Assunnah Primary School

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Alhamdulillaah – All praise and thanks be to Allaah.

Assunnah Primary school is an independent, selective, faith-based Muslim School. We strive to offer a holistic education cultivating growth along spiritual, moral, emotional, intellectual, physical, and communal dimensions. We aim to positively orient our students towards realizing their full potential as exemplary contributors to our society, in actively promoting fundamental universal values.

We are against radicalization that leads to unjust acts of violence and the violation of fundamental universal values. We encourage peaceful but effective communication, dialogue, and interaction with all parties who are keen to work towards achieving common goals of goodness.

Assunnah Primary School aims to deliver a tarbiyah (having manners) based model of education which caters to the child holistically. The school achieves these primarily through its tarbiyah timetable which has the following key features:

• Early Bird Clubs before school.
• Whole School Assemblies that cover, Hadeeth, actions through role-plays of the Names of Allaah, Seerah, and much more
• Daily Quran lessons first thing in the morning
• Punctuated learning with 50 & 60-minute lessons followed by 10-minute breaks. There are no back-to-back lessons.
• Themed breaks such as duha (mid-morning) break, physical exercise break, siesta break, and a snack break.

The school reinforces the tarbiyah model in its style of delivery in the classrooms with tarbiyah links and special tarbiyah classes.

Serving our creator is an absolute honor and privilege that brings enormous purpose and value to our lives. It is for this purpose that we perform to our best and continue to grow wiser, fairer, and increase in acts of goodness, righteousness, kindness, and truthfulness. The educational process is therefore how we seek to achieve this excellence as learners.

We believe that education should be holistic extending beyond academic achievements and where learning leads to lifelong growth that the learner owns and manages. The educational process therefore should comprise of developing the complete person in consciousness, noble character, useful knowledge, healthy living, social living, and public service.

This holistic education is best demonstrated through the practice of habits where learners have a passion for self-development, the development of others, practice of independent thinking, sincerity of purpose, moral character, mindfulness, and relentless compassion for others. It is also about being confident without arrogance, where learning is without limits, and where there is a genuine thirst for knowledge that extends beyond the confinements of the classroom.

The journey to completeness needs to include the process of freeing our ego and overcoming low self-esteem, thus leading us to the practice of higher virtues of being grateful, tolerant, understanding, courteous, and respectful. All in all, we believe that this leads to the growth of determined individuals committed to peace and justice.

We at Assunnah are on a journey to unlock the many things that make up a truly sincere and fulfilling education. We seek the outreaching impact of truth, humility, compassion, and justice on ourselves, our staff, our pupils, our community and our society both locally and globally Insha Allaah.

Today, Assunnah Primary School is oversubscribed and our waiting list is growing significantly every year. Our current accommodation is what is limiting us to meet those demands. This is the fundamental reason why Assunnah Primary school is looking to move to a more spacious location.

Assunnah Primary School was established in 2007 the school was the project of Assunnah Islamic Centre and was formed in response to the high demand from the Muslim community in North London for an Islamic Primary School. It was also created to address the under-representation of Muslim schools in the borough of Haringey.

At first, the school was mainly attended by members of the local community, but with the growth and success of Assunnah Primary School, we now have students from neighboring communities and even from the outside boroughs.

At Assunnah Primary School we provide a well-planned, broad, and balanced curriculum designed to further children’s development and learning, and at the same time acknowledge their individual needs and abilities.

Our challenging curriculum encompasses a great range of both academic and Islamic studies and is taught within the Islamic context of the teachings of the Quran and Sunnah to provide children with a solid foundation in Islam.

The school has specific tarbiyah classes which are held twice weekly in which matters of iman (faith) and fiqh (jurisprudence) are taught. Tarbiyah often intertwines the different Islamic Sciences together, making use of points from Quranic references, authentic hadeeth as well as famous and inspiring stories. Children are also encouraged to articulate Islamic poems and take part in singing Nasheeds to consolidate their learning and development and also to experience the beauty of Islam. The school offers the standard national curriculum subject.

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