Islamia Primary School

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We welcome you to Islamia Primary School. We are the first Islamic faith-based voluntary aided school in the UK, known around the world due to the school’s celebrity founder Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) who established the school 33 years ago.
At Islamia Primary School, we focus on providing children with a holistic education, ensuring that they achieve high academic standards in all national curriculum subjects. Our broad, balanced and creative curriculum includes STEM subjects like Coding to enable our pupils to be active citizens in an increasingly technological society. They also use 21st-century skills including critical thinking, problem-solving, effective communication, collaboration, creativity, and leadership to enhance their learning experience.
Our religious and value-based curriculum helps our pupils to develop a sound understanding of the Islamic faith and other faiths, free from distortion, misconceptions, or extremism. They establish a strong spiritual connection with Allah (God), a love of the Qur’an, proficiency in the Arabic language, and learn that the best of actions are those that bring benefit to others. We have a strong emphasis on values and work hard in nurturing children to have exemplary behavior, to be focussed and disciplined, and well prepared for secondary school and life within modern Britain.
Our impressive range of extra-curricular activities and enrichment programs allow pupils to take part in a broad range of activities every day. Our school ensures that no one is disadvantaged or discriminated against. We ensure that girls and boys are provided with equal opportunities and have access to all parts of our curriculum.
Islamia Primary School is probably the best-known Muslim school in Britain. Islamia Primary School was the first full-time Muslim school of its kind in England and the first to get recognition from the government after a long and difficult struggle. The School opened in October 1983 at Number 8, Brondesbury Park, NW6. Since then we have moved to what was known as the Kilburn & Brondesbury Secondary School. At first just a Nursery, Islamia Primary quickly grew to an Infant and then a Junior School too.
The school was soon known for its excellent results and was hugely popular and as a result needed to expand. Also, there was now a growing demand for a Secondary School. So in 1989, the Islamia Schools Trust bid for the Kilburn & Brondesbury Secondary School site which is now home to Islamia Primary School and the independent Islamia Girls Secondary School. The site had been an old, and rather exclusive, Grammar School with many prominent ex-pupils. It had also served as a Synagogue for a time, during the construction of a purpose-built Synagogue over the road, (which is now part of the Al-Sadiq and Al-Zahra Islamic School).
Finally, in January 1998, fifteen years after the school was founded, the government granted it state funding. The school continues to maintain excellent academic and spiritual standards.
Islamia Primary School is a fully inclusive, voluntary aided primary, Islamic faith school that admits pupils from reception to year 6. We aim to ensure that all pupils achieve their potential, personally, socially, emotionally, and academically in all areas of the curriculum (regardless of their gender, ethnicity, social background, religion, sexual identity, physical ability, or educational needs).

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