LOTE
Sirius College Keysborough campus parents, students and teachers has celebrated Lote week with joy and laughter. Prior to lote week our classes and school corridors was decorated by our students. Various enjoyable activities were held within Lote week such as colouring competitions, quiz shows and tasting cultural foods and Mehter (Ottoman Military Band).
We also have celebrated 23 Nisan çocuk bayramı (23rd of April kids' festival that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, bestowed to children and that has been celebrated among countries since 1979.)
LOTE
RV Corner
Assalamu Alaikum!
Our upper primary students have been doing a great work in preparing and presenting the pillars of Islam each week. They also do a fantastic job in the weekly RV Quest that I pose every week on below link. The login details are in their diaries!
http://www.myedapp.com/
Last week we had our RV Assembly and were excited to hand our special rewards for our winners!
RV
Over 2 Million Salawats & Rewards
Sensational! Our Primary Students showed their love and compassion to Prophet Muhamamd (pbuH) by sending over 2 Million salawats! May Allah's mercy and the Prohphet's love will be with all of you!
Congratulations to 5B our winning class with over 1 Million salawats! They will be rewarded with Krispy Crème soon inshaallah!
Especially many compliments to Sayed in 5B who has done almost half million salawats byhimself!
Salawats
RV Reading Challenge Rewards
Many students attended the RV Reading Challenge and were rewarded with Gift Cards! Our RV Reading Challenge ends the end of the year! Congratulations to:
3A
Rana - $10 Canteen Voucher
Abdulhaee - $10 Canteen Voucher
5A
Hannah - $80 Gift Voucher
5B
Nancy - $80 Gift Voucher
Hassiba - $60 Gift Voucher
Nada - $80 Gift Voucher
6A
Bahara - $80 Gift Voucher
6B
Sumayyah - $20 Gift Voucher
Zac - $20 Gift Voucher
Water For Tanzania
Water Well Project
Our upper primary students raised $990 to help bring clean and safe water to villages in Africa with water wells. Especially many thanks to our devoted parents in 5A!
Water Well
PASTORAL CARE
In Pastoral Care we made our Mother's very special creative frames.
Pastoral Care
Laylatul Miraj (The Night of Ascension)
As we are now experiencing the 3 sacred months, many holy nights are approaching. Last week we celebrated the Laylatul Miraj & Israa the ascension of our beloved Prophet Muhammad pbuH to Masjid Al-Aqsa and then to the heaven. Our year 6 to 12 Girls fasted on that day and enjoyed the spiritual night with making duas and prayers to all humanity and had fun sitting all together for iftar dinner.
The Night of Ascension
MUSIC
While teaching a grade two class today, I found that quite a few students asked me for harder work. I explained earlier this term that, they can choose to try harder work if they can prove to me the work I given them is too easy. I quickly tested these student's abilities to play the piece and I could see that many of these students could play the piece with ease, so I challenged these students to grade 3/4 level and to my surprise and amazement some of these grade two students could play the grade 4 level with the correct fingers and without any assistance from me by simply reading the music. Only one of these students actually has had private keyboard lessons that I know of.
These are the movements I get a real warm feeling inside, Mr Webb
Did you know that you may be able to install a virtual piano on your computer, laptop or iPad?
Athletics
This year's house athletics was definitely underway. A few nerves crept in and were quickly quashed as their owners stepped up to take their turn. Small rivalries were beginning to grow as each event drew to a close and the ribbons were starting to be handed out. Some were fortunate enough to add to a stash of ribbons and others their very first. As the events rolled on, house points grew in their number and eventually a winning house was decided.
Year 5 & 6 Debaters Association Incursion
Debaters Association visited our school on Thursday 14th of April. Students experienced debating and/or public speaking skills. The session looked at different styles of presentation, considering pace, volume, pitch and expression. It was great to see the Year 5 & 6 students to explore different structures for speeches and tips for impromptu speaking.
Camp Quality Incursion
On Thursday 21st April we were entertained by "Camp Quality Education Program" which educates children about cancer in a light hearted way. Children learned types of cancer, treatments and the side effects of treatment. The puppet show presented the thoughts and feelings of a child cancer sufferer in an informative and compassionate way. Their slogan is "laughter is the best medicine" – the puppet show certainly made us all laugh!
