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Junior School
Weekly
A Message from our Head of Junior School
Ms Harold
Assalamu Alaykum
Dear parents/carers,
This week I had the pleasure of attending the Year 6
Farewell, and my first Bellfield College special event!
What a memorable and very special evening. The staff
at Bellfield were both honoured and blessed to be able
to celebrate with our year 6 graduates and their families
in the one room at the same event. As I mentioned in my
speech on the night, it was only a few months ago that
this was not going to be the case. Large social gatherings
were not permitted. The night would not have been the
success it was, without the relentless and dedicated
effort of our stage 3 coordinator (and Year 6 teacher)
Miss Mchawrab. She is an asset to our college, and we
thank her for all her hard work with Year 6 this year.
As we bid our farewells to our outgoing year 6, we begin
to plan for and welcome in our 2021 student body and
student leaders. Year 5 students who have nominated
themselves as student leaders for next year all delivered
exceptional speeches today and should be very proud of
themselves. Votes were cast today. I look forward to
welcoming in the new team for 2021 at our upcoming
Presentation Day. Further details regarding our Junior
2020 Presentation Day and parent attendance will be
included in next week’s bulletin.
As we get closer to the end of the school year and
teachers are working hard marking student work and
writing reports. I would like to remind all parents that it
is also getting hotter! Please ensure your child comes to
school with plenty of fresh drinking water, in the summer
uniform and ALWAYS with their school hat. When the
temperature hits the high 30s and beyond, the college
implements our extreme weather action plan and children
are kept indoors where it is cool.
Term 4, 2020
Week 6
24th November
Ranger Jamie Stage 1
Incursion
23rd – 27th November
Bellfield College
Junior School Holiday
Season Food Drive
2nd December
Presentation Day
Things to come
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Lastly, next week junior school will be running a food drive for
those in need over the holiday
season. Many families live in poverty after the COVID pandemic
and are unable to enjoy the
holiday season. A simple way to bring happiness to these
families is donating to help feed
those in need. All food collected from our families will be
donated to charity and packaged
off in the first week of December. Please find more details
included in this week’s bulletin.
Have a safe and cool weekend.
Warm regards
Ms Harold
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Kindergarten Update
Asalamu Alaykum,
What a fantastic last term it has been of learning and fun for
Kindergarten!
From the book parade, to the Prophet’s birthday carnival, NAIDOC
week and the adoption
of our baby chicks, this term has been nothing short of
excitement!
Science:
Kindergarten students have been given the opportunity to look
after and watch baby chicks
hatch from an incubator in our classrooms. This was an extremely
rewarding and unique
experience for Kindergarten as they learnt how to take care of
baby chicks as well as learn
about the lifecycle of a chicken. We gave each chick a name and
played with them daily. As
the chicks grew bigger, we gave them up for adoption and they
have now gone to some very
loving homes.
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NAIDOC Week and Remembrance Day:
Kindergarten students thoroughly enjoyed participating in our
NAIDOC week assembly. We
really enjoyed having Uncle Malcom visit our school and play
some traditional Indigenous
instruments. We created some Aboriginal Art to celebrate and
appreciate the achievements
of Indigenous Australians.
We also participated in Remembrance Day and learnt about why we
commemorate Australian
soldiers at this time of the year. All Kindergarten students
created a poppy flower to
symbolise the respect and honour we have for those who fought
for our country.
CAPA:
In CAPA lessons, students learnt about imaginary places and
focused on islands and their
purpose. Students were given the opportunity to create their
very own island using a variety
of material such as paint, crayons, pencils, 3D objects, clay
and cellophane. KC created and
performed the song ‘Under the sea’ at the K-2 assembly. They
learnt the song lyrics and
created some of the dance moves as well as use percussion
instruments throughout the
performance.
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Numeracy:
This term in Kindergarten, students have learnt about the value
of money. At the end of our
unit, students participated in an inquiry based learning project
in teams and created an ice
cream menu. They also created the products and sold them to
their peers.
Students also learnt about 3D shapes and participated in some
hands on leer ing activities
where they needed to create a 3D shape using pop sticks and ply
dough. Students have
thoroughly enjoyed engaging in hands on activities throughout
Numeracy lessons this term.
PDHPE:
This term, Kindergarten students participated in the SPORT-IT
program where they learnt
fundamental gross motor skills such as throwing, catching,
hopping, and aiming.
