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Newsletter
As-Salamo Alaikom!

Greetings!

Welcome to the newsletter of

Term 4 /2014.

Curriculum:
General News:
An-Nur purchased a new van for children
transport.
Staff News: We welcomed new relief staffs
Diamphy and Raja who joined us this
term.
Staff professional Development: Our staff
have been participating in several PD
sessions as a group and individually.
T.Madiha took PD on how to keep your
bugs away. Teacher Rosy participated in
Mathematics PD which is on going and all
staff are sharing in that PD. Al our staff
have been involved in in-house training
sessions given by Manager familiarizing
them with Ministry regulations, internal
reviews, programme plans and evaluations, ITC (use of website/blog for uploading learning stories, etc.). Also qualified
staff have been passing their knowledge to
other staff on daily bases and in special
sessions as well as sharing PD information
with staff who did not participate and
trying to put things into the best practice.
More PD is planned for next term such as
Highly effective internal review and resource making.
Management issues: We urge our parents
to stick to their children enrollment times.
We remind our families that once your
child turns three they are eligible for 20
ECE hrs free of charge from the MOE. An
-Nur tops it up by offering additional 10
hrs free of charge for this age. We urge our
parents to donate $20 weekly towards the
20 ECE free hrs to help the centre as the
ministry funding per hr is less than our
fees. We thank our parents who also donated special resources and cultural items
to the centre.

The theme for

Term 4 for both U/2 and O/2 children was Social competency (Working together). 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 solitary play. Lots of group activities
encouraging social skills have been
offered including but not limited to
science, exploration, water play,
sand play, math, mat time and
story telling

Islamic & Arabic Education: Term three was full on

with special Islamic occasions education. It marked the start of the
month of Ramadan and Eid Al-Fitr
then Haj season followed and Eid
Al-Adha. This term children and
staff have been reflecting on these
social and cutural activities . Islamic and general mat times emphasized on healthy interactions with
family, friends, teachers, peers and
others who come across in everyday
life. Also, emphases on good manners, controlling feelings, respect,
care, etc.

School readiness: We have

increased our focus on school readiness due to the interest shown by
our children and families. ICT is
being utilized well in several sessions which include both English
and Arabic literacy and numeracy.
Also, the children have been exposed to te reo Maori.

February 2015
Tena Koutou!

very short time given our strong

progrmme catering for healthy living
education. The centre is still committed to offering healthy eating, healthy
living education for the children and
aims to renew the Award . Staff include in their planning lots of activities (preparing healthy foods sandwich making, baking, studying food
pyramid, healthy lunch box tips baking, cooking, gardening, art, PE and
movement, etc.) to meet the needs of
this area of the curriculum.

Outings :

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Audited accounts:
Please note that An-Nur Audited accounts are available on the
Chareties Commission web site
for any of our parents to view.
https://www.charities.govt.nz/

The Management and

head teacher organized a special trip

to the Butterfly House as a follow up
f an emergent curriculum. One child
chose the book of the hungry caterpillar for T.Madiha to read to the group
and this brought lots of interest in
butterflies and their life cycle. The
teachers extended on this and provided lots of activities to learn about the
butterfly life cycle then a special trip
was organised for further exploration.
Also another walk was organised to
the Kiwi Accademy grounds where
children were exploring the environment around them. During the walk
they have noticed a bird which again
lead to a discussion about birds life
cycle that was extended with more
activities at the centre and use of ICT
for further exploration.

Graduation: A graduation party

for Adeena who was off to primary
school have been organized at An-Nur.
The children shared in baking and
preparations for the party keeping in
mind healthy foods. Parents and
teachers also participated in this happy occasion celebrating success.

Special events:

The manage-

ment and staff organized a successful

open day , been organized

Environment review and

displays: Staff has been working Communications :We continhard on changing the environment
to better suit the children education. Lots of lovely displays have
been presented.

Healthy Heart Award:

We managed to successfully gain
our healthy heart award for the first
time meeting all of the criteria required by heart Foundation in a

ue to update our Facebook page and

website/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 base

Best wishes from staff

and management.
May Allah
accept our good
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