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1 September 2020
For our First Ladies Friday Night Catch Up, we had guest speakers Sarah Quirk from Banyule Health and Abir Melhem from Arabic Wefare join us for a presentation on the correlation between gaming and gambling. They shared some valuable resources to support parents in English and in Arabic. Useful Resources: - Common Sense… Read more
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1 September 2020
Digital Learning is an exciting area that the College is embracing to provide a rich, meaningful and fun learning experience for your children. It is important for us, as parents to note that 85% of the jobs that of our children will end up working don’t even exist yet! As a school, we are changing the way we teach by integrating… Read more
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31 August 2020
Our Virtual Literacy & Numeracy Week 2020 kicks off today with the theme: “Literacy & Numeracy teaching and learning in the COVID-19 crisis and beyond”. This year, we mark this event from 29th August to 4th September. We also have the Adult Learners Week coinciding with Literacy & Numeracy Week from this Tuesday as we launch activities… Read more
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26 August 2020
Our oceans cover more than 70% of our Earth’s surface. We have been excited to explore these 70% with our students across all year levels from Foundation to Year 10 over the course this past week to celebrate National Science. This year’s theme was "Deep Blue: Innovations for the future of our oceans.". National Science Week is the annual… Read more
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25 August 2020
We would like to share with you how enthusiastic our Primary and Secondary students are about their art in their online classes which turned out to be a huge success with many students. Even from home, students keep producing beautiful and very detailed art works in their classes with Ms Stamatia. Our Year 9 students looked at artworks by… Read more
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21 August 2020
This week our Head of PE, Mr Daniel Saleh used the $400 voucher supplied by Women of Whittlesea Embracing Diversity WOWED to personally purchase and hand deliver 44 basketballs and volleyballs of various sizes for our students. Attached is a photo of Mr Saleh’s daughter Selena proudly showcasing our new sports equipment. We are very… Read more
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19 August 2020
Come Monday afternoon when our work day has finished, a regular group of 10 to 12 staff from various teams working on site, gather in one of the empty classrooms for a very special storytelling session. Each week’s "wisdom circle" is conducted under the wonderful guidance of Mitch Ditkoff. The room we enter is warm and inviting, set up… Read more
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14 August 2020
We are pleased to inform you that work on our brandnew play area for our Foundation to Year 2 students has been completed. Driving down Harvest Home Road, you would have noticed the bright blue and red sun sails which now cover the playground right outside our Foundation classrooms. The playground has officially been opened and our… Read more
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12 August 2020
Women of Whittlesea Embracing Diversity WOWED has generously offered a $400 voucher to purchase sport equipment for our senior girls. We are very fortunate to have worked with the team at WOWED through this year in planning and delivery of a number of projects designed to encourage greater participation of women & girls in sports. During… Read more
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11 August 2020
Students in our lower Primary classes celebrated Eid Al-Adha with their classmates and teachers throughout last week in an online "Eid Dress-Up Day" celebration. Our Foundation to Year 2 students had a fun time sharing how they had spent Eid at home with their families. Dressed in their gorgeous outfits and best clothes, they spoke about… Read more
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5 August 2020
Yesterday’s Tuesday, 4 August 2020 marked the last day of our Years 10 to 12 students learning on site this term, in line with a return to remote learning as per Stage 4 lockdown requirements for metropolitan Melbourne. We thank our Senior students and their parents for attending their VCE lessons on campus over the past two days. From… Read more
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3 August 2020
Last week, our Religion Department teachers discussed with the students “Steps taken during Hajj”. To create a Hajj simulation and environment, students were asked to dress in Ihram. Hajj is a journey that has to take place specifically from the 8th until the 13th of Dhul Hijjah the last month in the Islamic calendar. Students recapped… Read more
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3 August 2020
Inspired by the wisdom circles led by Mr Mitch for staff, Ms Najma conducted her first ever campfire story time session with a group of some lively Primary students aged 5 and 6 years old. The students were supervised on site as children of essential workers. Since we could not light up an actual fire, Ms Najma decided to borrow some… Read more
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1 July 2020
We were excited to have our first ‘Foodie Fun’ day for our top ClassDojo winners in Primary during our last week of Term 2. We chose the top two students from each class to make some delicious ‘Yumyum’ balls and have a mini cup trifle. The ingredients were 1 cup crushed biscuit, 1/2 cup condensed milk, and 2 Tbsp cocoa powder. After well… Read more
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29 June 2020
At Al Siraat College, we take great pride in our dedicated staff and are pleased to announce that our Head of English Department, Mr Mohammed Azim, is listed as "Global Educational Influencers of 2020" in US based international magazine "EXCELLIGENT". The Excelligent is a Global Educational Platform which is available across the world. It… Read more
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26 June 2020
ASC students have been featured in a video about racial discrimination which is now launched as a part of Refugee Week. Our students are in the main longer video and their individual video is also listed separately. Racism Stops with me and the Power of US! Video cliphttps://youtu.be/5ILfi1OfyIs. This video was produced by the very… Read more
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15 June 2020
In this short video, three of our Al Siraat College students reflect on past and current issues regarding racism. The students are sharing their thoughts and educating others about what Islam teaches about racism. Click here to view the video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIIWl6uYx48. We are very fortunate to be living in a relatively… Read more
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9 June 2020
In this short video, three of our Al Siraat College students reflect on past and current issues regarding racism. The students are sharing their thoughts and educating others about what Islam teaches about racism. Click here to watch the videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIIWl6uYx48&feature=youtu.be. The video is directed and produced… Read more
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29 May 2020
Student Representative Council and Interfaith Ambassadors members appreciated the amount of work the teachers and staff of Al Siraat have contributed over the past 6 weeks of remote learning. It has been a challenging journey for students, parents and teachers to get the learning happening from home and to adapt to new online technology… Read more
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27 May 2020
A warm welcome back to our students and staff to learning on site. There were happy and excited faces greeting us everywhere on campus today. The new passive area in between our Markaz and the TEAMS building as well as the play areas near the Primary School were also a hit with students during their recess and lunch times. Today’s… Read more
