Nadia Ameen is a founding trustee of Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation, Acting Head Teacher and Head of Arabic at Shakhsiyah Schools. She has led the development of the unique Shakhsiyah Arabic Curriculum and trains and leads our team of Arabic teachers. Nadia has a BA in Linguistics and over twenty years of experience in education. She has also developed the Halaqah curriculum across primary and secondary and is currently working on her new project, “Tafsir for Kids by Teacher Nadia”, a tafsir collection of Juz A’mma aimed for young adults and children.
Sajeada Ahmed was appointed Head Teacher of Shakhsiyah Slough School in September 2021. Sajeada previously led the Early Years programme for over 19 years. Her commitment to ensuring a holistic implementation of our Islamic and homeschooling ethos is evident in the practices adopted from the Sunnah in our Primary and Early Years provision. Sajeada has developed our model of tarbiyah, centring the unique individual characteristics of each child through play based learning. Under Sajeada’s leadership our Early Years work has been recognised as ‘Outstanding’
Lamis Karim is the Head of the Secondary Division at Shakhsiyah Schools London. She has developed a Shakhisyah integrated holistic curriculum encompassing Halaqah, English and Science. Lamis holds a BSc honors in Molecular Biology and Genetics with seven years of experience as a teacher for primary, secondary and high school students, also teaching English as a second language in Pakistan and Turkey. She also has worked with publishing companies, AFAQ (Association for Academic Quality) in Pakistan and Canterbury Education in the UK as a curriculum designer, author and voice over narrator, developing new holistic teaching methodologies integrated with Islamic concpets.