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14 January 2016
Asalaamu Alaikum dear Parents and Carers. Like in previous years, we will once again have a staggered start of Term 1 for students from different year levels: - 1 February Monday: VCE & Year 7 commence. - 2 February Tuesday: Years 1-6 and 8-10 commence. - 3 February Wednesday: Foundation students commence Read more
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15 December 2015
With bicycles loaded onto the trailer and food supplies in abundance carefully packed, male staff members were ready for a journey towards the Victorian Peninsula. This end of year staff retreat highlighted the amazing camaraderie between staff shared at Al Siraat. In a first for the College, 12 male staff members headed out to St… Read more
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4 December 2015
Al Siraat celebrated the success of our SRCs along with their parents in a special awards and recognition assembly today. The two hours event saw both our Junior and Senior Student Representatives and their parents come together to reflect upon their journey to grow and shine as young leaders. Each student was presented with a framed… Read more
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3 December 2015
The College hosted an Afternoon Tea to show its appreciation and gratitude to all our wonderful and hard working members of the Parent and Friends Forum PFF of Al Siraat. 2015 has been a very successful year for the PFF. Their hard work in running and supporting fundraisers and other school functions helped raise more than $10,000 which… Read more
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3 December 2015
51Թ has been featured in not one but two articles in the latest December edition of AMUST Australasian Muslim Times which can be viewed via the following links: - To read about our "Water Well Fundraisers", please go to. http://www.amust.com.au/2015/12/school-kids-help-build-wells-in-somalia-and-kyrgyzstan/. - To read more… Read more
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2 December 2015
Mariam and I have some VERY EXCITING NEWS to share with you today: The 2015 Great Cycle Challenge has raised a record-breaking $2,670,053: That’s over 2.5 million Dollars to fight childhood cancer! . As in previous years, all funds raised will support research into the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of childhood cancer. Thank… Read more
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28 November 2015
Junior School student Mariam Moeladawilah and her mother, College staff member Ms Tanya, were invited to give a radio interview about their participation in the Great Cycle Challenge on Melbourne Jewish Community Radio Station J-Air 87.8FM. They were interviewed by Avraham Schwarz on his weekly social justice radio show called "Abe’s… Read more
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26 November 2015
Our newly purchased "King Long" School Bus went on its maiden voyage this morning. College Principal Mr Houghton along with bus driver Br. Shukran proudly received our Year 1 students who were fortunate enough to be the first ever College students to use our new means of transport. The students were very excited upon entering the new… Read more
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24 November 2015
51Թ is proud to announce that we have invested $300,000 to purchase a brand new school bus, the King Long coach. It will help to better accommodate our students, staff and parent volunteers on excursions, camp and general school bus runs. It is going to be taken into full service from Wednesday, 25th November 2015 onwards… Read more
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19 November 2015
We are delighted to share that we had a very successful Interfaith event yesterday at the Galada Community Centre where religious leaders from different faiths came together for prayers for world peace. MP Bronwyn Halfpenny acknowledged out interfaith ambassadors with medals and certificate and a booklet from the Victorian parliament. The… Read more
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16 November 2015
On 12th November 2015, 51Թ hosted a very successful Bake Sale. Thanks again to the very generous contributions of our Al Siraat family. Jazakhallahu Khairan to all those parents who donated money and/or food items for us to sell at our Bake Sale. The total cash earnings from "The Splat" and other activities on the day of… Read more
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11 November 2015
What a lot of laughs took place, all for a worthy cause! During the day of our Art Exhibition on Friday, 6th November, our Year 2 and 4 students organised the highly popular “Get Splat” activity to raise funds to build a well in Somalia. For just $2, students, parents, teaching, administration and office staff all cued up to splat each… Read more
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9 November 2015
Al Siraat’s registrar Ms Tanya and her daughter Mariam from Year 3 have been featured on the front page of the latest issue in the "Australasian Muslim Times AMUST" and in a separate article titled: "Cycling to help sick kids" . You can read the full article HEREhttp://www.amust.com.au/2015/11/the-great-cycle-challenge-2015/. "Tanya… Read more
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7 November 2015
Congratulations Ms Noori Ahmad. Al Siraat is delighted to announce that Ms Noori Ahmad has been selected as one of 10 teachers across the State of Victoria for the 2015 ASG National Excellence in Teaching Awards. Ms Noori was nominated by a parent from the College and it is heartening to see the wonderful efforts of the staff recognised… Read more
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30 October 2015
Today, Friday 30th October 2015, marks "Happy Teachers Day" in Australia. To celebrate this event, all 51Թ staff across the teaching, administration and maintenance departments came together in the afternoon as a family for a formal gathering where they were treated to a delicious lunch on this gracious occasion. Our Senior… Read more
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23 October 2015
Helmets on, gears ready, and as for the riders, they were set to take on the challenge in Melbourne’s annual ‘Ride Around the Bay’ event. 14 staff members with an additional two students from 51Թ, cycled their way through Melbourne and over the West Gate Bridge in the iconic ‘Ride Around the Bay’ event on the 11th of… Read more
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14 October 2015
This morning marked "National Ride2Work Day" and it was great to see Al Siraat staff members Ms Breis, Ms Tanya and Mr Bektash participating in this event. They each rode their bikes to work and met up at the main staff room to start the new working and teaching day. National Ride2Work Day is the largest celebration of commuter riding in… Read more
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8 October 2015
It was wonderful to see so many students from both the Junior and Senior Schools as well as staff members arriving at their classes in the colours of their favourite footy or soccer teams. The predominant colours seen today were black/white for Collingwood’s Magpies, red/blue for FC Barcelona, blue/white for the Geelong Cats, black and… Read more
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1 October 2015
Congratulations to Ms Tanya and Sr. Nasrin, one of our dedicated parents, for winning First and Second Place in this year’s Eid Photo Competition from Sydney-based newspaper Australasian Muslim Times AMUST. To view the winning photos, please click on. http://www.amust.com.au/2015/09/winners-of-amust-photo-competition-2/ Read more
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18 September 2015
Our Junior Students Representatives SRCs have been very busy over the course of the past three days, sorting through all the donations we have received so far. As the photos show beautifully, our Mercy Wings Eid Food Drive has been a major success. The Junior SRCs have been organising the food donations into parcels and boxes ready to be… Read more
