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JAMEA AL KAUTHAR
Overall Islamic Curriculum Policy
The Madrasah Curriculum is designed to develop a thorough and in depth understanding of the Islamic Faith. The Madrasah aims to provide students with quality education and a platform for striving for excellence. Further, the Madrasah seeks to develop and expand each student’s knowledge of Allah’s relationship to mankind within an environment that encourages excellence in every area of life.
Alimiyya Course - The Islamic syllabus and curriculum of Abrar Academy is based on the traditional Islamic course known as Dars Nizami. During the 6th century AH, the Dars Nizami formalized and systemized the method of acquiring knowledge in the Middle East. Since then, it has undergone numerous stages of development. The course was brought to the Indian subcontinent in the 11th century AH. Dars Nizami is taught throughout the world, in thousands of Madaris, as the standard course for the acquisition of the Islamic sacred sciences. It was brought to England, in the 1970s, by various teachers and Islamic scholars from the sub-continent. The Dars Nizami is based on a thorough, broad and balanced syllabus, designed to inculcate within the students a wide range of knowledge, skills, and practical experiences. It concentrates on the academic and educational development of the student, as well as placing great emphasis on the student’s moral, social and character development.
Teachers plan work on a termly-basis in correspondence to the set framework and have set targets to meet by the end of each term. These plans are then broken down into weekly details by each teacher. Pupil progress is monitored both informally and formally through daily inquisition and evaluation, fortnightly tests, biannual assessments, a mid- year exam and an end of year exam.
The Madrasah aims to
• Cater for the needs of individual children from all ethnic and social groups, including the most able and those who are experiencing learning difficulties.
• Facilitate student’s acquisition of knowledge, skills and qualities which helps them to develop intellectually, emotionally, socially, physically, and morally, so that they may become independent, responsible, useful, thinking, confident and considerate members of the community.
• Create and maintain an exciting and stimulating learning environment to develop each student’s ability to think, analyse and solve problems independently.
• Provide a broad and balanced curriculum.
• Recognise the crucial role that parents play in their children’s education and make every effort to encourage parent involvement in the educational process.
• Treat students in a dignified way.
• To promote and encourage the tolerance of other faiths and major world religions and to be a good and productive citizen in the society.
The students should
• Know how to apply the basic principles of health, hygiene and safety.
• Know about geographical, historical and social aspects of the teachings of the Islamic faith and pride in Islamic heritage.
• Learn: to be adaptable; how to solve problems in a variety of situations; how to work independently and as members of a team.
• Develop the ability to make reasoned judgements and choices, based on interpretation and evaluation of relevant information from a variety of sources.
• Begin acquiring a set of moral values, such as honesty, sincerity, personal responsibility, on which to base their own behaviour as are the teachings of Islam.