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tines.
Facebook is only for special
activities and occasion photos
such as graduations etc.
Graduations: With many
new families it is timely to
remind of our policy not to
celebrate birthdays as part of
our Islamic philosophy and
respect for families following
this. We do however hold a
graduation ceremony for chil-
dren leaving to primary school
and offer a transitioning/smaller
graduation for children moving
from our under two to over two
classroom. Graduations are
very special and the children
eagerly wait for these special
days. We have two special
gowns for the occasions. Fami-
lies are welcomed to share foods
with the children around their
child’s birthdays each year, but
we focus on the kind gesture of
sharing with friends. We do not
sing Happy Birthday or give
birthday gifts etc.
Swimming Sessions: Just a reminder that we book
the indoor pool for swimming
every Wednesday and Saturday
for women and children, all are
welcomed and are encouraged.
For further information contact
Maysoon on 349 3223 or
Welcome to the newsletter of
Term 1
Staff professional development: Our
centre is involved in a cluster group
within Hornby alongside other early
childhood services, primary and
high schools working with Ministry
to improve outcomes for all chil-
dren. Both Maysoon and Natasha
have been attending these meetings,
and all staff will be involved in PD
provided through this. As part of
our on-going strategic self-review
focus on Literacy (2014-2016) staff
participated in training through
CORE including specialised guest
speakers and a cultural focus on
literacy, which Maysoon gave a
special presentation as well as the
teaching team preparing another
presentation. Natasha will begin
studies towards her Postgraduate
diploma in Teaching (teaching and
learning languages) this coming
semester as her own outside PD.
Curriculum: In term one
we continued our focus on Litera-
cy from last year. This term was
very busy and included our
“wear read for healthy hearts”
day during which children fo-
cused on how to look after their
bodies through exercise and diet
as well as dissecting a heart.
Term Two our focus will be on
the human body following the
group interest displayed from the
children during our red heart focus,
and feedback from families. For
individual planning please view
your child’s blog and give feedback
either by clicking comment, e-mail
Maysoon or directly to staff in per-
son. We appreciate you sharing
your goals and aspirations for you
children with us.
Novita has kindly created weekly
curriculum displays in both class-
rooms to help share with families
what is happening week to week at
any given time. Please speak with
the teachers for more information,
as we follow an emergent curricu-
lum some days plans may change
which will be recorded within the
daily stories.
Islamic Education: Huda observed the
children’s interests and to support the
term focus has planned the Islamic
focus to be around food and manners,
please refer to the Islamic curriculum
wall.
In regards to sessions/formal teaching:
Anar has taken on the Islamic sessions
and Quran planning, displays the
terms Quran verses, and daily
Islamic sessions focus (prophets
stories, pillars of Islam, Doa’s/
supplications), Arabic school
readiness style sessions are taken
by Huda Monday and Friday
this term with her focus dis-
played on the planning wall
weekly.
Fees and Blog
Thank you to our families for under-
standing the necessary changes in fee
structures. As already shared with you
through e-mail, all children will now
have an individual blog. This blog will
be completely private each with their
unique login and password. This blog
will share your entire child’s learning
stories/assessment and individual
education plan (IEP), allowing for
easy access, feedback and sharing. We
encourage you to use the option to
write comments to give feedback, this
may be shared with ERO (Education
Review Office) every three-five years
as required and is helpful. This blog is
completely free and you are able to
print from it if desired.
The optional fee for the blog is for
photos of your child. Usually photos of
milestones or relevant to learning
story/assessment are shared free but to
cover the cost and
time of sorting and
organising photo’s we
offer the additional
service not available
elsewhere. The photos
are added monthly
and show your child
at play, involved in
different sessions
throughout the centre
within the daily rou-
As-Salamo Alaikom! Greetings! Tena Koutou! السالم عليكم
Newsletter Vol. 70, May 2014 General News: Welcome back to
An-Nur, we hope all of our families en-
joyed the summer break and have had a
smooth transition back during term one.
Our staff and families would like to give a
warm welcome to our new classmates and
their family/whānau including: Skye
Lyon, Audrey Logan, Malak Almtutairi,
Khalid Hill and Marium Ruksari in our
under two classroom as well as Kamila
Hill, Asmaa Abdi, Abdiqaliqi Ibrahim,
Marium Ahmed, Zaina Al-Marashdeh,
Muza Jones, Aliya Nursultanova who just
transitioned from under two’s.
Welcome back to Natheer chenafa, Abdul-
lah Russal, Abdullah Jawadeh, Saleh and
Maya Alenzi, and Layan Algarni after
extended leave/holidays, your friends and
teachers have missed you all. We have also
celebrated the graduations for Nadira
Izani, Amal Tani, and Ahmad Quran and
are happy to hear they are enjoying their
primary schools. It is with sadness that we
have also farewelled friends Paskelle Owen
who has left New Zealand and Ali Mann
and hope to see them in the future. It is
wonderful to see our roles growing, and
with this need to remind families if anyone
is interested in enrolling please do not wait
as positions available may not last.
We are also proud to report the opening of
our sister centre in Dunedin has gone very
well, and thank all for the warm wishes
and appreciate the people who were able
to be with us for the opening. The Dune-
din centre has started very well, with
families eager to be part of an Islamic
education for their young children. Rouzi
name is the head teacher and is running
the centre with support from head of
board of trustees and An-Nur manage-
ment.
Thank you: Thank you to all our families
who shared in fundraising and who donat-
ed items, it is always appreciated. Special
thank you to Nusrat for donating bubble