Look at Mrs. Eker with her Dance super power
Gallipoli Youth Cup
On Monday 18th April 2016 Grade 6 visited Melbourne Park Tennis Centre to the Gallipoli Youth Cup.
We were able to practice our own tennis skills on their training courts and we were lucky enough to watch the Australian professional tennis player, Thanasi Kokkinakis train.
In the afternoon we were taken on a really interesting tour of the Rod Laver arena. We looked at the press room, physio room and the changing rooms.
All of Grade 6 had a super day!
Royal Children's Hospital Good Friday Appeal
Last term there were many wonderful fundraising activities that the students took part in, including the Royal Children's Hospital Good Friday Appeal. The students were very excited to help out others in need and joined in all events just to raise money. Some of the activities that we took part in were Cake Stalls, Movie at Lunch, Crazy Hair Day and more.
At the end of last term, the Year 6 school leaders presented a cheque worth $2100 and they were very proud of their hard efforts.
Thank you again to all parents, families, students and staff who contributed, as every dollar can make a difference.
Harmony Day
Harmony Day was celebrated at Keysborough on the last week of school last term and we had students come dressed in their cultural and traditional clothing and also in lots of orange. An amazing day, celebrating living in harmony with each other.
Mother's Day Share a Book
For Mother's Day our students had the opportunity to share a book with their mother, aunts, grandmothers, sisters and other important women in their life.
It was wonderful to see the students and their mums spend a special moment together and even more nice to see our older students take part in listening to younger students whose loved one could not make it to school.
Thank you to everyone who was able to come in and share a book with their child.
Secondary News
Secondary girl's music club
The secondary music elective is going very well. We learned how to improvise last term and began to read music. This term we are focusing on playing chords on the keyboard and reading more complex music. The four chords we are learning and in hundreds of songs. Once these girls have mastered these chords they could potentially play many songs or make their own music with these chords.
Besides the mandatory performance and theory they are given, some girls have chosen additional songs to try to learn on their own accord. We decided to open a music club just for secondary girls to give these girls and any other secondary girl a chance to come and learn an instrument on Wednesdays 1st half of lunch The secondary girl's music club is free and there are no obligations. The instruments we have available are guitars, keyboards, piano and drums. The girls are also free to sing too.
I hope to see even more girls come to this club in the future, Mr Webb.
Pastoral Care Department
Hello Everyone,
Pastoral Care Department has organised a fun and reading camp from year 7 to year 11 girls.23 students attended along with their pastoral care teachers and mentors. Students has spent three days of their holidays with fun, exciting and adrenaline filled activities such as giant swing, canoeing, flying fox and mountain biking.
Apart from these activities we had our reading and Salawat recitation competitions throughout the camp. Following students are the winners of our reading and Salawat competition:
| Reading | SALAWAT |
| 1.Jude Alseify 237 pg. (year 8) | 1.Sofia Roofie 4536 (year 10) |
| 2.Sofia Roofie 216 p.g (year 10) | 2.Aysu Daginik 3820 ( year 9 ) |
| 3.Lina Moubaraki 213 pg. (year 8) | 3.Husnia Mohammed 3541 ( year 10 ) |
The students who are listed above were presented various gift cards at the school assembly.
Pastoral care department has also organised a very meaningful event as a fundraiser for the Well project. The night was full of performances of students and laughs as a result of fun filled games for the mothers. The night ended in success with a grand total of over $5000 raised for the well. The pastoral care department thanks everyone for their contribution.
Year 9/10 Science Challenge
The students of 9/10G are undertaking a study in comparative biology as part of their negotiated curriculum during Term 2.
In their study of living things, the girls are dissecting fish and large worms. They are recording their observations and making comparisons between the anatomy of fish, worms and humans.
In their dissection of the fish, the students were surprised to discover that fish, too, have livers and kidneys!
The students also dissected out the fish gills and have saw how very different fish organ for breathing is from human lungs. One body part none of the students had seen, nor even heard of before was the fish's large swim bladder. This organ helps fish move up and down in water. The girls are confident they are not going to find one in a worm!
Ms Paula Taylor