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Senior School
Weekly
A Message from our Head of Senior School
Mrs Ramadan
Peace and blessing dear parents,
We have reached the end of a wonderful year and with only one
week to go we now think of the successes, the achievements
and the challenges of an enriching year. We thank God for the
collegiality and the goals of the Bellfiled community that kept us
well aligned and focused.
Highlights of the week ;
Student Vs Teacher Debate, Presentation Day, Tree of Life
graduation ceremony, SELFY and BRO Active.
The year 12 Formal was a wonderful night and a chance to
celebrate our departing 2019 Year 12 class. The event was an
outstanding success and a chance to catch up with students and
families who will be dearly missed by the whole College
Community.
Looking back on the progress made throughout 2019, I am
confident in saying we are well on our way to achieving our 2020
benchmarks. In this edition of the Senior School Weekly I have
shared an article by Michael Gross, “Top five parenting tips for
this year “…Enjoy !
Looking forward to seeing everyone at the Parent Teacher
Interviews held next Monday and Tuesday nights.
Term 4, 2019
Parent Teacher
Interviews
Monday 9th
December 2019
AND
Tuesday 10th
December 2019
Students Last Day
Thursday 12th
December 2019
School Resumes
Year 1 to 11
Tuesday 28th
January 2020
Things to come…..
Parent Teacher
Interviews
Monday 9th December
& Tuesday 10th
December
4.00pm - 7.30pm
PHONE FREE SCHOOL
MOBILE PHONE PROTOCOL
A Word from College Chaplain Character Strength: Honesty
Honesty, in this context, refers to the character trait where people are true to themselves; where their
internal states, beliefs, and intentions match their external behaviour. In other words, a regular pattern of
behaviour that is consistent with one’s values. This occurs when one practices what he preaches. Honesty in
this sense can also be used with words such as authenticity and integrity.
Hence, here by honesty we do not mean telling the truth, whose opposite would be lying; rather being true to
the self, whose opposite is hypocrisy. An honest person in this sense would be one who would endorse the
following statements:
• It is more important to be myself than to be popular
• When people keep telling the truth, things work out
• I would never lie just to get something I wanted from someone
• It is important for me to be open and honest about my feelings
• I dislike phonies who pretend to be what they are not
Psychological integrity or honesty was popularised by the humanist psychologists, such as Carl Rogers. But,
because his theory indicated that cognition can cloud one’s psychological integrity, contemporary cognitive
theories have cast the humanistic approach aside, but do not attempt to understand the “self” the “nafs” and
therefore the character strength of honesty and integrity becomes overlooked. Recently the self-determination
theory’s understanding of intrinsic motivation might be close to honesty; meaning when one performs intrinsically
motivated actions he is utilising this character strength.
Students are provided the opportunity to hand in phones every morning at roll call.
If a mobile phone is seen, heard or used during school hours they will be confiscated
immediately and held on campus for 2 weeks.
All students are aware of the 2-week protocol.
Students late to class will receive an Afternoon Detention. Late to class can be defined simply as
‘wrong place, wrong time’. If a student is late to class / truant an entire period they are
marked as absent on the Sentral roll marking system. This is then followed up by the class
teacher and the Pastoral Care Coordinator the next day. Continued late to class / truancy may
result in further action being taken.
Homework is sent home every night. Please contact your child’s class teacher for any concerns.
In Islam, this character strength is known by its opposite, by hypocrisy. Imam Sadiq (a) states: “One who
meets Muslims with a double face and a double tongue, on the Day of Judgment will come with two tongues of
fire.”
Hypocrisy occurs when one assumes an outward appearance and behaves in a manner that is contrary to his inner
state. There are Many degrees of hypocrisy which extend beyond the common understanding. In reality, anytime
one sins they are being hypocritical in the sense of their belief; if they really believe in divine punishment they
would not sin; if they really love God they would not do anything that would upset him.
SPORTS at BELLFIELD
The 29th of November marked the annual
Ahlul-Bayt Cup, where we (Bellfield College)
Verse Al-Zahra College in a friendly yet
competitive football match to unite and
celebrate our faith.
The three football teams, Junior Boys, Senior Boys and Girls team represented Bellfield College with
pride and passion for the Ahlul-Bayt Cup.
