International Maarif Schools of Australia eNewsletter

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 7	Week 8
KA	Evren Mehmet	Hazel Mete
KB	Alhasan Al-Obeidi	Asma Kanj
Year 1	Ibrahim Abbas	Amelia Khan
Year 2	Abu Bakr Kanj	Teoman Seyrek
Year 3	Arin Peker	Halid Cetiner
Year 4	Vera Bulli	Ziya Ciyim
Year 5	Haajar Fahme	Melih Yenice
Year 6	Fatimah Fahme	Zeyno Hasgul

Congratulations to Year 2 and Year 5 for receiving the Star Trophy!

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

A big congratulations to our Folk Dancing team and Miss Esra Pamuk for their amazing performance in the 2022 Wakkakirri Challenge. Thank you to Mrs Turkmen for assisting on the day.

Maarif is extremely proud of the NAPLAN results achieved by Year 3, as the majority had received the highest band (Band 6). Seven of those students had achieved results that were beyond the highest band and some in multiple areas. We are so proud of their academic efforts. Congratulations to Year 5 as well for their amazing efforts and academic achievements.

Students with results beyond the highest band:

Muhammad Arqam YASEEN

Reading, Grammar & Punctuation, Numeracy

Fatemah NIAZI

Reading, Grammar & Punctuation, Spelling, Writing

Ali ANMAK

Reading, Grammar & Punctuation, Spelling, Numeracy.

Aleena KHAN

Reading

Junaid TARABAY

Reading

Safiya ABBAS

Grammar & Punctuation

Zara ERGUN

Spelling

We Are Multiplying and Sharing

KA students have been practicing and mastering the skill of multiplying and sharing objects. The students got into pairs and put the counters into groups as well as divided them into half. Each pair received different amounts of counters where students had a turn of demonstrating this skill. It was a great experience for them as they had the opportunity to understand this concept kinesthetically.

Hands on experiences allow students to gain knowledge of the topic or concept they are studying through experience. This allows students to engage in the subject matter with their hands and create something or solve a problem. They can touch and manipulate the objects they are learning about.

Mrs Ulku Turkmen

KA Teacher

WHAT AM I?

As a facilitator of student learning, it is imperative that I provide my students with numerous opportunities during the day to socialise with their peers. By socialising, students develop important skills such as empathy, teamwork and confidence. Friendships are fostered through socialisation which also has a significant positive impact on student learning and motivation in school.

Students in Kindergarten B enjoy playing ‘What Am I?” following their completion of certain tasks in class during the day!

Miss Maryam Faisal

KB Teacher

The Rainbow Serpent

Students have been learning about maps in Geography. During this unit students explored that Aboriginal people used maps just as we do however, they use different symbols to what we are used to seeing on a map. Students became familiar with different map symbols Aboriginal people use. Students read The Rainbow Serpent by Dick Roughsey and discussed the different features they saw throughout the book. Following this, students decorated a Serpent with Aboriginal symbols that reflected the people and places represented in the book.

Year 1 students had an exciting two weeks of taekwondo where they had the opportunity to use nunchucks and break boards with their kicks. Students were able to demonstrate their knowledge of kicks and boxing techniques. Well done Year 1!

We also celebrated Narin’s 7^th birthday, thank you Narin for bringing in delicious cupcakes for the whole class ?

Mrs Rooba El-Sayed

Year 1 Teacher

Mindfulness

During health students have been learning about mindfulness practices.

We discussed some activities they could do to practice mindfulness. This included finger knitting and yoga.

The students participated in a guided yoga experience and were encouraged to use belly breathing techniques when needing to feel calm.

Mrs Ayse Yildiz

Year 2 Teacher

Places Are Similar and Different

Year 3 students had a wonderful day at Clifton Garden Reserve during their excursion in Week 7. Students explored the features and characteristics of different places and environments and participated in a variety of outdoor activities. The day started off with an informative presentation delivered by an experienced ranger where students engaged in discussions on how we can protect places They enjoyed fishing with their peers, bug catching and building beach habitats for turtles and penguins. It was an exciting and fun day for all students.

Ms Amel Mehana

Year 3 Teacher

Exciting Earth’s Environment

Year 4 had an exciting opportunity to explore Australia’s great outdoors, observing the climate, natural vegetation and native animals of Australia. Students were involved in team building activities, where they were dividing into group 3-4 students and did bug catching, net fishing and creating beach habitat for turtles. Students also had an opportunity to understand the importance of environment and how it supports the lives of people and other living things and learn ways they can help to achieve sustainability.

Ms Samira Asad

Year 4 Teacher

Keeping eSafe

Students of Year 5 have been learning about risk taking behaviour and where there can be positive and negative effects of this behaviour. The emphasis has been on making good choices and being positive members of a community. Students engaged in online activities to demonstrate their awareness of safe road rules using the Safety Town website.

