FEB. 2019 | TERM 1 | ISSUE 1 ICOM INSIDER · College of Melbourne and insha’Allah 2019 will be...

THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF ISLAMIC COLLEGE OF MELBOURNE

FEB. 2019 | TERM 1 | ISSUE 1

IN THIS ISSUE

1. Principal's Message2. Term Dates3. Year 6 2018 Graduation4. Secondary Awards Night5. Library News6. Year 3 Excursion7. Science At ICOM8. Message From The Primary

Art Room9. Important Reminders

ICOM INSIDER

Assalamualaikum Warahmatullah WabarakatuhDear Parents and students,

As we commence 2019, I would like to wel-come all students, parents and staff to what will be another successful year insha’Allah. I hope everyone had a relaxing school holidays and are ready for another busy year at ICOM.

Alhamdulillah the college had a smooth start to the year thanks to the preparations and plan-ning of our hard-working superstar teachers and staff. Having the student book packs ordered and delivered before the students commenced in 2019 has contributed to having the college hit the ground running and get ahead with the teaching and learning process from day 1.

An important milestone in any person’s educa-tion is the completion of Year 12. 2018 saw the Islamic College of Melbourne’s first group of Year 12 graduates and I am proud of the re-sults achieved by all graduates. I would like to congratulate all our Year 12 students on their outstanding efforts and achievements and to all College staff, for their role in supporting and challenging our students to enable them to reach their potential.

For the two top scoring students, Qaida Iman Mohd Azizan and Mohammad Hassan, I was hap-py to see you both at the Senior Secondary Parent Information Session where the college handed out the ICOM University Scholarships and DUX award for 2018

The college held its Primary Parent Information Session on 4 February and the Junior Secondary Parent Information Session on Thursday 7 Febru-ary. It was a pleasure to see the number of parents attending increase every year. During these ses-sions, the college also announced and handed out badges to the 2019 class captains, vice captains, in addition to the house captains and vice captains. By attending these sessions, parents are provided with important information and an opportunity to clarify any queries regarding their children’s educa-tion at the college.

The college has introduced this year a clear struc-ture in the Secondary School, with the separation of Junior Secondary (Year 7 to 9) and Senior Sec-ondary (Year 10 to 12). Over the holidays, there were significant construction works happening, with the new double storey structure for Senior Secondary. This building has provided our Senior students with their own space tailored to assist in their development at school. The college is proud of our strong VCE program which also include VET subjects: Health and Business Management.

Another program that was introduced this year is the Quran Memorisation Academy for selected stu-dents. The program is designed to target advanced students, which serves to help students revise memorised surah’s and to memorise new surahs. The ultimate goal of this program is the memorisa-tion and Hifz of the whole Quran.Finally, the college would like to invite any parent interested in joining the ICOM Parent Advisory Committee for 2019. The meeting to elect mem-bers will take place on Wednesday, 27 February at 2.40pm.

Thank you for your continued trust in the Islamic College of Melbourne and insha’Allah 2019 will be another successful year.

Dr Abdul M. Kamareddine, PrincipalIslamic College Of Melbourne

Principal’s Message

ISLAMIC COLLEGE OF MELBOURNE FEB. 2019 | TERM 1 | ISSUE 1

As you are aware, the college cannot provide medication to students unless prescribed to them, this includes hayfever tablets & paracetamol. If your child requires medication, your child’s name and directions must be on the label before handing it to the nurse.

From this year the college school bag will be compulsory for all students. They are currently avail-able at the uniform shop. Please see the parent portal for further details of the uniform policy.

Parents must advise the college of any medical conditions their child may have, whether it is severe or just a mild condition.

The uniform for Term 1 is the summer uniform. All students are expected to wear the summer uni-form, this includes the school hat. During sunny days students should be sun smart, drink plenty of water and, use sunscreen. Parents are advised that there’s a NO HAT NO PLAY rule.

Please ensure you inform the college or update your details on the Parent Portal if your contact details have changed.

Parents please can you remind students who walk home to be vigilant and aware of their surround-ings at all times. Please discourage students from being on their phones when walking home. In case of an emergency can you ensure that they memorise at least one parents phone number or point of contact.

Enrolments for 2019 have now closed. Unfortunately, due to the number of students currently enroled at the Islamic College of Melbourne and the number of new enrolments already received, the college will no longer be accepting any further applications.

Parents who have submitted an expression of interest form will be contacted if a place is available for their child next year.

Note: Enrolments for 2020 closes on Thursday 23 May 2019.