First up was our Junior side, representatives from Year 7, 8 and 9 fought valiantly to ultimately win a
thrilling match in a penalty shoot-out. The first half showed the strength of our defense with Al-Zahra
college lucky to have a shot on goal and Bellfield unlucky not to have scored 2 or 3. Rashid Taimori and
Abbas Chokr combining several times but not being able to find the back of the net. A flurry of
unsuccessful shots and a strong defensive force lead by Mansour Hossaini saw the match reach half
time at 0-0.
The second half started, and an unconfident Rashid stepped up to take a free kick won on the edge of
the penalty area. Ali Alalawi touched the ball for Rashid to put the ball in the back of the net. 1-0
Bellfield. The lead was short lived when Al-Zahra notched a goal back. However, we took back the lead
when Abbas Chokr drew a penalty in the box, for Rashid to smash into the back of the net for his second.
With a minute to go it appeared Bellfield had the victory until Al-Zahra managed to equalise with no
time to spare and send us to penalty shootouts. The boys managed to win in a penalty shootout 4-3.
Bellfield girls started off well. They were confident and creating some good chances. Unfortunately, they
conceded against the run of play as Al- Zahra scored on the counterattack. Al-Zahra would then
capitalise on another goal before Rayann Nassour scored before the half to make it 2-1.
The second half started, and the girls were feeling confident. Rayann Nassour stepped up to the plate
and scored her second goal of the game. This would’ve been a great start, however an injury crisis to
their keeper left the Bellfield girls devastated. Al—Zahra college used this to their advantage and
went to score 3 goals and secure the game with a 5 – 2 win.
Our girls’ coach on the day Hassan Makki, are to be commended for their excellent display of football and
enthusiasm during the extreme heat. The girls went to represent the school with great character and
showed a glimpse of the greatness these girls poses in the future to come.
Going into the Senior Boys game Al-Zahra and Bellfield had won, one game each meaning the winner of
the senior game won the cup. An evenly matched first half saw both teams have chances until Al-Zahra
broke the deadlock, capitalising on a lack of communication at the back. 1-0 Al-Zahra. Bellfield fought
valiantly to get back in the game Mujtaba Moosawi drawing two players in to leave Abbas Chokr free
at the edge of the box, with a touch of fortune, one on one with the keeper, blasting the ball into the
roof of the net. 1-1 at half time saw the teams unable to be separated.
The second half started with a Bellfield team showing a dominant performance until a questionable
player was substituted onto the pitch which turned out to be Bellfields undoing scoring in the top corner
against Ali Merhi, who managed to get a hand to the ball. In true Bellfield fashion, the senior boys team
continued to play valiantly showing the true character of Bellfield and the Ahlul-Bayt. Bellfield were
ultimately unsuccessful losing 2-1 in a controversial game.
Congratulations to Al-Zahra for winning the Ahlul-Bayt Cup and I look forward to the opportunity to
win the trophy next year. The players represented Bellfield proud demonstrating the true principles and
qualities of the Ahlul-Bayt.
Forza Bellfield!!!
Teacher VS Student Debate On Thursday the 5th of December students and teachers went head to head in a live debate. The
topic was " That students should be allowed to use phones in school".
The affirmative team comprised of;
-Nour Haidar
-Mansour Hossaini
-Kasim Farhat
-Zainab Yassine
The teachers on the opposing team;
Mr. Moustafa Nehme
Ms. Zeinab Rammal
Ms. Mariam Bazzi
Ms. Riem Dierbasi.
Students and teachers raised solid points and
applied great persuasion tactics and skills
throughout their dialogue. Our adjudicators consisted of three non-partial members, Hussein Dia,
Ali Mehanna and Hassan Lami. The adjudicators shared their experience and knowledge of the legal
system as well as philosophy. The verdict led to “STUDENTS WIN”.
Certainly a well-deserved win by the students and Bellfield College is so proud of their efforts. The
school would also like to commend the teachers involved and their efforts in this debate.
The purpose of this debate was to showcase The College’s intention for public speaking and
debating for 2020. This will be one of many initiatives Bellfield College is set to be involved in
throughout 2020.
