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Dear Parent/ Carer,
A warm welcome to the spring issue of our Newsletter
covering an action packed term, with so many highlights.
It is difficult to pick a specific highpoint, as every day at
Madani is a joy. As I write this however, two moments spring
to mind - the performance by the amazing LIA students at
the end of term awards assembly was simply unforgettable
and secondly, what was certainly the best World Book Day
we’ve ever had. From start to finish, the collective effort by
all staff across all teams, students (from Madani and LIA!),
parents and governors was amazing; the day really
encapsulated what Madani stands for.
On this theme of World Book day (WBD), it’s easy to immerse
ourselves in a bit of nostalgia on WBD and remember the
classics that we read growing up. The books, which
transported us into different worlds and adventures. WBD
proved that no one is ever too young, too old or too cool to
enjoy a journey with books and stories.
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See inside…
Head of schools message
World Book Day 2018
We love World Book Day at
Madani and this year was an
extra special celebration by staff
and students of authors, all types
of books fiction & non-fiction and
most importantly READING!
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Paris, France Maths Trip
Madani students visited a
number of art galleries, museums
and Parisian landmarks. See
inside for more information and
pictures from the trip.
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Ibn Battuta
Faculty
Humanities
History
Geography
RE
Citizenship
AHT/ Head of Faculty
Ms K Phillips
International Women’s Day (See also page 17)
IWD is always an important event in the year and
this year the Humanities department took the
opportunity to take part in the global call to action
to “press forward and progress gender parity.” This
included activities which examined how women’s
rights and the fight for equality have progressed
over time and how much progress we have
actually made towards gender parity today.
Guest speakers joined the Year 8 and 9 lessons to
help students explore important figures and events
in the past and present. Peter Barratt, the great-
grandson of Alice Hawkins, the leader of the
suffragettes in Leicester explained how women
from Leicester were involved in the national
campaigns to obtain the vote for women and Ms.
Mayat helped Year 8 students examine
inspirational female figures in Islam and in their own
families.
GCSE students explored what Islam teaches
regarding gender equality and how attitudes have
changed and how far British society has come
since women obtained the vote and of course how
far we still have yet to go to achieve gender parity.
On IWD itself, students across the department in
both schools shared their reflections in a display in
the reception area. It was wonderful to see the
impact of inspirational women, including those at
our school, have had on the lives of young people
in both schools. It was also great to see how many
students and staff wore the sashes supplied by Ms.
Khan. Students in her form presented explanations
of inspirational women of the present and the past
who have contributed to the process of working
towards gender parity.
Thank you to all who made the day a success!
Religious Education (See also page 15)
Year 9 students set up museum-like posts in the
library to show their learning about Rites of
Passage. The Rite of Passages work began as a
short term project to illustrate student
understanding of Abrahamic marriage rites in Islam,
Christianity and Judaism.
Each group of six students divided into pairs and
focused on the birth, marriage and death rites of
an agreed Abrahamic faith. The group was
expected to produce a book of the three main
monotheistic religions, telling the story of their
characters. They had to do so in a way that was
innovative, utilising an animation theme, thereby
challenging students to bridge contemporary
messages with traditional values.
Winners: Huda Vahora, Sana Bibi,
Muimmah Bora, Safiyah Irshad, Hoor
Sanjania and Umm-e-Habibah Khan
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Holly Smale Author Visit
We had such a treat for all our Geek Girl
aficionados on the 5th March when one of the
countries bestselling teenage fiction authors came
to our girl’s school. Holly is the author of the Geek
Girl series which we have had to buy many times
over due to its popularity.
The first book in the series, Geek Girl, received
favourable reviews and was the Number 1 debut
teen fiction book of 2013 in the UK. It won the 2014
Waterstones' Children's Book Prize in the young
adult category. It also received the 2014 Leeds
Book Award in the age’s 11–14 category and was
shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2013, the
Queen of Teen award 2014 and the Branford Boase
Award 2014. Holly told us that her series has sold
over 1.2 million copies and has been translated into
a number of other languages.
During her book signing; I don’t think we’d ever
seen such a long queue for autographs. A
terrifically enjoyable experience for our students.
Leicester Author Week
What a busy old day it was when we took a 100
pupils over to the Leicester Tigers stadium to visit
the Blue Peter Award winning author, Ali Sparkes.
Ali is currently writing her 43rd book and our
students received a free signed copy of her
latest book ‘Thunder Struck’.
