PRINCIPALS REPORT

I pray that you are well with the Grace of the Almighty. It is with great pleasure and pride that I present you with a brief overview of the DIANELLA COLLEGE’S aims, philosophies, achievements, and successes of 2010. The year was filled with great memories of wonderful moments for staff, students and parents alike. I am

AUSTRALIAN

ISLAMIC

COLLEGE

(NORTH OF THE

RIVER) INC

DIANELLA

ANNUAL SCHOOL

REPORT 2010

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particularly proud of our students’ outstanding academic performance in the NAPLAN and New South Wales ICAS testing.

I thank Allah (swt) who has Blessed our College with the responsibility (Amaanat) and well-

being of 725 students this year. This is a challenge that the staff and I undertook with full commitment, loyalty and dedication; we strived to provide every child in our TRUST with the opportunity to excel (academically and spiritually) Insha- Allah!

DIANELLA COLLEGE (staff, students, administration) is a ‘FAMILY’ – where foundations of trust, respect, honesty, sincerity, loyalty, tolerance, acceptance and gratitude as well as the ability to utilize all the GIFTS that Allah (swt) has Bestowed us with is practiced and implemented DAILY with conviction.

Our ethos and philosophy, students’ impeccable behaviour, positive attitude, confidence, high self-esteem, good strong moral values, tolerance, honesty, sincerity,

perfect manners and RESPECT for ‘ALL’ are just some of the things that we strive to instill in ALL our students. Our golden rule that we all live by is, “Everyone has the right to be safe, to be happy and to learn”.

All our students are encouraged to excel in secular and non-secular subjects, integrate with other communities and strive towards a goal in life. They are encouraged to make their aspirations a reality. Our students are also taught to promote and propagate Islam by participating in various inter-school activities. Examples of these include celebratory occasions such as Harmony Day, Multicultural day, Inter-Faith Sports Activities, Students Uniting Nations (SUN) Summit, and Inter-faith visits to our neighbouring schools.

I would like to take the opportunity to commend all the staff for their sterling efforts in working so hard to attain our 2010 goals:

• To improve teaching, learning, and achievement in literacy and

numeracy, with particular focus

on developing 'critical' numeracy

and literacy

• To enhance children's thinking skills and problem-solving

abilities through high-quality

extension and enrichment

programmes

• To identify students at risk and put in place programmes to

support their learning and social

wellbeing

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Alhumdulillah, the students are truly Blessed to have such dedicated, hardworking, diligent staff who cater not only for their students academic needs, but also provide a safe, warm, ‘family’ environment that caters for their wellbeing and meets all their needs. As a result of this amazing pastoral care our enrolments have peaked to 725, and the College has a growing waiting list extending well into 2012.

Teacher Standards

and Qualifications

Ahdielah Edries Principal PhD (Edu),

MEd, Grad

Dip(Ed) –

Secondary,

BSc

(Biology).

Maraim Parker Head Prim Primary

Teacher’s

Certificate, Primary

Teacher’s

Diploma

Badia Eid Kindy BA(Ed) -early

childhood,

BA

Dione Coleman PPB BA(Ed) -

primary

Sunetra Wilanth PPB BA(Ed) -

primary

Zelda Swinny Co-ordinator PPA

Grad Dip. Ed – early

childhood,

BSSc

Lucie Moore Co-ordinator 1A BA(Ed) - early child

studies

Denise Longstaff 1B BA(Ed) - early child

studies

Charmaine Swinny 1C BA(Ed), Earlt

Childhood Education

Colleen Carter Co-ordinator Yr

2C

Higher Dip

Ed, Primary

Teachers Dip III, Specific

Learning Difficulties

Cert Level 1

Shala Pashtoon 2A BA(Ed) -

primary

Alexandra Carson 2B BA(Ed) - primary

Venetia Herbert 3B BA(Ed), MA,

BA

Jaime Pope 3C BA(Ed) -

primary

Marcus Vernon Co-ordinator Yr

4C

BA(Ed)

Edmund Ong 4A MEd, Grad

Dip(Ed) - primary

Farah Baghdadi 4B B(Ed)

Primary

Niall Mc Closkey Co-ordinator Yr 5B

BA(Ed)

Estelle Myer 5A Dip. Primary

Teaching

Nabeedan Mohamed 5C BA(Ed), Cert Teaching

ESL

Maria Carberry 5C Relief B(Ed)

Primary

Halida Dmastaj

5D

Grad. Dip

Edu

(Primary)

