News College
22 July 2016
The annual Junior School Exhibition for 2016 will be held in the last week of Term 3 on Friday, 9 September 2016. To celebrate this, we are running a competition for a design challenge for the exhibition. The chosen design will be used on our posters and promotion prints for the 2016 Exhibition.
Students from Year 4 to Year 12 are encouraged to participate in this competition and submit a design on either A4 or A3 paper for this year’s exhibition:
The design should fall within the theme and should represent features of all of the following Inquiry Units:
People Live in Places
Oh! The Places We’ll Go
One World, Many Places
Exploring Australia
Earth Sustains Life
A Changing World
A Diverse and Connected World
Upon completion, please ensure to mark your name and submit the design to your respective Homegroup teachers for Years 4-6 and to Head of Art, Mr Suffian Amin for Years 7-12.
Special prizes will be awarded to 5 best entries and the winner will receive the TOP PRIZE.
So get your creative ideas flowing and design for our Junior School Exhibition 2016 – OUR GLOBAL VILLAGE.
We look forward to seeing some great work!
BECS (Melbourne), Post DEd Primary (Melbourne), MEd (IB), (Melbourne), Cert in IE Feuerstein (FIE) – Std & Basic
Shahidah was a key staff member of Al Siraat College when it was first established in 2009. With her passion and enthusiasm, she hoped to be an effective and inspirational leader for Al Siraat College, a school that has the potential for providing opportunities for high academic achievement and personal growth for all of its student population.
Shahidah has accomplished 16 years of teaching and administrative experiences in a variety of school settings in Singapore and Australia. These opportunities have enabled her to develop strong communication, interpersonal, organisational and leadership skills that have allowed her to cultivate a supportive learning environment at Al Siraat.
In a management role in Singapore as the Education Director of Al Khair Education Centre, Shahidah was involved in setting up the centre, and contributed to the successful planning, and management of curriculum program for 600 students aged 3-6 years. This experience also involved facilitating and supervising 35 staff to create a flourishing learning and working environment. From 2006 - 2008 she taught at Australian International Academy, which was her first introduction to the International Baccalaureate program and inspired her to further her studies in teaching.
Shahidah graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Early Childhood Studies as well as a Post Graduate Diploma in Primary Teaching. In 2013 she completed a Master of Education (International Baccalaureate), and is fully trained through the Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment Program in developing cognitive strategies in children.