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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
KA	Yusuf Ozdemir	Atilla Aydin
KB	Aneesa Barham	Omar Alnabulsi
Year 1	Malik Duran	Ela Ozdemir
Year 2	Teoman Seyrek	Yagmur Yesil
Year 3	Maryam Serhan Leah Al Saheli	Elisa Ozdemir
Year 4	Utku Ozalp	Amima Ali
Year 5	Bilal Cetin	Melisa Seyrek
Year 6	Dilan Inan	Iesha Serhan

Congratulations to Year 4 for receiving the Star Trophy!

Also, Congratulations to the students who received Bronze, Silver or Gold Awards. Keep up the amazing effort!

Let’s Make Dough!

KA were very excited to put together some ingredients to make playdough as a class. They were able to work as a team to add, pour and mix the components to form a nice consistency of dough. They added their own choice of food colouring to their work and moulded some really interesting figures. This lesson related to our science topic “Moving Things”. The students understood the concept of changing the shape and form of something by moving them around. It was a very successful lesson.

Mrs Ulku Turkmen

KA Teacher

House Craft Activity

Students in Kindergarten were keen to complete this craft activity relating to the letter H. Cross-curricula links were also made with specific references to mathematical concepts such as shapes and sizes.

Miss Maryam Faisal

KB Teacher

Exploring 2D Shapes

In Maths this fortnight, students enjoyed learning and consolidating their knowledge about 2D Shapes. Year 1 played a shape hunt board game, where they had to name the 2D Shape they landed on and fill out a tally graph showing how many times they landed on each shape. Shapes are all around us! Students enjoyed creating their very own 2D shape person. This task required students to draw and cut out different 2D Shapes. Great work Year 1!

Exploring our 5 Senses

Year 1 students in science enjoyed using their 5 senses to explore the environment around our school. Students went for a walk around the netball court and listed different things that they could hear, see and feel. After exploring our surroundings students picked up 1 stick and 1 leaf. These were taken back to class and students explored them with their 5 senses.

Mrs Rooba El-Sayed

Year 1 Teacher

Continents and Oceans

In Geography, students have been learning about continents and the oceans. Students were on task colouring and labelling the continents and oceans. In each continent, they drew one or two things that are special to it. The Year 2 students really enjoyed this activity and impressed me with their knowledge about continents.

Mrs Ayse Yildiz

Year 2 Teacher

Uluru Art

For geography this term, Year 3 students have been exploring Australia as a continent, country and island. While learning about the different states and territories, students also investigated Australia’s most iconic landmark, Uluru. As part of our lessons, students created their very own artwork showcasing the magnificent landmark, using techniques often used in Indigenous artworks. Students used different art mediums to achieve the final look of their artwork including oil pastels, food colouring and paint. Students were very proud of the stunning work that they produced.

Ms Amel Mehana

Year 3 Teacher

Let’s Animate!

Year 4 students are focusing on animation and comic writing in English. This week, students were so excited to share their ideas in flipbook form. Everyone planned out their ideas, drew them on flipbooks and shared animations. Making animation using flipbooks was a great learning experience. The students were very enthusiastic and are excited create more in future.

Ms Samira Asad

Year 4 Teacher

Light Lines Up

Students tested the theory of light travelling in a straight line. They worked in teams and had to create a path using old CDs, pegs to hold the CDs in place, a torch and a target that they had drawn. They shone the torch from different angles to test this theory and it was proven to be true. Discussion about shadows and reflection became a topic of conversation and interestingly, students will be further investigating these concepts later in the term.

Art in Symmetry

During Maths lessons, students were investigating 2D shapes of which had rotational symmetry. They learned what the concept meant and how a shape can spin on an axis to help measure the rotations. To make this more engaging, students had the opportunity to create an artwork embracing the concept of rotational symmetry. Using a circle as the shape, students designed a fraction of the circle and repeated the pattern. It’s amazing how maths and art is all around us.

Mrs Olivia Peach

Year 5 Teacher

Mapping!

Our Geography lessons this term consist of studying the continent of Asia. Year 6 students have been learning about the location of different countries and some of the key geographical features of the continent have been looked at in detail. We will be further investigating into the lifestyles that different people lead in a variety of Asian countries and students will learn about the differences in population, employment, and ways of life. For this week, we have identified the geographical location of different countries located in Asia. For this, we concluded each geography lesson with an ICT mapping game such as the one below.

Mrs Asli Tekirdag

Year 6 Teacher

Kindergarten

Kindy students are learning facial parts. They listened to the body parts song and played a dice game with facial parts.

Year 1 and 2

Students are learning to ask and answer the time in Turkish. They matched the clocks with the pictures and learnt to tell the time.

Year 3 and 4

In Year 3 and 4 we talked about the benefits of technology and compared the robots with human beings.

Year 5 and 6

Students in Years 5 and 6 worked in pairs answering questions by writing it down onto their small boards. This was also a competition of which group completes the answer on time. All students were engaged and enjoyed this activity.

