Primary Coordinators

Safaa EL-MASSRI

Foundation to Year 6 Tarbiyah Subject coordinator Phone 03 9355 6800 selmassri@dulum.vic.edu.au

Safaa completed her Diploma of Education at the University of Melbourne in 2003 before joining the team at Darul Ulum College in 2004 as a prep teacher. She has taught various year levels including grades prep, 1,2 and 4.

Safaa has taken on various leadership roles during her time at the college, including Prep-6 English and Humanities coordinator, Grades 3-4 coordinator and Foundations Team Leader. She strongly believes that each student has the potential to learn and needs to be nurtured to reach their full potential. She has a passion for teaching students in the early years of school and understands that effective learning requires collaboration between teachers and parents.

Nahida Khan

Primary Year 5 & 6 English/Humanities Subject Coordinator Phone 03 9355 6800 nakhan@dulum.vic.edu.au

Nahida Khan is a graduate from the University of Bombay (Mumbai) with a Bachelor's Degree in Science and Graduate Diploma of Education from RMIT University Melbourne. Before joining the dynamic and vibrant team of Darul Ulum College as a primary teacher in 2014, Ms Nahida worked in a local government school for three years which gave her a varied teaching and learning experience.

Nahida understands the need to nurture young minds and believes in building positive relationships with students. As a teacher, she considers it her moral responsibility to provide cognitive tools and strategies for her students to help them develop as positive contributors to our society.

Hufsa Huma

Foundation to Year 3 Team Leader - DUA Mickleham Phone 03 9355 6800 hhuma@dulum.vic.edu.au

Hufsa commenced her teaching journey at Darul Ulum College of Victoria in 2015 after completing her Master of Teaching at Deakin University. Hufsa is passionate about educating and nurturing young minds and actively works towards encouraging students to reach their full potential.

Hufsa strongly believes that every child is a capable learner with unique learning capabilities. She endeavours to have a flexible teaching style to meet students’ individual needs to make them life-long learners. She believes in creating strong respectful relationship with students where students feel safe and supported and strive to maximize their own learning

Pancawati Syamsu

Primary Year 5 & 6 Girls Math/Science Subject Coordinator Phone 03 9355 6800 psyamsu@dulum.vic.edu.au

Pancawati began her teaching career in 2008 at Darul Ulum College of Victoria soon after finishing her Diploma of (Primary) Education. She has since been a form teacher at the school in mostly upper primary. She is currently also serving as Maths/Science (4-6) Department Coordinator.

Pancawati’s enjoyment in working with children motivated her to pursue a career in primary education despite having finished her bachelor degree in telecommunication engineering. She holds firmly in the belief that children learn best in a happy and safe environment and that teachers have the responsibility of being good role models in akhlaaq, adaab and academic aspects.

Kaneez Fatima

Foundation to Year 6 PE/Health Subject Coordinator Phone 03 9355 6800 kfatima@dulum.vic.edu.au

Kaneez Fatima completed her Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Education and began her teaching career at the International Indian School (KSA) as a Mathematics teacher in the primary department. She worked as a CRT at Darul Ulum College of Victoria as well as another Islamic school between 2004-2006.

She joined Darul Ulum College as a P.E/Art and Mathematics teacher in 2007. She became the level coordinator and P.E/extra-curricular activity coordinator in 2009 and continued in this position until 2014. She then became Health/P.E subject coordinator in 2015.

She values and cares about the wellbeing of all students and believes in the idea that “you have the ability and can do it” as the key to success for every individual student.

Jobaida Binte Ali

Foundation to Year 6 Quran Subject Coordinator Phone 03 9355 6800 jali@dulum.vic.edu.au

Omniya SAAD

Foundation Team Leader Phone 03 9355 6800 osaad@dulum.vic.edu.au

Sonia Alam Khan

Year 1 Team Leader Phone 03 9355 6800 skhan@dulum.vic.edu.au

Sonia began her teaching journey at Darul Ulum College of Victoria in 2013 after completing a Graduate diploma (Secondary Education) from the Australian Catholic University. She is very passionate about educating and supporting the minds of young students as well as nurturing them and actively working towards helping them reach their full potential.