Warm Regards,
Mahdi Hussain
Public Speaking team coordinator
Year 7 Awards
English Outstanding Achievement
Susan Azra Arabic Beginners Outstanding Achievement
Fejer Al Kalif
Academic Achievement
Abbas Tawbe Academic Achievement
Fatima Shamma
Consistent Effort Fatimah Ghadban Consistent Effort Ali Al Tememy
Mathematics Outstanding Achievement
Ali Assaf Music Outstanding Achievement
Susan Azra
Academic Achievement
Kazem Noorie Academic Achievement
Rayann Bazzi
Consistent Effort Samira Hawli Consistent Effort Sabilla Karnib
Science Outstanding Achievement
Susan Azra History Outstanding Achievement
Susan Azra
Academic Achievement
Yahya Al-Ghinzawi
Academic Achievement
Muhammad Hyder
Consistent Effort Roya Hussaini Consistent Effort Mariam Hassan
PDHPE Outstanding Achievement
Ali Hodroj Geography Outstanding Achievement
Alli Assaf
Academic Achievement
Sabilla Karnib Academic Achievement
Sahar Safa Ali
Consistent Effort Faezah Hatif Consistent Effort Zahra Taimori
TAS Outstanding Achievement
Faezah Hatif Visual Arts Outstanding Achievement
Susan Azra
Academic Achievement
Amena Amir Academic Achievement
Dahlia Hallani
Consistent Effort Abdullah Waqar Consistent Effort Zahra Taimori
Arabic Advanced
Outstanding Achievement
Ali Assaf Illuminations Outstanding Achievement
Ali Assaf
Academic Achievement
Sabilla Karnib Academic Achievement
Ammar Shireen
Consistent Effort Zahra Taimori Consistent Effort Yahya Al-
Ghinzawi
Arabic Intermediate
Outstanding Achievement
Faezah Hatif Year 7 Principal Award
Academic Achievement
Elaha Ali Samara Karaki Ali Assaf
Consistent Effort Mohibullah Mobin
Elaha Ali
Year 8 Awards
English Outstanding Achievement
Jad Karki Arabic Intermediate
Outstanding Achievement
Hiyam El Mir
Academic Achievement
Melad Safari Academic Achievement
Tahera Rahimi
Consistent Effort Ali Youssef Consistent Effort Hussain Jaafar
Mathematics Outstanding Achievement
Jad Karaki Arabic Beginners
Outstanding Achievement
Mujtaba Maqsoodi
Academic Achievement
Ali Alsalemi Academic Achievement
Abbas Hachem
Consistent Effort Urooj Ali Consistent Effort Yusof Akbar
Science Outstanding Achievement
Jad Karaki Music Outstanding Achievement
Soukaina Chebli
Academic Achievement
Soukaina Chebli Academic Achievement
Syed Raza
Consistent Effort Muhaimen Rahdi Consistent Effort Fawziah
Albisherawy
PDHPE Outstanding Achievement
Tahira Rahimi History Outstanding Achievement
Jad Karaki
Academic Achievement
Reda Alamein Academic Achievement
Yusof Akbar
Consistent Effort Houina Hussaini Consistent Effort Muhaimen Rahdi
Technology Outstanding Achievement
Tahera Rahimi Geography Outstanding Achievement
Maryam Sakhidad
Academic Achievement
Soukaina Chebli Academic Achievement
Mujtaba Maqsoodi
Consistent Effort Erfan Hussaini Consistent Effort Zahra Fouladi
Arabic
Advanced
Outstanding Achievement
Soukaina Chebli Visual Arts Outstanding Achievement
Hamida Amiri
Academic Achievement
Zahra Fouladi Academic Achievement
Ali Alsalemi
Consistent Effort Ali Youssef Consistent Effort Mhbooba Akbarzada
Illuminations Outstanding Achievement
Mohammad Moghaddam
Academic Achievement
Muhammad Dharir
Consistent Effort Syed Raza
Year 9 Awards
English Outstanding Achievement
Zainab Yassine History Outstanding Achievement
Zainab Yassine
Academic Achievement
Ali Alzedan Academic Achievement
Haidar Hodroj
Consistent Effort Mariam Hodroj Consistent Effort Kasim Farhat
Mathematics 9.1
Outstanding Achievement
Mariam Hodroj Geography Outstanding Achievement
Zainab Yassine
Academic Achievement
Nancy Masri Academic Achievement
Rayan Nassour
Consistent Effort Marzia Gharib Consistent Effort Mariam Hodroj
Mathematics 9.2
Outstanding Achievement
Haydar Al Khafaji Illuminations Outstanding Achievement
Zainab Yassine
Academic Achievement
