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N O V E M B E R7 Laptop Info Night (G6s only)15 Vision Night21 Y12 Graduation

29 G6 GraduationD E C E M B E R3-7 Transition Week4 Orientation Day

5 Secondary Excellence Night7 Last day for students11 Parent/Teacher Interviews

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A L - TA Q WA C O L L E G E

C O N TA C T D E TA I L S

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201 Sayers RdTruganina VIC 3029

OUR MISSIONAl-Taqwa College aims to produce good ref lective self-directed learners who have

problem-solving skills and critical thinking abilities.

It aims to be a place where the individuality of each person is recognised, and where that recognition is ref lected in the College’s curriculum diversity and f lexibility, diverse

teaching strategies and student centered processes. The College aims to create a school environment that instills in students love and obedience to Allah (swt) in accordance with the sayings and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad (saw) and enables them to benefit from

the teachings of the Holy Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet Mohammad (pbuh).

Message from the Principal A S S A L A M U A L A I K U M W B T

The College has held a few events in the past few weeks. The VCE examinations commenced today and will continue into November. I wish my VCE students all the very best. The Year 12 Graduation will be held on 21 November at the College, tickets are available at the Accounts Department.

All my best wishes to the Year 12 students during their examinations. Ensure to revise your work, take regular breaks, eat well and rest – our teachers are here to help you. Most importantly, ensure you have enough sleep in order to better tackle your exams. Be on time! You will do well, InshaAllah.

A R T E X H I B I T I O NThe Art Exhibition opening was a great success held on Friday 19 October and I must say that our students are very talented having displayed some very inspiring and amazing art pieces. I am really very proud of them. Even our guests were very impressed. Guests included Professor Tan Sri Dato’ Dzulkifli Abd Razak and Mr

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Zulfadhli Hamzah from USIM, Malaysia. Tan Sri expressed interest in wanting to purchase a few pieces to take back home. Ms Anne Smith and other guests found the creativeness intriguing with many of the displayed pieces. The event was well organised and I thank the Head of KLA Arts, Farid Benserai and his team. Ms Smith of the Independent Schools of Victoria (ISV) who attends our Art Exhibition each year, displays some of the art pieces at ISV. Art is much loved by Muslims and everything is linked with the Arts. Mohammad Hallak, our Deputy Principal, gave a diagnostic view of how historic buildings were built with significant numbers - 7, 54, 365, defining the representation of each conceptual figure. It was intriguing


to discover the knowledge and intelligence of the people in that era.

F E T E D A YIt was fairly crowded during the Fete on Saturday 20 October, despite the unpredictable weather. The good thing about Fete is that it brings the community together, Alhamdullillah. During this year’s Fete, there were more community stalls selling items like clothes, hijabs, arts and crafts, etc. I thank all for being part of this event which is the biggest and most popular in our calendar. Our organizing team had worked very hard in preparing and running the show – my appreciation and thanks to all staff for their support and making it a great success once again.

A N N U A L Q U R A N C O M P E T I T I O NThe Annual Quran Competition was held on 24 and 25 October, Alhamdullillah. I am proud of the enthusiastic students who competed in the categories of memorisation, hfiz, adhan and khutbah. There was the Choir, Poems, Qira’at of the Quran and an Islamic Quiz for parents which highlighted the program. I am happy to note that the competition progresses year to year. My congratulations to both the Islamic Departments and a special thanks to all who contributed tirelessly towards this event. MashaAllah, I am intrigued with the Khutbah’s participants and could see them emerging as future Imams or Khatibs. May Allah (swt) reward the coaches for their passion and patience in guiding the categories of the competition. As I said in my speech, I would encourage the readers to understand the

meaning of verses of the Holy Quran and the only way is to learn Arabic.

N E W M U L T I P U R P O S E S P O R T S C O M P L E XAlhamdullillah, we have obtained the permit for building the new multipurpose sports complex and thank you to the Wyndham City Council for the approval. InshaAllah, we will commence the project very soon. This indoor sports facility with area of 6790sqm would adequately accommodate sport courts, gymnasium, stage, auditorium as well as kitchen/diner. The progress of the project will be updated in coming newsletters inshaAllah.

O M A R H A L L A KPrincipal


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Dear Parents, Students & FriendsA S S A L A M U A L A I K U M

C A R P A R K The Administration carpark is closed each school day between 9.00am and 3.15pm, to allow our senior students more space during recess and lunch. Guests are still able to access the administration building during the day by parking in front of the mosque and walking through the mosque gates.

S P E E D I N GOver the course of the year, we have found many parents speeding in the car parks. As you can imagine this is extremely dangerous especially when smaller children pop out between cars. Please follow the actions of our staff on duty and keep in line with the speed on the school grounds at all times.