Sonia is a strong believer of the idea that every child is a capable learner with unique learning capabilities. She aspires to meet the individual needs of students with her flexible teaching styles in order to allow her students to reach their maximum potential. She believes in creating strong and respectful relationships with her students to ensure they feel safe and supported at every moment of their learning journey.

Safia DHEDHY

Year 2 Team Leader Phone 03 9355 6800 sdhedhy@dulum.vic.edu.au

Saman DHEDHY

Year 3 Team Leader Phone 03 9355 6800 sadhedhy@dulum.vic.edu.au

Huriye SEN

Year 4 Team Leader Phone 03 9355 6800 hsen@dulum.vic.edu.au

Reijeh OUAIDA

Foundation to Year 6 Art/Tech Subject Coordinator Phone 03 9355 6800 rouadia@dulum.vic.edu.au

Letfeah Neshabe

Foundation to Year 3 PE/Health and Art/Tech Subject Coordinator - DUA Mickleham Phone 03 9355 6800 lneshabe@dulum.vic.edu.au

Zainab Ahmad Sheikh

Foundation to Year 2 NCCD Coordinator Phone 03 9355 6800 zsheikh@dulum.vic.edu.au

Zainab completed her Diploma of Education at Latrobe University before beginning her teaching journey at Darul Ulum College of Victoria in 2008. She has extensive experience in teaching lower primary classes at the College. In 2015 she took on the role of primary English and Humanities coordinator for a period of 2 years. Currently she is teaching Foundation and coordinating Foundation – Grade 1 Mathematics and Science.

Zainab strongly believes that each student has the potential to bring something unique and special to the world and aims to assist students in developing lifelong skills. She actively works towards building a strong rapport with students and creating a welcoming and safe classroom, where students feel comfortable to share their thoughts and ideas.

Zeba Perwaiz

Year 3 to 6 NCCD Coordinator Phone 03 9355 6800 zperwaiz@dulum.vic.edu.au

Kayenath Shah

Foundation to Year 3 Level Coordinator - DUA Mickleham Phone 03 9355 6800 kshah@dulum.vic.edu.au

Rahilah Alhabsyi

Foundation & Year 1 Level Coordinator Phone 03 9355 6800 ralhabsyi@dulum.vic.edu.au

Khusnur Rehana Begam Ali

Year 4 - 6 Level Coordinator Phone 03 9355 6800 kali@dulum.vic.edu.au

Subhani Samanlatha Mohamed Faleel

Standardised Assessment Coordinator - Girls Campus Phone 03 9355 6800 sfaleel@dulum.vic.edu.au

Subhani completed her Bachelors of Engineering and worked as a designing engineer prior to her teaching journey at Darul Ulum College. In 2004, she completed her Diploma of Education in Mathematics and Chemistry and joined as a primary teacher to year 1. In 2007, she became the assessment coordinator at the College. She completed her Master’s in Education (Mathematics & Gifted Education as a special subject) in 2008. From 2005 – 2012 she worked as year 4 classroom teacher. In 2013 she became a year 5 & 6 Mathematics teacher and became the primary Mathematics and Science coordinator for Foundation to year 6. In 2015 she developed Common Assessment Standardizing Process for the College as the assessment coordinator while continuing as the year 3-6 Mathematics and Science coordinator. Subhani became the senior coordinator in 2017 to support the senior management with enthusiasm.

To support her role in the school, in 2015 Subhani has been trained as a cognitive coach. Also as the assessment coordinator, Subhani has received ISV training to conduct various assessment tools to identify cognitive deficiencies and dyslexia. In 2016 she has been trained in Instrumental Enrichment through ISV and currently supports staff to establish and run the College’s brain enrichment programs for Foundation to year 6 in the female campus.

Subhani values every student’s capacity and believes in cognitive modifiability to extend current capacity of all students. With systematic approach and building relationships, Subhani believes that students’ learning paths can be modified to explore their untapped potential. Currently she is a part time student of a Psychology (Honors) degree and is passionate about cognitive psychology in education which she believes has strengthened her teaching career with education psychology practices.

Pinar Dalbudak

Year 2 & 3 Level Coordinator Phone 03 9355 6800 pdalbudak@dulum.vic.edu.au

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