ICOSA NEWS

In This Issue

Message from the

Chairman

Message from the

Principal

Senior School

Great outdoor fund-

raiser

Year 4 / Year 7

Year 9 & 10

Year 8

Kindy News

Message from the retiring Chairman 11th November 2016

Dear Parent / Caregiver

Assalamualiakum

I am very pleased to confirm that Professor Br Mohamad Abdalla has accepted the appointment of Chairman of the Board of the Islamic College of South Australia.

We welcome you to join a community meeting at the College at 4.00pm on Friday 25th November with Br Abdalla and the Board. Supervision for children will be provided.

Br Abdalla is keen to meet the school community however he is traveling overseas on 12th November for 2 weeks.

At the meeting, he will brief you on progress towards the appointment of College Board members and update you on the imminent appointment of a new Principal.

Br Abdalla joined the Board in May, this year, and has been an outstanding contributor and leader. He has had the opportunity to meet and interact with many in our community and is well-prepared to lead us.

As you may well be aware, Br Abdalla is one of Australia’s most respected Muslim scholars and religious lead-

ers and heads the Centre for Islamic Thought and Education at the University of South Australia.

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He has for 15 years dedicated himself to promote open and respectful dialogue

between people of diverse faith traditions and persuasions. He is especially

committed to building understanding between Muslims and the broader commu-

nity.

In 2008, Br Abdalla played a key role in establishing a National Centre of Excel-

lence for Islamic Studies at Griffith University in Queensland. He has published

widely in Islamic studies and is regarded as an expert on Islam in Australia.

On a personal note, I again thank everyone for their support throughout my term as Chairman of your College. It has been an honour to serve you. It has been stressful and demanding but, most of all, satisfying. The College has been transformed and equipped for the challenges ahead.

I am confident that Br Abdalla, the Board, College leadership team, staff and school community will finish the task and build an even better Islamic College of South Australia.

I look forward to watching our College grow and excel.

Wassalam

MIRIAM

Senior School Time management and Study Tips for the Exams

You can prepare yourself to succeed in your studies by trying to develop and appreciate the following habits:

Take responsibility for yourself Recognize that in order to succeed you need to make decisions about your priori-ties, your time, and your resources

Center yourself around your values and principles Don't let friends and acquaintances dictate what you consid-er important

Prioritize Follow up on the priorities you have set for yourself, and don't let others, or other interests, distract you from your goals

Discover your key productivity periods and places Morning, afternoon, or evening? Find spaces where you can be the most focused and productive. Prioritize these for your most difficult study challenges

Look for better solutions to problems For example, if you don't understand the course material, don't just re-read it. Try something else! Consult with your teacher or with a classmate. And finally avoid procrastination. We are wishing our year12 and year 11 students all the best inshAllah.

Mrs Ezz

SACE Coordinator& Mathematics Teacher

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Message from Principal

Travelling by bus

Dear Parent / Caregiver

Assalamualiakum

I would like to congratulate the vast majority of our students who travel on the various buses to and from the

Islamic College of South Australia. In general students understand that automotive vehicles are places requir-

ing the utmost attention to safety. Most students who catch buses to and from school remain seated, talk qui-

etly to each other and are respectful to the various drivers used by school and external bus companies. Every

now and again however, some students forget their manners and to behave in a way that ensures that all

passengers, drivers and other road users are not put at risk.

I think the support of all parents of students who use any of the buses to reinforce the necessity to behave in a sensible, quiet and respectful manner on the bus. It is important that bus drivers are able to concentrate on the ever-increasing traffic on Adelaide roads and that they are not distracted because children are yelling, running around the bus and inappropriately communicating with the drivers. We are reinforcing this message at school.

Best wishes,

Lynda MacLeod

EdD, Med Studies, BA, Bed, Grad Dip Ed (Secondary), Grad Dip Social Sciences (Child Development), Grad Cert in Edu-

cation (Studies of Asia), MACEL, MACE, JP.

The

GREAT OUTDOORS CAMP FUNDRAISER

WHEN: * Wednesday, 16th November 2016

WHAT: * Casual Outdoor Themed Clothing – Onsies Welcome

* Recess Popcorn-

* Lunchtime Movie & Sausage Sizzle

HOW: We will have pre-orders and students will have their food delivered to

their class rooms to avoid any students missing out. Please fill out the

form below and we thank you for your support.