Our pupils were chosen from the top 50 book
borrowers at the school so well done to those
deserved attendees.
Ali did a creative writing session towards the end of
the event and some of our students did some
fantastic pieces in the short time that they had (See
Isra & Ishrat’s 10 minute creative writing below!).
These will be up on display in the near future!
Ibn Thabit
Faculty
English
Literacy
MFL
French
Arabic/ Urdu
AHT/ Head of Faculty
Ms C Rajania
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Paris Maths Trip 22nd – 24th March 2018
Madani students travelled to Paris to visit a
number of art galleries, museums and Parisian
landmarks. These included the Stade de France,
Eiffel Tower, Musee du Louvre to see the Mona
Lisa and the Cite des sciences et de l’industrie.
Mr Bhana & Mr Vorajee who coordinated the trip
commented on how well the students behaved
throughout the trip at each venue, travelling &
praying salah on the way and at local Masajid.
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Al Khwarizmi
Faculty
Maths
Numeracy
Computing
Business Studies
AHT/ Head of Faculty
Mr I Esat
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Paris Trip continued
It was a most rewarding experience for the
students who got to practice their French,
numeracy and an enjoyable opportunity to see
the city’s many attractions.
Al Khwarizmi
Faculty
Maths
Numeracy
Computing
Business Studies
AHT/ Head of Faculty
Mr I Esat
Computer Science
Madani Students from Year 8 attended the Powering
Transformation 2018 event run by the Transformation
Trust at De Montfort University on 13/3/2018. It was a
fantastic opportunity for students to utilise the latest
Dell technology in a collaborative problem-solving
challenge with a focus on community activism and
the opportunity to increase technological fluency,
increase academic aspirations and enhance core
capabilities. Students benefited from interactive
campus tours focused around the potential of
technology and a talk by the University’s Student
Ambassadors which provided students with an
experience of a higher education environment.
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National SCIENCE and STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering and Maths) Week 2018
Madani Schools Federation celebrated the
National Science and STEM Weeks with an array
of talks, presentations, trips and activities related
to Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.
STEM Talk - Cavendish Nuclear
Years 7 to 10 students at Madani Boys School
and Madani Girls School listened attentively to a
STEM talk by Engineer Nabeel Vohra from
Cavendish Nuclear. He spoke about work in
Islam, about his education and career, Islam
and STEM/ Engineering, gave some career
advice and answered some fantastic questions
posed by our students and staff. The talks were
truly inspirational and placed a large
importance on how and why we should all make
a positive contribution towards society.
STEM K’nex Workshops
Year 8 to 10 students at Madani Boys School,
During Design, Technology and Engineering
lessons received a short talk from Gary Lefman
(Software Engineer - Cisco), Chaz Chatha
(Project Manager - Cavendish Nuclear), Judith
Payne (STEM Manager- LEBC) and Jack Payne
(STEM Coordinator - LEBC). This was followed by
their participation in the STEM K’nex challenge
where they had to, in teams, build a tower out of
K’nex. It had to be at least 50cm tall, hold a
tennis ball at the top and have some sort of a
moving mechanism using a K’nex motor. Our
students demonstrated fantastic team work,
communication and created some of the best
towers our guests had ever seen at schools.
Ibn Sina
Faculty
Science/ STEM
Biology
Chemistry
Physics
PE
AHT/ Head of Faculty
Mr N Alam
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Alhambra
Faculty
Art
Design
Technology
STEM
AHT/ Head of Faculty
Mr A Azeez
Did you know that illustrators use algebra? Or that video game designers use trigonometry? Or 80% of future jobs will require the use of. STEM fields!
Leicester College- Getting Girls into STEM
Year 10’s from Madani Girls School spent a day
learning about the importance of STEM related
careers, skills and knowledge hosted by Leicester
College. The girls thoroughly enjoyed themselves in
a range of activities and workshops in computing,
science, engineering, accounting, motor-vehicle
and construction workshops.
‘I am pleased to take this opportunity to report how
impressed I was with the students of Madani and how
they conducted themselves during the STEM day at
Leicester College. The students demonstrated an
advanced knowledge of networking and it was very
evident to see that the education they receive has
been of great benefit, both educationally and
socially. They were a credit to Madani and it was a
pleasure to teach them’.