28 FebruaryPrimary Photo Day

1 March Secondary Photo Day

8 March Primary Athletics Day

11 MarchLabour Day (Public holiday,

School is closed)

28 March Multicultural Day

28 MarchLast day of Term 1 for students

29 MarchParent Teacher Interview

16 AprilTerm 2 Commences

19 AprilGood Friday (Public holiday,

School is closed)

22 AprilEaster Monday (Public holiday,

School is closed)

25 April ANZAC Day (Public holiday,

School is closed)

26 April Secondary Athletics Day

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

ENROLMENT INFORMATION

IMPORTANT DATES TERM 1



Year 6 GraduationAssalamualaikum families of ICOM,On 6 December 2018 the Year Sixes culminated their primary schooling years with their graduation. Students spent many hours rehearsing the various aspects of the graduation and saw it all come together on the night to a great success. For the first time ever we had a Graduation Committee con-sisting of Year Six students giving their voice to what they wanted for their big night. Our four M.C’s – Zainab Ahsan, Zane Taleb, Safia Ibrahim and Aman Berberovic – superbly carried the event through-out the evening. We had three performances that related to being strong and faithful Muslim’s, and both resonated with parents, staff and students.

This year we introduced many new initiatives across the graduation, none more successful than our first ever academic awards. The seven recipients, given out over three separate awards – academic im-provement, academic achievement and academic excellence – were thoroughly deserved. Congratu-lations to Safia Ibrahim, Adam Ghates, Zane Taleb (Academic Improver), Muleyka Fawad, Hamdaan Ahmed, Alina Rehman (Academic Achiever) and Mahnoor Asif (Academic Excellence).

At the end of the night, after all the ice cream had been eaten and teddy bears signed by friends and family, the Year Six students made their way home for the holidays and prepared for their new chal-lenge – Secondary School! We wish the students every success in secondary school and Inshallah the graduation will be a night that lives long in the memory.

Mr. Danny Gray on behalf of the Year Six team.

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Secondary Awards Night


Library NewsRead Learn Connect

Welcoming back everyone to the ICOM Library in 2019!

The ICOM Library continues to be one of the popular spots for Secondary and Senior Primary students (Year 5 & 6) during recess and lunch. Whether it is to print their assignments, read and borrow books, or just chill and relax with friends. If a picture can paint a thousand words, these pictures of our students in the library paints a dictionary of happy and content words repeated many times. To those that haven’t visited the library this year, we hope to see you soon.

Mrs Haifa, Ms Payal & Ms Zetty ICOM Library Team

Our library has over 31,000 books and resources. In January and February 2019 alone, we have circulated a total of 11,100 items. Wow! Fiction Series, again, the most borrowed books among the Fiction Books in our collection, with a blazing score of 57%. Yay! The Library has spent thousands of dollars on books in just 2 months, and we will buy more books for our “book-hungry” readers this year. Don’t forget to share your “wish-list” with the Librarians.

DID YOU KNOW?


On 13 February 2019, Year 3A and 3B spent a day exploring A Plant’s World at Ecolinc Science and Technology Innovations Centre. Throughout the day, students participated in four workshops. They used microscopes to get a clos-er look at the different parts of a flower.

Students were left in awe when learning about the roles of birds, bees and butterflies in pollination. They created a replica flower complete with stamina, stigma and pollen. Soon they were energeti-cally roaming around as ‘bees’ pollinating ‘flowers’. Students eagerly propagated plants in the glasshouse and learnt how to grow plants from cuttings of rosemary.

Finally, our young scientists investigated soil quality in garden beds and tested the pH of samples. A powerful learning opportunity promoting student curiosity. We thank our amazing teaching staff and parent helper.

Ms. Sabiha SahinYear 3 Team Leader

Year 3 Excursion to Ecolinc Science and Technology Innovations Centre


SCIENCE @ICOM 2019It is going to be another fantastic year for our Science students at ICOM. The Science staff are pre-paring a range of fun- learning activities and exciting excursions and incursions.This years’ Science department consists of:- Ms Juhaina- the Laboratory technician- Ms Maha- VCE Biology and Chemistry teacher.- Ms Drakeford- Year 10 Science and VCE physics teacher. - Mr Hakan- 9C Science teacher- Mr Munib- 7-10 Science teacher- Ms Safa- 7-9 Science teacher

A big part of this year’s Science course will involve working in the laboratory and doing exciting and challenging experiments. Students will be dissecting sheep hearts and bulls eyes. They will be working like real scientists using microscopes, making crystals, volcanoes, examining rocks and heaps of other experiments and challenges.

This year we will also be running a STEM club on a weekly basis. Year 5-6 students are scheduled on Tuesdays at lunchtime and secondary students can come in on Thursdays at recess. If you are interested, speak to Ms Juhaina in the Science laboratory. Every term, one student from each class will receive the award “Scientist of the term”. This award will go to the student who shows great motivation and interest in the subject and demonstrates outstanding laboratory and inquiry skills.

In order to make the most of your Science classes, please make sure you adhere to the following:• Always complete your homework.• Always bring your lab coat and safety glasses during lab days.• Come to the Science class with an open and curious mind about the new things you will be learning.Our dear parents are more than welcome to address any issues they have about their child’s prog-ress in Science. Feel free to make an appointment with the teacher or send an email. I hope you are excited about Science this year as much as we are.

