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October Newsletter
Principal’s Message
30th October 2017
Australian International Islamic College
Excellence in
Education
Character & Service
Asalaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa
Barakatuhu
Dear Parents and Caregivers,
Alhamdulillah we are already in week 5 of term
4. Time is slipping by very quickly and we have
many events coming up during the course of the
next few weeks.
Oct 30 Swimming (Prep to Year 10)
Nov 20 Student Free Day
Nov 22 Prep/Year 6 Graduation Day
Nov 24 Jalsa Day /Last day for Year 10
Nov 29 Prep Open Day (2018 enrolment)
A special invitation and a reminder will be sent
out for the above events. I encourage all parents
to please join us in celebrating our successes and
Inshallah your attendance will motivate your
child further. I encourage all Year 10 students to finalise your
subject selections for next year in the next few
weeks. Over the next few weeks’ teachers are planning
to ensure that students are well prepared for
their final assessments. Please take the time to
support your child and ensure that they utilize
their time wisely in preparation for their final
exams. Please do not hesitate to contact your
child’s teacher should you wish to discuss any
concerns you may have.
I congratulate our AIIC family of all campuses on
their outstanding efforts in working towards
positive improvements in all aspects of our col-
lege life. We recently received very promising
ICAS results as well as outstanding results in
the Mathematics and Writing Competitions.
Our students really stood out in their fantastic
achievement in the RACI Titration Competi-
tion at the Durack Campus. The college
received the Excellence Award for the best team,
1 student received gold and the other 2 silver.
This was indeed a great achievement at National
Level. I congratulate both our students and
their chemistry teacher, Dr Islam.
Our students at the Gold Coast Campus participat-
ed in the Gold Coast Robotics Challenge 2017. Mu-
barak A Mohamed was awarded a Leadership Award
for being helpful to others. Students participated in
the International Robotics Challenge on Friday, 27
October. Thanks to Ms Eva Bay for giving our stu-
dents this wonderful opportunity.
Insha’Allah I hope to end of the year with a great
Celebration of acknowledgement and achievements
Of all our campuses.
I wish you all the vest best for a successful and
Productive Term 4.
Mariam Banwa
PREP YEAR CLASSROOM
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Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu
I can hardly believe that it is almost the end of the year. How quickly time has flown. This term
has been a very busy term for teachers and students with assessments, excursions, sports
and various other activities that that has been happening.
Assessments will start in week six and I am positive that all the students will reach the goal
that we had set out to achieve at the beginning of the year in sha Allah. Allhumdullilah the
students are very motivated and eager to learn and are continuing to work tirelessly to
achieve excellent results.
Our swimming lessons start on the 30th of October for a whole week. Learning to swim is one of
life’s most valuable skills, which could save a child’s life. It is for their own safety around
water. It is good to see that all the prep students will be taking advantage of this invaluable
swimming programme.
Thank you to all the parents and families for your continuous support and help throughout
this year. It would not have been possible for your children to have excelled without your help. I
have enjoyed working with all the children in my class and thank you for entrusting them with
me.
I would like to give a special thanks to Sara Khan who has been helping out in the prep class
every Wednesday morning. It is always busy in prep class so any help is immensely
appreciated.
If you have any queries and would just like to talk to me about your child’s learning please do
not hesitate to come and see me.
Jazzakallah Khairan
Azara Khan
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Message from Year 2
Assalamu alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu,
Dear Parents/ Caregivers
There goes another year! and what a year it has been.
This year the year two class has done an exceptional job through the terms. They have all
made such an amazing progress and together as a class they have set a high ex-
ample. This class has never failed to work together as a team, encourage each other and con-
tinuously be a role model class for the rest of the school.
Just a few things to look out for this term;
junior AUS kick, Spelling B competition on Thursday the 26th Oct, Swimming lessons from
Monday 30th October, 15th November Drama Day rehearsal, Monday the 20th Student free
day, Thursday 23rd a Full Dress rehearsal for drama day, Friday 24th November Drama day
and Thursday 30th of November last day of school.
For homework this term I would really like to encourage the reading and learning weekly
spelling words. Also the students are to continue with their mental maths weekly units. I
have reduced the weekly homework this term as the student have been handed out a
Spelling B competition sheet, they will be given NAPLAN questions occasionally and they
will also have parts to practise for their drama day as additional homework thought term 4.
If at times this is not enough the students have full access to Mathletics online and Literacy
Planet which they are able to access on their own with a username and password they have
written in their homework book covers.
Mrs A. Sisic—Year 2 Teacher
Student of the Month
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Year 4 classroom
Assalamu Alaikum, Wa Rahmatullah Wa
Barakato.
Dear Parents/ Carers
Welcome back to the final term of the school
year 2017. It’s always a sad term as this is the
last term that I will have the opportunity to
teach these amazing Year 4 students. They
have really tried hard to go beyond their own
individual boundaries.
Term four is also a very busy term with the
children completing the rest of the curriculum
and assessments. It is a term when I’ll be
writing their reports. Please assist and
remind your child to complete all set tasks and
to be diligent during class lessons.
The Drama Day/ Jalsa Day will also be on this
term. It will be conducted on the Friday 24th of
November after school. Your child/ren will be
very busy preparing a presentation based on a
unit of work what they have learnt during the
year. They are all excited with this task and
look forward to showing you their talent.
Especially as they have been learning so much
about Performing Arts this term. This
learning opportunity allowed them to gain an
understanding of how facial expression and
body language are vital to relaying information
to their audience.