Rachel Stevens, Programme Lead
STEM Land Rover and Jaguar Trip Solihull
Madani students had the fantastic opportunity to
visit the Land Rover and Jaguar plant in Solihull.
Following a Health and Safety briefing, they had a
tour of the factory in Land Rover and Jaguars
Minibuses. Students visited the Press Workshop,
Assembly Workshop, Finishing and Trim Workshop
and Final Check Station.
Students learnt about how the robots are
programmed, how the cars are manufactured,
lean manufacturing and many other important
aspects of running a hugely successful company.
This was followed by lunch, Salah, a Kando and
Octon Challenge, a short talk about career
opportunities, the importance of Science, Design
Technology & Engineering and Maths within STEM
careers and a Q&A session before we departed.
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House All-stars (All categories)
Ali Raza Ahmed 7RD
Ali Haider 9NS
100% Attendance
7RD: Tonem Abdul, Ali Raza
Ahmed, Zakariya Ahmed-Ismail,
Bilal Ifthikar, Abdullah Limbada,
Arqam Mohamed Shaffie & Taaha
Riyaz.
8AH: Idiris Farah, Ashar Hussein,
Amir Kassam, Nabil Kassam, Abdul
Sattar Mahomed & Mustafa
Seedat
9NS: Yaasir Haidar, Ali Haider &
Mohammed Limbada
10KA: M Dheeshan Abubaker,
Mohammad Alam, Mustafa
Mahamud, Umar Mohamed Ishak
& Muhammad Hamza Patel.
11SM: Adil Khalifa, Umar Farooq
Kholwadia, Burhan Mogra,
Abdurrahman Nurgat & Anas
Rahman.
During the last week of term before the Christmas holidays, staff
and students from the House of Muhammad Ali raised money
alongside the LIA relief trust to buy gifts for patients who would be
spending the Christmas period in Hospital.
Staff and students delivered the presents to Leicester Royal
Infirmary where we were greeted by Debbie Adlerstein (Head of
Business Development), Kamlesh Mistry (Community & Events
Fundraising Manager) and Vanessa Daniels (Children’s Unit) upon
arrival.
The hospital were extremely grateful and appreciative of our kind
gesture. As an added bonus some of our students also had the
opportunity to see the Leicester City players and took a few selfies
with Riyad Mahrez.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all staff and students
involved in making this initiative a success and supporting the
initiative.
Muhammad Ali House endeavour to carry out such initiatives,
through empowering our students to contribute positively to wider
society whilst giving a noble account of Muslims and serving to be
an inspiration to all as Muhammad Ali was.
December 21st 2017
Hospital Visit Mr R Afzal & Mr S Amanji
Muhammad Ali
House Head of House Mr R Afzal
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House All stars (All categories)
Safiyyah Muhammad 8AM, Zunaira
Akbar 10SJ, Sharifah Boulaatour 10SJ,
Zaina Ifthikar 10SJ & Taahirah Khan
100% Attendance
7SM: Suad Hassan, Saarah Lambat &
Maryam Mohamed Aashiq.
8AM: Quratul-Ain Abubaker, Hoda
Aidid, Fatima Haddad Hyder Ali,
Zaina Hasni, Diyaana Ifthikar,
Umaynah Jasat, Aakifah Lulat,
Hibaaq Mohamed, Safiyyah
Muhammad, Aaliya Randerwala &
Salma Salad.
9AW: Humera Adam, Anab Ahmed,
Aysha Damyal, Humairaa Pandor,
Asyah Salim, Kaltum Warsame &
Faduma Yusuf.
10SJ: Zunaira Akbar, Sharifah
Boulaatour, Zaina Ifthikar, Taahirah
Khan, Kadidja Ihsene Lahcene,
Umaima Mohamoud, Safia
Omar, Fathima Reema Riyas
Mohammed & Samiya Salim.
11JW: Amina Ahmed, Zaynab
Mansoor & Asiyah Waraich.
Malala Yousafzai
House Head of House Ms S Popat
In partnership with the Leicestershire Heartwize Schools
Programme, Madani students received hands on CPR, AED and
recovery position training. They also had the opportunity to
demonstrate CPR and AED techniques at half time during a
Leicester Riders Basketball match on the 3rd February 2018.
