End of Year

Report to Parents

Assalaamu ‘alaikum

(Peace be with You)

Eden Boys’ School, BoltonAcademic Year 2015/16

To promote a culture of educational excellence, from within

a caring and secure Islamic environment enriched with the

values of discipline, mutual care and respect which extends

beyond the school into the wider community.

Nurturing Today’s Young People, Inspiring

Tomorrow’s Leaders

Mission and Vision

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Another successful Year:

2015/16 : Eden was over-subscribed with over 200 students applying for a place. 109 were admitted including 9 successful appeals

2016/17 : Eden over-subscribed again with 207 students applying for a place and 120 were admitted

Attendance remains strong – In our first year (2014/15) the school’s overall attendance was 97.7% - this was the 6th Highest in England out of over 3000 secondary schools; In 2015/16 overall attendance was 97.4% - it is likely that this will place Eden in the top 10 schools in the Country

Over 97% of students made expected progress and around 70% made better than expected progress – (top 5% in the country)

High quality teachers recruited for all subjects and successfully inducted into the Eden Way

Successfully managed two massive transitions during the past academic year without any fuss or any dip in achievement:

1. in September 2015 created 4 extra rooms using the school hall, staffroom and site supervisors room to accommodate additional 109 students into Cotton Street

2. in January 2016 moved the whole school from Cotton Street into our brand new purpose-built building on Wolfenden Street

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Successfully using new building to its full potential – students now have access to:

Excellent facilities in every classroom including Interactive White Boards

State-of-art ICT, Computer Studies and Design Technology equipment

7 Modern and well-equipped Science Laboratories

Sports Hall, MUGA, football/cricket pitch and Fitness Room with all the latest equipment. Other specialist equipment includes full size and 7-a-side goals, indoor cricket nets, professional bowling machine, and outdoor cricket nets

Prayer Hall and ablutions

Purpose built Dining Hall and kitchen – new improved meal offer

Library – over 1000 books have been bought so far and more will be added during the coming year as part of our drive to encourage boys to read more regularly

Partnership with Environmental Services and the Neighbourhood Management Team established. Litter-picking rota established to clean up the area surrounding the school as it looks a bit grubby – lots of litter being dropped or blown onto the front of school each evening and at weekends

Lockers fitted in school and made available for students – currently about 100 students have taken up the option

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Staffing Fully staffed in 2015/16 with qualified and experienced staff

Recruitment for 2016/17 has gone very well with good teachers appointed for English, Humanities (RE, History and Geography), Computer Science, Maths and Design Technology

Recruited an experienced Head of Communications (English and Languages) to further enhance middle leadership

Recruited two extra Heads of Year (one full time and one part time) to further improve the pastoral system

Recruited 3 extra Teaching and Learning Assistants to make sure children with SEN needs get the best support

Recruited two extra receptionists to make sure parents and visitors are well received and get a fast, efficient and friendly response

Recruited a data/exams officer to make sure parents continue to get regular high quality information about their son’s progress

Recruited an extra cleaner to make sure our buildings continue to reflect the high standards we set for ourselves and our students

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Curriculum

Continuing to deliver a rigorous academic curriculum based on the English Baccalaureate

Detailed assessment, monitoring and tracking to ensure every student makes excellent progress – regular (half-termly) report cards to parents

High quality intervention and support programmes for students who are behind nationally expected standards for their age-group or who are under-achieving

Detailed work has been done by senior leaders, subject specialists and consultants across the Trust to get ready for the new GCSEs, the changes to the assessment, recording and assessment systems nationally and the new GCSE grading system

We have organised sessions for parents about the new GCSEs and the new national Grading System (9 to 1) that will replace the GCSE grades (A* to G)

Curriculum adapted to include Creative Philosophy in KS3 from Sept 2016

Introduced GCSE Citizenship for all students to link in with our emphasis on community service, charity and the development of good character

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Varied and exciting enrichment programme made up of subject-based clubs, educational visits and speakers delivered throughout the year

Wide range of sports enrichment activities after-school and at weekends including competitive football matches against other Tauheedul Schools. We will organise football and cricket matches against other Bolton schools in 2016/17

2 full sports days delivered (Leverhulme Park and school)

New sports enrichment planned for 2016/17 – Sunnah sports (swimming, archery, horse-riding and wrestling)

Fantastic end of year trips organised and delivered including Alton Towers, Sandcastle at Blackpool and Bowling

35 students took part in adventure activities at a residential centre in the Lake District

2 students went to France and Belgium as part of WW1 Centenary commemoration

Range of spirituality-based activities delivered throughout the year including in-school Seerah Competition and Nasheed artist and Qari (Qur’an Reciter) in assembly

Range of external speakers to help students develop careers awareness, enthuse and engage them e.g. Mosaic Mentoring Project for Year 9, STEM speakers, Study skills and Memory/revision workshops

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Other highlights

Move to New Building including ‘Burying the time Capsule’ with the Mayor and Mayoress of Bolton and other guests

Family Open Day for all parents – over 400 people attended and the feedback was fantastic

Official Opening Ceremony with the Lord Nash (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools), Vicky Beer (Regional Schools Commissioner) and a host of other dignitaries –feedback was outstanding – particular mention of:

Fantastic input from our students including the Talawat (recitation of the Qur’an in Arabic followed by English translation) and poetry recitals to commemorate the Queen’s 90th birthday

The confidence, smart appearance (uniform), good manners, excellent behaviour and respect shown by all the students including those in the audience

The Brexit debate – the confidence, creativity and skill of those taking part and its relevance to what’s happening in the country

The new building and state-of-the art facilities

The quality, organisation and creativity of the day

What do others think of us?

