Sudanese Supplementary School

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OBJECTIVES, PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY, AIM AND ORGANISATION OF THE CHARITY

Sudanese Supplementary School is a registered charity and a member of Voluntary Action Westminster. It is governed by constitution and administered by Parents, Management committee which is selected by the A.G.M. every year.

A thriving, multiethnic institution, it now has over 300 pupils and more than 30 voluntary teachers, managers and assistants.

GCSE Arabic, pass rate is 100% and a good number of candidates score high grades.

The principal activities of the school are:

? Teaching children (4 - 16 years old) up to GCSE level.

? Help and support pupils with their National Curriculum Studies mainly in the core subjects such as English, Mathematics and Science.

? Provide home-culture awareness and sports and music sessions to develop the children?s talents and boost their self-esteem and future opportunities.

? Encourage the active involvement of parents and communities in the education of their children.

? Foster production relations between the pupils? mainstream schools and their supplementary school.

? Develop and maintain links with funders and grant agencies.

? Avail training opportunities to teachers and to parents for the sake of improving the standards and spur enthusiasms and involvement in the wider education, cultural and social framework.

? Monitor and educate the performance of teachers and managers and reflect that to parents and supporters in the periodical reports and statements.

SPORTS & CULTURAL ACTIVITIES

General Assembly

The School holds its Annual General Meeting for all parents and members every year since 1994. The AGM looks into the academic. Administrative and financial reports submitted by the current Parents Management Committee and any other relevant matters. After passing the reports, the AGM shall elect the incoming PMC .

Sports Days

Since 1997, sports days were organised annually. A Mothers-Keep-Fit programme under the supervision of Ms. Suhair Sharif was well attended. Competitions took place on the track, and in football, volleyball, tug-of-war and various fun races and games among children , parents and teachers.

Medals, trophies and awards were distributed to winners and participants.

Sports Days were held in Westway Arena, Paddington Rec.Grounds and Moberly Centre.

Cultural Evenings

July 1997- North Westminster School, Paddington .

July 1999-North Westmin. Sec.(Upper House ).

August 2001- Camden Centre, London.

October 2001- “ NAFAJ” Educational Programme,City College, Paddington Green.

July 2003 –" Suakin Exhibition " and Celebrating Sudanese songs and folklore, St. Matthew’s Church, Queensway.

July 2004 – Achievement Awards, Music and dances , St. Mat. Church, Bayswater.

Participants included :

1- Speakers: Late Prof. Emeritus Abdalla El-Tayeb, Dr. Babiker Yahia, Dr. Ahmed El-Bushra, Somali diplomat Abdel Hameed Ali Yousif,Eritrean educationist Mohamed Abdelrazag, Dr. Babiker Mukhayer, SVP English teachers back from Sudan, Ustaz Elsir Ahmed Gadour, Ustaz Ibrahim El- Salahi, Prof. Ahmed Abdel Mageed, King of Jaz Sharhabil and wife Zakiya, Prof. Abdel Rahim Salim ,Ustaz Abdel Karim El-Kabli, Poet Mahgoub Sharif and daughter Mariam, Ustaz Munir Sheikh Eldean.

Articles on the Sudanese School

The Arab Community magazine in London published a survey on community schools in the British capital in August 1992. It included the King Fahd Academy, the Egyptian, Libyan ,Lebanese and Sudanese schools. Out of the group, only the Sudanese organisation was run on voluntary basis and without any support from its government or the representative embassy.The informative survey was conducted by Nafisa Abdel Rahim El-Amin.

Mohamed Khalafalla wrote in “ Alwah”, published by the Sudanese Writers and Journalists Association in London in April 1996 . He commended the educational initiative and highlighted the issues of cultural and social integration in Britain.

In July 1997, Dr. Khalid Al-Mubarak expressed great admiration to the educational project as an enlightened experiment. He found parallels with the brave initiative of Sheikh Babiker Bedri in laying the foundations for girls education at home more than a century ago.

Tibyan and Abdel Rahman EL- Mahdi of “Sudan Dispatch” journal in Cairo visited the School in 1999 before publishing a comprehensive feature on its aims and activities.The journal of Sudanese Development came as an enlightened promise of cultural and media awakening on the threshold of the 21st century.

“Eastern Africa” magazine Issue 4 , April 2003 said in " Focus on Sudanese Community " that education is generally perceived as a tool for social empowerment.The School has been a great success.

Voluntary Action Westminster (VAW) chose the Sudanese School twice as the Model Organisation for the charities in the London borough in 2002 and 2003.

The Paddington Association of Supplementary Schools ( PASS) considers the Sudanese School, according to its chief officer Jim Ewetade, one of the leading groups in PASS.

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