The children have also been learning about
Persuasive Writing through the understanding
of how advertisers persuade their target
audience to purchase their products through
cleverly designed packaging. This is an
Integrated unit especially across English,
Science and Health. They even had the
opportunity to design their own packaging
where they really had to think about their
choose of language and visual features for
their package.
I have taken some photos of some of the
students’ wonderful work and included them in
this newsletter. Please enjoy!
Lastly, a big congratulations to all the Grade
Fours for an absolutely fantastic performance in
the 2017 Spelling Bee Competition. They all did
an amazing job with memorizing words and their
meanings. On the 16th round the judges unani-
mously declared a tie.
We had SIX 1st Prize Winners-
Allira Al Hamzawi
Luqmaan Mohammad
Mohammad Omar
Popal
Muhlise Kaya
Rabia Torlak
Safiye Kaya
2nd Prize Winner-
Mohammed
Masri
3rd Prize Winner- Yousef Masri
Mrs L Hallak
Year 4 Teacher
Grade Four
Packaging
Designs
HIGH SCHOOL REVIEW
Assalamu alaikum Wr Wb,
Dear Parents/ Carers
If we thought last term was busy, then this term
has already exceeded last term, with all the
planned extracurricular activities.
In English this term the grade seven and eight
students, are using ‘persuasion for change’. We
have made a list of things that need changing
around the school and the students are gathering
information from other school personnel to support
their ideas for change. The next step will be to
write letters of persuasion to the people who can
authorise this change. We have already been on an
excursion around our local area and have found a
number of things that need changing and
improving. We are now planning the letters that we
will present to our local member of parliament [Mr
Syd Cramp] or to the Mayor [Mr Tom Tate’s]
council. The success/lack of success with the
persuasive techniques used will be judged by the
changes we have brought about.
The year seven and eight students have began
algebra and patterning in Maths, looking at how
relationships between two variables can be
represented as an expression or an equation. We
have also begun a unit on data representation, with
a focus on dot plots, stem and leaf plots, and
straight line graphs. The introduction of specialised
ICT lessons with Mrs Bay will also include using
programs like Microsoft Excel to do calculations
and organising of data.
This term in Science, the year seven and eight stu-
dents have been doing Chemistry. We began with
understanding the differences between pure sub-
stances and mixtures, and further classifying mix-
tures as homogeneous or heterogeneous. Experi-
ments were carried out to see if different solutes
dissolve in various solvents and the type of mix-
tures they form. We have now continued onto un-
derstanding The Periodic Table of Elements, their
symbols and how they are organised. Finally, we
will be looking at some common reactions and
whether these cause physical change (like colour,
shape, smell, heat) or chemical change (like form-
ing a completely new substance).
The grade nine and ten students have been analys-
ing musical messages [poetry] and their social im-
pact. They are creating for social comment and/or
change for the present times.
For SOSE the grade seven and eight students are
investigating the Ancient Civilisations of Greece,
Rome, Egypt and other Mediterranean cultures as
well as ancient Chinese and Indian peoples. They
are investigating who, where, when, achievements,
what remains of the civilisation, as well as the
impact of that civilisation on present-day life.
The grade nine and ten students are studying the
geographies of ‘Human Well Being’. What makes a
good Life? Are we better or worse off than other are-
as of the world? Does ‘wealth’ equal ‘wellbeing’?
In term four, the year nine and ten students began
in depth algebra using quadratic equations to graph
parabolas. We have looked at how these graphs
change based on different factors and the everyday
situations that can represented mathematically
with these graphs. We will then move onto data
representation and analysis, where we will look at
histograms, box and whisker plots and analysing
sample spaces. The ICT lessons done with Mrs will
also include use of Microsoft Excel to represent data
using digital methods.
This term for Science, our focus has been Chemistry.
The year nine and ten students began an
“Entrepreneurship Project” where they will have to
come up with a business model and produce a prod-
uct to sell that involves a chemical reaction to make
it. Be sure to come by on Drama Day to support this
budding entrepreneurs at their market day stalls!
Concurrently, we have been looking at the various
atomic models for the atom, how ions are formed,
and the different types of bonding: Metallic, Ionic,
and Covalent. Thereafter, we will investigate how
fast chemical reactions occur and whether these can
be sped up. Part of this unit involves understanding
of radiation, from the Sun, and what occurs when
our bodies get too much of it. As such, incidents like
Chernobyl nuclear plant, and Hiroshima Nagasaki
nuclear bombing will be studied.
This nine week term has been packed with exciting
events that will see our students participating in a
Quran competition, a brand new Tafseer Speech
competition, Spelling Bee, Swimming in Week 5, an
excursion to the Brisbane Science Centre, and Dra-
ma performance [Jalsa]. Some of our high school
students will also be participating in a Robotics
challenge this Friday. During this term we will also
take part in full days of Art and Health and Physical
Education, and we have a specialist HPE teacher to
teach this subject.
As you can see it is a very busy term!
Mrs FA. Omar / S. Morgan
What’s going on, in Carrara ?
At our weekly awards assembly …….
Years 5/6—Robotics
Challenge at Dreamworld The mystery of the missing
golden broom…..
Golden broom award—each week a
class is nominated for this award for
keeping their classroom clean and
tidy. Cleanliness is part of faith.
This week, Year 2 received the
Golden Broom for being the best
kept classroom in the entire school.
Keep it up !
Quran/Tafsir Recitation Competition
Lilase Atallah – 1st place for Years 5/6
High school
students
Thank you to
the judges for
taking time to
judge the
competition