Monthly Salahaddin Ayyubi College Publication Oct 2012

Our Table of SuccessIn Ministry Exam, our student “Didan Bahadin” took the 3rd place in Kurdistan and the 2nd place in Sulaimani. Also, we have 7 students at the Top 10 in Ministry Exam. We would l ike to congratulate al l our students and teachers for the great effort on this amazing success.

Read the interview with Didan Bahadin on page 2

Q: Hello sir, thanks for accepting us.A: You are welcome. Q: Sir, as a starter, could you please make a brief preview of last year in your schools for us?A: With pleasure. First of all Ihave to say that it was a breathtaking year. Everyday was a new excitement for me and my crew. From the time that we open our eyes until we close, we were busy. We barely found time for ourselves. However, it was worth of all the pains we suffered. Q: Why?A: Because at the end of the year our hands were full of success.Q: Can you give us some examples?A: Of course. We had 7 students at the top 10 of last year’s Ministry Exam. We had lots

of medals in internal and international proj-ect olimpiads. We organised plenty of social activities and celebrations with our students and parents. We visited lots of places inside and outside Kurdistan.Q: What about this year? Do you have high expectations like last year’s achievments?A: Even higher. We can’t confine ourselves to last year. We must excel that. All the plans and strategies are prepared accordingly. We are not a stable instutition. We have never been so. That is the key of our success. We have always been open to change and progress. Q: What do you think about the demands to your schools?A: Frankly, I am a little bit nervous. Q: Why?A: Because demands are increasing so much

that we are having really hard time for responding them. Through you, I would like to express my sympathy to whom that we had to refuse their demands. We are trying our best to be able to respond positively to all demands.Q: Can you give some examples?A: Unless they are certain, I can’t. But ı can just say, we are exhausting ourselves to serve Sulaimani people with the best education.Q: Do you want to add anything else.A: I just want to say keep trusting us. We will never let you down.Q: Thanks for your solid answers. A: You are welcome.

Ministry Exam ResultsThe List of 7 Students and their marks in Ministry Exam

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Projects and Olympiads Degrees and Medals in international Projects and Olympiads

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Social ActivitiesClubs and Celebrations of last year

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Graduation CeremoniesSulaimani Girls College Salahaddin Ayyubi CollegeSulaimani Primary School Page 6,7

By: Miran Kaiwan

Interview with the Coordinator of Salahaddin Ayyubi Colleges `Mehmet Nuri Aydın’

Mehmet Nuri Aydin The Coordinator of Salahaddin Ayyubi Colleges

Our high school grade 3 students studied really hard last year. It was sometimes stressful, even painful, but at the end it was worth of everything. Under the supervision of our devoted teachers, studying took sometimes till after midnight. They slept less, spent time for themselves and for their families less. Our students gained very good degrees either individually or cumulatively. Our student Didan Bahaddin from our GirlsCollege took the 2nd place in Sulaimani and 3rd place in Kurd-istan. There are 4 students of Salahaddin Ayyubi Boys College at top 10.There are 3 students of Sulaimani Girls College at top 10.Degrees of our remaining students are also very satisfactory. We would like to express our sincerest appriciations who put effort on the success of our students, especially to the parents who never withheld thier support niether from us nor from their students.And we are sure they will keep performing in their university education as successfull as they were here.

Editorial

Mahmut Pala

A Fresh Look

Hi everyone, I, as the new supervisor of Journalism Club of Salahaddin Eyyubi College, am glad to meet you at the beggining of a new educational season. It had better introduce myself first, I think. This is my fifth year in Kürdistan, and first year in Sülemani.

For the last four years, I was a lecturer in Prep School in Ishık University/Erbil. It would be an honour for me to serve with my whole expe-rience here, in our brother school, this year. As a vice principal and supervisor of the social activities of our school, I will concentrate on improving our students’ social skills.

Academic developments of students can satisfy parents, but not all the time students them-selves. To satisfy students, we, as educators, should provide them with an educational atmosphere with pleasure. As it is proven ped-agogically, students can learn better and easier when they are pleased. Rich social activites in a school can provide this. Moreover, without so-cial skills, students can hardly present their aca-demic skills in a social environment. Therefore, I have lots of plans and projects to improve our students’ potential.

