Well done to the students who have been selected as 'Student of the Week' during our Monday morning assemblies. These students are selected for academic achievement and for modelling our school values.

	Week 3	Week 4
K1	Eren Varlik	Elanur Ayan
K2	Zara Rafiq	Omar Halabi
Year 1	Ibrahim Abbas	Taliha Aslan
Year 2	Melikhan Mengi	Omar Ghazi
Year 3	Halid Cetiner	Arin Peker
Year 4	Ali Dbouk	Berat Topaktas
Year 5	Ahmad Niazi	Yusuf Kose
Year 6	Adem Lok	Sara Caliskan

Safe Driving and Double Parking

Parents are asked to be considerate and patient during pick-up and drop-off times. Double parking is illegal and very dangerous in a school zone and will get you a fine of $344 and 2 demerit points. U turns: Illegal U turns in a school zone are dangerous and will get you a fine of $344 and 2 demerit points. Please drive safe especially in front of the school during drop off and pick up times.

We also would like to kindly ask not to park where the bus usually parks. (Located on the corner of Percy Street infront of the school gate).

We understand that these times of the day are frustrating, however, we must work together to ensure the safety of the children and all road users. Thank you.

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Lunch Orders

Lunch orders are to be sent to school on Tuesdays and Thursdays to order for Wednesdays and Fridays. Make sure the envelope/zip lock bags have your child's name and class clearly labelled. Students will not be able to order lunch if they bring their order in late.

Please note correct change must be provided to make a lunch order. No change will be given.Thank you for your cooperation.

Year 6 will be holding a food/cake stall on Tuesday 15 March 2022 to raise money for Year 6 Jerseys.

Food items will start from $1 to $5. Thank you for your support.

Year 3 and Year 5 students have been participating in NAPLAN practice sessions on Saturdays between 9.00am to 12.30pm. These classes are designed to ensure that students are well prepared for the assessments by using past NAPLAN test papers and incorporating teaching and learning of effective NAPLAN strategies.

Dear Maarif Parents,

We have all seen the devastating impact of the flood disaster on coastal communities in NSW. These areas are home to over 100 regional independent schools and tens of thousands of students, who are part of our wider Independent schools community. Many have experienced damage to their homes and have lost school equipment such as laptops, books and uniforms.

They need our support now. You can directly support affected students now by clicking on this link to donate to the Australian Independent Schools Fund’s (AISF) Flood Relief Appeal. All donations over $2 are tax deductable and a receipt will be generated and emailed to you automatically.

The AISF has no administrative costs; every dollar donated will go directly to supporting flood-affected students and will be distributed to families within days.

Thank you for your support

We are learning rows and groups

Kindergarten students did so well to make rows and groups using large coins and counters on their papers. They helped each other create these whilst the teacher requested, they show 2 rows of 2, 3 rows of 2 etc. I am so proud of them! These types of activities assist with brain development and exercising the muscles to problem solve and think cognitively.

Mrs Ulku Turkmen

KA Teacher

M IS FOR MONSTER!

This week, students in KB partook in an engaging crafts experience relating to the letter M. Our goal this week was to learn how to use scissors correctly and safely. This was modelled to students explicitly with opportunities for students to practice before working on their little monster named M! We were very proud of our achievement and made sure to take many pictures along the way!

Mrs Maryam Faisal

KB Teacher

Hands-on activities

Year 1 students have been enjoying their phonics lessons where they are applying a range of spelling and reading skills. A range of materials are used during these lessons, students love using the whiteboards to demonstrate their understanding of the concepts taught in class. Here are some photos of Year 1 students during our structured phonics lessons:

In Maths students enjoyed playing Race to Trace to practice addition strategies taught. Students had to roll two dice and add the numbers that appeared. Students worked with a partner. Here are some photos of students successfully demonstrating their addition skills:

Mrs Rooba El-Sayed

Year 1 Teacher

3D Shapes

This week the year 2 students are learning about 3D objects. During Maths, the students were provided with concrete materials, such as a physical 3D object. They were then grouped were they created a vibrant and informative poster on the 3D object chosen. They worked together to count the edges, surfaces, and vertices. They included each objects attributes into their posters. Well done Year 2!

Mrs Ayse Yildiz

Year 2 Teacher

Exploring Living Things!

This term, Year 3 students have been covering the topic of living things, where students have been learning how to group living things based on their observable features. Students have been engaging in investigations exploring the school grounds in search for living things. Students were able to justify what makes a living thing alive, while also drawing and labelling their findings.

Creating 3D Shapes

Year 3 students thoroughly enjoyed applying the knowledge that they have acquired on 3D Shapes by creating their very own shapes in pairs. Students worked collaboratively to ensure that each shape had the correct number of faces, edges and vertices. Well done to all students on their outstanding work!

Ms Amel Mehana

Year 3 Teacher

You can do it!