Ahmad Al Hassan Academic Achievement
Ali Alzedan
Consistent Effort Mya Nazha Consistent Effort Hussein Karnib
Mathematics 9.3
Outstanding Achievement
IIhaam Hyder Commerce Outstanding Achievement
Kasim Farhat and Nour Haidar
Academic Achievement
Ali Alzedan Academic Achievement
Mohammad Kobeissi
Consistent Effort Ahmad Mansour
Hussaini Consistent Effort Haydar Al Khafaji
Science Outstanding Achievement
Zainab Yassine IST Outstanding Achievement
Zainab Yassine
Academic Achievement
Ahmed Hussain Academic Achievement
Ali Ibrahim
Consistent Effort Ali Ibrahim Consistent Effort Kasim Farhat
PDHPE Outstanding Achievement
Rayan Nassour PASS Outstanding Achievement
Zainab Yassine
Academic Achievement
Zainab Yassine Academic Achievement
Ahmad Hossaini
Consistent Effort Hussain Karnib Consistent Effort Ali Alzedan
Food Tech Outstanding Achievement
Nour Haidar
Academic Achievement
Ali Moussa
Consistent Effort Roukaya Hijazi
Year 10 Awards
English Outstanding Achievement
Wala Alkassar and Chantel Karaki
History Outstanding Achievement
Mariam Toufaili
Academic Achievement
Aya Haidar and Ayaat Al Salihi
Academic Achievement
Dana Hariri
Consistent Effort Batoul Tawbe and
Sedra Bakhtyari Consistent Effort Sakina Kazmi
Mathematics 10.1
Outstanding Achievement
Wala Alkassar Geography Outstanding Achievement
Chantel Karaki
Academic Achievement
Mohammad Amin Academic Achievement
Mohammad Hayek
Consistent Effort Sedra Bakhtyari Consistent Effort Abdullah Alhirz
Mathematics 10.2
Outstanding Achievement
Aya Haidar Illuminations Outstanding Achievement
Abdullah Alhirz and Shabano Jaffri
Academic Achievement
Zahraa Abdullah Academic Achievement
Mohammad El-Ghadban and Chantel Karaki
Consistent Effort Mariam Toufaili Consistent Effort Mohammad Hayek
and Aya Haidar
Mathematics 10.3
Outstanding Achievement
Mohammad Hayek
Commerce Outstanding Achievement
Mohamad Hayek
Academic Achievement
Sakina Kazmi Academic Achievement
Chantel Karaki
Consistent Effort Chantel Karaki Consistent Effort Abdullah Alhirz
Science Outstanding Achievement
Chantel Karaki PASS Outstanding Achievement
Mohammad Hayek
Academic Achievement
Ibrahim Elreda Academic Achievement
Ali Ridha Hussein
Consistent Effort Zeinab Dodar Consistent Effort Abdullah Alhirz
PDHPE Outstanding Achievement
Mohammad Hayek
Academic Achievement
Mariam Toufaili
Consistent Effort Chantel Karaki
Compression Awards - Year 11
English Outstanding Achievement
Rida Saif Society and Culture
Outstanding Achievement
Fatima Abdul-Munhem
Academic Achievement
Batool Hariri Academic Achievement
Zahra Khakany
Consistent Effort Fatima Salim Consistent Effort Dana El-Kochen
Mathematics Outstanding Achievement
Rida Saif Legal Studies Outstanding Achievement
Fatima Toufaili
Academic Achievement
Mariam Al-Shaboot Academic Achievement
Fatima Salim
Consistent Effort • Consistent Effort Layal Ibrahim
PDHPE Outstanding Achievement
Layal Ibrahim Chemistry Outstanding Achievement
Rida Saif
Academic Achievement
Fatima Toufaili Academic Achievement
Abed Hayek
Consistent Effort Mujtaba Mousawi Consistent Effort Ali Chokr
Business Studies
Outstanding Achievement
Fatima Toufaili
Academic Achievement
Abed Hayek
Consistent Effort Layal Ibrahim
100% Attendance Awards 2019
Susan Azra
Mhbooba Akbarzada
Hamida Amir
Mohammad Hossein Moghaddam
Tahera Rahimi
Nour Haidar
Top five parenting tips for this year
The start of the year is a great time for making changes and improvements to the way you raise kids. The trouble is, our good intentions towards change
often become derailed around March, and we return to our default mode of parenting. So nothing much changes from year to year. At Parenting Ideas, we have selected the five tips that we think will have the most positive impact on kids this year.
