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ISIK COLLEGE MEADOW FAIR CAMPUS NEWSLETTERSeptember 2011Principal’s MessageDear students, parents and staff,We have finally come to the end of term 3 after a very busy Holy month of Ramadanand Eid Festival.This term, as usual we are sending you the term reports. You can check your son’sacademic progress on the interim term 3 reports. I would also like to remind you that itis very important that you book an interview time with teachers for the parent-teacherinterviews that will be held next term in week 2.It is undeniable that parents’ role in their children’s success is extremely important.Our parents are encouraged to contact teachers without wasting any time if there is aproblem about their son.I would also like to remind our parents to support and motivate our students now thatVCE exams are fast approaching. Your support will boost our university candidates’self-esteem. During the first week of this term holiday our year 12 students will have a5 day study program. We need to encourage our students to participate in this programas it will be probably one of the last intense study opportunities for our students beforethey sit the actual VCE exams.Our aid appeal for Africa that we started in the last week of Ramadan is stillcontinuing. I am pleased to announce that we have collected more than $10.000 withthe help of our parents, students and teachers. I would like to thank everyone for theirgenerous donations and support.Speaking of this aid campaign, our Kurban ( eid-ul adha) has already started, we wouldlike you to continue your support to Africa through this Kurban campaign as well.I wish a happy and healthy term break for our parents, students and teachers.Ilker TemizkanPrincipalTheGoldenGeneration2www.isikcollege.vic.edu.au

ISIK COLLEGE MEADOW FAIR CAMPUS NEWSLETTERSeptember 2011Book Week Book Review CompetitionFrom August 22 to 26 Isik College was involved in celebrating Book Week. This is a special week aswe celebrate books and authors . Staff and students were involved in activities ranging from readingbooks in their classes to creating posters and book marks to celebrate the occasion.A book review competition was also conducted allowing students to write reviews of books they haveread and submit them into the competition. There were many great entries from students and it wasencouraging to see them get involved. The winner of the competition was Muhammed Yelegin from10C who received a thirty dollar gift voucher from JB Hi-Fi for his book review of ‘SkullduggeryPleasant’ which he claimed was ‘bucket loads’ of fun to read because of its combination of comedyand mystery.Thank you to all of the students who entered and all of those who were involved in celebrating BookWeek.Mr Michael KulkewyczThe GoldenGeneration3www.isikcollege.vic.edu.au

ISIK COLLEGE MEADOW FAIR CAMPUS NEWSLETTERAugust 2011Year 7 Parents’ IftarWelcome Ramadan,On Tuesday the 9 th of August 2011 Year Seven students and parents were invited to have an Iftardinner at Isik College. On this special occasion, parents bought in food and shared it with others.Hence, students provided assistance to teachers in preparing tables, chairs and bench tops.There was a variety of food from rice, meat, salads, pastry to sweets which was enjoyed by all.This was a good opportunity for teachers to meet parents and build on relationships. The Iftarcommenced with a presentation of welcoming Ramadan followed by the Adhan. It was a fantasticevent in which parents and students were welcomed.Special thanks to the following staff: Kadir Emniyet, Ahmet Arif Haktan, Mustafa Tutuncu, IsmailTurkel, Gokhan Goktas, Ahmet Ocal, Cemil Yildiz, Sami Huseyin, and Ali Ozturk.Asir Mustafa TutuncuThe GoldenGeneration6www.isikcollege.vic.edu.au

Hume i-tech ChallengeThe Hume i-tech Challenge is an annual competition for year 7-10 students (or equivalent)studying at a Hume City school.It is sponsored by Selimiye foundation, ISIK College and Hume City Council.Students that demonstrate the most creative and effective use of mixed multimediahave the chance to win from a cash prize pool of over $5000.It is open to year 7-10 (or equivalent) students, studying at a Hume City school,who have an interest in multimedia and new media.Depending on the year level, students can get involved by producing a projectfrom one of the two categories below:Category 1Digital Story-TellingFor year 7 & 8 studentsProduce a digital story on a topic of yourchoice using any multimedia tool youhave access to.Category 2Website DesignFor year 9 & 10 studentsCreate and design a website on a topic ofyour choice using any web tool you haveaccess to.The Hume i-tech Challenge aims to:Enhance students’ computer skills and creativity.Promote stronger community links.Bring together students from the Hume region to share learning.Promote student-teacher relationships.Enable students to achieve Information Communication Technology (ICT) relatedgoals.Encourage students to have fun while learning.In 2011 ISIK College contributed entries to both Categories from theMeadowfair campus (4 entries, two in each category) and the Eastmeadows campus (one entry ineach category).The entries were submitted on time and the oral presentation took place on Wednesday 7 th of September2011 at the Hume Global Village, Broadmeadows.The principal Mr. Ilker Temizkan , Deputy principal Mr. Kadir Emniyet and guest teacher Mr. EzioPaciocco were kind enough to attend the eve before the oral presentation day and gave the students ataste of what to expect from the judging panel. The feedback from our honourable panel was positive forall projects/students.The Projects were as follows:Project 1, Category 1 (Obesity and sport, short Movie), students Adam Soufan, AsirElatli, Muhammed Turkmenoglu, Serdar Orenc and guest Kenan Gunes,all from 8CProject 2, Category 1 (Bullying, short Movie), students Hammad Ahmad,Waleed Abdelhay, Oguzhan Turan, Ahmed Talha Colakoglu , and guestOnur Aykac, all from 8CProject 1, Category 2 (Anzac Website), students Mesut Latifoglu andKhizar Iftikhar from 9DProject 2, Category 2 (Life Website), students Taha Caksak from 9DThe GoldenGeneration

