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Parents tend to shop for qualifications, then discover six months later that qualifications were not the variable. The teacher had an ijazah and a beautiful voice, and their eight-... More Details

Eid almost never falls in a school holiday. The Islamic calendar is lunar and moves about ten days earlier each year against the Gregorian one, while English school terms sit in fi... More Details

Four tests, none of which take more than a minute, that tell you whether your child is reading Arabic or reproducing something they have heard. Most parents find out by accident. ... More Details

A thirty-minute online Quran lesson has about twenty-five minutes of real teaching in it. The other five go on finding the Qaida, plugging in a charger, moving a sibling out of sho... More Details

You are standing in the kitchen while your six-year-old sounds out an Arabic letter, and you have no idea whether what you just heard was right. That feeling stops a lot of British... More Details

Your child comes home from school and tells you, quite casually, that they told their class they celebrate Christmas. They do not. You knew this moment was coming in some form, and... More Details

Short answer: make the session shorter than you think it should be, fix it to an existing routine, and stop before your child wants to stop. Almost every practice battle comes from... More Details

You are inviting an adult you have never met to spend half an hour alone with your child, on video, in your home. That deserves more scrutiny than most families give it - not becau... More Details

Short answer: six to twelve months at two lessons a week, for a child of around six or seven. Younger children take longer. The single biggest variable is not the child's ability -... More Details

Short answer: find out what specifically they hate before changing anything. "I hate madrasah" almost always means something narrower, such as a teacher, a friendship, being behind... More Details

Short answer: teach the sounds and meanings before the grammar, use a book written for non-native speakers, and accept that the first year is about building willingness rather than... More Details

Short answer: serious memorisation usually works best from around age seven, once a child reads Arabic fluently. Memorising before a child can read tends to produce recitation by i... More Details

Every academy website says the same things: qualified teachers, flexible timings, free trial. These ten questions will tell you far more than any homepage, because they are difficu... More Details

Short answer: they do different jobs. A mosque madrasah gives your child a community and Muslim friends; one to one online lessons give faster progress. Many families use both, and... More Details

Short answer: most UK families pay between £20 and £45 a month for two half-hour one to one lessons a week, which works out at roughly £4 to £6 per lesson. Prices below that range ... More Details

Short answer: in most cases, no - and often they cannot be. A DBS check searches UK police records only. If a teacher has never lived in the UK, a DBS certificate would come back e... More Details