1.Switch on your kids’ strengths
Most of us have been conditioned to focus on what kids can’t do. It’s not your fault. You were trained by teachers and parents who were adept at picking up your poor behaviours, highlighting errors and encouraging you to eliminate your faults. There is a better way. The Positive Psychology movement lead by US-based psychologist Dr. Martin Seligman showed that when we can unearth kids’ strengths we are, in effect, unlocking their true potential for success and happiness. Three elements come together to make a strength, and parents need to be mindful of all three: performance (being good at something); energy (feeling good doing it); and high use (choosing to do it). Rather than locking on to your child’s weaknesses, set your antennae to your child’s strengths. Professor Lea Waters, author of the wonderful new book The Strength Switch and current President of the International Positive Psychology Association will conduct a webinar ‘Switching on your child’s
strengths‘.
2. Balance kids’ extra-curricular activities
Alongside social media and news events, being busy is now recognised as a major stress for many children and young people. Over-scheduling kids’ lives is a relatively new phenomenon. Go back a couple of generations and a few sports, music lessons and things like scouting movements were the mainstays of after school life for most kids. Now the choice of activities to keep kids busy after school hours is mind-boggling. Having so many options is wonderful but it does place a new set of pressures on parents. Many complain that family life is like now living in a hamster wheel, always in constant motion, with hardly a time to catch their breath. The cost of loading kids up with scheduled activities is that many don’t get the chance for free play, or simply ‘vegging out’ on the couch. The benefits of all this activity in terms of kids’ skill development, personal growth and broadening social horizons is well-founded. However finding a balance is tricky as every child, like every family is different. Parenting Ideas expert Dr.Jodi Richardson will help you find the right balance of activity for your family in her webinar ‘Balancing extra-curricular activities‘.
3. Focus on friendships
Friendships are an important part of the road to adulthood for a child or young person. With families shrinking in size peer relationships are now fundamental in providing kids with a sense of belonging, a place to hone their identity and a group upon which they can develop their future relationship skills such as tolerance, empathy and forgiveness. Friendships can be problematic. Not every child is naturally outgoing and makes friends easily. If your child is like this, but generally seems happy, then there may be no need to do anything. If your child has difficulty forming friendships and is worried by that, then there are many ways to approach this including: encouraging kids to spend one-on-one time with others, making extra-curricular activities fit their interests, and coaching kids to develop friendly behaviours. The wonderful Sharon Witt will conduct a webinar ‘Teach girls to build each other up‘, focusing on friendship skills especially for parents of girls.
4. Give kids tools to manage anxious moments
Let’s just say it upfront. We don’t have a childhood resilience problem as many teachers and professionals say, but we do have a childhood anxiety problem. A big one! And it’s mostly undetected as community understanding of
anxiety is low. It’s our experience at Parenting Ideas that many parents are anxious and they don’t know it, and many children routinely experience anxiety, which goes unrecognised. Everyone feels worried from time to time, but these feelings pass when the stressful situation has passed. Anxiety occurs when these anxious feelings don’t pass, and happen for no obvious reason. It’s a serious condition that can be managed and minimised with their right tools. Parenting Ideas founder Michael Grose is conducting a webinar ‘Managing your child’s anxiety‘ to help parents on this challenging but important topic.
5. Develop rights of passage
Why are young people, like moths drawn to a flame, attracted to that annual end of school year beach and booze fest known as schoolies? Why do young people who for the best part of a year put their future self first and study hard to achieve best possible school results, put themselves at risk for a solitary week? It’s more than letting their hair down. In the absence of adult-initiated rights of passage young people will always fill the void and create their own. For many young people schoolies is the right of passage. As a community we’ve struggled for many years to create meaningful rights of passage for young people. Once a young person’s first job, or their twenty-first birthday were significant markers of maturity, offering a sense that they were entering into the adult world. Community changes have largely eradicated these traditional markers, which make it harder for a young person to know when they’ve become an adult. There are many healthy ways to recognise a young person’s growing maturity and mark his or her journey into adulthood. Many families are now creating their own rituals to mark key events such as the end of primary school, the start of the teenage years or various stages of adolescence. These traditions are now becoming legitimate rights of passage for young people. Internationally recognised expert on rites of passage Arne Rubenstein will be conducting a webinar ‘Creating 21st century rites of passage‘.
Will anything be different this year?
Change and improvement in anything worthwhile generally comes incrementally rather than in one giant leap. We pointed you in the direction that we feel is important for you and your kids to take kids this year. It’s you who has to implement changes and do the work. Through our webinars we’ve made it easy to take that vital first step to better outcomes for kids. Have a great parenting year.
Michael Grose