The children will be planting seeds and bulbs and a variety of small trees. They will be taught how to care for these plants, watering them, making sure they get plenty of sunshine and ensuring there is good quality soil. The children will learn that all these are gifts from God and should be respected and cared for as the Prophet (PBUH) would have done.

“Honey is a remedy for every illness and the Quran is a remedy for all illness of the mind, therefore I recommend to you both remedies, the Quran and honey.” [Bukhari] We are excited to announce the introduction of our Sunnah Snack Shack. The Sunnah snacks will be available to purchase from our Snack trolley at breaktimes. We are hoping to introduce this to our Year 5 classes initially and it will be rolled out to the other year groups over the next few weeks. The aim of our Sunnah Snack Shack is to allow our children to make healthy eating choices as well as becoming more aware of the foods our Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) used to enjoy eating.

ssalamu alaykum (peace be with you) and welcome to our second Faith and

Enrichment Activities Our stimulating school curriculum is enriched through a wide variety of after school activities. This Term children have been able to choose from a variety of clubs including Nasheed Club, Qur’an Club and Creative Arts. Over the next few months, we will be using our stunning environment to enrich the children’s learning. .

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Issue no.2 Spring Term 2016-17 / Rabi’ uth-Thani 1438 AH–Rajab 1438 AH

"The believer is not stung from the same

hole twice." [Bukhari]

“Fear God in regards to these animals, [a

creation] which cannot speak of their will.” [Abu

Dawud]

"Whoever treads a path searching for

knowledge, God will make easy for this person the path to

Paradise." [Bukhari]

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“Verily, I have made oppression unlawful for Me and for My servants too, so do not oppress

one another.” [Muslim]

"God continues to help His servant as long as

he continues to help his brother." [Ahmad]

“Let whosoever believes in God and in the Last

Day honour his neighbour.” [Bukhari]

"A strong person is not the one who overcomes others by his strength,

but the strong one is he who controls himself

when angry." [Bukhari]

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“Let whosoever believes in God and in the Last Day honour his

guest.” [Bukhari]

“Richness is not in having many belongings

but richness is the richness of the soul.”

[Bukhari]

"Be in this world as though you are a stranger or a traveller.” [Bukhari]

“The pleasure of God is in the pleasure of

parents and the displeasure of God is in the

displeasure of parents.” [Ahmad]

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N E W S L E T T E R

OF THE

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

P2

Visits

Sunnah Snack Shack Trolley Options

- Dates

- Olives

- Toast with Honey

- Cucumber

- Breadsticks

WEEK 28 “Indeed God is gentle and loves gentleness,

and gives due to gentleness that which

He does not give due to harshness” [Tirmidhi]

WEEK 27 “The signs of a

hypocrite are three: lying when speaking, breaking a promise after making it and

breaching a trust when given it.”

[Tirmidhi]

“My favourite Hadeeth is about Richness of the Soul

because knowledge is wealth, and it is the only

wealth that cannot be stolen”

- Zakariyya Vali (Yr 5)

“My favourite Hadeeth is about helping

others, it means we should be kind all the

time” - Abdulhamiid Sheekh

(Yr 3)

“Festival” comes to The Olive Khaled is a renowned Nasheed Artist who has taken YouTube by storm. Khaled’s nasheed “Festival” has received over 1.5million views and we were delighted to welcome him to the Olive School, Blackburn, on Friday, 24 April, 2017 for our end of term Awards Assembly. Khaled presented the end of term awards to our children with a message of “anyone is capable of achieving their dreams”. Khaled performed Nasheeds a capella and held workshops with our Key Stage 2 children. Congratulations to all our children who achieved an award.

Khalid Siddiq with our Pupils

Khalid Siddiq performing a capella

Children enjoying the performance

Some of the work created in Gardening club

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Faith & Character Newsletter SpringTerm 2016-17 / Rabi uth Thaani 1438 AH – Rajab 1438 AH

Faith & Character Newsletter

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People Who Help Us

“…Help each other to goodness and heedfulness. Do not help each other to wrongdoing and enmity.” [Surat al-Ma'ida: 2]

During the second half of the Spring Term the children have been learning about our community and the range of people who help us. The children were given the opportunity to familiarise themselves with different agencies we have available to us. This included the Fire Service, Doctors, Nurses and Police Officers, who visited the school and talked to our children about how they help us. The children began their topic by focusing on the role of a doctor and read the story ‘Topsy goes to the doctor’. From this the children innovated the story to create a character who had a different illness. By the end of the topic our children were inspired to become part of the ‘People who help us’.

Year 4 visit to Blackburn Cathedral

Our Year 4 children visited Blackburn’s beautiful Cathedral as part of their RE Curriculum. The children learnt about the features of the Cathedral and how these are significant within the Christian religion. During their visit, the children were able to look at some artefacts and learn about Christianity, which allowed them to compare similarities between this faith and their own.

Children visit the Blackburn Cathedral

Some of our gifts to St. Chads

Gifts exchange

Sharing snacks

Grandparents get involved!

OLIVE SCOUTS During the last few months, weekends at the school have been enriched full of Scout’ful activities! From life skills to planting to a fun-tastic themed Science week, the children worked to contribute towards developing their full physical, intellectual, social and spiritual potentials as individuals. Earlier in the term, the budding Scouters were sworn into the Scouting Family during the Investiture ceremony. The children read out their Scout Promise and were presented with their neckers in front of an audience of proud parents and supporters. The children have also taken part in the Easter Extravaganza hosted in Bowley. This was filled with fun, games an Easter Egg competition and plenty of smiles! Every Scout activity is exciting but a particular one was when the Olive Scouts were invited to take part in interviews with Sky News, explaining what made a good Scout Leader and encouraging others to join the Scouting family! But of course, no Scout activity is complete without some fun, so our children (and some of the grown-ups!) worked in teams to climb crates! Well done to Zayd Ashif and Zafreen Mohmed for climbing up the most crates!

Sky News interviewing the children

Easter Extravaganza

Zayd Ashif and Zafreen Mohmed

Olive Beavers saying their Promise at the Investiture Ceremony

Gardening Project