Reza Allattas Co-ordinator Yr 6B

BA(Ed) –Primary

Saida Jassat 6A B (Ed), Cert

(Maths)

Suhaila Tookhi 6C BSSc, Grad

Dip(Ed )-

middle school

David Liang Co-ordinator Yr 7A

BA(Ed)

Zana Dpajic 7B

Grad. Dip

(Primary Edu)

Emma Gallagher 7C

Grad. Dip

(Primary Edu)

Celestine Landers Co-ordinator

Highschool

BA(Ed) –

middle school

Robert Dale 8A Grad Dip Ed – middle

school,

Bachelor of Business,

Academic

Skills Bridging

Course in

Num/ Lit,

Merrille Merridick Yr 8, 9

Science/Maths

BA (Ed), Sec.

Science

Lauren Thompson Yr 9 Grad. Dip.

Edu (Sec)

Science, Health &

Physical

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Education

Tania Stevreff 10G Grad Dip

Teaching – secondary,

Bachelor of

Mechanical Engineering

Tracey Canal ESL Degree of

Edu (Primary

School)

Mary-Anne Marechal Ed Support BA(Ed),

Montessori

Dip., Teacher’s

Cert.

Emma Debnam Relief & Yr3 Grad Dip.

Info Sc –

library studies,

Bachelor of

Education (early

childhood)

Asheeqah Jamodien Computing

Teacher

BA(Ed) –

Early childhood

studies,

Advance Cert. Social

Science

(child care)

Samir Kahsay IT Support BEd, Microsoft

Certified

Professional 2007, MCSE

Mohamed Saleh Sports Teacher’s

Physical Edu Cert.

Mohamed Zubair Sports &

Science

PhD(chem),

MSc(chem), Cert IV

Assessment

& Workplace Training

Adiel Abdul Khaliq Religion Bachelor of Law

Hassan Soliman Religion PhD & MSc (Food Mgt)

AmiraSoliman

Riga Minhaj

Religion

Religion

Dip(Ed),

BSc(Ed)

Key Student Outcomes

YEAR

ASSESSMENT AREA

NATIONAL

MEAN

WA MEAN

AIC DIANELLA

Yr 3

READING

414

399 453

WRITING 419 401 421

SPELLING 399 382 455

GRAMMAR 417 399 454

Yr 5 READING 487 478 505

WRITING 485 474 472

SPELLING 487 477 537

GRAMMAR 500 486 502

NUMERACY 489 477 508

Yr 7 READING 546 545 550

WRITING 533 533 541

SPELLING 545 540 597

GRAMMAR 535 531 553

NUMERACY 548 546 602

Yr 9 READING 574 566 573

WRITING 568 563 609

SPELLING 578 571 582

GRAMMAR 579 571 590

NUMERACY 585 578 625

NEW SOUTH WALES ICAS RESULTS

Alhumdulilah, our students excelled in this year’s NSW International Competitions & Assessments for Schools (ICAS) in Maths, Spelling, English, Writing and Science Competition. The competition is entered by millions of entrants across Australia, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pacific

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Region, Singapore & South Africa. A summary of results is listed below:

SCIE

NCE

WRITI

NG

ENGL

ISH

MAT

HS

SPELL

ING

High Disctinction (Top 1% of entrants

5

Disctinction (Top 10% of entrants

7 4 11 12 24

Credit (Top 20% of entrants

25 7 22 19 24

Participation

39 32 47 53 12

TOTAL 71 43 80 84 65

Saskia Wibowo received the WA state GOLD MEDAL on the 6th December 2010 for attaining a High Distinction in Spelling (the highest in the State).

High Distinction (Top 1% of entrants)

Year level Spelling 3 Saskia Wibowo

6 Basheer Bennamoun

6 Mikhael Safarudin

6 Bashkim Arifi

SCHOOL PERFORMANCE

INDICATORS

STUDENTS

Student Attendance Data

Year Group

0-59% Below 111

half days

60-79% 112-149 half days

80-89% 150-167 half days

90-100% 168+ half days

Pre-Primary

1 2 7

50

Year 1 4 10 63

Year 2 1 10 66

Year 3 1 4 74

Year 4 1 5 67

Year 5 1 3 86

Year 6 3 2 65

Year 7 1 6 68

Year 8 26

Year 9 1 2 37

Year 10

2 12

Total 2

15 51

671

Attendance of students is monitored on a daily basis. In primary school, the attendance is taken as two half days at 9:00am and at 12:30pm. In high school, the attendance is recorded per period (total of six periods). If a student is absent in the morning, the office will send an sms to the parents to ascertain the reason of absence. This is followed up by a phone call if the parents have not responded to the sms. All students are requested to return to school with a note of absence or a medical certificate.