S P A R E C L O T H I N GWe have many younger students presenting to the front office due to bathroom accidents. For parents with children in Foundation and Year 1, can you please provide an extra pair of pants, underwear and socks in their school bags.

L A T E A R R I V A L S A N D E A R L Y D I S M I S S A L S We are still experiencing many students arriving late each day. School commences at 8.50am and all students are expected to arrive ontime. If you are finding heavy traffic in the mornings, try the new carpark and if you can leave 10 minutes earlier each day, this will ensure an early arrival.

If your child is required to be collected early due to an appointment, please advise the Administration Office so they can have your child waiting for you in the foyer. Students who fall ill during the day will be contacted by the Nursing staff for collection from the First Aid Department.

S T U D E N T A P P O I N T M E N T STo avoid disruption to your child’s learning it is requested that medical or other appointments for your children are made outside of school hours.

S T U D E N T L U N C H E S We are being inundated with parents arriving at the front office thorughout the entire day with their child’s lunch. Please ensure that your child has a healthy packed lunch in their school bag before they leave home in the morning. This creates a lot of wasted time for our staff.

V I S I T O R SAny parent, guardian or visitor must report to the Administration Office and sign in prior to entering the College grounds. This is necessary especially in the event of an emergency and also for the safety of all our staff and students.

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A L L S C H O O L6 Nov, Melbourne Cup Day Public Holiday15 Nov, Vision Night3 Dec, International Day of People with Disability7 Dec, Last day of term 411 Dec, Parent/Teacher Interviews

P R I M A R Y7 Nov, Laptop Information Evening Y6s8 Nov, Media Movie Night, selected students9 Nov, Parent World Record Day, Y6s and Parents19-20 Nov, Aboriginal Aust Virtual Reality, Y3s20-21 Nov, End of Year Excursion, Y6s26-27 Nov, Ecolinc Exc, Y3s27 Nov, Werribee Zoo, Y1s27 Nov, SEEP Info Session29 Nov, G6 Graduation6 Dec, No school for Y6 students

don’t forgetS E C O N D A R Y1-15 November VCAA Exams14 Nov, Ottoman Village Aged Care Visit, Selected secondary16-30 Nov, Secondary Exams21 Nov, Y12 Graduation Evening26 Nov, Transition Program26 Nov, SWB Laser Tag/Soccer Match, Y10/11s27 Nov, SEEP Info Session3-7 Dec, Transition Week5 Dec, Excellence Night5 Dec, SWB Werribee Park, Sel Y7-9 boys5 Dec, SWB Werribee Park, Sel Y7-9 girls


Student of the Month - Doing Your BestVerily Allah has prescribed proficiency in all things.Narrated by Muslim

FA Hajer QaisyFB Reyaan HasanFC Abdullahi Ahmed MohamudFD Sarosh MohammedFE Anthony NguyenFF Ella TalebFG Abdullah RashidFH Bilal Irawan

1A Lilah Houli1B Fatima Boru1C Abas Abas1D Ahmed Barakat1E Pariza Rehan1F Fatima Naseh1G Dua Syed1H Khadijah Khan

2A Najma Mohamed2B Aya Al Hawli2C Amaan Shaik2D Isra Fatima2E Syabeela Husen2F Zainuddin Baseer2G Layan Hallak2H Mustafa Rosool

3A Tehseen Rida3B Maryam Bavazeer3C Aslam Gammachu3D Muhiyaddeen Hassen

3E Qatadah Ummu3F Abriham Jawad3G Sitra Osman3H Ibtisam Boru3I Sleiman El Hawli

4A Hiba Dib4C Laylah Mohamed4D Khadiga Bakri4E Niya Hassan4F Yasmine Fawal4H Hana Ahamed4I Fajrr Ali

5A Helan Adem5B Khadija Nisar5C Khaled Haouli5D Aleena Khan5E Abu-Baker Rasool5F Khadija Farooky5G Radiya Qalinle5H Ahmed Zoghaib5I Affan Ahmad

6A Fatima Dib6B Laras Chairrunisa6C Hamza Abshir6D Ziydan Elias6F Zahira Nurhakim6G Shuayb Barkalye

If you are interested to learn more or do some of the activities with your children you can visit their website at http://schools.stjohn.org.au/

Finally, just a gentle reminder, if your child suffers from hay fever, it is recommended that they have their dose of antihistamine (Zrytec/Telfast/Claratyne) before school. This will cover them during the school hours. As I have mentioned in our last newsletter, the spring and summer months should be great fun for our students, with lots of opportunities for outdoor learning and play. But children with hay fever can find this time of year difficult; their symptoms can make them uncomfortable and even affect their academic achievement. Your cooperation, understanding and support with this initiative is very much appreciated.

