ISSUE # 5 | TERM 2 WEEK 4 | 2018 www.iqracollege.sa.edu.au

FROM THE PRINCIPALAssalamu Alaykum Warahmatul-lahi Wa Barakatu,

Dear Parents, Guardians and Caregivers.

Alhamdulillah, we have been blessed with another opportuni-ty to witness the holy month of Ramadan. On behalf of the Staff and Management at IQRA Col-lege, I would like to wish you a Ra-madan Mubarak insha Allah. May Allah swt accept all our prayers insha Allah.

Quran Competition and Family IftarIQRA’s 2nd annual Quranic Com-petition will take place on Sunday 27th May, starting at 2:30 pm. It is my pleasure to invite all our parents and friends of IQRA to support our students when they showcase their Quranic memori-zation and tajweed skills on Sun-day insha Allah.

The competition will be followed by our annual IFTAR dinner. The entire school community is invit-ed to both the Quranic competi-tion as well as the IFTAR.

We look forward to seeing you all on Sunday insha Allah!

IN THIS ISSUE:Pg 2. Meet Our New Staff

Pg 3. PE Corner

Pg 4. NZF Toy Drive

DATES & EVENTS

27 MAYQur’an Competition & Family Iftar

28 MAYSchool Photo Day

11 JUNEQueen’s Birthday Public Holiday

23RD & 24TH JUNEAdelaide Multicultural Eid Festival

TERM DATES

TERM 1: 29 Jan - 13 AprTERM 2: 30 Apr - 6 JulTERM 3: 23 Jul - 28 SepTERM 4: 15 Oct - 14 Dec

#GREATMINDS

“EVERY EXPERT WAS ONCE A BEGINNER”

TaraweehI wish to remind all parents once again that IQRA College is host-ing Taraweeh prayers each night during Ramadan. Ishaa’ prayer starts at 7.30pm followed by Taraweeh prayer. Our Imam and Islamic Advisor, Sheikh Ahmed Mostafa recites an entire Juz of the Quran during taraweeh each evening.

School Photo DaySchool Photo Day will be on Mon-day 28th May. Please return your money and order forms as soon as possible. Please ensure that you child/children wear their correct uniforms for the annual school photo on Monday.

I wish you all well over the rest of Ramadaan.

Assalamu Alaykum Warahmatul-lahi Wa Barakatu

Shaheem DoutieActing Head of School

NEWSLETTER

MEET OUR NEW STAFFThis term we have two new teachers who have joined our teaching staff - Mrs Jayne Bishop and Mr Mubashar Nizamani. They will be teaching the Year 2 and Year 4B classes respectively.

Mrs Jayne BishopHi. My name is Jayne Bishop and I am the Year 2 class teacher. I started at IQRA College this term and have found teachers, students and the school community to be very welcoming and friendly. I bring with me 30 years of teaching experience across the Year levels and subjects from Reception to Year 10, and teacher training.

I am a literacy, numeracy and EALD specialist with further studies in Environmental and Outdoor Ed-ucation. My teaching experience includes working in urban, rural and remote schools, in SA and in-terstate, including establishing homelands schools on the Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjara lands in the far N-W of SA.

I am passionate about the environment and re-spect for its conservation. I love working with stu-dents to achieve their personal best. The students in Year 2 are striving for that.

I look forward to the developments currently hap-pening at IQRA College as it blooms as a college of excellence.

Mr Mubashar NizamaniAssalamoAlaikum wr wbr, I am Mubashar Nizamani and really pleased to join Iqra College. I have been working as a teacher since I was only 19 years old. I have taught overseas and in Australia including Independent and public schools and have worked in several Islamic schools in Australia. I am really delighted to see the cur-riculum set-up especially with Islamic Studies and

Quran which is badly needed in order to inculcate authentic knowledge of Islamic to our children. I can hardly hear any foul language by our children which is a great manifesto of the best manners. May Allah give us strength to serve the community in the best possible way. It always gives me a plea-sure to help the struggling students.