The paper that you are holding right now is one indicator of this. Our highly talented club members insisted so much on publishing this new edition of our Newsletter that I couldn’t resist. As the theme of this volume, we decided to present last year’s panaroma which has full of accomplishments.

This is of course not to show off, but to inform people who have never witheld thier support from us and to show them we are worth their trust. While viewing last year’s panaroma that includes just some of the activities of our school’s, you would be surprised that “Can a year be so long?”.

Thanks for your time. See you in the next edition. I wish you all the best.

Oct 2012 ISSUE :

Chief-Executive EditorMehmet Nuri Aydin

Managing EditorMahmut Pala

Art DirectorZhiran Taha

Graphic DesignMustafa Muhmmed

InterviewsDaban RazaMiran Kaiwan

PhotosBrwa OmerRozh DiarWarzer Ata

Address: Karezawishk, Near the Institute Of Computer, Sulaimani, Iraq. Tel: (053) 3286407 – (053) 3286413

7 STUDENTS AT TOP 10 IN WEZARİ EXAMDidan Bahaddin : 695Sikar Ebubakir Hasan : 691Awin Muhemmed : 690Liza Araz : 690Bavar Kemal Kadir : 690Mir Ali Mahmud : 689Berzi Jaafer Muhemmed : 689

Interview With The Second Student in Ministry ExamQ: Tell me about twelve grade. How was it?A: To be honest, most of the students become mentally unstable and to me it was the same in the twelve grade. At the begginig, I thought that I wouldn’t be able to finish the year succesfully, but I want to tell you that it is not how you imagine all the time. If you work hard, be confident and brave, you will succeed. I think every succes comes with a hard work and if you study hard enough you will be succesful.

Q: Did you have a strict timetable in the process of preparation? A: I started studying right after the 11th grade final exams. Of course I got a little rest for about a week but then I studied harder and harder. I can’t say an exact amount of time but I can say, I studied really hard.

Q: So, after school, you spent most of your time on study-ing?A: After a little rest, yes I studied.

Q: How were the teachers’ approach towards you?A: Our teachers were great. We had a lot of excellent teach-ers. They contributed a lot on our success.

Q: What about the administration? Were they also helpful?A: Of course yes. They did a lot for us. They served everything we needed. We always felt the comfort of having their support behind us.

Q: With this amazing degree, of course you can be accepted any department in Kurdistan. Did you make your decision?A: Yes, definitely. I am giong to study medicine.

Q: And the last question. What can you advice for the students who have already started feeling the worry of the big exam?

A: I just can say, worry but with control. If you worry that means you take it serious and if you take it serious then you do whatever it takes. The feeling of success makes you forget all the pains you had during the process.

By: Daban Raza

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Email : adv@selahaddin.orgWe awarded our 4 student at the Top 10 with Ipad 2

Summer School in America

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In June, a group of our students had a summer school in New York, USA. The flight took 12 hours. They stayed at Hofstra University. In the mornings, students had lessons from native speakers. Lessons were wonderful. Students had a great chance to improve their English. They have made a lot of new friends from all over the world. They practiced English with their native friends. In the after-noons, they visited spectacular places like the Statue of Liberty, National Museum, Madame Tussaud, the Empire State building, etc.They visited a huge lunapark called Six Flags. They went shopping to famous malls like 21 century, Roosvelt, TJ Max, etc. They also visited White House, House of Parliament, Space Museum, etc.Another day, they visited Boston which has Harvard University and MIT. At the end of the program their minds and hearts were full of unforgettable memories. Let’s hear one of them’s words:I’m Sharo Abbas. I participated in the trip. It was a great experience for me. It was worth all the money we paid. It was the best trip I have ever had. We spent amazing days there. This trip inspired me and contributed to my personality. I’m a more open-minded person now. Many thanks to my school and my teachers especially to Mr. Cemil Akdeniz.

