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13 May 2019
The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is now open and Al Siraat College is excited to be participating once again. The Challenge is open to all Victorian children from birth to Year 10 in recognition of the importance of reading for literacy development. It is not a competition; but a personal challenge for children to read a set… Read more
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8 May 2019
The College would like to congratulate our very own Ms Tanja on her nomination for this year’s "Baasila Women Acknowledging Women Awards 2019. The Baasila Awards are an incredible platform pioneered to celebrate the substantial contributions of Australian Muslim women. The inaugural Women Acknowledging Women Awards of 2018 celebrated the… Read more
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7 May 2019
Round 1 of the School Sports Victoria SSV program commenced on last Friday, 3 May within the Year 5/6 cohort. This term, we have three teams involved in the SSV program – one AFL boys team and two Netball girls teams. With only a handful of players having prior experience in the sport outside of the school environment, the majority of the… Read more
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6 May 2019
As part of our Learning Enrichment Program, the College is participating in the Tournament of Minds TOM Challenge for the second year which will be held on 24 – 25 August at La Trobe University. Tournament of Minds TOM is a problem solving program for teams of students from both primary and secondary years. TOM provides students with the… Read more
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1 May 2019
Members of our Student Representative Council SRC attended the “Africa Day” at the Library in the Docklands on Saturday, 13 April as part of the Victorian Youth Week 2019. The Victorian Youth Week was celebrated for an entire week, offering our youth an opportunity to express their ideas and views, and act on issues that affect their… Read more
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1 May 2019
At Al Siraat College, we want to create an environment of mutual understanding and respect between all of our stakeholders. We understand that parents have inquiries in regards to their children’s schooling from time to time. It is essential that all of your queries be addressed to your child’s class teacher first. The class teacher knows… Read more
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1 May 2019
In the midst of this current climate, we are all responsible to report any incidents deemed Islamophobic to the police. It is important to ascertain as many details as possible to ensure swift action can be taken by the police. The Victorian Police have ensured that they will assist us in stopping anti-Muslim behaviour. Please note down… Read more
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29 April 2019
The safety and well-being of our students, staff, and visitors is a shared responsibility. With this in mind and in the interests of child safety, the College has implemented the following changes: - Al Siraat’s main gates and driveway access will remain CLOSED during school hours and only authorised vehicles will be permitted to enter. -… Read more
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24 April 2019
We would like to inform our parents and the wider community that the school office will be CLOSED from 12.30pm until 1pm on a daily basis. This change will take effect from next Monday, 29 April 2019. The health centre will still be manned for all emergencies during this time. Kind regards. Leah Hamel. Customer Support Team Leader Read more
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11 April 2019
A friendly and committed crew from Bunnings Warehouse came to the College on Wednesday, 22 March to paint various games on the concrete in the school yard for our Primary School students to use during their recess and lunch breaks. Bunnings generously supplied all necessary materials and labour on the day to complete this project for our… Read more
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11 April 2019
On Wednesday, 10 April 2019, a group of Student Representative Council members attended Youth Affairs Council Victoria networking lunch in city office as part of Victoria Youth Week Celebration. Youth Affairs Council Victoria YACVic is the leading advocate for young people aged 12- 25 in Victoria. They provide additional targeted… Read more
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9 April 2019
A committed group of students, parents and staff members were amongst an audience of over 60 people who attended the first community conversations forum at Council’s Civic Centre in South Morang in the evening of Monday, 8 April 2019. The Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission VEOAHRC in partnership with Whittlesea… Read more
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8 April 2019
Students and staff joined us for last week’s Ride2School Day on Tuesday, 2 April 2019, for a healthy and fresh start of their school day. As in 2018, we had two different starting locations on offer to encourage more of our students and their families to attend the ride. Option 1: Outside the entrance of "Blue Stone Kitchen" on 286A… Read more
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5 April 2019
On the last day of Term 1 on Friday, 5 April 2019, students in our Secondary School were invited to wear their traditional or cultural outfits to display the wonderful and colourful diversity found at the College and within the wider community. Our Year 12 Business Studies students had also organised a donut sale during recess and lunch… Read more
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4 April 2019
Last week, a representative of the Victoria Student Representative Council visited Al Siraat to run an hour long workshop called “Teach the Teacher Ignite” for our our Student Representative Council SRC members. The workshop included modules like Introductions to the program, expectations of teachers and students, how to ensure school… Read more
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3 April 2019
Our Mums and bubs had a wonderful gardening workshop last Friday, 29 March 2019. We learnt a lot on how to get the most of our vegetable garden from the wonderful and very knowledgeable Natasha from "The Sage Garden". We had lots of hands on experiences with vegetable seedling which we planted in 4 planter boxes in our Community Gardens… Read more
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3 April 2019
As in the previous years, we were visited by five delegates from Indonesia as part of the Australia-Indonesia Muslim Exchange Program AIMEP. The delegates arrived at the College on Tuesday, 2 April 2019. We received the following message of gratitude from the Indonesian delegates: “To the wonderful staff and students at Al Siraat College… Read more
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29 March 2019
"The beauty of the world lies in the diversity of its people. We may have different languages, colours but we belong to one human race. Regardless of our differences, we are all the same.". Our Primary students from Foundation to Year 6 as well as their teachers celebrated Multi-Cultural Diversity Day with a special outdoors assembly and… Read more
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27 March 2019
Two media sources have covered our Special Christchurch Assembly held in the days following the mosque massacres. Below are links to both to share with our community: - To read the AMUST article, click here.https://www.amust.com.au/2019/03/special-assembly-on-christchurch-tragedy/. - To read the Herald Sun/Leader article, click… Read more
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27 March 2019
Recently, A1 Media visited Al Siraat for a live broadcasting coverage about our current Eid Al-Fitr "Pakistan: Back to School Campaign", run by our Student Representative Council SRC. College Captain Hafsa Sarwar and SRC Coordinator Ms Noori were talking about the importance of education and charity. Watch the full interview… Read more
