August Newsletter

Principal’s Message

August 4, 2017

Australian International Islamic College

Excellence in

Education

Character & Service

It is our responsibility as a college to keep our

environment rubbish free. Please encourage your

children to place their wrappings and litter in the

bins provided at school. This has always been

emphasised and promoted by our teachers and

staff.

I would also like to remind all parents and

students of the importance of arriving to school on

time. Late arrivals are increasing with many

students arriving after 8-30 am. Please do not

assume that important learning only begins after

the morning assembly. Students should arrive on

time for the assembly so that they can be part and

also aware of important announcements and

arrangements made for the day.

Thank you to those parents who are picking their

child/ren up on time in the afternoon. It is

important for the health and safety of your child/

ren that they are picked up by 3-30pm at the

latest.

I look forward to work with you all towards an

enjoyable and productive term InshaAllah.

Mrs Mariam Banwa

Dear Parents / Caregivers,

I welcome you all to Term 3 and I I’m sure you all

had a wonderful break.

I thank all parents for collecting their child’s

report personally. All others have been posted.

Please inform the administration office if you

did not receive your child’s report. You are

most welcome to make an appointment with

teachers at a mutual time to discuss your child’s

result. I encourage parents to please

make an appointment to see teachers this

term during the parent teacher interview

period. Letters will be sent out in due course.

Students are encouraged to plan, organise and

develop their time management skills to max-

imise effective engagement in their studies.

We welcome our new teacher Ms Noelia Abdus

Samad, year 1 teacher and Mrs Frida Joosting

our special needs support teacher at the Durack

Campus. Mrs Joosting will also work with

teachers at the Gold Coast Campus to address

special needs support for students. Our teachers

come highly recommended in their areas of

expertise and we wish them well during their

stay at our college.

We would also like to introduce and welcome Mr

Mohammed Ally, who has been appointed by the

board as Chief Administrator. Mr Ally is an

experienced educator and principal with a wealth

of knowledge in the educational field. We look

forward to working with him, InshaAllah.

Our College Family Fun Day will be held on

Saturday, 19 August commencing at 12.00 noon.

We call upon volunteers to come forward and

support this event to ensure that it turns out to

be as successful as possible. Please refer to

the flyer sent out.

I request parents to update family contact details

with administration. You may ring the front

office or request a form if you need to inform us

PREP YEAR CLASSROOM

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Assalaaamu alaikum Wr Wb

It has been a great pleasure to see the progress of

students so far in the last two terms. The

students are motivated and keen to learn new

things in the classroom.

Each term is always a very busy Term and I

would like to thank all the parents of my student

for putting time aside during your busy schedule

to support your child’s learning and by praising

and encouraging them to succeed. It is important

to spend a few minutes of your quality time

helping your child with their homework as these

consolidates with what your child has learnt at

school.

Insha Allah with the learning the students do at

school and your help at home I’m sure your child

will reach their utmost potential. Please do come

in and see if you have any concerns about your

child’s learning.

Jazakallah khairan,

Mrs Azara Khan

Prep Year teacher

Posing with the Gold Coast Titans

Dear parents,

This year we are participating in the Woolworths

Earn & Learn program. Through this program we

will be able to get new educational resources for our

school and all we need you to do is shop for your

groceries at Woolworths.

This program started from 26th July and end on 19th

September or while stock lasts, we are collecting

Woolworths Earn & Learn sticker for every $10 spent.

Place the Woolworths Earn & Learn sticker onto a

Woolworths Earn & Learn sticker sheet and when it’s

complete, the sticker sheet can be dropped into the

Collection box here at the school or at your local

Woolworths. Please be informed that Woolworths

at Pacific Fair has kindly set up a collection box

marked AIICGC outside their store for our College.

So, look out for our College collection box on your

next grocery shopping trip to drop the stickers.

At the end of the promotion, we’ll be able to get

some great new equipment. The range is extensive

and offers lots of items ideal for our students—

including resources for Maths, English, Science and

some fantastic fun supplies for Arts & Craft, sport

and for our library. If you’d like to know more visit

woolworths.com.au/earnandlearn

Let’s stick together with Earn & Learn

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Message from Year 2 Assalamu alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa

Barakatuhu,

Dear Parents/ Caregivers

Term three is well on its way and the year

twos’ are welcoming two new students to

their class. For this term the students

have decided that they wanted to learn

about different places around the world,

weather, telling time and shapes. Thus we

will have a look at all these areas and

more through the term.