Oxford Teacher’s Academy – teaching made easy 2012 EDUCATION METHODS AND MATERIALS PROJECT CONTEST

( EMEPYA )

This is a certificate program that provide valuable information and experience for our Teachers. Oxford Teacher’s Academy workshops are practical, activity-driven, interactive and fun. Moreover, they provide teachers with all the skills, knowledge and values they need to grow in their profession.Each workshop run by the Oxford Teacher’s Academy promises to: • provide the most up-to-date curriculum information in an accessible format;• support teachers with subject-specific issues that really matter to them;• provide practical classroom activities that teachers can use immediately;• be facilitated by professional, inspiring and motivating teacher trainers.

EMEPYA was held in Ankara/Turkey on 27 and 28 of April this year. The aim of this contest is to award the teachers who invent new methods of better teaching. From our school Salahaddin Ayyubi, the mathematic teachers Abdullah Kurudirek and İbrahim Duyan participated in it with their project “Trigonometric Ruler”. They took the forth place among 276 projects.

We awarded our 4 stdeat Top 10 with Ipad 2

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INEPO

We attended the olympiad called informatrix in Bucharest, Romania. It was organised by the Internatioanal School of Bucharest. We were hosted by Lumina University. We spent five days there. One day for preparations, two days for exhibitions, one day excursion and the last day for award-giving ceramony. As the olympiad team of Salahaddin Eyyubi College, we were very glad to be part of such an amazing experience. We were awarded with bronze medal. Shahab Soran Shahab, Zhiran Taha Abdullah. Superviser Sinan Bekir Pamuk.

Infomatrix / Romania

Ramyar’s program collection is a collection of useful programs and interactive games that took the 1st place in Kurdistan by wining Gold Medal at (I.T Generation Olympiad) in Erbil. After that, he participate in IYIPO. (International Young inventor Project Olympiad) for 2012 year that was held in Tbilisi capital of Georgia.43 countries participated in IYIPO with 52 projects. He has taken the 2nd place. There were many interesting activities in 5 days time in Georgia. They showed a great affection to our students. Let`s hear him: The Georgians are one of the most hospitable people in the world. They greatly respect their traditions and customs and believe that:” guests are en-voy of God”. Georgian are proud and freedom-loving people who highly value individuality. There are many beautiful cities which I have visited “Rustavi, Potti, Batumi”. They all helped us very sincerely to represent our projects. We won Silver medals and a discount for studying In IBSU(international black sea university)which is one of the most important University in Europe. I visited many schools there to make new friends and I have registered to IYIPO not to win but show the world that we aren’t dead we are still one of the best in the world.

IYIPO / Georgia

Fezalar Educational Institution organizes different academic and cultural activities for its all valuable students since 1994 in Iraq. The main goals of these activities are not only to motivate for lessons but also to integrate with the world. Among these activities INPO (Iraq National Project Olympiad) has a different place in the eyes of Fezalar Educational Institution. None of our distinguished students can stand missing the chance of being a part of this amazing experience. It is really a very big chance that is why all teachers with their students in Fezalar try to prepare their important projects un-der the supervision of well established universities in Iraq. The language of the competition is English, so all competitors should have a good capacity of En-glish, of course. The winners get the right to represent their projects in the different countries. Before these competitions, they get their presents, certificates and medals from Fezalar.

For this education season again, all of our students are invited as participants to the 8th INPO which will be held on January, 26, 2013 in Erbil and in Sulaimani. This year INPO has 3 categories that are Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Biology INPO will be organized by Erbil Ishik Nilufer Girls High School. Physics INPO will be organized by Erbil Ishik Boys High school and Chemistry INPO will be organized by Sulaimani Salahaddin Ayyubi High School. All participants should be registered online before the olympiad. Online Registiration starts on December,21, 2012. Registiration deadline is January,12, 2013. We’ll be glad to see you and your students in the 8th INPO.We are looking forward to hearing from you soon..

