Notes
Written for the people doing the actual work.
Not announcements, and not devotional writing — there is plenty of both elsewhere. These are the answers we end up giving in messages, written down properly so they can be sent to the next person who asks.
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For parents
Ten minutes at home that actually work
You do not need to read Arabic to help your child practise. You need to listen, in a fixed slot, for a length of time you will not resent.
Madrasa Ayesha6 min read
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Everything else, newest first
Four categories, and no tags. When there are enough articles for tags to help, we will add them and not before.
- How we teach
Why every class here has one student in it
Group classes are cheaper to run and easier to fill. We do not run them, and the reason is narrower than it sounds: reading aloud cannot be corrected in a group.
Madrasa Ayesha5 min read
- Tajweed
The four letters almost every new reader gets wrong
Not because they are difficult, but because English has no sound in the same place. Once you know where they are made, they stop being a matter of luck.
TODO — teacher name7 min read
- Hifz
In Hifz, revision is the whole job
New pages are the easy part and they feel like progress. What decides whether a Hifz finishes is what happens to page 200 while you are learning page 400.
TODO — teacher name8 min read
- For parents
How long until my child can read the Quran?
The honest answer is a range, and the range is wide for reasons that have nothing to do with how clever the child is.
Madrasa Ayesha6 min read
- How we teach
What the monthly note is for
Every student gets one written summary a month. It exists because “he’s doing well, mashallah” is not information, and because a teacher’s memory is not a record.
Madrasa Ayesha5 min read
Questions
Something here you want to ask about?
These articles are written from the questions families actually send us, so if yours is not answered above, it is worth asking — it may well end up being the next one.