ISIK COLLEGE MEADOW FAIR CAMPUS NEWSLETTERSeptember 2011YEAR 8 IFTARThe Year 8 Iftar Dinner was held at the conference room at Meadow Fair Campus and there weremany families who attended.An excellent selection of food was evident, such as Lahmacun, Pizza, Turkish Pide and the soup thatmy family brought. There was also tea and a variety of sweets.During our meal a video about the students at our Pastoral Care Camps was shown. While watchingthe video the sight of parents and their children together made me feel happy.After we finished our meal, we went to the prayer room and prayed Magrib Prayer. We finishedpraying and that is how this amazing night ended.I would like to thank Menderes GOLCUK and Okan ALKIN for organising such a great Iftar Dinner.Abdulsamed Onder 8DThe GoldenGeneration9www.isikcollege.vic.edu.au

ISIK COLLEGE MEADOW FAIR CAMPUS NEWSLETTERFebruary September 2011ISIK COLLEGE AND ILIM COLLEGE PRESENTSVCAL JOINT WORK RELATED SKILLS ANDPERSONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPPROGRAM 8 Sep 201111:00AM11:15AM11:20AM11:30AM11:40AM11:45AM11:55AM12:05PM12:15PM12:25PMINTRODUCTIONSESSION 1: What is the best way to make workplace contacts to look fora job?Interview Presentation Video ViewingSESSION 2: What are the steps to take before physically working in anyconstructional site?Common Workplace Hazards Video ViewingSession 3: What is Cold Calling?Cold Calling Video ViewingSession 4: What are the important things to think about in the interview?Interview Questions Video ViewingSummary of the WorkshopTheGoldenGeneration10www.isikcollege.vic.edu.au

ISIK COLLEGE MEADOW FAIR CAMPUS NEWSLETTERSeptember 2011Free Homework helpThanks to Hume City Council, local students get free, anonymous, and instant homework help.The ‘yourtutor’ service is open from 4pm – 8pm, Monday to Friday. Students can connect onlineanytime, as often as they like in order to understand their homework questions.The service lets students who are stuck with homework or assignment research connect toqualified tutors for one-to-one guidance in English, maths, science, and assignment research.Students just use their library card number to log in at yourtutor.com.au, whether from the libraryor online from a home computer. There are no appointments necessary, and no registrations.“It is easy and quick to connect, and the tutors are all specialists in their subjects areas.”“Students can submit drafts to be proofread for English and humanities, or go step-by-stepthrough a maths or science problem they don’t understand, or start researching an assignmentif they are stuck”.“For teachers, imagine a classroom where ‘I couldn’t do my homework’ is never heard again.”Parents also find the service invaluable, especially those who may not have enough time to helptheir children with homework, or who studied too long ago to remember advanced content.This parent said, “My daughter has used this service several times and she finds it excellent.As a parent I am not very competent at maths and cannot always help her with her homework.The tutors are helpful and assist her without doing it for her. ”Students connect online to a real-life person - certified teachers, professional tutors,and graduates from Australian universities. The qualified tutors review specifichomework and assignment questionswith students online, using features like controlled chat and an interactive white board.Tutors don’t tell students the answers, which makes yourtutor different to onlinelearning tools that just provide pages of information. The tutors are real people whoguide students to find the answer so thatthey understand the answer at the end of each session, and how to work it out in future.The GoldenGeneration11www.isikcollege.vic.edu.au

ISIK COLLEGE MEADOW FAIR CAMPUS NEWSLETTERSeptember 2011“Exams are coming up, and students are looking at their schoolwork and thinking,‘is a subject I need to focus on?’, and ‘what do I usually have trouble with’?and are using that as a starting point” says .yourtutor is provided by Tutoring Australasia, a Sydney-located and Australian-ownedcompany that is Australia's leading provider of online tutoring services. To-date thecompany has served more than 350 libraries and schools across the country. Questions?info@yourtutor.com.au or visit yourtutor.com.auThe GoldenGenerationwww.isikcollege.vic.edu.au