The results of the 7th INPO are as follows:

Biology : Sulaimani Girls College and Selahaddın Eyyubi College / 1 gold, 4 silver, 2 bronzChemistry : Sulaimani Girls College and Selahaddın Eyyubi College / 2 gold’ 2 bronzPhysics : Sulaimani Girls College and Selahaddın Eyyubi College / 1 gold, 1silver, 1 bronzComputer: Sulaimani Girls College and Selahaddın Eyyubi College / 2 gold, 1silver, 1 bronz

8th INPO

MSO / Sulaimani

Mathematics and Science Olympiad is an examina-tion organized by Fezalar Educational Institutions. The exam composed of two sections including science and math questions. The most successful students from state schools took part as a team for the sake of their schools. The Sulaimani dis-trict has achieved great success in Kurdistan.The exam which becomes a tradition gains more popularity in the eyes of the public. Due to this acceptance, the number of the participants is increasing over the last four years.Also we must appreciate the great help of Gener-al Manager of Education, Mr. Jabbar and Principal of Directorate of Education Mr. Kamal Nuri Gharib. Also, the teachers and students from Salahaddin

Ayyubi who were on duty showed great effort for the exam which took place in safe.

The winners who gained presents like bicycles, com-puters and Mp3 players. .

We congratulate them and we wish them a lifelong success.

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INEPO / Azerbaijan

Our students participated in INEPO (International Environmental Project Olympi-ad) with two projects. There were participants from 50 different countries. Our students’projects were about hand sanitizers (took the first step in Iraq and third step in Azerbaijan) and the effect of magnet on the growth of radish plant (took the second place in Iraq and second place in Azerbaijan).

MAFETYA / Izmir / Turkey

Fezalar Educational Institiution started to a new organization about international math olympiads. There was a qualification exam in Iraq. The succesful students earned the right to participate an Interna-tional Olympiad called MAFETYA last year. From our schools Salahaddin Ayyubi Boys and Sulaimani Girls College, there were 3 students in the team for 6 students. This year we will participate not only MAFETYA but also Balkan Junior Olympiad. That is why we excel the preparations for these projects.

Ramyar’s program collection is a collection of useful programs and interactive games that took the 1st place in Kurdistan by wining Gold Medal at (I.T Generation Olympiad) in Erbil. After that, he participate in IYIPO. (International Young inventor Project Olympiad) for 2012 year that was held in Tbilisi capital of Georgia.43 countries participated in IYIPO with 52 projects. He has taken the 2nd place. There were many interesting activities in 5 days time in Georgia. They showed a great affection to our students. Let`s hear him: The Georgians are one of the most hospitable people in the world. They greatly respect their traditions and customs and believe that:” guests are en-voy of God”. Georgian are proud and freedom-loving people who highly value individuality. There are many beautiful cities which I have visited “Rustavi, Potti, Batumi”. They all helped us very sincerely to represent our projects. We won Silver medals and a discount for studying In IBSU(international black sea university)which is one of the most important University in Europe. I visited many schools there to make new friends and I have registered to IYIPO not to win but show the world that we aren’t dead we are still one of the best in the world.

Science Hoopla / Sulaimani

This is a science fair for a week which was held in Salahaddin Ayyubi College. In this week we did some things about science, generally. We divided our student into four groups. Each day one group prepared some important subjects for showing the students. In the laboratory we studied fish and birds anatomy. They could see body parts of fish and bird by naked eyes. Also we played a game called Scavenger Hunt. In the last stage of this game students won nice chocolates. On the last day, we prepared science compe-tition and winners got some presents.

İNEPO is an olympiad that evaluates the projects to produce sensitivity for the environment. It was held in İstanbul and organised by Fatih College. Our Project earned the right to represent Iraq in İNPO then they participated in İNEPO in İstanbul. It was a good experience for our students. Fort his year they are prapering a more interesting projects that will hopefully gain a good degree in İNEPO.

INEPO / Istanbul / Turkey

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CELEBRATIONS

Nishtimani Celebration

We celebrated Nishtimani on 8th of March together with teachers and students. They wore Kurdish traditional clothes (Jili Kurdi) and performed Kurdish traditional folk dance (Hal-parke).

Newroz Celebration

Our students and teachers celebrated Newroz on our school yard. We made a fire for the memory of Kurdish tradition. By singing songs and performing Kurdish traditional folk dances, we had a great time all together.

