“Opportunity is quick to pass on, and slow to come back.”
Imam Ali (a) Mizanul Hikmah
Salaamun Alaykum.
We are very excited to start our new year onsite at 9000 Bathurst Street, (JCC). Classes start Sunday Sept. 10 at 10:45 am. Alhamdulillah, our dedicated Admin and Teacher volunteers have invested time in orientation sessions and in preparing classrooms for the 2023/2024 session… mashaAllah, we are blessed to have such a super team.
At our Awards & Graduation celebration in June, we presented a summary of the highlights of last year and the plans for 2023-2024. The summary has been posted on our website www.al-haadi.ca. Send an e-mail to admin@al-haadi.ca if you have any questions about 2023-2024 Plans.
Link: AHSC 2022-2023 Highlights 2023-2024 Plans (al-haadi.ca) .
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This update includes:
1. 1st Day info – Sept. 10
2. Documents on al-haadi.ca
3. Community Service Award for Students (June 1, 2023 – May 31, 2024)
4. Key Upcoming Dates
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1st Day of Classes – Sept 10
See the registration confirmation e-mail or the map in the Student Planner posted on al-haadi.ca for room info.
Drop-off & Pickup:
All students to enter and exit from Gate of Sadiq (a) Door 6; note that the driveway will be blocked to cars for safety reasons so students will need to walk to Door #6. After entering the building:
– Grade 1-3 students go to classes on main floor.
– Grades 4+ Girls & Grade 4/5 Boys to use stairwell #1 (near gate 1) to go to 2nd floor.
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Boys in grades 6-12 to use stairwell #5 (near gate 5) to go to 2nd floor.
Grade 1-3 classes end at 2:15 pm… pickup child(ren) from main floor classroom.
Grades 4-12 classes end at 2:30 pm… pickup child(ren) from Atrium on 1st floor near Door #6. students to be picked up from Atrium on 1st floor. Please arrange a meeting spot with your child(ren).
Volunteers have other commitments too, so please pick up children latest by 2:40 pm. After 2:40 pm, parent will need to enter from Door #3, and come to 2nd floor to sign out the child.
Early pickup: parent to send a note for Teacher and go to Coordinators’ desk for pickup; for safety reasons, parents cannot go directly to the classroom.
Google Classrooms will be used for announcements, lesson material, and assessments. Invites to Google Classrooms (GC) have been sent for Grades 1-12 students for all students registered by Sept. 6th. Student e-mail id was invited if it was provided during registration; if not, invite has been sent to parent’s email id. Please ensure you/your child accept the invite as soon as possible to read Teacher’s announcements, etc. If an invite hasn’t been received, check in spam/junk folder. Invites to students who registered after Sept. 6th will inshaAllah, receive invites in the coming week.
If you need to change the e-mail id used for GC invite, please do both of the following:
1. Send a request to the Teacher via class e-mail id, xyz@al-haadi.ca, where x= D for Dinyat or Q for Quran, y=grade, and z=A or B per registration confirmation e-mail. E.g. d3b@al-haadi.ca is for Dinyat Grade 3, class B, and q7a@al-haadi.ca is for Quran Grade 7, class A. Subject: “GC Invite change”. Include the student’s full name, current email id, new e-mail id to be invited. We can only invite one e-mail id per student.
2. Update parent/student record in parents portal (al-haadi.ca) by clicking on Registration and going through the screens to update family/child info.
Planned Student Absence: Send an e-mail to absence@al-haadi.ca, cc: the class email ids.
Supplies & Lunch: please review the guidelines in Student Planner, pack writing supplies and a healthy peanut/ tree nut free lunch to avoid impacting students with allergies; Tree nuts includes cashews, almonds, etc. Nutella and sesame seeds are also not allowed.
Cellphones: Students are not allowed to use cellphones between 10:45 am – 2:30 pm. If you have an urgent message for your child, during these hours, call the office line at 905-695-1587. Teachers will keep the phone until end of classes if a student does not adhere to the no cellphone use policy.
Book loans:
Storybooks will be loaned to students in Grades 1-4 starting Sept. 17. Please return book on a weekly basis so student can be loaned a new storybook.
Grade 5 & 6 students will be loaned Tarbiyah Band C Student Guides starting Sept. 10th.
Student guides for Grades 7-12 and Quran Explorer books for Tafseer/Hifd will be provided for in class use only and available online for weekday use.
If students have any loaned storybooks or Student Guides from prior years, please drop them off at Coordinator’s table this Sunday.
Students are requested to bring copy of Quran Manuals and Quran Iqra 3 Tajweed Rules books which were provided last year as they can be re-used this year.
Timetable (also posted on al-haadi.ca):
Day 1 & 2 Assessments:
Quran: Grades 1-12 students will be assessed on recitation ability.
Dinyat: Grades 5-12 students will be assessed for wudhu & salaat, and Islamic Fundamentals (see notes in Student Planner posted on www.al-haadi.ca
Documents on al-haadi.ca
This year’s Calendar and Student Planner containing guidelines & forms for parents & students have been posted on https://www.al-haadi.ca . Scroll down the Documents section on the right side of the home page. The Calendar contains the timetable. Review the other documents such as helping students to transition back to school.
Parents of students in Grades 5-12 are requested to encourage child(ren) to review the Islamic Fundamentals notes in the Student Planner as students will be tested on Sept. 17/24.
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Community Service Award Program for 2024-2024
The Community Service Award program for students has already started… all volunteering hours from June 1, 2022 – May 31, 2024 can count towards the minimum criteria. See below for details. Students need to keep a log of the volunteering service.
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Key Upcoming Dates
Sept. 10: First day of classes
Sept. 10 & 11: Quran recitation assessments Grades 1-11 and class re-assignments based on recitation ability
Sept. 15-23: Tarbiyah Digital Portal (TDP) logins sent to students of Grades 5-12.
Sept. 17: Islamic Fundamentals test for D12 (in class)
Sept. 23: Sign up opens for optional Pizza lunch program
Sept. 24: Islamic Fundamentals test due via GC online for Grades 5-11
Sept. 24: Mailing list will be refreshed to remove parents who have not registered children for 2023-2024
Oct. 1: Milad un Nabi celebration for students during lunch break
Oct. 1: Parents Info session & meet & greet teachers 10:45 am – 1 pm.
Oct. 1: Sign up closes for Pizza lunch program
Oct. 8: Closed for Thanksgiving Public Holiday
Oct. 15: Pizza lunch program begins
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If you have any questions or suggestions, kindly send an e-mail to admin@al-haadi.ca. We look forward to seeing everyone again in September. Have a wonderful summer and stay safe!
JazakAllah,
Fatima Khimji & Amjad Datoo
Principal Vice Principal
Al-Haadi Study Centre
al-haadi.ca
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