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Education Review

visit (ERO): An Nur isscheduled for an ERO visit on

13th May 2013. We are looking

forward to keeping An-Nur

tradition of having a good re-

port . We will keep our families

informed about outcomes.

Welcome to the newsletter ofTerm 1.

Curriculum: The theme forTerm 1 was a continuation of

Healthy Living for the Over and

Together we learn for the Under

Twos. In the over twos we ex-

tended about learning how to eat

healthy, live healthy and be

healthy. The theme continued to

mostly revolve around the vegeta-

ble garden. Observing the ripening

of the crops, harvesting, tasting,

and using for cooking and for sal-

ads, exploring the seasonal changes,

the soil, the garden inhabitants

(snails, potato bugs, worms, etc.)

and learning about Allahs creation

and thanking Allah for His bounties

were some of the emergent learning.

Two big cooking events brought a

wealth of experience and joy for the

children. Making pasta dough from

scratch, using our ripe tomatoes for

the pasta sauce and preparing a full

meal for Teacher Ericas farewell

party. The meal included roasting a

lamb leg using herbs from the gar-

den, making fresh salad form the

garden produce and cooking a rice

dish in rice cooker. In addition to

healthy education the children got

exposed and became familiar with

different Kitchen technologies. We

also participated in the Red Day

and invited Julia Tatom from the

Heart foundation with her lovely

heart suit and creative health re-

lated activities. On the day parents,

staff and children participated in

baking muffins as fundraiser forHeat Foundation and for promoting

the centre in the neighboring com-

munity. Lots of other educational

activities were offered, water play,

art, science, and special emphases

on school readiness.

In the under two room, teachers

provided children opportunities

where they were able to work with

and alongside their peers and the

routine provided chances for group

experiences, parallel play, and soli-

tary play.

School Check: Our lovelyNurse Lurene visited the centre to

check the hearing and vision of our

4 years old children in preparation

for school. As usual, our kids enjoy

this experience and find it amusing.

Islamic Education:Teacher Huda resumed her main

responsibility looking after the Is-

lamic and Arabic educational pro-

gramme. Islamic education has been

given during mat times as well as

woven into the daily programme.

More staff are now being evolved in

the Islamic education.

Swimming Sessions: Theswimming sessions for ladies and

children are ongoing every Tuesday

at 6:30pm and Saturday at 4:30.

Our regular centre children have

been gaining lots of confidence

around water and shown noticeable

progress in their swimming skills.

The pool will be closed end of June

for the winter to resume again as the

weather warms up more. We need to

make the best of it for the coming

two months. For further enquires

call Maysoon at 349 3223 or 021

2369254.

Centre promotion: Wecontinue to update our Facebook

page and blog and we are having

huge interest and feed back from our

parents and the wider community.

We ask our parents to visit both

sites regularly for updates as we

upload the children learning as

groups and individuals on monthly

bases. http://www.facebook.com/

AnNurEarlyChildhoodEduca-

tionAndCareCentre

annurchildcarecentre.blogspot.com/

We also shared in Wigram commu-

nity Fun Day. Special thanks to

Saiful Adls family who represented

the centre in this fun day by having

An-Nur poster and distributing our

new brochure. Also our head teacher

Natasha Galloway did a great effort

reaching out for the surrounding

community (schools and big busi-

nesses) and initiating contacts and

collaboration. We also organized a

fund raising event for the Heart

Foundation selling muffins to the

Hornby Warehouse and Mitre Ten.

Both approaches were well received.

As-Salamo Alaikom! Greetings! Tena Koutou! Newsletter Vol. 68, May 2013

General News:The Centre is lookinggreat after all of the refurbishing, environ-

ment reviews, paint jobs and improve-

ments. Thanks to all of the staff, BOT,

children and parents involved. We also

acquired many new recourses (camera,

tablet PC, ride ons, paints, play kitchen

utensils, cars and more will be sourced .

We would like to farewell Adam Abdullah,

Jael & Ali Hale, Haven Savali who left thecentre. Big welcome our new students who

have started recently at An-Nur. Layan

Algarni, Rayan Mahmoud, Ebado Ahmed

have settled in well and Itri Sirach is get-

ting used to the new environment, teach-

ers and friends.

Our English programme for mothers in

collaboration with PETO English institute

resumed again and is gaining popularity.

Staff News: Teacher Samantha is off to

her maternity leave. We wish her safe

delivery and a healthy baby. Farewell to

our lovely van driver, Erica Ritchie, who

decided to retire but will be ready to sup-

port us on casual bases. We will surely

consider calling every once in a while! Big

welcome back to teacher Luul Elmi who

will be relieving Teacher Samantha. Warm

welcome to teachers Bushra Afreen who

rejoined the team recently coming back

from Auckland. She has worked with us

before during her teaching practice and we

are very excited to have her back. Big

welcome to teacher Nur Syukri who

started this term and to our support andrelieve teachers Novita Fithrieyani , Na-

bila Farhannal, Eunjoo Kim and Hafisha

Abd Majid. We welcomed back teacher

Huda at the start of this term after her

maternity leave.

Staff professional Development: All staff

have continued participating in an ongo-

ing Internal Review training with CORE, a

specialized team contracted by MOE and

other PLD options.

Best wishes from staff

and management.May Allah

accept our good

deeds, Ameen.

Maysoon Salama

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