Senior School Weekly - Term 4 Week 1 - October 2021

Term 4 - Week 1 l October 2021

SENIOR SCHOOL WEEKLY HSC Exams from Monday, 6th November to Friday, 26th November 2021 Online learning will continue until at least Friday 22nd October 2021..

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Asalamu Alaykum Dear Parents I hope you and your families enjoyed a well deserved and restful break together. It’s been great to see our Year 10 students have settled back into their routine quickly and eagerly. I would like to start off by commending Year 10 for their efforts across all subjects during Term 3 and showing responsibility for their own learning. They have matured into young adults and have been emailing their teachers back and forth with all the right questions. Our students have pulled through a tough time, and we hope Term 4 will be easier – God willing.

This week brings about both excitement and learning for Stage 5 as they get involved in their first online incursion with Dominic from Moneyvest. This program teaches students how to achieve financial success in life and acquiring skills to manage difficult financial decisions.

Students are encouraged to actively engage in this program that is specifically tailored for school students and ask insightful questions that will benefit them in the future.

Wishing you all a blessed and successful Term 4.

Ms Rammal Year 10 Year Advisor 2021

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Salaam to our Bellfield Community. We would like to welcome back our students for another term, and we look forward to continuing to dive into the world of history.

Thank you to our Bellfield community and supporting parents for your continued support towards the students academic achievements.

The start of term 4 looks promising and we wanted to acknowledge the brilliant work of our learning support teachers assisting our students. The following images below are taken from our year 7 and 8 history classes.

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A reminder to our students when they are online in their classes to have their cameras on and with a working microphone ☺

Mr Fawaz

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IST students have submitted their Robotics assessment "Design a Robot'. Well done to all the students that came up with innovative designs! Students built a prototype of their design and coded a robot simulator online using Scratch to demonstrate what their robot can do. A special mention to Zaynab AlSudany, Urooj Ali, Fizza Hussain, Moammal AlMalky, Hussain Hyder and Mohammed Badawi for demonstrating creative design and/or outstanding coding skills!

IST students will be studying the topic The Internet and Website Development this term.

Students will learn about the internet, a historical perspective of the internet and intranets.

Students will focus on the uses of the internet such as email, research, chatting, messaging and using search engines. Internet software, types of internet protocols, the World Wide Web, controlling access to information on the internet will also be studied. Students will be developing a website during class time.

Website development is a competitive industry and developers are in high demand. A Web Developer is responsible for the coding, design and layout of a website according to a company's specifications. As the role takes into consideration user experience and function, a certain level of both graphic design and computer programming is necessary.

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Welcome back to Term 4!

I hope you enjoyed a well-deserved break and are ready for our final term of the year!

During the break, teachers were busy preparing for the term and marking assessments submitted by our very creative students! Challenged with the task of developing a picture book on the life and times of Shakespeare, our Year 7 cohort provided us with some wonderful imaginative and creative stories!

From the ABCs of Shakespeare to a tour of the globe Theatre through the eyes of Shakespeare’s son, Year 7 did not disappoint!

Our Year 8 students put their persuasive skills to the test through a Ted Talk. Students chose a range of topics from the importance of sleep, to giving to charity, to environmental issues, they tackled them all! Students demonstrated their confidence not only in delivering the talks but developing their ideas in well structured arguments!

Finally, year 9 regaled us once more with their acting skills and abilities! They embodied a character from Shakespeare’s King Lear, wrote a monologue, then performed their monologue with great gusto.

Students enhanced their performances with costumes, background images and props! It seemed as entertaining for them to create as it was for us to watch!

We look forward to enjoying more of our students’ bright, creative and imaginative work in the term ahead!

Wishing you all an enjoyable final term of 2021!

Miss

Riem Derbasi.

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Term 4 and the weather is finally heating up!! This means that summer is right around the corner, what a great feeling! This time of the year is a great time to become active with family and friends. All years throughout the year learn the importance of physical activity and also how to best implement routines and plans to improve on different components of our fitness.

Cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and flexibility are three health components of fitness that are essential for everyday life. All three components can be improved on at home and can be HEAPS OF FUN!!

Benefits of improving on physical fitness:

- Improved quality of life - Reduced chance of injury (aches and pains from sitting at home also!)

- Improved mental health - Increased energy and mood - Promotes better sleep - EXERCISE IS FUN!

Types of different exercises you can do for each different components of fitness.

CARDIORESPIRATORY ENDURANCE

MUSCULAR STRENGTH

FLEXIBILITY

20min run

Push ups

Yoga

30min Bike ride

Squats

Pilates

20min Swim

Lunges

Static stretching

45min Walk

Planks

Mobility exercises

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