STAFF

There was a 95 % staff retention rate. Of the five staff departing at the end of the year two staff went on to promotional positions, one went to Port Hedland, another went to a Catholic Schools and one gentlemen retired to travel around the world.

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STAFF PD Staff are encouraged to apply for any

professional development/professional

learning (PD/PL) that is appropriate to

their teaching duties and their current

level of professional or personal

development. Furthermore, staff are

encouraged to support any initiatives

undertaken by the Curriculum Council

school income broken down by funding

source (CC) or Independent Schools of

Western Australia (AISWA) that will

further their personal or professional

development to benefit the students in

their care and the College. This year

staff attended many whole school PD’s

(delivered by the Literacy and Numeracy

National Partnership Consultant) as the

goals were based on providing a holistic

education (competence in Literacy and

Numeracy) for all students, and

developing the social, emotional,

physical and spiritual needs of the

students.

PARENTAL SATISFACTION

Dianella has sustained a 15-20%

increase in enrolments over the past 7

years due to the following factors:

• principal leadership • school ethos, philosophy, rules • family environment • excellent academic results • educational programs • differentiated curriculum • daily inculcation of values • personal development of students • individualized programs for

students with special needs

• quality & commitment of staff

• high standards/expectations of principal, staff and students

• exceptional level of pastoral care that each individual student

receives

HIGHLIGHTS OF 2010

• PRINCIPAL MORNING TEA

• STUDENTS UNITING

NATIONS (SUN) PROGRAM

• DIANELLA SOCCER

TOURNAMENT

• MS READATHON LITERACY

BOOK WEEK

• SCIENCE WEEK

• INTERFAITH ACTIVITIES

• SPORTS CARNIVAL

• INTERFAITH ACTIVITIES

• CHARITY FUNDRAISNG EVENTS

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• YEAR 10 FAREWELL

• $3M BER GRANT FOR MULTIPURPOSE BUILDING

• 1-1 COMPUTER GRANT

• YEAR 7 GRADUATION

SCHOOL INCOME

INCOME BROKEN DOWN BY

FUNDING SOURCE

DIANELLA

$

INCOME 2010

Gross Tuition Fees 446,936

Other School Fees

& Contributions 6,177

Fully Paid

Overseas Student

Fees 18000

State Government

Grants 1,465,113

Commonwealth

Government Grants 4,509,135

Sponsorships &

Donations 0

Interest Received 1,649

Profit on Sale of

Non-current Assets 0

Inter-School

Management Fee 0

Other Sundry

Income 10142

Rental Income 0

TOTAL INCOME 6,457,152

SOURCE : 2010

Audited Accounts

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BUILDING EDUCATION

REVOLUTION- Update As at December 2010 the $3.0M Dianella Multi Purpose Hall had a significant budget overrun on design issue. With the appointment of Greg Rowe and Associates (GRA) a QS was appointed to review the costing and develop cost saving options in conjunction with the Architects. The Development Approval (DA) issued by the City of Stirling had been received. It was essential therefore that the cost saving measures did not impact on the exterior design so as to avoid any further loss of time to secure a new DA. A program was developed by GRA which was adopted by the AIC for the finalisation of plans and detail to allow the application for the BL and calling of tenders in early 2011. This allowed the establishment of a finalisation date for the project of December 2011.

CONSTITUTION

It was decided to simplify the ownership arrangements of the college during the year to meet the requirements of the Department of Education Services arising from the School’s Registration Report. In future there will be one incorporated association which will own the three colleges and it was decided to continue with the name of the original association, Australian Islamic College (Perth) Inc, and to dissolve the other two associations. As a result when the new constitution for AIC (Perth) Inc is finalized, the assets of the Australian Islamic

College (North of the River) Inc will be transferred to AIC (Perth) Inc and then AIC (North of the River) Inc will be wound down. FUTURE PRIORITIES

• We endeavour to commence with the BER project (multi-purpose building, library and resource rooms) at the commencement of 2011

• Embedding the fee collection policy to ensure financial stability for the future of the College

• Budget for increased professional development of

With sincere gratitude I wish to thank

the new AIC board for their tireless

efforts to improve the AIC, our

parents for their support and

compliance in paying the school

fees, and I am indebted to all my

staff for their loyalty, commitment,

and dedication for making Dianella

one of the most sought after Islamic

Schools.

Jazak-Allah Khairun

Dr. Ahdielah Edries