Tayyibah Girls' School

At Tayyibah we believe that education in an Islamic environment means instilling self-discipline and self-respect in to our pupils. We believe that we should inculcate good character within ourselves to reap true success in this life and in the hereafter.

Tayyibah Educational Trust was established in September 1992, with the aim of providing a high quality, excellent moral and academic education for girls in Hackney. Tayyibah Girls School is the flagship project of the trust.Our humble beginning was in a basement flat in Cazenove Road, Stamford Hill, with just 4 girls.Today there is a full primary, secondary school and sixth form. The school moved to its current premises in 1993. Further extension was made to the building to improve the facilities available to its students.One of the central aims of the school has been to provide an excellent education to its students equipping them for their lives ahead. Tayyibah Girls School over the years has been constantly been the top performing school in the Borough. Its Alumni have progressed into many professions including Medicine, Law, Education and Islamic Scholarship.

In Key Stage One and Key Stage Two, children are taught all the elements of the newly required syllabus of the 2014 National Curriculum for both core (English, Maths and Science) and foundation subjects (history, geography, art, physical education (PE) and religious education). At Tayyibah we have worked hard to ensure that the change to the new national curriculum has been smooth and through our planning we have endeavoured to ensure that all learning is matched to individual needs of our children. As far as possible a cross-curricular, thematic approach is used to teach the ‘core’ and ‘foundation’ subjects. A theme is selected and applied across a year group each term. By adding this dimension to learning we are able to provide opportunities for key skills to develop across the curriculum and to cultivate creative thinking.

The Secondary School curriculum is academically rigorous and enables girls to develop those significant intellectual skills that go beyond each academic discipline, to ensure they can use their knowledge in new situations and see connections between and within subjects. Such skills are fundamental if pupils are to achieve their maximum potential and develop as independent, focused learners who are academically successful. Girls have the choice of Arabic, Urdu or Turkish as their main language. French is also available as an after school language for those with a French speaking background or interested in learning French.

At Tayyibah we aim to:

• Assist our pupils to achieve the very best they are capable of achieving.
• Continue to develop and improve the essential literacy, numeracy and ICT skills of the pupils.
• Improve their social skills so that they are fully prepared for the next stage of their education and of their role as responsible adults.
• Ensure that all pupils and staff feel part of a whole learning community where it is safe to learn and feel included, valued and respected.
• Ensure pupils aim high, are proud of their achievement and leave school believing in themselves, their abilities and their capacity to grow and change.

Tayyibah Girls School provides a range of extracurricular activities available to students.Staff are very generous with their time in order to enrich our students’ experience and a large number of clubs and activities are available covering a wide variety of interests.English, Mathematics, Art, French, and Arabic clubs are all active within the school. The school is in the process of enrolling our senior girls onto the Duke of Edinburgh Award.The school also gives it students to raise money for a variety of charitiesOur school council, provides students with the opportunity to involve themselves in school issues.

New technologies have become integral to the lives of children and young people in today’s society, both within schools and in their lives outside school.The internet and other digital and information technologies including social media are powerful tools which open up new opportunities for everyone. New technologies help teachers and students learn from each other. They can stimulate discussion, promote creativity and effective learning. Children and young people should have an entitlement to safe internet access at all times. The requirement to ensure that children and young people are able to use the internet and related communications technologies appropriately and safely is addressed as part of the wider duty of care to which all who work in schools are bound. The school online safety policy should help to ensure safe and appropriate use.The use of these exciting and innovative tools in school and at home has been shown to raise educational standards and promote student achievement.

Tayyibah Girls School would like to keep in touch with all leavers from 1992 onwards. This is an opportunity for former students to offer invaluable support in a range of ways, for example as career and educational role models, mentors, work experience providers, or even fundraisers or donors.