At Afifah School our vision is to create a school that develops every student’s mind, body and soul. We want to help each child become a confident, competent young person who has a strong sense of their global Islamic identity, and beliefs and can apply these. We want all our children to have a passion for learning and achieving. We want our children to make a positive contribution to society and how they live, study and work. We offer ways for children to learn in different ways including investigation and problem-solving; open-ended tasks; reasoning; research and finding out, with independent access to a range of resources; group work, paired work and independent work; effective questioning; presentation; use of ICT; visitors and educational visits; creative activities, designing and making; use of multimedia, visual or aural stimulus; participation in the physical or athletic activity; homework; extra-curricular clubs and activities. By the end of KS4 GCSE, results % of girls achieve 5 or more GCSEs. The curriculum is measured by how effectively it helps our pupils develop into well-rounded individuals who embody our values and carry with them the knowledge, skills and attitudes which will make them lifelong learners and valuable future citizens.

We offer a balanced curriculum that meets the National Curriculum’s requirements and promotes the school’s Islamic ethos.
We keep our curriculum under constant review. The overall purpose is to enable each pupil to access a broad and balanced curriculum that fulfils her potential.
Due to the greater curriculum flexibility offered in order to match the curriculum needs of the students better; students will complete Key stage 3 over a period of three years. (Yr 7, Yr 8, Yr 9) and Key stage 4 (GCSE) will be completed in a period of two years. We provide early GCSE in Year 10 for some subjects so that students have less pressure in Year 11 and can focus more on certain subjects. I.T. is utilised throughout the curriculum.

“Leaders have designed an ambitious curriculum with the national curriculum at its core. The curriculum develops pupils’ knowledge by building on what they already know. The school’s curriculum is also carefully designed to promote the school’s Islamic ethos. It allows pupils to study a range of modern and ancient foreign languages such as Urdu and Arabic.”

“Leadership of specific subjects in the secondary part of the school is of high quality.”

Ofsted 2019