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Student Name: ______________________________ Class: _______________

Order Items: Please return by Monday 14th

November

Casual Wear $1.00 YES/NO

Popcorn $1.50 YES/NO

Sausage $2.50 YES/NO

Movie $1.00 YES/NO

Total Enclosed $ ___________________

WE LOOK FORWARD TO A GREAT DAY

From The Primary Teachers

Year 4 Drama

Assalam alailkum

As we approach the middle of the final term of school it is great to see so many of the students main-taining their enthusiasm for their work. Our students in year 4 spent all of last term and part of this term learning about drama and acting. They spent a number of weeks learning how to use voice, body, movement and language to create dramatic action with a sense of time and place. This cul-minated with the students choos-ing their own plays to rehearse and present to other year levels including one of the groups presenting at last week’s primary assembly. It was a moment of great pride for me to see some of our more reserved students come out of their shells and show a confident and charismatic side to their personalities. Their ability to work cooperatively in their chosen groups, to allocate characters, cre-ate back-drops and costumes and finally present was outstanding. We would also like to take this opportunity to encourage all of our students to take part in the upcoming school camp which we anticipate will be a won-derful opportunity for the students to bond and further develop their social skills. Also a last reminder about ‘hats’. All students are required to wear a hat in Terms 2 and 4and we would greatly appreciate it if you could en-sure your child has a hat so that they can enjoy the warmer weather out-doors safely.

Year 7

Debating SA ran a day-long debating workshop for Year 7. Students learned the correct structure and procedure for a successful debate, as well as techniques for effective public speaking. Students debat-ed the motion "This house believes that cats are better than dogs", putting into practice the persuasive language that they have learned in class this year. They had a short time to think about the topic and write a speech. Points that were debated included that dogs encour-age their owners to exercise, cats are more hygienic because they clean themselves, and that dogs can be trained to perform useful jobs. Although the students didn't persuade me to change my view that cats are indeed better than dogs, they made some very convinc-ing arguments. They debated the issue during the afternoon, and were adjudicated (judged) by representatives from Debating SA. Congratulations to the winning teams, and very well done to everyone for having the courage to participate and try something new. Student testimonials: "It was a good journey and I learned a lot." - Ashmeeta "A day full of learning new words and definitions and rehearsing how to debate. Thank you for teaching us." - Noor "It was really good for my education and fun at the same time." - Yasmina "It was worth the money, I loved it. Please come next year!" - Mory

Year 9 and 10 English

Students in Mr Bayly-Jones’s Year 9 and Year 10 English classes have both been involved in making oral presentations.

In Year 9, the presentations were on the world in the years leading up to World War 2, as preparation for reading Hana’s

Suitcase. In Year 10 the students presented information about Shakespeare and the Elizabethan era to the other members

of the class.

Speaking in public is a daunting challenge, in fact a recent poll suggests that people fear public speaking more than any-

thing else, including death. I’m pleased to be able to report that all students managed to overcome their fears and spoke

sensibly to their classmates on their selected topics.

In each class the students demonstrated that they have improved both as speakers and listeners. These are extremely im-

portant skills which we need to provide students with the opportunity to develop and it was pleasing to hear them speaking so much more confidently to their peers.

Year 9 Boys

Geography students have been studying the teenager's percep-tions of place by identifying plac-es and how they make us feel....

Mrs Kelly

Every year there is over 1 tonne of mobiles thrown out. We can use Mobile Muster to reduce e-waste and make useless phones useful.

The benefit is to make Australia better by reducing e-waste and not wasting our dollars throwing it away in landfill, then the planet will be infected – the pollution stays around for thousands of years.

The box is in a secure location - please go to the front office and give the phone to the ladies at the office they will place it in the box.

We ask you to get Parent/Guardian permission first before you put anything in the box and don’t put anything but the items on the list. Please don’t put new phones in and clear all personal information and numbers in phone before hand-ing it up.

Thanks for your support!