EALD RAMADAN ACTIVITIESThe EAL/D students have been creating the joy-ous mood of Ramadan in the classroom by dec-orating the school and learning precious values.

They brainstormed for values, wrote on stars and assembled them in the shape of moon. The moon and the stars reflect a collaborative work of stu-dents from different year levels.

The year sevens incorporated ICT skills into the lessons in the process of researching on mosques around the world. The year eights had an inter-action on how Ramadan and Eid are celebrated in Jordan (where they used to live) and Australia. As a follow up activity, they wrote a text based on their experiences.

Ms Balgish Mydeen

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“My Lord, increase me in knowledge”

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PE CORNERDear parents, the Adelaide Crows are holding a 9 A Side football carnival on June 15th for the Year 5-7 girls to be held at Glenelg Oval. So far I have 3 nominations and need another 8 at least. If your child is keen on playing, the front office have nom-ination forms for you to fill out.

Starting this week we have the girls year 6-10 par-taking in table tennis as part of their PE and the boys with tennis. In week 6-10 both boys and girls undertake coaching lessons in baseball and T/Ball. These lessons are part of the Funding Schools program and are part of the Australian Curriculum which determines the national physical education learning for all schools. These sessions also allow all students to experience other sports they nec-essarily wouldn’t have the opportunity to try oth-erwise.

The school has just purchased new sporting equip-ment for all year levels, so we are progressing as a faculty with positive results.

One of our year 5 students, Zayden Kamish com-petes in the state cross country championships coming up in June and we wish him all the best.

Take care

Mr Michael O’DonnellPE Coordinator

FRIENDLY REMINDERAt times, Allah out of love for His servants, would choose YOU to facilitate a good deed.

Even though you didnt intend it, you didn’t plan it, you didn’t ask for it and you didn’t even know about it. To show you how much He loves YOU, He would create a difficulty in someone’s life and a need for charity in another persons life and put you in the middle as a means of fulfilling their needs and get-ting rewarded in the process. It’s a gift from Allah. It’s a sign Allah wants you to know Him and that He wants good for you. Don’t be arrogant, don’t think “I don’t have time” or “I have enough things to deal with”. Be humble, help His servants sincerely to please Him and He will facilitate and satisfy your needs in difficult times as well as those around you.

Remember Allah (by doing good deeds) in times of ease and Allah will remember you in times of diffi-culty.

STAR PUPIL

The bell rang for Zuhur prayer. Children were streaming into the toilets to take wudhu. Some of them were chatting, some of them listening to the friends’ talk, while others were taking wudhu. One student attracted my attention – she had just finished taking her wudhu and started to wipe her arms with the paper. Once done, she threw her pa-per into the bin and……….. bent down to pick up pa-pers that were littered by other girls. Her action just melted my heart because, she did it without being asked. She is none other than Nayli Noor Hafiz.

Some children think they should not be picking up litters left by others. Others pick up only when asked to. Nayli did it on her own.

One who contributes to the cleanliness of the school is so great and will be rewarded by ALLAH (S.W.) as the person is creating a clean environ-ment for others.

Nayli is, indeed, a STAR pupil of IQRA College!

Ms Balgish Mydeen

YR 7 BABY PHOTO COMPETITIONWe are having a baby photo competition in our year 7 class and I have asked all students to bring in a photo of them when they were a baby. Is it possible for all students to have them to me by Wednesday of next week please?

Mr Michael O’DonnellYear 7 Teacher

Star Pupil

Nayli Noor Hafiz

NZF TOY DRIVE“None of you truly believes (in Allah and His religion) until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself.” [Sahih Bukhari and Muslim]

IQRA College and NZF (National Zakat Foundation) are collaborating together in a Toy Drive to support local kids in need this Ramadan. Please place your donated toys on the marked table beside the front entrance of the school. The final collection will take place on Wednesday 13th June.

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