For homework students will continue to

get their weekly spelling words. The

spelling words are

distributed Mondays

and the tests are on

Fridays. The students

also have “Targeting

Mental Maths” books in

their homework folder

and like in previous

terms students are

required to complete one unit per week

(week 1= unit 18, week 2= unit 19, week

3= unit 20…etc). Some students have an

additional homework i.e comprehension

and a booklet.

Our library day is on Friday, so please

ensure year 2’s have their library bags to

borrow books. Our sport days will continue

to be on Thursday and Friday so please

ensure students are dressed

appropriately (sports school uniform).

Mrs A. Sisic—Year 2 Teacher

Adam Saad—one of the only 2 Muslim player

in AFL—Gold Coast Suns defender. He uses

footy to connect with the Muslim community

in the Gold Coast.

He is familiar with our students.

VISIT FROM ADAM SAAD—

GOLD COAST SUNs

Friday is Sports day in Year 2

Year 4 classroom Assalamu Alaikum Parents/Guardians,

Welcome Back to Term 3. I hope you all had a

marvelous holiday and all students are ready to

for a new challenge and exciting topics.

Last Term, was so much fun for the children,

especially the educational excursion to St. Helena

Island. The children learnt so much and even

made a class book on their about their

experience. Please feel free to come and look at

it. They did a marvelous job.

Also it was so exciting for the Grade 4's to be

the overall winners of the 'Golden

Stars'. Golden Stars are awarded to the class for

making the right choices in their behaviour and

learning habits in and outside of the class-

room. Well done and a big congratulation to the

Grade 4's and all the grades who did a marvelous

job. I am so proud of them all!!!! In Sha Allah,

all the students will continue to bring out the

best in themselves.

So what will be happening in Term 3 ????? The

answer is a lot!!

This term will be a very busy Term with your

child learning new and interesting topics, which

a r e a s f o l l o w s :

Quran/ Islamic Studies/Arabic: Please speak

to Br. Amin for any further clarification

English: Students will be examining and

Humorous Poetry & Persuasive Writing and be

able to eventually publish their own pieces

Maths: Students will be revising and learning

new concepts in Number and Place Value,

Fractions and Decimals, Patterns and Algebra,

Using Units of Measurement and Data

Representation and Interpretation.

SCIENCE: Students will be conducting many

experiments and investigations regarding

Forces.

HASS: In this unit students will investigate

the inquiry question identified from the Aus-

tralian Curriculum: Geography: How does

the environment support the lives of people and

other living things?

Students will also be learning about Political

Maps, Continents and famous Icons from vari-

ous countries and Mapping Coordinates.

Health/P. E: Health Channels- In this unit,

students will examine different sources of

health information and how to interpret them

with regards to accuracy.

As you can see it’s really a full on term with

lots of fascinating things to learn through the

inquiry methodologies. Grade 4’s, buckle up

and hold on tight for a term full of fun learning!

Wa Salamu Alaikum

Mrs. Hallak

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Golden Stars winner

School and bus fees— Fees are to be paid at the start of the new term. Please keep the fees up

to date. Thank you to parents who have paid the fees.

Library books / home readers —please remind your child to return library books / home

readers to make books available for other students to read.

Tuckshop—Just a reminder : please write your child’s name, class, the order and the amount of

money enclosed on a brown paper bag.

Absences—if your child is not attending school on that day, please call or send your notice

through the SchoolStream.

Family details and emergency contacts— please ensure that the family details held at our

College are current and accurate. Also, please provide the emergency contact details to assist us

in cases where parents need to be contacted in an emergency.

We welcome all families and friends to join our College on Saturday, 19th August 2017 from 12:00pm to

6:30pm. This is our College’s fundraiser and request parents support. It will be a fun filled day for the

whole family—the popular camel ride, petting zoo, bubble soccer. Jumping castle, international food stalls,

women clothing, art & crafts and much more.

Please bring your family, friends, neighbours and anyone to this event.

From the Admin. desk

Family fun day