News Art
9 November 2015
Assalamu Alaikum – The Art Exhibition was a great success. Alhamdulilah, the weather held up and the event went on smoothly. The Art Department cannot thank everyone enough for all your help and support that has been rendered for the exhibition. It is truly a great team effort and we are very sure that both parents and students alike enjoyed themselves.
We would like to say a big Thank You to all the stalls holders that came last Friday and supported out Art Exhibition. It was great to see such a variety of stalls.
It was the first time we ever had stalls at an exhibition and it appeared to have been a wonderful success. We will certainly look into organising something like this again in the future and will learn from Friday’s experiences to improve for the next event, inshaAllah.
I truly apologise if I miss any names out. I know that there are many teachers who did not pencil their names for duty but helped out at the different stalls. It is not possible for me to mention everyone but a big thank you for all your help.
Kind Regards,Suffian & Stamatia
MEd (Curriculum & Teaching), PGDEd, BEng (Hons)
Suffian Amin is the Head of Art at ҵ. He began his teaching career in Singapore and taught GCSE Design & Technology (D&T). Prior to his appointment at ҵ, Suffian held the position of Year Head and Subject Head at the school.
Suffian is very passionate on design education and its role in promoting critical and creative thinking in students. He was actively involved in curriculum planning and professional development of D&T educators with Ministry of Education and Nanyang Technological University (National Institute of Education) in Singapore. In 2014, Suffian wrote a chapter, “The Nature of Intuition in Design” in a book “Disciplinary Intuitions and the Design of Learning Environment (Lim, 2014)”. In addition, he co-wrote a paper titled ‘Experiential Design – insights into its focus’ in 2011.
Suffian moved to Melbourne in 2014 in pursuit of a new challenge. He believes that education is a pivotal enabler for social mobility and that every child can learn. He is very happy to be part of the Al Siraat community and looks forward to nurturing and moulding the bright and young minds in our school.
Suffian graduated with Master of Education specialising in Curriculum and Teaching, a Postgraduate Diploma in Education and a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).