteemed special guest on last week’s Friday, 19 August 2022. The sheikh addressed our Secondary Year 7 to 11 boys on the topic “The purpose of life in Islam and the world", making important points about identity and having a beautiful purpose in life. Sheikh Alaa El Zokm is… Read more
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24 August 2022
Earlier this week, we welcomed Associate Professor Rashina Hoda from Monash University on site who delivered the "Superstars of STEM" presentation for our Senior girls in Years 10 to 12. The initiative, run by Science & Technology Australia, is working to break down gender stereotypes and increase women’s representation in science… Read more
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23 August 2022
James from La Trobe University recently delivered a presentation on the ASPIRE Program to our Senior school students. This program enables Year 12 students to access La Trobe University courses based on factors such as community involvement and leadership in addition to their ATAR and study scores. This could take the stress out of Year… Read more
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23 August 2022
Alhamdulillah, the Book Week began yesterday in a grand way. This year, our English Department has teamed up with the Humanities Department to mark the occasion. Our highlights so far: - Monday’s event highlight was definitely the HUMAN LIBRARY session in the auditorium, involving 10 staff members acting as a ‘human book’ and our Year 10… Read more
