News College
11 March 2022
We proudly present you with the third episode of our popular fortnightly video Community News Report, proudly presented by our Digital Learning and Student Media teams.
In today’s episode, hear from long serving staff member Mr Khurram as well as our Year 10 students who spent five jam-packed days in Canberra for their annual camp.
Learn about the upcoming School Fun Run and Sports Carnival from Mr Saleh, our Head of PE.
Be excited to find out more about our new Path to Hifz Program for current Primary students in Foundation to Year 2, as announced by Ms Rocaya.
We thank student leader Nimra Rashid from our Year 9 girls cohort for being this week’s amazing news reader.
MEd (Curriculum & Teaching), PGDEd, BEng (Hons)
Suffian Amin is the Head of Art at Al Siraat College. He began his teaching career in Singapore and taught GCSE Design & Technology (D&T). Prior to his appointment at Al Siraat College, Suffian held the position of Year Head and Subject Head at the school.
Suffian is very passionate on design education and its role in promoting critical and creative thinking in students. He was actively involved in curriculum planning and professional development of D&T educators with Ministry of Education and Nanyang Technological University (National Institute of Education) in Singapore. In 2014, Suffian wrote a chapter, “The Nature of Intuition in Design” in a book “Disciplinary Intuitions and the Design of Learning Environment (Lim, 2014)”. In addition, he co-wrote a paper titled ‘Experiential Design – insights into its focus’ in 2011.
Suffian moved to Melbourne in 2014 in pursuit of a new challenge. He believes that education is a pivotal enabler for social mobility and that every child can learn. He is very happy to be part of the Al Siraat community and looks forward to nurturing and moulding the bright and young minds in our school.
Suffian graduated with Master of Education specialising in Curriculum and Teaching, a Postgraduate Diploma in Education and a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).