Spring Festival

We traditionally organise a Spring Festival which is full of activites in our school. Our students exhibited their works on our school yard in April 2012. A science fair were conducted. With the appearence of parents, General Director of our Schools, Director of Educational Affairs of Sulaimani and some investigators we had a very good time all together. Students performed Kurdish traditional folk dances. Parents brought some homemade food. Our music club performed a short concert. The program lasted till the evening with lots of joy. It was a big positive effect on our students’ morale and motivation. It was an unforgettable memory for all the participants.

In our schools, we give a very big importance in social activities. We believe that if students feel like they are at home when they are at school, they can learn better. In addition to this, students can also improve their communicative skills during these activities. Without communinicative skills, student can not present their academic skills. Therefore we want our students to be able to express their academic skills that we have been paying a huge effort to help them gain. You will see a brief preview of our social activites below.

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES AT Salahaddin AYYUBI COLLEGE

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CLUBS

Music Club

Members came together several times in a week for practising. After improving

thier skills they performed a lot of concert to our students, parents and guests inside and outside Kurdistan.

Environment Club

Members of Environment Club tried to produce sensitivity towards envi-ronment by organising campaigns for picking up trash inside and around our school yard. They also planted trees in our school garden.

French ClubThe aim of this club is to learn basic level of French. The course was given by English teacher Mr. Mehmet Veysi who has been to Africa for nearly 13 years and he has learnt French there. At the end of the course most of the students who attended the club could speak basic French.

Table Tennis Club

The aim of this club is to make a school team to have good results in tournaments.We joined a tournment in Iraq last year and we took the 3rd place.

Jour- nalism Club

Our vigorous students worked very hard to publicize our school’s latest news. They published four issues of our “Salahaddin Newsletter”. Meanwhile they improved their journalism skills. Kurdistan will have very skillfull journalists in the future.

Chess Club

We tried to improve our students reasoning and competitive skills in this club.

Football ClubBasketball Club

The aim of this club is to teach students how to play basketball and the basic rules of it. Some of the students are already in formal basket-ball clubs. They know how to play. We help them to improve their skills. However, others don`t know very well. So, we start from the basic rules of basketball. We hope to see some of them in professional basketball teams in the future.

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We had also these clubs last year: Painting, Technology, Photography, Charity, Cooking, Science and Math

The aim of this club was to improve our student’s physical skills and to help them gain sportsmanlike behaviors. Also, we organized tournments and we awarded the winners

GRADUATION CEREMONIES

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Primary School Graduation Ceremony

We organised a graduation ceremony for the graduates of 2011-2012 educational season. With the presence of parents and high officers of Directorate of Education, we celebrated this plesant event. Our students prepared some performances to entertain our distinguished guests. At the end of the ceremony, our graduates got their diplomas from the hands of our honor-able guests. They have finalised the first stage of their education with lots of good memories. We wish them a very successful education life.

Sulaimani Boys’ College Graduation Ceremony

The ceremony for the graduates of 2011-2012 Sulaimani Boys’

College was amazing. The program started with the speech of

the principal of the School. After that, guests watched the ac-

tivites prepared by our students like live music, slide show and

Kurdish folk dance. And at the end of the program, students got

their diplomas from the hands of the Director of Education of

Sulaimani. Our students and their families immortalised these

unforgettable moments by taking lots of pictures.

Sulaimani Girls’ College Graduation Ceremony

Sulaimani Girls’ College organised a fantastic ceremony for its

gradutes of 2011-2012. The School Principal Mr. Durdu Kavak

made an inspiring speech at the begging of the program.

“Youths are the future of a country. To have a bright future, as

educators, we have a very big responsibility. We did our best for

the future of Sulaimani. I would like to thank to all who never

withhold their support from us” he said.

There was a small ceremony for three students who are at the

top ten of Ministry Exam. They were awarded with an Ipad.

The program continued with the live music performance of

students and slide show with memories of the school. At the

end, students were given their diplomas by the distinguished

guests of the program.