‘I would just like to say what an absolute pleasure it has been
teaching your students CPR this week, I have been treated with
the upmost respect by your students which is a credit to your
school, they have taken part with enthusiasm and been very well
behaved. I would also like you to say a big thank you to your staff
who have been very helpful, for making me feel welcome and for
your hospitality’. Ian Reynolds, St Johns Ambulance
‘Madani students who attended were a credit to the school…
Madani also won the third quarter challenge!’ Vicki Urch,
Coordinator, Heartwize Resuscitation Training Programme
January 15th & February 3rd
CPR/AED training &
Leicester Riders match
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The Anti-Bullying Assemblies were presented by Anti-bullying
ambassadors, Raziyah Marjan, Khamna Reza and Irsa Khan
(below) were on based on Quran and Hadith.
“O you who believe, let not people laugh at people, for they may
be better than them, nor let women laugh at women, as they may
be better than them. Do not find fault with your own people, nor
call one another by nick-names. Evil is a bad name after faith,
whoever changes not is one of the wicked” Al-Hujurat (49 11).
During the assembly, each student was asked to write one positive
attribute about their friend using their complimentary gift pencil
given out by the anti-bullying ambassadors.
January 23rd 2018
Anti-Bullying Assembly Ms M Chopdat
House All stars (All categories)
Nafis Firaz 10UV
Fahim Hossain 10UV
Sharmaarke Mohamed 9TM
Ibrahim Mughal 9TM
100% Attendance
7EC: Abdibari Aidid, Zakaria
Bazarwala, Ahyan Bhol, Yoosuf
Faleel-Ahamed, Muhammed-Yaseen
Patel & Shan Sulfikar.
8IA: Yahya Bunglawala, Abdullah
Kaasim & Muhammad-Zayd Patel.
9TM: Saubaan Mansoor, Umar
Mayet, Sharmaarke Mohamed,
Ibrahim Mughal, Muhammad Ali
Raja & Sekeriya Sharif.
10UV: Abdulkadir Abdulle, Mohamed
Bilaal Adam, Nadeem Ahmed, Nafis
Firaz, Fahim Hossain, Luqman Master,
Mohammed Misba, Aanis Ramzan,
Yamaan Tarapuri, Arif Varudi & Adil
Yoonus
11MP: Nasrudin Ahmed, Tayyib
Hussain & Yusuf Mahmood.
Mohamed
Farah House Head of House Mr Zamakda
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Madani Schools Federation supported the Safer Internet Day 2018
campaign of "Create, connect and share respect: A better
internet starts with you". We had a series of activities and events to
raise awareness of internet safety including: e-Safety information
points by our very own IT Support team, Assemblies by the police
(many thanks to Leicestershire Constabulary for sending PCSO Tom
L’Homme!), form time activities and many more.
Congratulation to the winners of our Design a Jigsaw competition:
Naadia Reza (9SC) – MGS | Ammar Patel (8AH) – MBS
February 6th 2018
Safer
Internet Day Mr I Esat, Mr B Ghodawala, Ms Ali & Ms Seedat
House All stars (All categories)
Muneerah Boulaatour 7SY, Saarah
Hassan 8MK, Mahirah Maleek 8MK,
Asma Firaz 9SC, Khadijah Ahmed
11MA, Tahmida Kabir 11MA &
Shaimaa Musthafa 11MA
100% Attendance
7SY: Mah Noor Ahmad, Afra Ajmeer,
Jumanah Altwaijeri, Muneerah
Boulaatour, Ayisha Pandor, Hazera
Rahman, Asiya Savage, Afifah Shaikh &
Soumaya Zemouri.
8MK: Aisha Abdi, Saarah Hassan,Amina
Hussain, Zainab Hussain, Asma Yoonus,
Mahirah Maleek, Aamina Musa,
Shaakira Mohamoud & Sara Sherzay.
9SC: Asma Firaz, Iman Hussain, A'mina
Patel & Naadia Reza.
10FM: Bushrah Abul Barakath, Mahh-
Noor Ahmed, Nafisa Chowdhury,
Rahmath Razina, Mohamed Marjan,
Aishah Musa, Samira Osman, Hajira
Raja & Aneeqa Usman.
11MA: Khadijah Ahmed, Tahmida
Kabir, Asma Khan, Shaimaa Musthafa,
Rishadha Ramzan, Khamna Reza &
Kani Salih.
Noor Inayat
Khan House Head of House Ms W Ali
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The session was part of an educational UK tour by ‘Solutions Not
Sides’ consisting of young Israeli and Palestinians, working together
to promote peace and better understanding of the principles of
conflict resolution around the world.
