September Newsletter Principal’s Message September 15, 2017 Australian International Islamic College Excellence in Education Character & Service Please consult with your teachers, they are more than happy to assist you. I would also like to thank all parents for their continuous support in assisting us to enforce the uniform policy. Almost 90% of our students are compliant and come neatly attired to the college. We are still trying very hard to get families arriving to school on time. We need our parents to sup- port us in this regard. This term has been a busy but very productive one. I would like to extend a huge thank you to all our staff that made this term so successful. I wish you all an enjoyable vacation and we look forward to seeing everyone eager and ready for the last term of the year. Mariam Banwa Dear Parents / Caregivers, As we reach the end of a busy and successful term, I wish to thank all families of AIIC for their continuous support. The end of this term is a good opportunity for students to reflect on what they have achieved so far and start planning for Term 4. Our staff have been focussing on Literacy and Numeracy for the past three terms and have worked diligently in assisting students achieve the best they can. Hands-on literacy activities followed book reading sessions and students participated in a range of writing and creating activities to extend their imaginations and broaden their understandings The support of parents and teachers was amazing, thank you! Our teachers have prepared students very well for the NAPLAN Tests and therefore we have received promising and outstanding results. These results will be analysed and areas for improvements will be identified and addressed. A significant improvement in student outcomes is evident. The students of years 2, 4, 6 and 8 are currently preparing for NAPLAN next year. End of Term 3 Friday 15th September 2017 Start of Term 4 Tuesday, 3rd October 2017
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September Newsletter
Principal’s Message
September 15, 2017
Australian International Islamic College
Excellence in
Education
Character & Service
Please consult with your teachers, they are
more than happy to assist you.
I would also like to thank all parents for
their continuous support in assisting us to
enforce the uniform policy. Almost 90% of
our students are compliant and come
neatly attired to the college. We are still
trying very hard to get families arriving to
school on time. We need our parents to sup-
port us in this regard.
This term has been a busy but very
productive one. I would like to extend a
huge thank you to all our staff that made
this term so successful.
I wish you all an enjoyable vacation and we
look forward to seeing everyone eager and
ready for the last term of the year.
Mariam Banwa
Dear Parents / Caregivers,
As we reach the end of a busy and successful
term, I wish to thank all families of AIIC for
their continuous support. The end of this
term is a good opportunity for students to
reflect on what they have achieved so far and
start planning for Term 4.
Our staff have been focussing on Literacy
and Numeracy for the past three terms and
have worked diligently in assisting students
achieve the best they can. Hands-on
literacy activities followed book reading
sessions and students participated in a range
of writing and creating activities to extend
their imaginations and broaden
their understandings
The support of parents and teachers was
amazing, thank you!
Our teachers have prepared students very
well for the NAPLAN Tests and therefore we
have received promising and outstanding
results. These results will be analysed and
areas for improvements will be identified
and addressed. A significant improvement in
student outcomes is evident. The students of
years 2, 4, 6 and 8 are currently preparing
for NAPLAN next year.
End of Term 3
Friday
15th September
2017
Start of Term 4
Tuesday,
3rd October 2017
Years 5/6 classroom
Assalamu alaikum Wr Wb.
Dear Parents/ Caregivers,
At the end of term 3, the year 5/6 class have come a long way in both their academic learning and personal
growth. This term there is been an emphasis on teamwork, problem solving and learning from mistakes.
Our class has been working extremely hard learning a new computer language within the Digital Technologies
curriculum to compete with 19 private and state schools around the region at
Dreamworld on 14th September. The students have built a Lego EV3 robot and are
require to write code so the robot is able to understand and follow their instruc-
tions. There are two challenges:
1. Seen: In classroom practiced to be performed on the day; and
2. Unseen challenge : Code on the spot.
These challenges help develop essential skills including:
* systems thinking
* the programming mindset,
* active learning
* applied mathematics,
* judgement
* decision making
* good communication
* complex problem solving
* persistence and endurance technological design
As a lead up to this event, students have also been coding with scratch,
ozobots, andflying drones. Students also took part in “an hour of code”.
The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of
students in 180+ countries. It is dedicated to expanding
access to computer science and increasing participation by women.
Their vision is that every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer science, just
like English, Science or Mathematics. As we live in a technological world and the digital age, it is an integral
part of learning for students to have a competitive edge in technologies for their future careers.
At the end of August, Year 5/6 students also took part in the
Bebras challenge online. The Bebras challenge is a biannual
event. The Bebras challenge contains 15 computational
thinking problems from around the world to be solved. They
are presented under levels of difficulty depending on their
year level of Easy, Medium and Hard. Each consisting of 5
questions. The questions get progressively more difficult as
students advance upwards through the school system.
Besides from technology we also worked on two inquiries
(Sharing the planet and How the world works). Students in-
quiries were about:
* How all living things adapt to different environments.
* How sustainability of energy is dependent on human behaviour.