Ibrahim Nuri, Year 8

Mobile Muster will extract stuff like:

Plastic

Precious metal

Copper

All these materials are useful but people just throw them away

The recycled phones can make different type of things like:

Plastic fence

Stainless steel

Batteries

Salam Walakum

The Year 8 English class is reducing electronic waste by starting a new project - “Mobile Muster”. Mobile Muster is a

program where they recycle mobile waste. But they don’t recycle everything, only mobiles - so our job is to get

these following items:

Mobile Phone Batteries

Old Mobile Phones (broken is fine)

Mobile Phone Chargers

Year 8

A few weeks back, our class conducted an experiment about Cooling and Crystal size. It was a successful

experiment for everyone and I would like to share one of our student's Practical Report on that experiment.

27/10/2016 Cooling and crystal size Imran Aimaq 8B

Purpose:

To investigate how cooling rate affects the size of crystals.

Hypothesis:

To form any size crystals.

Prediction:

To form crystals and to see which crystals formed the biggest size out of air, cotton wool or ice water.

Materials:

Rubber gloves

Oven mitt or towel

3 x 50mL test-tubes and test-tube rack

4 x 250mL beakers

Ice

Cotton wool

Hotplate or Bunsen burner, tripod, bench mat, gauze mat

Stirring rod

Filter funnel

A sample of about 25g of potash alum

Method:

1. Put about 100mL of water into a 250mL beaker and heat it until it is boiling. Turn the hotplate or Bunsen

burner off once the water boils.

2. While waiting for your water boil, make an ice bath by half-filling another of the beakers with ice water.

3. Insulate another beaker with enough cotton wool to allow a test-tube to sit upright in the middle.

4. Wearing rubber gloves, carefully lift the beaker of hot water off the gauze mat and tripod and place it on

the benchtop. Dissolve all the potash alum in the hot water. It all should dissolve if you stir it well with

the stirring rod.

5. Place the three test-tubes in a test-tube rack. Put a filter funnel in one of the test-tubes. Hold the beaker

of hot solution with an oven mitt or towel so it will not burn you. Carefully pour 25mL of the saturated

solution into the filter funnel. The test-tube should be about half full. Repeat this process for the other

two test-tubes. Place a plug of cotton wool in the mouth of each test-tube.

6. Place one test-tube in the cotton wool, one in the ice water, and one in an empty beaker.

7. Leave the beakers in a safe place such as a cupboard for at least a day.

Results:

The next day, crystals had formed and air had the most then ice water, then cotton wool.

Discussion:

Biggest crystals: Air

Smallest crystals: Cotton wool

Cooled the fastest: Ice water

Cooled the slowest: Air

Extrusive igneous rocks cool from lava rapidly because they form at the surface, so they have

small crystals. Intrusive igneous rocks cool from magma slowly because they are buried be-

neath the surface, so they have large crystals.

Conclusion:

After the next day, the crystals formed and it will form more crystals every day. The crystals had the

most was Air and the crystals had the least was Cotton wool.

Thankyou and Wassalam

Farouk Zakaria

Kindergarten News

Imagination Playground

In Kindergarten children are learning about space and transport. We are so lucky to borrow Imagination Play Ground from Charles Sturt Council. This play Ground will stay with us for whole of Term 4. Children are busy mak-ing ships, trains, motor bikes, space ships, Gym, even a bridge for three Billy Goats. These photos can give you an insight how our young learners imagination is working

Read for the Record

In Week 2 of this term our Kindy participated in Global Campaign to improve Literacy in Early Years through reading. As a member of Golden Key Honour Society I was invited to participate in this Challenge by Golden Key UniSA Chapter. Luckily Junior Primary Section also joined us and read THE BEAR ATE YOUR SAND-

WICH to about 130 students in our school. This excerpt is taken from the Jump start’s website. Jumpstart’s

Read for the Record® is a USA national campaign that was launched over a decade ago to address the education-

al inequities that leave too many children unprepared for kindergarten. On Thursday, October 27, 2016, chil-dren and adults will gather to learn, laugh, and read this year's campaign book, The Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach, as part of the world ’s largest shared reading experience. Read for the Record in-spires adults to read with children, spurs policymakers and organizations to take action towards transformative change in early education, and puts books in the hands of more children across the country.

New addition to kindy resources

We spent the money raised through Walk-a-thon Fundraiser to buy valuable resources for Kindergarten. In these photos you can see children are engaged in using these resources. They absolutely love each one of them.

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