The programme is designed to prepare students to make a
positive, solutions-focused contribution to debates on Israel-
Palestine and other local, inter/ national contentious issues.
The Madani sessions commenced with our visiting peace activists
Nezar Aburas and Hagai Efrat with their powerful personal stories,
a series of presentations on different forms of conflict, followed by
group discussions and concluding with a Q&A with pupils.
The objectives for students were to:
• Explore their views and feelings about conflict and dispel any
stereotypes and prejudices that may exist between communities.
• Discuss events relating to local, national and international issues
in a safe environment and away from the often mistrustful realms
of social or selective media.
• Develop their social, moral, spiritual and cultural progress
February 26th 2018
Solutions
Not Sides Mr M Maghrabi
The MGS Maths Department
celebrated Number Day
2018 on Friday 2nd February
to raise awareness of
Numeracy, and to raise
money for the NSPCC.
Activities included:
• Display in the main
reception for Number
Day (3D shapes, etc.)
• Break & cake sale at
break time to raise money
for the NSPCC
• ‘Answer a riddle’
competition. Winners
were picked from all
correct entries to win
prizes.
Maths Day 2018
MGS Maths Department
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It was our great pleasure to welcome Lt Cdr Hannah Mackenzie
and her team from the Royal Navy. The visit initiated by a close
friend of the Federation Ms Hajra Makda, builds on the close
partnership we have established across the armed forces.
The presentation about the Navy and teambuilding tasks were
focused on the year 7’s of both the Boys’ and Girls’ school. The
aim is to continue the endeavour across other year groups in the
future with a visit from the team at least once per academic term.
Furthermore, there is also a school trip to the National Maritime
Museum in Greenwich who recently had a “Muslims at Sea” event,
scheduled for the next academic year.
‘It was an absolute pleasure to visit the school, we had a great time with
your students who were impeccably behaved & really enthusiastic with all
of our activities. Thank you for your wonderful hospitality. I hope this is the
start of a fruitful partnership between our two organisations’.
Lt Cdr Hannah Mackenzie.
February 28th 2018
Royal Navy Visit Mr I Patel
Ml Kauthar Ali coordinates
school visits to religious places
for our students and in turn to
Madani for visitors from other
schools. These trips are always
a wonderful opportunity for
young people to bring RE
learning to life.
This term, children from Krishna
Avanti visited Madani. They
visited the prayer hall masjid
and learned about some of the
prayer rituals of the Islamic
faith. The children learned how
Muslims wash before they pray.
In the prayer hall, the children
learned about the way Muslims
across the world pray, learned
about some of the Muslim
festivals and were able to ask
lots of questions. Thank you
Krishna Avanti for visiting!
Krishna Avanti
School Visit
February 21st 2018
Maulana Kauthar Ali
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Book Review
Madani Girls Year 7
Fiction Study
We like to make a big deal of all things reading at our school and
it was definitely the case on Thursday 1st March.
This year marks 21 years of World Book Day and the aim was to
encourage children to explore the pleasures of books and reading
by providing them with the opportunity to have a book of their
own and also to partake in our theme of celebrating Non-Fiction
and Fiction books alike.
All of our departments (teaching and support) were busy
preparing for the event this term from Mr Abdul Latif’s 1001 Muslim
Inventions competition, Creative Art’s 1001 textiles through the
ages, Miss Khan’s Rites of Passage competition to Miss Williams
Hunger Games Trials. These are to name but a few! We even had
our own World Book Day menu and Hot Dog stand created by Ms
Quarde and her wonderful catering team.
The school welcomed 240 primary school children from our sister
school LIA to take part in our exhibition and attend a very special
storytelling session by our in house bard; Mr Scott, captivating his
young and old audience in attendance. Our pupils and guests
enjoyed the curators table, learning about the many animals on
display and how they influenced some of our much loved fiction,
such as The Owl Service by Alan Garner and Fantastic Mr Fox by
Roald Dahl.
Lastly an enormous thank you to our Literacy Ambassadors,
ranging from year 9 to year 10. Our young creative minds made
this day a huge success. The buzz around the school was felt
throughout the day!
