Wisdom through faith & knowledge ISSUE NO. 21 BELLFIELD BULLETIN BELLFIELD COLLEGE / TERM 3 2012 / WEEK 4 Assalamu Alaikum Eid is a reopening of our eyes to life to see the beauty of the whole existence devoid of any sort of attachment, to discover our worthiness in the love of the Almighty without any type of addiction of desires and to observe the result of the victory of our battle against the habits which had dominated our soul. Eid is a celebration in honor of the transition of soul from the darkness of the nights of filthy characteristics to the shininess of the dawn of glittering merits; a celebration of molting from wrong mentalities, faulty understandings, ambiguous convictions which had been causing notorious mistakes in our past, to the most pure shape of a proper human being. Eid is a drastic step for one to climb up the height of success and announce to the self as well as the whole existence that 'I am free'; free from the captivity in the devilish claws of whims and attachments. Eid is the celebration of the expansion of patience with assurance to have a better understanding of the depth of the past and begin the viewing of the horizons of prosperity in the future. Therefore may this Eid be the inspiration for the happiness of your future... Wasalaam Brother Amin Afshar Illuminations Teacher Bellfield enrolling now for 2013 classes K - Year 11. Call 9606 2666 for more info. To all our Bellfield family & friends, Wishing you the best this Eid. May Allah (swt) reward you for all your fasting, prayers & dua in this world & the hereafter. From Bellfield Staff & Students Ramadan & Charity THE GEN C PROJECT by Shahad Al Jamaly Year 10 ••• Assalamu Alaikum, All praise be to God for the passing of yet another Holy Ramadan in our lives. A month that cannot be equaled in blessings nor in significance, a month where faith develops, proximity to God is nurtured, rewards are doubled and generosity is spread. This year, Bellfield College has ensured that it organized and participated in a number of charity events, in the idea of ‘giving back to the community’. Since the first day of Ramadan, we had organized the ‘Dollar-A-Day’ Thank you for giving so generously scheme, where a jar had been and putting a smile on the faces circulating around the school every day of so many sick children. in both the primary and high school campuses, with an estimation of $1000 collected for charity. Inshallah this money will be donated to Comfort Aid beautifully and delivered to the refugees International. who had spent a rather dull month of fasting, in hope of brightening up their Last week, a number of students from Ramadan. Year 9 and 10 were chosen to attend an Iftar dinner at the Villawood Detention Currently, Bellfield is doing a toy drive Centre. This included the students for the children at Westmead Hospital. cooking and preparing the food at In the name of providing a source of school, prior to the iftar. The amount of entertainment and distraction from the food that was generously donated by lives of these unfortunate children, we the parents and community was are organizing and asking for every staggering! Unfortunately, students body to donate any toys by giving them were not able to go to the detention to the school office where they would centre after safety risks were posed. be given to the children on the day. Due Nevertheless, the food was still cooked Toy Drive to health reasons, all toys must be new and in original state or packaging. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank every body who contributed to this charity event and/or are planning to contribute to the Toy Drive on 13/9/12. Inshallah we will be organizing many more charity events and look forward to your assistance and contribution. Walaikum Assalam. THE GEN C PROJECT: TOY DRIVE The enormous amount of kids toys , clothes & blankets donated by our man y parents & friends. We pray you are al l rewarded by Allah (swt) for your generosity. EARLY LEARNING NEWS Dear Parents. READING - A WORLD OF PRINT. You may have noticed in preschools and infant classrooms the many charts and posters on the walls, or the cards with single words on them used to label things like doors, windows, bookcases and so on. This is not because the teachers keep forgetting the names of things. The intention is to create a world filled with the printed word. Children then become comfortable having words around them. They notice the shape of them and through natural curiosity, may well ask what particular words are. Such children are ready to read. You do not need to make your home look like a classroom, but the same principle applies. Colourful posters with words on them, alphabet friezes around the walls, notices stuck to the fridge are all part of print. Alphabet toys, jigsaw puzzles with words in the pictures, games with written instructions, fridge magnets in the