In addition to this, students attended an online incursion by the eSafety Commissioner called , ‘Be an eSafe Kid: Be Safe, Be Supportive’. Students discovered what it means to be safe online through setting safe personal boundaries, supporting one another and most importantly, given information of help-seeking strategies if anything was to arise. Students showed an admirable level of maturity and were aware and implementing some of the information and reporting skills already.

Mrs Olivia Peach

Year 5 Teacher

Celebrating Child Protection Week

As part our PDH program in line with National Child Protection Week Year 6 have been taking part in activities to commemorate National Child Protection Week (NCPW). NCPW is an annual initiative based on the principle that ‘protecting children is everyone’s business. This aims to raise awareness about the complexity of child protection and empower the community to work together to prevent cases of child neglect and abuse from occurring.

Students have dedicated time during PDH to design and create informative campaigns to raise awareness for child protection and help show that protecting children is about working together.

Here are some amazing works produced by year 6 students.

Mrs Asli Tekirdag

Year 6 Teacher

Happy Father’s Day

Students engaged in an art and craft activity and prepared a shirt and tie cart from paper. They celebrated father's day writing their feelings.

Communication

Students in Year 3&4 learnt about communication devices and created a PowerPoint presentation. They presented the communication devices in the classroom by explaining what they are for.

Daily Routines

Year 1&2 students talked about their daily routines with a PowerPoint presentation. Some used their own photos and made sentences with time.

Learning Instructions

Students are learning instructions continually, they got simple instructions and made a turtle craft activity.

Mrs Ayşegül Şeyma Akdemir

Turkish Language Teacher

Body parts

Kindy students learned the parts of our body and face this week. They made faces using various materials and introduced the face. They learned various songs related to the subject. At the end of each lesson, they danced to the songs they had learned before.

Year 3-4 students talked about the school's departments this week. They practiced which section was on which floor and what was in the rooms. In the classroom, they engaged in drama activities about appearance and told simple stories.

Miss Esra Pamuk

Turkish Teacher

Year 1 and 2 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 had to think of something which Allah blessed them with and made a A4 poster by drawing and colouring the blessing Allah gave them.

Our Year 2 students are focusing on the topic of Manners and watched a short video ‘The boy who cried wolf’ regarding truthfulness. Students learnt the importance of truthfulness and honesty as well as the truthfulness of our beloved Prophet S.A.W.

Kindergarten Qur’an Studies

For Qur’an Studies students were learning the 3 harakat and the sounds of each letter. Students were watching and singing the ‘sound of letters song’ displayed on the smartboard.

Jazakumullahu Khayran.

Mr Muhammed Ordukaya

Qur’an and Islamic Studies Teacher

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

Ayoub Hawat- KB

Halid Cetiner- Year 3

Ziya Ciyim - Year 4

Aliya Ozbaglar - Year 6

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.

Chess Club

Bağlama Club

Piano Club

Drama Club

Folk Dancing

Reading Club

In celebration of Father’s Day, Maarif held a Father’s Day stall for students to make their fathers and grandfathers feel special with the act of giving. Thank you to the P&C committee members for their efforts and contributions to making it a big success.

Thank you to Reyhan Sonmez, Hatice Uzun, Firdevs Vatan, Zuleyha Karahasanoglu, Sibel Ozden-Peker.

On Thursday, 8th September, students were encouraged to wear a yellow t-shirt in support of RUOK? Day. Students engaged in incursions and lessons that support student well-being. Our School Counsellor, Mrs Dilek Serdal, also ran a 'Wellbeing Workshop' for Years 4,5,6 on promoting positive friendships and relationships. The overarching goal is to educate and empower students to meaningfully connect with their peers and people around them.

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

September Birthdays

Yusuf Ali Akdemir

Eren Ozalp

Burak Kale

Khattab Chehaita

Aleena Khan

Summeyye Turkmen

Junaid Saidi

Ahmet Anmak

Beyza Aygun

Esila Bayindir

Halil Ibrahim Aytekin

Omar Halabi

Hazel Mete

Barwaqo Hassan

Haroon Fahme

Ayan Saad

Narin Ince

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 providing the supporting documentation. When completed, please email the form and documents to admin@maarif.nsw.edu.au. If there are any questions or concerns, please contact the school office.

Student_Extended_Absence_Application_Form.pdf

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.

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

It is kindly requested that any homework or school assignment printing should be completed at home and not requesed from the school office.

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Poem Night 2022	Friday 23 September
Last day of Term 3	Thursday 22 September
Parent Teacher Interviews	Friday 23 September

Maarif_Academic_Calendar_2022.pdf

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