R O S L Y N N A S I R , W E N D Y D I C K S &

J O H O R A I B R A H I M Registered Nurses

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Assalamualikum, October has been an eventful month. For the first time this year, our Foundation students started a 2-week Swimming Program. These are amazing life skills that increase swimming and water safety skills of our children to prevent drowning and increased participation in safe aquatic activity.

At the start of term 4, we had St John Ambulance Victoria organise a First Aid program for our Grade 1 to Grade 6

students. The Program was designed to educate children on how to assist in emergencies, whether at home or school. This was a free program that allowed our students to learn basic first aid skills. It was fun, engaging and age appropriate for our students. The feedback we received from the students was very positive and, inshaAllah, next year, we will run this Program again.

There are St John First Aid online resources and activities.


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The Primary Islamic Department would like to welcome you all to the final term of the year! We have a lot in store for our students in Term 4 and look forward to sharing with you all what we have been up to!

Our Quran Competition was highly successful as we had 186 students learn the required verses of Surat Yunus and received their certificates and prizes! Year after year our students prove that they are eager and excited as ever to learn verses from the Quran by listening to the morning Dua/Quran recitation, attending the morning Quran classes and even practise at home. The Surah for Term 4 is Surat Al Mulk which will be played daily every morning inshaAllah. This semester our lovely Grade 2 female students have been practising the wearing of the Hijab every Friday mashaAllah. Our students have shown a lot of enthusiasm as they prepare themselves for wearing the Hijab as part of their Grade 3 uniform. Classes have been awarded golden stars for remembering to wear the Hijabs as well.

As our young students develop and blossom into young men and woman, it is necessary as an Islamic School that we address some of the many issues faced by adolescents every day. In week 2 our Grade 6 students took part in Take Control sessions taught by our Islamic teachers that were aimed at making our students aware of the change in hormones in both genders, peer pressure and emotions. We also discussed what is appropriate when in the presence or communicating with the opposite gender. Gender separate sessions were taught from an Islamic

Perspective along with evidence from the Quran and Sunnah.

The 16th Annual Quran Competition was held on 24 October. A touching speech by our Principal , Mr Omar Hallak was followed by performances presented to us by our school choir students. Students competed in the following Quran memorisation categories: 1/4 Juzu, 1/2 Juzu, 1 Juzu, 2 Juzu, 3 Juzu and Hifz Program. Other categories on the night included Quran recitation, Khutba presentation and Adhan recitation. A huge congratulations to all our participants who were awarded with prizes and certificates for their efforts on this successful night.

We would like to thank all of our dedicated staff who trained our students throughout the year and to our students who showed persistence and determination to compete in their categories. May Allah reward our teachers and parents for supporting and guiding our dear children through this valuable journey.

P R I M A R Y I S L A M I C D E P A R T M E N T


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Throughout term 3 (every Thursday), the year 10 VCAL students were involved in a program called ‘AniMATES.’ It is a youth led social marketing campaign that promotes social cohesion by addressing race, and religious-based discrimination and hate. The students created an engaging animated video aimed at conveying a strong message to the wider population, and it was to emphasise Contributing to Australia.

The program had three phases, the first being the capacity building phase, based on leadership training and creating group cohesion. The second is the campaign development which allows the group to explore issues that are important to them. The final phase is the production of the video where students develop their concepts further by creating scripts and story boards, revising their animations and adding colour, music, and voiceovers.

The first phase involved leaders from different religious communities visiting to discuss and answer questions about their religions. They gave an insight to our students of what their beliefs really are, and clarified misconceptions that people can make. There were also many activities that allowed students to participate in activities with Wyndham City Education Centre (WCEC), which really uplifted the Social Cohesion between the two schools.

We also visited Victoria University, and “Vicky” the truck. It was a great experience that shows how culturally and religiously diverse Victorians are, and how awesome it is to be Victorian. It was targeting the second phases’

“campaign development phase,” as it was an attempt to give students ideas of what to explore in their own campaign, and give them ideas for their animation.

The final phase involved the production phase, the students created an engaging animated video aimed at conveying a strong message to the wider population, and it was to emphasise “Contributing to Australia.” It gave our students an opportunity to create an influential and positive message to the wider population. It began with a major discussion that really engaged all students, as we were searching for ideas for the animation. We could only decide on making one come to fruition (out of 7 ideas), and once it was decided, we created a story board. From there, the LOTE marketing team took over and made our idea come to life. The animation that they created will be shown in the Wyndham public areas such as Pacific Werribee Shopping Centre, in cinemas, and potentially, it could be seen on TV, so STAY TUNED!

The VCAL year 10 class have accomplished an outstanding achievement for both themselves and our school/community. They came prepared every week, and represented Al-Taqwa with the best behaviour. They really did work cohesively with students from WCEC and with their own classmates, and discovered many things about themselves during this project.


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Congratulations to all the students who participated in this year’s Quran Competition.