The Science Department


MESSAGE FROM THE ART ROOMPrimary art students were suprised to find new furniture in the art room. The new furniture in-cludes art benches and chairs to increase students comfort. It’s a great start to the year and the students are all looking forward to the year.

Ms Lamia Al-AsalyPrimary Art Teacher


BEFORE SCHOOL

The three gates will be opened at 8.20am. As staff commence morning duty from 8.20am par-ents and carers are not allowed to drop off students before this time. Should they wish to do so, students must be enrolled in the before school care which is run by an outside service provider. Please contact Leading Leaps OSHC Program on 0421 348 266 for further information.Morning assembly will commence at 8.35am in the assembly area for students in Foundation -Year 12.

Gate 1 and Gate 3 will close at 8.45am sharp and any parents still on the school grounds after this time will need to leave through Gate 4. Any student who arrives after 8.50am must obtain a late pass from the Administration Office. If students arrive to school after 9.00am, a parent or carer must sign them in.

AFTER SCHOOL

At 3.30pm, the three gates will be opened for parents and carers to collect students from the assembly area. For all students in Primary, it is the parent’s responsibility to ensure that their children are collected from the assembly area by a parent, older sibling or carer at 3.30pm. Stu-dents in Secondary are permitted to leave the school premises at 3.35pm.

The college holds no responsibility should an incident occur after 3:30pm, as parents are re-sponsible to ensure that their children are collected from the college on time or make other arrangements.Students who have not been collected by 3.50pm will be sent to the Administration Office where parents will be called and fines may apply.

ACCESS INTO ICOM BEFORE AND AFTERSCHOOL

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

The three gates will be opened at 8.20am.

Gate 1 and Gate 3 will close at 8.45am sharp and any parents still on the school grounds after this time will need to leave through Gate 4.

At 3.30pm, the three gates will be opened for parents and carers to collect students from the assembly area.


This notice is from the Australian Government Department of Education and Training (the de-partment), to advise you that the department has requested that your child’s school provide a state-ment of addresses, in accordance with the Austra-lian Education Regulation 2013 (Cth) (Regulation).A statement of addresses contains the following information about each student at the school:• Student residential address (not student names)• Student level of education (i.e. whether the stu-

dent is a primary or secondary student)• Student boarding school status (i.e. whether the

student is boarding or a day student)• Names and residential addresses of students’

parent(s) and/or guardian(s)Schools generate a record number for each student for the purposes of this collection, which is also provided to the department.

Purpose of the collection:This collection is routinely used to inform Com-monwealth school education policy, and to help ensure that Commonwealth funding arrangements for non-government schools are based on need, and are fair and transparent.

On 20 September 2018 the Government an-nounced that it will implement a new, improved capacity to contribute methodology used in the cal-culation of the Commonwealth’s needs-based fund-ing arrangements for non-government schools. This follows a review of the existing socio-econom-ic status (SES) score methodology by the National School Resourcing Board. Further information about the review and the Government’s response can be found here: The information collected in the statement of addresses will be used to refine the new capacity to contribute methodology and may also be used in school funding calculations from 2020.

Use and disclosure of personal informationYour personal information is protected by law, including the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). Any use and disclosure of your personal information relating to the statement of addresses will occur in accordance with the Regulation.

Your personal information may be used by the department, or disclosed to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS),

for the purposes of SES score policy development, reviewing SES score methodology, calculating SES scores, Commonwealth school education policy development (including school funding), or where it is otherwise required or authorised by law. For example, your personal information may be provid-ed to the ABS for statistical and research purposes, which includes data integration projects such as the Multi-Agency Data Integration Project (MADIP). Further information on the MADIP can be found here:

The department may, from time to time, carry out audits of school submissions. In the event of an audit, contracted auditors may seek to compare a school’s statement of addresses with student enrol-ment information held by the school. These con tractors will not use the information for any other purpose. The department may also be required to disclose your personal information to its service providers, including the Australian Government Department of Jobs and Small Business, for the purposes of the provision of information and com-munications technology (ICT) support services to the department.

What do you need to do?You are not required to do anything. Your school is responsible for providing the requested details to the department, however, you may wish to ensure that your school has the most up-to-date and cor-rect details for your family.Contacts for further informationYour school can provide additional information about the process of the address collection.If you have any further questions regarding the col-lection, you can contact the department by:• Email: [email protected]• Phone (free call): SES helpdesk on 1800 677 027

(Option 4)The department’s privacy policy is available on the department’s website at www.education.gov.au. The privacy policy contains information about:• how individuals can access and seek correction

of the personal information held by the depart-ment;

• how complaints about breaches of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) can be made; and

• how the department will deal with these com-plaints.

FOR PARENTS/GUARDIANS OF STUDENTS:2019 STUDENT RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS AND OTHER INFORMATION COLLECTION NOTICE

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