March 1st 2018
World Book
Day 2018 (A) English & Literacy Teams et al
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2018 Prize Winners
Category 1st 2nd
World Book Day Menu Ahmed Abdullah 7EC
Muneera
Boulatour 7SY
Ruqayyah
Kholwadia 7SY
1001 Muslim
Inventions
Muhammad Mustafa
Ali 8AH
Abu-Bakr-Siddiq
Short 8AH
Year 9 - Rites of
Passage (See left)
Huda Vahora
Sana Bibi
Muimmah Bora
Safiyah Irshad
Hoor Sanjania
Umm-e-Habibah
Khan
Salika Rehman
Sumaya Rifkan
Asma Firaz
Nadia Reza
Maanaar Dada-Ami
Hanaa Waraich
Hunger Games Zaeema Bobat 11MA
Madani World
Records Basketball
Shoot out
Ashar Hussein 8AH
March 1st 2018
World Book
Day 2018 (B) Winners and winners!
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Group photos of winners – see table on page 15
March 1st 2018
World Book
Day 2018 (C) Yet more winners!
Dr Bike - Sustrans
The wonderful Dr Bike, Danielle
Kennell from Sustrans visited the
school completing bike MOT’s.
Sustrans are the charity that's
making it easier for people to
walk and cycle!
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Last academic year, year 9’s were
learning about the #BLM in USA and
tasked to create a t-shirt campaign.
Two teams came out as resounding
winners.
Part of their prize was also to lead a
fundraising campaign, bringing
awareness to the issue of racism in
the UK. After researching, students
decided to raise funds for the
Stephen Lawrence Trust under a
campaign led by M Yoosuff & S
Farah. There were bake sales,
penalty shoot-out, & badge
competition for Y7 & Y8.
Thank you to all who helped raise
funds for the cause, funds will be
going to support scholarships for
young people from impoverished
backgrounds.
Thank you to the following year 10’s:
Assia Adjoud, Samira Omer, Leena
Abdelghani, Umaima Mohammud,
Zunaira Akbar, Sumaya Osman,
Samira Osman, Hoods Dirie, Ayaan
Dirie and a special well done to
Maryam Yoosuff and Samira Farah
for leading the campaign – you
were absolute professionals!
We are proud at Madani Schools
Federation to have such a talented
and enthusiastic student body!
At Madani, we decided to spread the beautiful message of
equality, as best demonstrated in our beloved Messenger’s (SAW)
life, by wearing yellow sashes to spread the positivity of women’s
roles in our lives today. Students wore sashes of both religious/ non-
religious women alive/ past to support the powerful message that
women should continue to raise awareness of the significance
they play/ have played in the past/ present. The message was
reiterated by Mufti Gaibee with a special talk before salah
covering key individuals from our history.
March 8th 2018
International
Women’s Day
#BLM & Stephen Lawrence Trust Appeal
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A number of students
volunteered to bake cupcakes
at school to help spread the
message of contemporary
female activists.
Thank you to: Leena Abdel
Ghani, Lamees Mohamed,
Zaina Ifthikar, Nusayban
Elayan, Zunairah Akbar,
Taahirah Khan and Humairah
Patel….and a very special
thank you to Ms A. Natha who
stayed behind to help support
this charitable cause.
The funds raised will be going
towards Freeva who are a
registered charity based in
Leicester, working towards
reducing domestic violence,
and abuse towards women.
IWD 2018 Baking
For IWD, Year 10 students chose to raise awareness about what
the #MeToo campaign is all about. In order to advocate, they
adopted a variety of strategies including teaching a short lesson
about the topic, as well as demonstrating their enterprising skills via
making bookmarks. They have examined the past as well as the
present, looking at stories about Harvey Weinstein and President
Trump in order to pose meaningful questions about power,
corruption and the continued objectification of women.
The Humanities Department also ran a competition, in conjunction
with World Book Day, and challenged students to create a book
cover of any non-fiction woman from the past and present.
Students were allowed to enter in pairs, and work with any year
group member. Below are some examples of the amazing entries!
Well done to all those who entered. The winner will be voted on
via the whole school (staff and students) alike in an election.
Given the amazing role models we have in the world, it’s
important for young people to be told the stories of brave,
amazing women. Women all over the world; young and old.
Women who aren’t necessarily found on the curriculum.