shapes of letters, or a sign on child's bedroom door with their name on it are all part of the reading process. Children quickly notice words around them. They see words in the supermarket or from the car window as you are driving. In these situations praise the child for noticing the words .From this children learn that words have not only a meaning, but a purpose. Over time, children should have access to a wide variety of printed material such as books and stories. Do you belong to your local library? It is a great idea to join a library. Lifetime membership of a library supports lifelong reading. Public libraries will allow you to borrow many books at each borrowing time. Next week is Book Week at Bellfield College. You and your child will be able to purchase books that have been particularly chosen by Scholastics book company. The books on display for sale will be high quality story and information books. Kind Regards. Mrs Ferguson. Early Learning Leader. SENIOR SCHOOL VISUAL ARTS..... Book Week Art Competition Students use recycled books to c r e a t e a n i m a g i n a 4 v e a n d challenging artwork. The works will be judged on the 31st of August. I am excited to see the student’s entries! Each entry will be given a merit for par4cipa4on and 3 will win prizes! puHng them into prac4ce, I look forward to seeing their clay heads progress over the remainder of the term. campus. I would like to thank the students of Bellﬁeld for their support at the card sale. The amount raised has been added to Bellﬁeld’s charity jar which is ﬁHng Year 9 and 10 Elec4ve Visual Arts for this special 4me. have both completed their major work draMs and have begun their Year 9 DT will now be concentra4ng major works for the term. I eagerly on puHng their Ramadan card wait to see their developments. website together for the remainder of the term. YEAR 9 DESIGN & TECH A showcase of Year 9 DT and Year 7 Year 9 DT created amazing Eid cards VA works from Term 2 are shown at the beginning of the term and below. Year 7 have knowledge of the basic have had a very successful sale in hand building skills and have been both the senior and secondary Mrs Hayes VISUAL ARTS Term 3 Eid Al Fitr - Year 5 Contributions IMPORTANT DATES Book Week (Week 7) On Saturday night there was an event at the Olympic Park, my whole family and I went to the celebra4on on that night. We had a exci4ng 4me and it was 12am when my family and I started heading home. The next day we started preparing for Eid 2012. Week beginning August 27 I woke up in the morning and it was Eid, I was extremely excited. I ran to my parents and shouted “EID MUBARAK.” Once we ﬁnished having breakfast I started helping my mum with the cooking. Bellfield Tree Planting Day August 27 Year 3 - 10 Fairfield Oztag Comp August 28 Boys’ Soccer Gala Day August 29 Book Fair / Parade It was 12 pm and guests were just arriving and for some reason I skipped upstairs with my friends. My mum called us for lunch, which we had BBQ. Later for desert we had Heart To Heart. As the evening arrived guests were leaving. On that day my best friends mum invited us for dinner. We started heading to their home and reached their place right on 4me. Me and my BFF started doing ac4vi4es together. It was geHng late, we were in a rush because me and my brother didn't get any sleep. I went upstairs to bed and had a great sleep that night. Well the next day was school. Nayab Yaqubi, End Of My Eid! August 31 Bellfield Fun Run September 4 Year 7 Immunisation September 3 BOOK PARADE 31 August Make sure you join us from 10am for our annual Book Fair & Parade. Don’t forget our Olympic theme! AT 6:30 am on Sunday morning, I woke up and got into my brand new Eid clothes and woke my two sisters up to do the same. I woke my dad up about 10 to Seven so he can take us to Eid prayers. When we got there it was packed. We saw that 2 whole streets were full of cars and an es4mated 1km by 1km of a parking lot was full so we had to park on the 3rd street and walk a long way… The Masjid was packed ‘Oh no!’ no one could get anywhere and we had to wait for half the people to leave. The Sheik prayed over 4 4mes and about 400 people praying every prayer, it was amazing how much people there were. We invited lots of family, they came over for breakfast and my mum was busy cooking and preparing breakfast and my dad bought pizza. Breakfast was de-‐li-‐ cious. Then aMer a while we went to fox studio and played on really cool rides, we had so much fun. Everybody got hungry, so my dad took us to Thai in Brighton. We ate lots of yummy food. We went for a walk at the beach in Brighton while having hot chocolate at sunset it was a beau4ful. AMer that long walk we went to my grandparents’ house to see them for Eid. At the end of the day I got $160 that we get as a EID present. NOUR HARIRI Bellfield Sports Update... clicking create a profile. Students YEARS 7 – 