Staff & Students

AaSalamu Alaikum. My name is Hadeel Alabkari, and I’ll be the KG/G1 Education Assistant for the upcoming school year! I look forward to welcoming all the new and returning students to Al-Mustafa School. I am also looking forward to meeting all the parents and working with them to guide our students through a successful school year insha Allah.

My teaching philosophy that guides me to help my students succeed in the classroom and beyond is that I truly believe that their success begins with making them genuinely feel accepted, included, and appreciated in the classroom. Thus, I start our school year with plenty of activities so everyone can get to know one another. I encourage them to share their questions and opinions in a safe and open environment.

About my education and work experience, I have a bachelor’s degree in health education from King Saud University in Saudi Arabia, a postgraduate diploma in Public Health from the University of Liverpool, and a Master of Education from Simon Fraser University. I worked for ten years as a Health Educator, through which I gained the expertise which enables me to assess learning needs, tailor my approach accordingly and attune to my students’ unique qualities.  Additionally, my background in health allows me to help students with some medical conditions to manage their conditions at schools.

Sister Maryam Rizvi is manager of Al- Mustafa Junior Kindergarten, she was born and raised in Holy City of Mashhad and moved to Canada in 2006. She has completed her high school from New Westminster, BC in 2009 and then completed her ECCE Program from Surrey College in 2012. She has also completed Associate Degree from Hawza Ilmya Qom in 2017 and completed Early Childhood Education and Care Diploma with specialty in Infants and Toddlers care from Northern Lights College in Fort St John, BC in 2020. She has gained her diverse professional experience at Al-Mustafa Childcare, CEFA Guilford and YMCA of Northern BC before joining us last year to setup and manage Al-Mustafa Junior Kindergarten in 2021. She likes to read books, enjoy swimming, travelling and cooking. She has a great passion to work with young children and has four beautiful children of her own. She is fluent in Farsi, Urdu and English and love to work with parents and children for the strong start of the children in a curriculum rich with Nature and play based learning.