Volume 12 | December 11, 2020

BHA Principal's Update

Assalamu Alaikum Dear BHA families, As you may know, Governor Gavin Newsome issued a regional stay-at-home order as of Monday that would impact many industries for the next few weeks. We would like to assure you that this order will not affect K-12 schools that are already opened and thus, our school will remain open for in-person instruction with the existing health and safety precautions in place. We pray that Allah SWT keep us all healthy and strong and help us to fulfill our obligations and responsibilities. Ameen. Jazakum Allahu Khairan, Muhammad Aftab Diwan, MEd

A Note From The Teacher From Ms. Nivine: A great praise goes to Ayyub Dhamim, Ismail Abdinaser, and Asmaa Abdulkader, of 7th grade, who always show magnificent traits, great work skills, and never ending eagerness to learn. Masha'Allah their participation in class is constant. First ones to raise their hand for each and every question I ask (and the answers are always correct!). These students strive to achieve excellence in their work. They are always engaged and ready to support their friends. May Allah grant them success through the rest of their educational journey.

Students Highlight: From Ms. Asma: I wanted to send a special thank you to all my students, virtual and in person. I'm so proud of them for being absolutely patient waiting their turn to participate and showing respect to each other during our combined sessions. My in person students: you energize me every morning with your presence. My virtual students: you brighten my day the moment you join on zoom. I'm glad to be your teacher and I want you all to know "You are all very much loved!"

Travel over School Breaks  California is currently under a travel advisory. If your family is considering travel or planning a trip at this time, please review this important information from the CDC. We appreciate your support and diligence in helping us reduce exposure to students and staff.

RECIPE SWAP Let's come together during the upcoming breaks and share our favorite recipes with our BHA friends! Send a video or a simple infographic and we will post for others to try! Virtual sharing is caring! Please upload your video to google drive and share the link with us a an editor to : office@issdweb.org If you need help doing this, please refer to the following tutorial: How to upload files on Google Drive and share through link | How to use Google drive

Virtual Recipe Swap Book

December Character trait: Trustworthiness

AssalamuAlaikum Parents, This month Bright Horizon Academy will be learning about TRUSTWORTHINESS, inshaAllah. Each month we focus on a character trait by exploring what it means, why it’s important and how we can incorporate these traits every day. We have attached our Character Education newsletter with some ways that you can help your child continue to learn about trustworthiness. We suggest that you print the newsletter and place on your fridge or a family bulletin board as a point of reference for this month.

Hadith "Truthfulness leads to righteousness and righteousness leads to Paradise. A man will keep speaking the truth and striving to speak the truth until he will be recorded with Allāh as a siddeeq (speaker of the truth). Lying leads to wickedness and wickedness leads to Hell fire. A man will keep telling lies and striving to tell lies until he is recorded with Allāh as a liar.”

STUDENT ABSENCES In an effort to properly track and excuse absences, please kindly call our office if your child is sick or is going to miss a session. For a student to be excused for middle and high school, the parent needs to call the office and let Sr. Saba know. A student will not be excused based on his/her own saying they were sick. Sr. Saba will inform the teachers if a parent has called. If not, the student will be marked absent and not be given class participation points for that day/class.

Uniform Policy We are contracted with Lands End to provide our school uniforms. Please refer to the attached document for vendor link and uniform requirements.

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