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PROPHETS BIRTHDAY CARNIVAL
On Wednesday 4th November, we participated in the festivities of
the Prophets birthday
carnival. Kindergarten reflected on what they value most about
Prophet Muhammad as well
as go on rides, eat lots of fairy floss and play on the giant
slide.
Overall it has been such an exciting and busy term for us with
lots of fun, learning and
creativity.
Kind regards,
Miss Cardinale, Miss Paras and Mrs Hioki
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Salam alaykum dear parents and students,
Alhamdullilah we have made it with the grace of Allah until the
last
term of the year.
Year two has just finished their final Arabic and Quran exam.
Wow,
what amazing results!
While all students are reading and memorizing Quran, it makes me
so
proud to be their teacher knowing they are studying hard to
achieve
excellent outcomes.
In the next few weeks of this term we will be focusing on
letters Ha
and Meem, also
Surat Al-Zalzalah.
I would like to thanks our parents for the continue support
throughout
this difficult year. May Allah bless you!
I wish you all a well-deserved break and Insha’Allah we will be
back in
2021 to a normal life without covid-19. Keep us in your
prayer.
Wa Salamu Alaykum
Brother Tarek Bahsoun
Year 2 Arabic & Quran teacher.
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Tournament of Minds Last term, we shared exciting news about the
success of our 2020 Tournament of Minds
teams. We’re extremely proud of all our students who
participated, they certainly put
Bellfield on the map! As mentioned previously, we had two teams
who scored in the top 15%
of the Primary STEM category, and the Tournament organisers have
sent us their Honours
certificates in the mail! The whole of Junior School
congratulated our students on
Wednesday morning, with some fun COVID appropriate handshakes
from Ms Harold!
Congratulations to the students below on this wonderful
result!
Spongebob Smart Pants The Time Travellers
Ali Maan Naqvi 5/6M
Mariam Khalil 5/6M
Malak Hodroj 5/6M
Zakaria Farhat 3/4S
Alina Bakhtyari 3/4S
Muhammad Aeliya 3/4S
Hawra Al-Saady 3/4S
Khalil Farhat 6K
Zahra Hussain Abbas 6O
Ali Hussain Syed 6O
Ghassan Karaki 5/6M
Batoul Hamka 5/6M
Batoul Haidar 5/6M
Malaak Al Salemi 5/6M
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Research to Practice
This year we have been blessed to be engaged in a school
improvement and
Curriculum-based program called Research to Practice. Miss
Barron, Miss
Chokr, Mr Paras, Mrs Ibrahim and myself are part of this team
and have begun
to develop changes around the implementation of Science and
Technology at
Bellfield College. This program was established to help support
schools and
their teaching staff in the embedding of evidence-based practice
in teaching
and learning to ensure student achievement of the knowledge,
understanding,
skills, values and attitudes essential for them to succeed
in.
In Science and Technology, we are looking at using the Spiral of
Inquiry
framework for collaborative inquiry, together with the latest
evidence in
effective teaching and learning. We as a team are working
together to improve
the experience of our students and create meaningful and
contextualised
learning in Science and Technology.
This year we have also implemented the use of CANVAS, the
college’s online
learning management sydtem, in creating more engaging content.
We look
forward to sharing more details about CANVAS with parents, early
in 2021.
Warmest of Regards
Miss Balloot and the R2P team
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Uniform Shop Announcement
Term 4 guidelines allow parents and carers to be onsite to
purchase uniforms.
Due to the limited space in our uniform shop only one family
will be permitted
access at a time. Parents and carers are encouraged to consider
their uniform
purchases for Term 1, 2021 now. Access to the uniform shop will
only be given
to those parents who have made an appointment. Our uniform shop
is open on
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday by appointment only. Please call
our office of
9606 2666 to make an appointment
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Congratulations to
Sayeda Musawi
For receiving a Gold Award
Congratulations to
Ali Abbas Syed Zahraa Salim
Maham Fatima Mariam Khafaja
Areej Iftikhar Hiba Al Hasany Haidar Al Salemi
For receiving a Silver Award
Congratulations to
Amina Haider Soraya Anani Hussain Assaf
Marwa Ahmadi Sania Noori
Ali Hussan Hakimi For receiving a Bronze Award
Congratulations to
Amal Zainab Ali Mustafa Raza
Nargis Alrikabi
For receiving a Stage Coordinators
Award
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