Our Year 4 students are engaging in activities where they are cultivating skills of perseverance and having confidence in themselves. Students have been encouraged to think of five key learning areas: persistence, organisation, confidence, resilience, and getting along with others. The lesson was highly effective, and students will be revising these strategies throughout the term.

Congratulations to the Bronze award Mathletics certificates winners. Keep it up!

Ms Samira Asad

Year 4 Teacher

The Battle of Microorganisms

This week in Science, students played a game where they were given cards that represented different microorganisms and had to battle each other comparing the size, benefit or harm to humans and the range of species. Some microorganisms that the students battled were Influenza A (flu) and lactobacillus (bacteria found in yoghurt). Year 5 were highly engaged, and this consolidated the key idea that microorganisms can be both beneficial and harmful to our bodies and the environment around us.

Weathering the Storm

Year 5 have been making the most of the wet weather and using their lunch time indoors to create Lego houses. They have been working together, problem solving and fuelling their curiosity to create their ‘dream homes’. This emphasises our school values of respect, cooperation and inclusiveness. Very proud to see students’ resilience as they weather the storm and appreciate having access to create.

Mrs Olivia Peach

Year 5 Teacher

Year 6 DEAR
(Drop Everything And Read)

You may be wondering what DEAR means? Well in Year 6, every Friday after recess we take the time to Drop Everything And Read. This is a time regularly set aside in the classroom schedule for both students and teachers to drop everything and read.

DEAR time conveniently accommodates a variety of student interests and ability levels, since each student selects for himself/herself the book he/she wishes to read. DEAR time is now an important part of our classroom schedule as students recognise that reading is a priority and look forward to this period.

Here are some photos from our DEAR session last week:

Mrs Asli Tekirdag

Year 6 Teacher

Kindergarten, Year3, Year 4,Year 6 Turkish

This week, we celebrated the 101st anniversary of Adoption of the Turkish National Anthem and remembered the poet Mehmet Akif Ersoy in Turkish lessons. Year 3, Year 4, and Year 6 students listened and recited ‘İstiklal Marşı’ both with and without music in the classroom.

Here are the videos, students recited İstiklal Marşı;

Year 6 Oratorio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t0ToWDh3r1PeE0m5sykI_5eGlvINNihG/view?usp=sharing

Year 3 Recitation:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i5R4Dem_vMl9vV5Ot3MOWxnpaMYKqsms/view?usp=sharing

As a memory of this week, students were presented with keychains.

Kindergarten students learnt to count the numbers in Turkish. Mrs Akdemir prepared ‘Sayılar Kitabım’ for them to read. Students were excited to read their very first Turkish book.

Mrs Şeyma Akdemir

Turkish Teacher

We are learning Turkish with Ipads

Kindy students were introduced to Turkish ipad games this week and had a lot of fun. With these games, they will be able to do listening and speaking activities for simple Turkish words. They also learned basic colours and played colour-finding games in the classroom.

Year 5 continues to learn Turkish songs and nursery rhymes. They do gap filling activities and vocabulary exercises with these songs. At the same time, they have a lot of fun with their dancing accompanying the songs. Students are continuing to complete activities in the book ‘Türkçe Öğreniyorum 3.’

Miss Esra Pamuk

Turkish Teacher

We remember Allah

Kindergarten students have been learning about Allah and how He is the Most Powerful. Also, that Allah takes care of us, and we should thank Allah for everything.

Students learnt the way we can remember Allah is by saying ‘Bismillah’ before we start and ‘Alhamdulillah’ afterwards. We practiced together how to drink from our water bottles by first saying Bismillah" followed by "Alhamdulillah" after we finish drinking. Please also remember to do this at home.

Six Pillars of Iman

Year 1 students have learnt the meaning of Iman (Faith) and that our faith teaches us to believe in the 6 pillars of Iman with our words and with our hearts. Here is a photo of students completing their activity sheet on the topic:

Ms Gulcan Aksu

Islamic Studies Teacher

Assalamu Alaikum wa rahmetullahi wa barakatuh,

All praise be to Allah (SWT) and may peace and blessings be upon His beloved Prophet Muhammad (SAW), his family, companions and to all those who follow him.

Year 3 Students are focusing on the topic of ‘Allah the Most-Merciful, Most- Rewarding’ how Allah rewards His servants and gives a lot for the little we do. Students completed the activity work, and we went through the answers together as a whole class.

Students are also reciting, practising, and memorising Surah Fil which was played and displayed on the smartboard. This Surah should be memorised by week 8.

Jazakumullahu Khayran.

Mr Muhammed Ordukaya

Islamic Studies Teacher

We are learning to read the Quran

Dear parents,

Quran: Kindergarten

Kindergarten students are learning the Arabic letters in an interesting way using their body to shape the letter of the week Ta. Alhamdulillah the students are doing very good and enjoying it. Please assist your child with the letters as we are going to have our Portfolio Task next week from letter Alif to Jeem.