Mrs Ayşegül Şeyma Akdemir

Turkish Language Teacher

Kindergarten

Kindergarten learned about the body parts this week. They did a matching activity about our faces. They also learned a Turkish song "head, shoulder, knee, foot" and reinforced it with dances. Kindy's favourite activity was the painting activities in the Turkish lesson.

Year 5 and 6

Year 5 and 6 has done writing studies on Turkish characters this week. He repeated the differences and spellings of the sounds from each other. They also continued to learn Turkish nursery rhymes and songs. Students will do many more vocabulary activities and readings in the coming weeks.

Miss Esra Pamuk

Turkish Teacher

Year 1 Islamic Studies

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.

Our Year 1 Students are focusing on the topic of ‘Ahlaq and Adab’ (Weekend Learning Series Islamic Studies Textbook). Our students have learnt about having good manners, kindness, sharing and caring. Our students watched a YouTube video on the smartboard explaining the importance of good manners and kindness which they enjoyed watching. Students completed the textbook activity tasks, and we went through the answers together as a whole class.

Jazakumullahu Khayran.

Mr Muhammed Ordukaya

Qur’an and Islamic Studies Teacher

Students have continued to learn new skills while having fun during their clubs every Tuesday afternoon. Here are some photos from some of our clubs these last two weeks.

Baglama Club

Chess Club

Piano Club

Fitness Club

Folk Dancing

Book Club

Junior Mehter Club

Senior Constables from Auburn Police Station visited our school on the 11th of August. They explained personal safety in public spaces and cyber bullying. Students gained insightful information regarding ‘stranger danger’ and how to ensure personal safety in the event of an incident. Some students had the opportunity to see the inside of a police car. Youth Liaison Officers are the key contact points between the local area police command and the Department of Juvenile Justice’s conference administrators who organise conferences.

On Tuesday, the 2^nd of August, Year 6 ran a fundraiser where they sold Krispy Kreme donuts and Hot Chocolate drinks. The funds went to support the Year 6 Graduation and Yearbook. The day was filled with smiles and sprinkles!

Year 6 also ran a competition 'Guess the Lollies in the Jar' where students had an opportunity to estimate how many lollies there are in the jar. Congratulations to Kerem Er, the student with the closest guess!

Thank you to the Year 6 Committee, Mrs. Tekirdag and Mrs. Turkmen, for organising the fundraiser.

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

Elanur Ayan - KA

Aliza Ahmed - KB

Ibrahim Abbas - Year 1

Maryam Serhan - Year 3

Utku Ozalp - Year 4

Miray Durdu - Year 5

Our school folk dancing team are excited to be participating in the 2022 Wakakirri Challenge on the 24th of August 2022 at Riverside Theatres Parramatta. The performances will commence at 7 pm. The performing students are:

Aliya Ozbaglar	Lale Kara
Akalia Duran	Melih Yenice
Dilan Inan	Melisa Seyrek
Eren Ozalp	Safiye Turkmen
Fatima Uzun	Semih Acar

If you would like to support our folk dancing team and watch the show, tickets can be purchased via the Riverside box office website https://riversideparramatta.com.au and search for ‘Wakakirri’. Limited tickets are still available!

Dear Parents/Carers,

Maarif students are expected to wear their winter school uniform during Terms 2 and 3. Please be reminded of the importance of naming all items of school uniform with your child’s name and class. This means that lost items found around school can easily be returned.

Uniform Shop will be open every Wednesday during school term from 2:30pm to 3:30pm.

We consider that uniform is important for several reasons.

It provides pupils with a sense of identity and pride in their school.
It enhances the appearance of pupils and therefore the reputation of the school.
It helps to instil a sense of purpose in pupils when they put on their uniform in the mornings.
It helps overcome the worry about “fitting in” with fashions and keeping up with other children. All children feel equal and there is no stress, competition or worry for families about expensive brands/labels.
It overcomes the problem for both parents and teachers about what is suitable attire for school.

Wakakirri performance	Wednesday 24 August
Father's Day Stall	Thursday 1 & Friday 2 September
Last day of Term 3	Thursday 22 September
Parent Teacher Interviews	Friday 23 September

Maarif_Academic_Calendar_2022.pdf

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Just a friendly reminder,

For families who are planning to take leave, please ensure to follow the proper process. Parents/Guardians must fill out the Student Extended Absence Application Form, attached below, in advance as well as proving the supporting documentation. When completed, please email it to Admin@maarif.nsw.edu.au. If there are any questions or concerns, please contact the school office.

Student_Extended_Absence_Application_Form.pdf

Two items of jewellery, watch face, glasses and a boxing glove was found, please contact the front office on 1800 622 743.

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

August Birthdays

Ayman Kocak

Emir Muhammed Ali Kara

Safiye Turkmen

Melikhan Mengi

Semih Acar

Umar Umarov

Koray Ozkan

Ela Ozdemir

Liyana Barham

Fatimah Fahme

Ayoub Hawat

Zain Kreich

Saif Saad

Ibrahim Tarabay

Esila Alagoz

Mehmet Philips

Zayna Harambasic