M E M O R I S A T I O NQuarter Juzu Half Juzu1 Lujayn Houli (FB) 1 Suhala Kassem (1B)2 Yousef Sawan (FB) 2 Aisha Siddiq (1B)3 Asad Mohammed (FF) 3 Swayda Hersi (1F)4 Saad Mohammed (FG) 4 Nadine Abdullahi (1E)

One Juzu Two Juzu1 Maysam Elhouli (3C) 1 Abdullah Sheikh (FA)2 Sidra El Ayoubi (1G) 2 Saja El Ayoubi (3B)3 Mushahid Mohammed (2B) 3 Musaab Uddin 4 Wajih Abdou (2B) Mohamed (3G) 4 Najma Mohamed (2A)

Three Juzu1 Wahaj Chisti (4H)2 Musadiq Mohammed (4E)3 Maira Sheikh (3H)

H I F Z1 Syed Alvi (5C) – memorised up to surah Al–Imran2 Rayan Alajarmeh (6F) – memorised up to surah Al-Imran3 Zahira Nurhakim (6F) – memorised up to surah Al-Nisa4 Nomaan Quraishi (5D) – memorised up to surah Al

Mae’dah4 Zeenath Banu (5D) – memorised up to surah Al Imran

A D H A N K H U T B A1 Abdirahman Ashkir (5H) 1 Karim Abdo (5E)2 Ahmed El Masry (4H) 2 Ali Nasir (6G)3 Adil Chowdhury (3I) 3 Adam Bakri (5E)


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An example being, when Heyam Abbas was asked to make a speech with Adam Bou’khalil. Adam was calm and cool like a cucumber on stage, but Heyam was really nervous. She managed to pull herself together, get up on the stage, speak, and walked off with a massive smile. It really melts the heart to see the happiness of our students when they succeed and do a great job. Another highlight was Issra Melhams’ enthusiasm with discovering ideas for the animation. We chose one of her many ideas in the end and it was obvious on how proud of her hard work she was. She took ownership of her work and the class agreed on having her voice at the end of the video.

Finally, I believe that ‘AniMATES’ empowered our students to create a positive and constructive message that will strengthen relationships between Muslim and non-Muslim young people.

On behalf of Al Taqwa would like to thank everyone for ‘The Huddle’, including John King, Daniel Sammut and Mylene Wheeler who have contributed greatly in getting this initiative off the ground and inviting us to be a part of it. A huge thank you to Stefanos Chrisoulis, Yarra Bakri and Heba Hallak for bringing this program to our school and giving me the opportunity to coordinate it.

A B D U L W A H I D A B D OVCAL Assistant Head


The Year 12 students completed formal classes in October, and were involved in a number of College organised activities aimed at celebrating the conclusion of their secondary education.

Over the course of this year the College has provided students with the support, encouragement and opportunity to achieve the best results possible. Creating such an environment can only be achieved by the hard work and dedication of many teachers and support staff. The Year 12 VCE and VCAL Programs have been well managed by the

respective Level Coordinators, Yarra Bakri and Stefanos Chrisoulis. On behalf of the College community and Year 12 students I wish to thank staff for their tireless work.

Finally we wish all Year 12 students the very best of wishes in their final examinations, and we look forward to celebrating their success at the VCE Graduation on Wednesday 21 November.

G U S N A P O L ILater Years Coordinator

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College RegistrarJenny Dunstan

Parent Liaison Of ficerMalak El-Ashey

Enrolment Off icers Enas Ali

Ibtissam Shahino

Transport CoordinatorSameh Aghbash

Accounts ReceivableMalak El-Ashey

Fadile Jeka

Accounts PayableEmmy Eribsyantie

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The Islamic Schools of Victoria (Werribee College) Trading as Al-Taqwa College ABN 32 079 146 958

COLLEGE TOURSTours of the College are available by appointment only on

scheduled days. If you wish to visit the College and view our facilities, please contact the Administration Office on 9269 5000 to

arrange an appointment.

2018 College tours commence at 9.15am with the next tours organised for

1 0 O C T O B E RBOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL

This is a great way to see the College in action.

You’re invited to the Al-Taqwa College Annual

Vision Night Thursday 15 November

6.00pm start

ATC Marquee 201 Sayers Rd

Hoppers Crossing

Please arrive by 5.45 to be seated. Arrive early to ensure you get a good seat as they are limited!

We kindly request that no siblings attend the award ceremony as

children will not be able to have their own seat.

You’re invited to the Al-Taqwa College Annual

Vision Night Thursday 15 November

6.00pm start

ATC Marquee 201 Sayers Rd

Hoppers Crossing

Please arrive by 5.45 to be seated. Arrive early to ensure you get a good seat as they are limited!

We kindly request that no siblings attend the award ceremony as

children will not be able to have their own seat.

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