10 Soccer who register will be in the running Gala Day to WIN a Nintendo Wii and bonus Five teams from Years 7 - 10 both Wii Fit Plus! boys and girls will be representing College at the upcoming How to register for the Fun Bellfield 2012 Islamic Colleges Soccer Gala We will be holding an adidas Run: Day on Wednesday, August 29, School Cross Country Fun-Run as ★ Go to 2012. They will be competing a major fundraising event this against 5 other Islamic Schools. schoolfunrun.com.a year. The event will be held on u/students and click Tuesday 4th September 2012 at The Gala Day will be held at Wyatt create a profile Rossmore Reserve. Park, Lidcombe (Church Street, ★ Enter your email, Lidcombe) for the girls and create a password and Coleman Park, Berala (Nottinghill Road, Berala) for the boys. Students enter your name will depart the College at 8.50am ★ ENTER and travel by school bus to the POSTCODE: 2171 venue and return by 3.20pm. Students MUST have shin pads to and then click on participate. Bellfield College Cross Country/ Fun-Run The adidas School Fun-Run is a healthy, fun and active fundraiser that ensures we send the right message to our students about getting active, having fun and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The main focus of this event is on participation. Family support is most appreciated as we encourage all students to get involved. All students have received a Sponsorship Form to help collect sponsorship on behalf of the school. The funds raised will be used to establish the new sporting fields at Bellfield College. We ask all parents to read the Sponsorship Form and sign the front page to grant permission for their child to fundraise and participate in this event. Students who raise just $10 or more will receive a reward for effort. In the Sponsorship Form you will also find many other benefits like the chance to win a family holiday in Disneyland! Students wanting to train for our event and to receive advice from sporting heroes like Scott Prince, Dale Thomas, Sally Pearson and other elite adidas athletes can do so by logging onto schoolfunrun.com.au/students and Bellfield College Students have been given their notes and are required to return them by Wednesday 22nd August or they will forfeit their position in the team. N O L AT E N O T E S O R PAY M E N T S W I L L B E 6 & 7 Year Girls/Boys 500m ACCEPTED. 8 & 9 Year Girls/Boys 1000m 10 Year Boys/Girls 2000m YEARS 3 - 10 11, 12 & 13 Year Girls/Boys 3000m Oztag Gala Day 14 & 15 Year Girls/Boys 4000m 16 Year Girls 4000m Six teams from Years 3 - 10 both 16 Year Boys 6000m boys and girls will be representing Bellfield College at the upcoming Finally, we would like to welcome 2012 Fairfield Oztag Gala Day on parents and family members to Tuesday August 28, 2012. attend the adidas School Cross Country/Fun-Run event day at the The Gala Day will be held at Rossmore Reserve on Tuesday 4th Endeavour Park, Fairfield West. September 2012 to help cheer on Students will depart the college at the students. 8.50am and travel by school bus to the venue and return by 3.20pm. If you would like to volunteer and help out on the day please a note Students have been given their will be sent home closer to the date. notes and are required to return them by Tuesday 21st August or Thank you, good luck and happy they will forfeit their position in fundraising! the team. The adidas School Cross Country/ Fun-Run is a compulsory event for K – 6 and selected students from the high school. Distance to be run is as follows: N O L AT E N O T E S O R PAY M E N T S W I L L B E ACCEPTED. Jennifer Dowley PDHPE teacher and Sports Coordinator Assalamu Alaykum Year 1/2R Dear Parents First of all I would like to wish everyone a Eid Mubarak, I hope this special occasion was ﬁlled with Joy and happiness for everyone and their families. Over the past week 1/2R have been focusing on this special event and we have done many exci4ng ac4vi4es to help the students feel the joy and happiness of celebra4ng Eid al Fitr. Below are some work samples of just some of the things we have done in class. Kind Regards, Miss Rachid ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Year 9 students selling their handmade Eid cards in the Primary school. Thank you to all our parents and friends who popped by and said hello at the Eid Festival at Rockdale. A special thank you also to Mr Wissam Salim (P&F President), Mr Mahmoud Moukaddem and especially Sam & Hani Miski for taking time out of their weekend assisting on the day. Your support is greatly appreciated. OVERSEAS TRIPS Traveling overseas during term time is not recommended by the College. If you are thinking of traveling overseas, an extended leave application form must be filled in and approval from the Dean of College must be sought prior to leaving. BELLFIELD BULLETIN ISSUE No. 21 Office hours 8am - 4pm (02) 9606 2666 [email protected]