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10 December 2015
Senior students, both male and female, from Years 7 to 10 were taken to the O'Brien Group Arena in the Docklands for a fun ice skating excursion to celebrate a successful year at Al Siraat coming to an end. After donning helmets and skates, the students attended a skating lessons by the friendly Icehouse staff before taking to the ice… Read more
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10 December 2015
Transition is an important process for current and new students entering Senior School for the first time from the Junior School and as they advance to the next year level. At the end of every year, Al Siraat College provides a comprehensive transition program for all current and new students from Year 6 to Year 7. The change from Junior… Read more
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12 November 2015
Yesterday, 11th November marked "Remembrance Day" and what better way to engage our Senior students than having them hear directly from a World War 2 veteran: Our Senior Year 9 and 10 students were lucky enough to meet Jack, a 91 year old, decorated World War 2 veteran, who is also the grandfather of one our Al Siraat College teachers:… Read more
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27 October 2015
Black Saturday survivor Di Naylor came to talk to the Year 7 and 8 students about her experiences in the Black Saturday Bushfire. Mrs Naylor used to live and still does in King Lake West and lost her house and her parents-in-law in the fire on 7th February 2009. She was lucky enough to just escape the flames with her two boys and evacuate… Read more
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19 October 2015
Our first cohort of Year 12 students completed their formal schooling on Friday, 16 October 2015. They will now be preparing themselves for their final VCE exams, which starts on 28 October. The staff marked this important day with a luncheon and formal send-off for the girls, including the cutting of a cake in their honour. We wish these… Read more
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16 October 2015
As part of our Careers Programme, the Year 9 and 10 students were involved in two excursions at KANGAN Tafe and the Outer Northern Trade Training Centre ONTTC to experience a "Try a Trade Day". The purpose of these excursions was to expose our students to career pathways and opportunities that exist to them post Year 10 in order for… Read more
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14 September 2015
Our fortnightly Secondary Assembly invites inspiring and positive role models from the wider community to address our Senior students on various topics. This time, we invited Mr Navin Dhillon who spoke about Racism to the students. However, the highlight of the day, was young Oliver Pizzey-Stratford. Oliver is a quadriplegic and spoke to… Read more
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4 September 2015
On Friday, 4th September 2015, the English Department at Al Siraat College held a writer’s incursion as part of and to celebrate Literacy Week. Students from Years 7 to 10 attended the incursion where they had the opportunity to meet Archimede Fusillo who is an accomplished writer and a successful presenter. He is the author of a number… Read more
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31 August 2015
Secondary Students celebrated the start of LITERACY AND NUMERACY WEEK today in their Special Secondary Assembly. As a surprise for our students, some Secondary teachers and students chose to dress up as famous book and movie characters which caused much laughter and fun during this morning’s assembly. We had appearances of The Mad Hatter… Read more
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28 August 2015
Science week has made its mark this year at Al Siraat! . The week began with an impressive ‘Scigh Tea’ Science High Tea hosted by the Science Department for our lovely College staff members. Teachers prepared fancy fruit molecules, DNA licorice, glucose cupcakes, petri dish cookies, mitosis snaps, lemon slice elements, meringue mice… Read more
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14 August 2015
The career expo held on the 13th August provided students from Year 9-12 with very important information in regards to career choices. We had representatives from the university sector including La Trobe, RMIT, Deakin, Victoria Uni & ACU as well as representatives from the TAFE and private sectors including Melbourne Polytechnic, JMC… Read more
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3 August 2015
Representatives from the "Bicycle Network Victoria" addressed our Senior students in their fortnightly assembly and informed them about the upcoming "Ride around the Bay 2015" charity event. Team Al Siraat will participate for the first time in this year’s "Ride Around the Bay" which aims to help kids in need to succeed at school – a… Read more
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26 June 2015
Our Year 11 Chemistry students, including Ambreen Afridi, Ruqayah Chamra, Samiya Moussa, Abdullahi Khalif, Tarek Taleb and Malik Faizan Ahmed, demonstrated three interesting chemistry experiments in front of Junior students on the last day of the second term. Abdullahi and Samiya explained what pH or acidity is and basicity of different… Read more
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26 June 2015
Senior students and staff celebrated the end of the first semester today in a Special Awards Assembly this morning. Students were presented with certificates and listened to speeches and presentations from the Qur'an, Sports and Well-being Department. Read more
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23 June 2015
In Year 10 History, this term we have been studying a unit called The Migration Experience. This study has enabled students to investigate the nature of the different waves of migration and the many reasons why different groups of people have moved to live in Australia. During the course of this unit the students have been able to share… Read more
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22 May 2015
Students from Year 8B boys displayed and presented their "Health Models Projects" in class and were marked accordingly. The Year 8 Senior boys had a health project to complete to further their knowledge about the way we are living in this day and age. Also acknowledging what health choices we make from food to exercise. The boys had to… Read more
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22 May 2015
As part of "Food Allergy Awareness Week" at Al Siraat College, the Year 8A girls students participated in raising awareness for students who have food allergies. This included general food allergies as well as anaphylaxis. The slogan for the week was "Be aware – Show you care" which our students took up in the decoration of cupcakes. The… Read more
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8 May 2015
On Friday the 8th May, the Year 11 Psychology students participated in a role as experimenters in a psychology study. They ran an experiment on primary students in Year 1 and Year 4, assessing cognitive abilities. The students experimenters made sure they adhered to the ethical principles of psychology. The primary students did not… Read more
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13 April 2015
Maryam Arain from Year 12A has written a beautiful poem for her English Context: Encountering Conflict. The poem responds to the prompt: "The search for truth and justice is vital in resolving conflict", and I am certain you will enjoy reading it below. Ms Emel. Head of English. “Seeker Of Truth”. Blinded with this cold darkness . As… Read more
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26 March 2015
In Year 8, students regularly write a reflective piece in their journals about various topics. Last week’s topic was Racism. I was very proud to read the various responses. Zahoor Leghari, Ahmed Abdalla and Sharaf Sardar in particular have written excellent pieces which you can read below. Keep up the good work Yr 8B! . Furthermore… Read more