Well done Kindergarten keep up the good effort!! I am proud of your good achievement.

Please use these links for learning the Arabic Alphabet:

https://itqaanseries.com/quran-recitation-made-easy/

Quran: Year 6

Years 6 students are learning the Arabic letters with Madd letter Yaa, this week they were working in groups getting ready for the Portfolio Task next week.

Please assist your child’s learning by using this link on page 28.

https://itqaanseries.com/qrme-book/

Ms B. Mohammed

Quran Teacher

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

Jersey Day Friday 25^th February 2022

Maarif Students had the chance to participate in Jersey Day on Friday 25^th February 2022. It was great to see so many students and staff dressed in their favourite team jersey, to help support our school to raise money for our students to participate at PCYC Auburn during Wet weather sports lessons.

A huge thank you to Dr Zeynep Yaseen, Mrs Reyhan Er and Mrs Adeba Qasim for allowing this event to occur. Thank you to everyone that was involved in Jersey Day 2022, we managed to raise a combined total of $1010 during our Jersey Day fundraising event.

Lookout for our announcement for our next fundraiser in the coming weeks. Thank you to all the families and staff members for supporting Jersey Day.

Miss Zeinab Youssef

PDHPE Teacher

Sport lessons are given by Ms Zeinab Youssef on the following days. Please make sure your child is wearing thier sports uniform with sports shoes on this day:

Mondays

Kindergarten

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Tuesdays

Year 5

Year 6

Music To My Ears in Primary

Maarif students have been hard at work building their skills in music. Kindergarten learned about the fable of “Little Bunny Foo Foo”, who was a mischievous little creature who liked to tickle the field mice on the head! They were using egg shakers to differentiate high and low sounds.

Stage 1 have been listening hard to rhythms that exist within speech patterns and even writing them down! Year 3 have been working to fit substitutions into their music, with the song “My Hat It Has Three Corners”, where they learned the entire song, before substituting different body actions instead of singing a word. This is an important skill in both literacy and language learning, and one that Year 3 is excelling at!

Year 4 have started their expedition into learning the notes on the staff and can now identify notes that are in spaces (our FACE notes) and notes that live on lines (where Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit!). Year 5 have been learning about bars and time signatures and have started to write their own compositions to fit in with specific parameters. Year 6 are diving into the musical concept of structure, or how music is built. They have been applying rhythmic patterns in pop music (like Marshmello’s “Happier” and Queen’s “We Will Rock You”) on bucket drums.

All students have applied themselves incredibly hard and have been such great Maarif ambassadors.

Ms Emma Morgan

CAPA (Creative and Performing Arts) Teacher

The Student Corner is a dedicated space for students of any year level to showcase their unique artwork and talents!

Haroon Fahme- KA

Jada Saddik Year 4

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Aleena Khan- Year 3

Yusuf Kose - Year 5

Hesna Cetiner - Year 6

On behalf of Maarif, we would like to wish our students a very Happy Birthday who have celebrated their birthday during the month of March:

March Birthdays

Aydin GOKDEMIR
Evren MEHMET
Zain KREICH
Timurhan MENGI
Uthman MAALIKI
Teoman SEYREK
Irem BADEM
Emre GELOZ
Arqam YASEEN
Isa FERHAN
Idris FERHAN
Zara ERGUN
Ali Baran DEDE
Miray BICICI
Utku OZALP
Kaan EMIROSMANOGLU
Sakiyna SHOLATIPOVA
Ismail MOHAMED

Celebrations and food

We love to celebrate our students at Maarif and accept that some families may want to share the special occasion of their child’s birthday with his/her class peers. As a school, we embrace this opportunity, however, would like to enforce a strict policy of not bringing in food or other edible item for these one-off occasions. It is important we cater to all students including those who have severe allergies by monitoring this closely.

If you would like to celebrate your child’s birthday, we would suggest an alternative to food and we thank you in advance for supporting the health and wellbeing of all students.

Dont forget your Hats!

All students are reminded to wear their hats during recess, lunch and sport. Please also remember to send a water bottle with your child every day.

Labelling

Please ensure that all personal items (clothing, lunchboxes, bags, etc.) are clearly labelled with your child(ren)’s name. Each year there are numerous items of clothing, especially hats and jackets that have no names or identification in lost property.

If there is no name, then we have a difficulty finding the owner.

Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

Term 1, 2022 for Students	Tuesday 1 February to Thursday 7 April 2022
School Captains and Class Prefects speeches	Monday 7 March 2022
School Clean Up Day	Friday 4 March 2022
School Captains and Class Prefects announced	Monday 14 March 2022
National Day of Action against bullying and violence Crazy Sock Day	Friday 18 March 2022
Harmony Day	Tuesday 22 March 2022
Last Day for Students Term & Students Iftar	Thursday 7 April 2022
Parent - Teacher Interviews	Friday 8 April 2022

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