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7 September 2022
This week, our Year 4 students have been celebrating the end of their Arabic inquiry unit "At the restaurant" with an authentic assessment task. The students had a wonderful experience, applying their conversational knowledge to order their food in Arabic. It was a lot of fun, a lot of yummy food and most importantly, a lot of practical… Read more
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2 September 2022
Our Year 3 students were very excited this week to welcome the amazing crew from our local Epping CFA Fire Station on campus, demonstrating their heavy safety equipment and answering many questions from their attentive audience. Our Arabic Department had invited the firefighters to the College as part of an evaluation phase of our Year 3… Read more
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31 August 2022
Our Year 5/6 girls participated in the School Sports Victoria SSV Basketball Tournament at the Craigieburn Sports Stadium earlier on todayÈËÑýÌìÌÃapp Tuesday, 30th August 2022. Although the girls lost their match, they played with lots of enthusiasm and resilience, portraying sportsmanship, team work and cooperation. We are looking forward to… Read more
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31 August 2022
Last Friday morning, the team from Archery Ascension came to our College for an incursion with our Year 6 students. Archery AscensionÈËÑýÌìÌÃapp aim is to revive tradition, create culture & community, and transform lives. What an amazing opportunity this was for our Senior Primary students. The introduction was very thorough and included learning… Read more
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31 August 2022
Our Year 7 and 8 students successfully participated in two Maths Games Day excursions in celebration of the current Numeracy and Literacy Week. The aim of this program is to challenge high ability students in a fun, challenging, collaborative and competitive Maths-based games day. Our students competed for a variety of prizes including… Read more
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29 August 2022
Episode 12 of our popular video Community News Report is now available. This is the very first video newsletter where our student "Media Club Leaders" owned the process from the start to the end, mashaAllah!. In previous episodes, the videos were recorded by our Media Leaders but the editing was done by Mr Sameer. For this edition, we… Read more
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28 August 2022
We invite our community to join the event "Making Ground: The participation of Muslim girls in sport and physical activity", co-organised by ASC with the City of Whittlesea and RMIT University on Thursday, 1 September 2022 from 6:15pm – 8:15pm 5.45 pm arrival for networking and light refreshments for a 6:15 pm start. This community… Read more
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26 August 2022
While Book Week 2022 has now drawn to a close this afternoon, we invite you to look back with us on the past five days of truly wonderful celebrations across Primary School of all things reading, creativity, story telling and imagination. We started Book Week with our fun and fabulous Book Character… Read more
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25 August 2022
We have wonderful news to share: Not one, not two but SIX healthy and super cute baby goats have been born at our ASC farm enclosure this week. Did you know that a baby goat is called a kid?! A group of kids is called a tribe or a herd of kids. Did you know that baby goats are born with rectangular pupils?! This allows them to be able to… Read more
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25 August 2022
It has been a busy week at the SSD office with planning and preparations for our new program called "The Positive behaviour Bus" PBB. The PBB is a great initiative to encourage our students to make good and positive choices. Researches shows that it generally takes anywhere between 21 – 28 days to create a new habit. Meaning, the first… Read more
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25 August 2022
We warmly welcomed Sheikh Alaa El Zokm to the College as our esteemed special guest on last weekÈËÑýÌìÌÃapp Friday, 19 August 2022. The sheikh addressed our Secondary Year 7 to 11 boys on the topic “The purpose of life in Islam and the world", making important points about identity and having a beautiful purpose in life. Sheikh Alaa El Zokm is… Read more
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24 August 2022
Earlier this week, we welcomed Associate Professor Rashina Hoda from Monash University on site who delivered the "Superstars of STEM" presentation for our Senior girls in Years 10 to 12. The initiative, run by Science & Technology Australia, is working to break down gender stereotypes and increase womenÈËÑýÌìÌÃapp representation in science… Read more
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23 August 2022
James from La Trobe University recently delivered a presentation on the ASPIRE Program to our Senior school students. This program enables Year 12 students to access La Trobe University courses based on factors such as community involvement and leadership in addition to their ATAR and study scores. This could take the stress out of Year… Read more
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23 August 2022
Alhamdulillah, the Book Week began yesterday in a grand way. This year, our English Department has teamed up with the Humanities Department to mark the occasion. Our highlights so far: - MondayÈËÑýÌìÌÃapp event highlight was definitely the HUMAN LIBRARY session in the auditorium, involving 10 staff members acting as a ‘human book’ and our Year 10… Read more
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23 August 2022
ItÈËÑýÌìÌÃapp Book Week again! A highlight on everyoneÈËÑýÌìÌÃapp annual calendar from students to parents and staff, we have welcomed Book Week in style with a bang when a flurry of colourful book characters have ascended into our Primary School yesterday morning to partake in the annual Book Character Parade. Each year since 1945, the ChildrenÈËÑýÌìÌÃapp Book… Read more
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19 August 2022
This week at Al Siraat, we proudly celebrated National Science Week with an engaging and highly interactive Science Fair. On Tuesday, it was our Secondary students' turn to put their works and findings on display. Primary students then exhibited their Science-based learning throughout the day on Wednesday, 17 August 2022. Science Week is… Read more
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18 August 2022
Last Sunday, 14 August marked PakistanÈËÑýÌìÌÃapp 75th diamond jubilee Independence Day. Four of our Secondary student leaders participated in a Public Speech Competition on this special occasion, held at the Pakistan Consulate General here in Melbourne. The celebration ceremony was opened with a beautiful Qur'an recital by our Year 4 Hifz student… Read more
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17 August 2022
Athletics can be a tough event when you are competing against 9 other schools within our district, as part of the annual School Sports Victoria SSV Primary Athletics Carnival. Our Year 5/6 students, both girls and boys, worked very hard on the day, battling it out against not only neighbouring schools but weather conditions as well: We… Read more
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17 August 2022
On a cold and wet Thursday, Lauren from Swinburne University drove across town to deliver a presentation on the Early Entry Program to our Senior school students. This program allows Year 12 students to apply to Swinburne University early and ATAR-free. It was particularly pleasing to see many keen Year Ten and Eleven students attending… Read more
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16 August 2022
Earlier this month, our Year 9/10 boys team had taken the challenge of competing against other respected Islamic schools for the Bachar Houli Cup. The team demonstrated sportsmanship and embraced their friendships but most importantly took accountability for their choices and actions on and off the football pitch. Although results did not… Read more
