Al Akram Trust

Amazing school amazing staff

Great school and lovely staff who try their best but could do with more help and support from the muslim community

The school is great and the teachers and head always work hard to help children achieve. The children know that they have a safe space to ask for help as and when needed. Overall the Islamic Ethos is well maintained. I believe it could do with community support to progress more. It is a much needed initiative and plays a big part in building lives for the coming generation of young Muslims.

Amazing public service setting foundation for all future generations

For a school that has been running over 20 years, it has a long way to go to reach its full potential.If you are planning on sending your children here for education then your sending it to the wrong place.This shouldnt put you off, it should make you understand that their focus is not education. This is proven by the standard of teaching, by employing teachers who have no experience and have not even spent 6 months under a teacher to learn how to teach.The teachers teach themselves how to teach or how they think they should teach.This is what we have after 20 years.When sending your children here, know you have to put double or triple the effort to teach the children at home for them to progress. Also make loads of dua for the school management and stop blaming the teachers as its mismanaged.

Where do we start. For new parents this is for you.This school is not as good as it used to be. Since new leadership this school is NOT an Islamic school. It’s more of a Pakistani oriented school.If you have a child starting here you have to be strong willed and stand up for your children.The teachers don’t take their job seriously. The children DO NOT progress (speaking about my children plus other parents!), if you rely on the teachers solely. I look back on the work each year and see the teachers are just repetitively doing the same thing again and again. The child is bored and doesn’t learn anything. If you don’t get support outside the school your child will not be successful.The teachers don’t have the best teaching etiquette either and will NEVER take ownership of any fault on their behalf. They will always blame the parent and will not handle any, and I mean ANY criticism professionally. They will raise issues about the education and have NO plans on their side to support your child’s development. They will never expect themselves to fix the lack of support in their school, and blame us parents even though we are NOT teachers and have sent our children there.They will send a random book home and expect you, the parent, to guess what needs to be taught. My children have suffered a lot educationally and every time an issue has occurred the teachers, including the board as well as the headteacher have NOT handled this well. They have in turn yelled and screamed at parents (genuine experience and can be verified by just speaking to them in the playground!) and even ostracised my children during school.This used to be a good school but has dropped in standards immensely. If you are enrolling your child PLEASE have a strong back bone. The teachers WILL gossip and their attitude towards you will change because you have stood up against them.They are NOT supportive nor helpful when it comes to enriching your children’s life’s educationally. Their teaching standards are below average and they do not possess the Islamic etiquette to process anything. This doesn’t go for al the teachers. Some are slightly better than the others. If however you do have concerns please do not let them patronise you or make it be your fault. They will always say that your child hasn’t experience the situation for example teacher being disrespectful, they will say your child made it up! Even though your children can verify name, time and place of it occurring PLUS have witnesses.Also if you do raise concerns to one of the directors, who goes by many names, he will repetitively mention he’s a doctor. All I can say is no one cares especially the parents if you are. You’re not our doctor and you didn’t change the world by becoming one. Prophet Muhammad Pbuh was a messenger of Allah! . Compare yourself to Him and humble yourself. We as parents don’t care if you’re a street cleaner as long as our children are protected and taught properly that’s all that matters. So please use that doctor energy there.My advice to the school, where has your deen gone? Where has your islam gone? There is a lack of Islamic environment amongst the staff and it just doesn’t feel like a school of deen.Before anyone asks why I send my children there? It is the only private school in derby. If there was another I would send them there in a heartbeat.I pray and hope this helps someone. Stay strong and always stand up for your children. Most likely is never their fault. Also keep your own log of what has been said when. They will always retract and say they never said that.Good luck