“I am part of a movement bigger than myself.” Amirah Salim (Y11)
“Nice, empowering… yellow… PROUD.” Ebyan Hersi (Y11)
“It feels good to wear the sash, as it’s important to stand up for
ourselves.” Zainab Hussain (Y8)
“Wearing the sash makes me feel powerful and united with all the
students and teachers.” Sehar Siddique (Y8)
March 8th 2018
#MeToo &
IWD 2018 Ms M Khan
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It was a great pleasure to welcome
the Matt Hampson Foundation to the
school. The powerful life story on the
day was inspirational to students and
staff. It raised their awareness of
disabilities and most importantly
demonstrated that people with any
disabilities can lead a full and
rewarding life.
The message of 'focus on what you
can do, not what you can't' inspires
us to 'get busy living' and achieve
our goals, understanding other's
circumstances and helps us all to
recognise how diversity brings
different experiences which in turn
creates a more interesting and
tolerant world.
We are really looking forward to
working with the foundation again in
the near future, particularly
fundraising, which is what we do best
at the school! Thank you Matt
Hampson Foundation for the
wonderful presentation & insight.
Matt Hampson Foundation
March 8th 2018
Mock Trials
2018 MGS Madani Girls school students attending the Mock Trials in
competition with schools around the county.
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March 8th 2018
Mock Trials
2018 MBS Madani Boys school students attending the Mock Trials in
competition with schools around the county.
A special mention goes to Ali
Haider for winning one of only
5 awards out of 200 students
that attended for being the
Best Witness/ Defendant!
Competition judges were also
particularly pleased with
Mahomed Abdul Sattar and
our magistrate team, Abu
Bakr Short, Umar Mayet and
Mustafa Seedat. Well done to
the following:
Abu Bakr Siddiq Short
Umar Mayet
Mustafa Seedat
Easa Bazarwala
Ali Haider
Abdullah Kaasim
Mahin Rahman
Sohail Shaikh
Congratulations Winner! Ali Haider!
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At Madani, we believe that books are not only a channel for
our imaginations, but an essential component of education,
one of the keys to unlocking students’ potential and
eventually helping improve the quality of life. Reading is a
fundamental element for both a successful education, and
our ethos. I therefore take this opportunity to request your
support by reading, listening and encouraging more reading
at home of all books and most importantly the blessed
Quran.
The first revelation to the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be
Upon Him) from the Angel Gabriel was the command ‘Iqra’ -
Read! It was a command that was repeated three times and
it became the first word of the opening verse.
The Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) also said:
"God, His angels and all those in Heavens and on Earth, even
ants in their hills and fish in the water, call down blessings on
those who instruct others in beneficial knowledge." - Al-
Tirmidhi.
Thank you/ shukran for your continued support this term and
for your part in helping us to make everyday a day of
reading for our students.
Yours sincerely | Wasalam
Mr Riyaz Laher
Head of schools
Madani Boys School
Madani Girls School
Madani Schools Federation
PS: LIA’s mini superstars and our captivated pupils below!
HEART Principles
Excellence The pursuit of excellence
with the highest
expectations &
aspirations for all learners
& the extended learning
community
Honesty Honest, sincere &
transparent approach in
all aspects focussed on
learning & outcomes and
placing our young
people first
1
2
Accountability Accountability to
ourselves, & our families;
to every learner, parent,
line manager,
community, country &
above all to God
3
Respect Respect for one’s self,
respect for each other,
respect for the school
environment & the wider
community
4
Prepared for adult life Tolerance &
understanding, valuing
each & every person in
our schools, society
communities, & most of
all, in our hearts & minds
5
Honesty | Excellence | Accountability | Respect | Tolerance 'we're here to learn'
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Vote Hanniya Kamran!
In her own words…
‘As a young person, I understand that we are often undermined; our
opinions swept aside and important decisions made on our behalf.
However, it is very important to realise that we have a voice and we
should not be afraid to use it!
This year I am standing for election because I strongly believe that it is
important for young people to be part of the picture in our society
today. In my last tenure in the YPC I participated in many campaigns
in order to do just that. These included and Anti Knife crime
campaign, conducting several youth surveys, helping to organise
conferences like the Don’t Hate Educate Conference and much
more.
By re-standing for Leicester’s Young People’s Council, I would like to
continue advocating for such issues and help my peers take hold of
their voice and use it to bring about a positive change.’
Leicester’s Young People Elections.
It’s time to think inside the box! Choose or lose!
Our very own Hanniya Kamran, stood for the Young People’s
Elections to represent area 1 and was successfully re-elected.
Voting took place between Monday 26th February and Friday
16th March 2018. At Madani, students were given the
opportunity to vote across both schools with the fantastic
support of the young people’s election team.