Our Young learners aged 5-6 have been learning all about The Great Fire of London this week!. They listened to an audio and imagined what it would have been like. The children then found out about some facts about his historical event. Did you know that The Great Fire of London happened between 2-5 September in 1666. The fire began in a bakery on Pudding Lane. Before the fire began, there had been a drought in London that lasted for 10 months, so the city was very dry!. Lots of people had houses made from wood and straw which burned easily. Houses were also built very close together. We know what happened during the fire because people back then wrote about it in letters and newspapers – for instance, Samuel Pepys wrote about it in his diary.
Artists who were alive in 1666 painted pictures of the fire afterwards, so we know what it would have looked like if we’d been there too. The class were then inspired and went on to create their own artwork of the Great Fire of London!.
Alternative energy sources are a big deal these days. One such source is the wind. Our Homeschooled children having been finding out how wind turbine can use the power of the wind to generate energy for their science project. The students aged 10-11, designed various turbines using diffrent blades to find out which produces the most energy, and put the wind to work!
Our students online have been creative wrting this week! students now recognise the power of poetry—its ability to inspire emotions, recall a favourite memory or writing just for a giggle!. Poems come in a wide variety —from haikus, to ones that follow conventions of word choice and line length, to the-sky-is-the-limit free verse!.
Our wonderful online students aged 10-11 have been practising writing in Arabic. They went on to describe how they celebrated their Eid day! Children who read have better language skills. For our students who are learning the Arabic language read, speak and now have the essential writing skills.
Our homeschooled children have been experimenting! The students aged 10-11 used electricity to split water into its two elements, hydrogen and oxygen. Although the oxygen remain dissolved, they saw evidence of the hydrogen ions. This process is called Water Electrolysis.
Every language has its own idioms and expression and the English language has plenty of phrases that is useful to learn. Idioms are words or phrases that are not meant to be taken literally and usually have a cultural meaning behind them. Most of the English idioms you hear are offering advice’s but also contain some underlying principles and values. Our home-schooled children ages 10-11 have been having fun trying to work out what the meaning behind commonly used idioms we use in our our every day life.
The Tuition Club resumes back on Monday 1st June 2020
The Tuition Club will be continuing online back at the normal timings of 10am-3pm InshaAllah.
Please watch out for regular updates via our Facebook and Twitter accounts (‘Tuitionclub) or join us on our Telegram channel (telegram.me/thetuitionclub)
The Tuition Club resumes back on Monday 20th April 2020
The Tuition Club will operate at slightly different hours.
This is to bring ease to those who are fasting during the blessed month of Ramadan and may find it difficult to arrive online at 10:00am after night prayers etc.
The opening times for this term will be as follows: 11am – 4pm
Please watch out for regular updates via our Facebook and Twitter accounts (‘Tuitionclub) or join us on our Telegram channel (telegram.me/thetuitionclub)
The Club will be on Monday as normal inshaaAllah, however there are some important things to note with regards to precautions being taken to ensure the best possible response in line with government guidelines.
Keeping Children at Home
In accordance with the current guidelines then we ask parents to check if their child has a continuous and persistent cough or high temperature; or experiencing any other symptoms. If so then please keep your child at home – JazaakumAllaahukhair – and please contact us and let us know.
We love and care for every child who attends and don’t want any to fall behind. Therefore we are opening up the spaces on our online class platform to the children who attend the Tuition Club; if they cannot attend on site. Please let us know and we will arrange this for you.
Precautions Taken On Site
The health and wellbeing of our community, children and staff is the number one priority. As the
COVID-19 situation develops we wanted to share the proactive enhanced steps that we have taken
to ensure that our students and staff members are safe. These enhanced safety measures have already begun and include:
Regularly disinfecting high touch areas including handrails, door handles, surfaces and
electronic devices.
Installing anti-bacterial hand soap at every sink
Removing the use of hand dryers and encouraging the wiping of wet hands on paper towels.
Increasing weekly caretaking times and deep cleaning to the Masjid areas, classrooms and resources.
Ensuring all staff have the information they need to stay healthy and continuously keep a high level of hygiene. Anyone that is feeling unwell (whether COVID-19 or not) is to take extra measure and remain at home.
All trips and events will be postponed and under review.
We have covered and will be covering hygiene with all children across schools. This includes how they should wash their hands properly in accordance with NHS and WHO guidelines;as well as the required techniques for coughing, sneezing and catching any of this in a tissue then binning it.
The masjid has already announced as a whole to any member of the congregation that is feeling unwell (whether COVID-19 or not) to remain away from the congregation – in line with the advisory from the permanent committee of Scholars.
We hope this goes someway to helping everyone understand the environment and the precautions under taken already.
May Allah keep us all well and safe; and upon Him is our reliance and final return.
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