DfE Advisor (ex HMI) has visited the school on a number of occasions. On each occasion he has:

Observed a wide range of lessons from all year groups and all subjects,

Met with groups of students and staff including pastoral and SEN staff

Checked student books from all subjects

checked our documentation and analysed our data (students achievements and

progress, attendance, exclusions, SEN etc.).

His official report to the DfE states that the school is outstanding in all areas

Trust Quality Assurer (ex HMI) has also visited the school on a number of occasions and made similar checks. She also stated in her report to the Trust that the school is outstanding in all areas

Visitors to the school (Open Day, Opening Ceremony, Open Evenings) have provided excellent feedback congratulating the school on its excellent achievement and progress, the fantastic new building and facilities, and in particular on the appearance, behaviour and conduct of our students

What You Said

Provide lockers for students

Organise charity collections for victims of Cumbria Floods

Improve school meals and provide break time option

Organise an Open Day so parents can see and appreciate the new building and fantastic facilities

More enrichment activities and greater variety and choice

More opportunities for children to compete against other schools

Provide opportunities for creativity in school

Create a Eden Boys’ School Uniform Bank so that uniform that doesn’t fit any more doesn’t go to waste

Provide Parent Workshops so parents can have better information about how to keep their children safe and help them with their school work

What We Did

Provided lockers for all students who want one

With Parent Shura support, raised £1390 for Cumbria Floods Appeal

New school meal provider commissioned including healthy hot snack options at break

Family Open Day delivered with over 400 people visiting, taking part in a host of activities and providing fantastic feedback

Delivered a wide range of breakfast and after-school enrichment activities

Organised competitive football matches against other Trust schools

All year 7 and 8 students now have Creative Philosophy lessons on their timetable each week

Uniform Bank established and collections started

Parent Workshops being developed. First one will be on e-safety and delivered this half-term

Listening to Parents and the Parent Shura

What You Said

Provide information to parents about the national changes to the curriculum, the new grading system and GCSEs

Improve the layout and presentation of the Report Card so parents get a more rounded picture of their son’s progress

Students who go to Madrassah, particularly those doing Hifz (memorising Qur’an) don’t have enough time to revise Qur’an and do homework

Provide a Summer School so that students can have access to activities during the holidays

Deliver Duke of Edinburgh Awards

Provide ‘life skills’ lessons including cooking so that boys will be more self sufficient and help out at home

Deliver cycling proficiency so boys can learn how to cycle safely and possibly ride to school

What We Did

Information sessions for parents about the revised curriculum, new grading system and new GCSEs arranged in September

Report Cards are being re-designed and will be discussed with Parent Shura prior to changes being finalised

Homework Club and Spirituality Club now run every morning and every lunchtime so students can do homework in school time or can revise their Qur’an in Spirituality Club

Summer school delivered for new Year 7 students – plans to expand to all year groups for next summer

Establishing a Duke of Edinburgh Award development group – students will start the DoE scheme from January 2017

Still to sort out: further parent workshops, cooking lessons and cycling proficiency – watch this space.

Listening to Parents and the Parent Shura

What else are we planning currently

More educational visits, activities and trips throughout the year and linked to rewards for excellent achievement and good behaviour

A big whole school drive on getting our boys to read more regularly in school and at home

More enrichment activities including at lunchtime.

More practical work in Science and Design Technology (DT)

More speakers and visitors to the schools especially linked to STEM and careers education

More involvement in cross-school partnerships and projects

More community service and charitable fund-raising work linked to introduction of Duke of Edinburgh and/or Scouts Projects

More opportunities to find out about other faiths including more visits to places of worship and getting more speakers into school assemblies

Revised Seerah Competition and Eden’s Got Talent Competition

More competitive sports throughout the year including matches against other schools in Bolton –entering teams into the local school leagues for football and cricket

A range of Parental workshops throughout the year (e-safety workshop in September 2016)

Summer school for new year 7 took place this this year. We will organise one for all students in summer 2017

New supplier for School meals has started and is also supplying hot food and snacks at break time – menus will be refined to suit our boys’ tastes and provide healthy choices

Community use of the school football pitch and cricket facilities has been agreed and has started – we will start leasing out our Sports Hall in the coming weeks.

JZK (Thank You)

Thank you for reading our End of Year Report.

All the successes mentioned in the previous pages are the result of our strong partnership with students and families. It could not have been achieved without

your active support, commitment and hard work; we are genuinely grateful to you for all your efforts.

Please continue to provide us with feedback about how we can do even better –this is your school and we want to work with you to keep on improving it. We are looking forward to continuing our successful partnership with you in the coming

academic year.

Please continue to remember all at Eden Boys’ School in your precious prayers.

May the Almighty grant all mankind everlasting peace and success (Aameen).