بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
The Sukun Curriculum · Academic Session 2026–2027
Raising a generation upon the Qur'an and Sunnah
A guardian entrusting their child to a school deserves more than a prospectus of promises. This is our plan, in full — what we teach, in what order, using which books, and why — so you can read it, question it, and hold us to it.
وَقُوا أَنفُسَكُمْ وَأَهْلِيكُمْ نَارًا
“O you who have believed, protect yourselves and your families from a Fire whose fuel is people and stones.”
Surah At-Tahrim, 66:6
Qur'an and authentic Sunnah, understood as the Salaf understood it — no innovation in worship.
Congregational Zuhr Salah performed on campus, every school day.
Practising Muslim teaching staff, qualified in their subject and in Islamic manners.
Cambridge Primary & Early Years aligned
Daily, assessed Hifzul Qur'an
Trilingual: English, Arabic, Bengali
Congregational Zuhr Salah on campus
Qur'an & Sunnah manhaj, free of innovation
Our Purpose
Amanah
Every school teaches something; not every school asks, first, what a child is for. We believe a child is a trust placed by Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى into the hands of parents, and by extension, into ours. A trust is not raised however is convenient; it is raised with the intention its Owner would approve of.
“Such a person as recites the Qur'an and masters it by heart will be with the noble, righteous scribes. And such a person as exerts himself to learn the Qur'an by heart, and recites it with difficulty, will have a double reward.”
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ · Sahih Al-Bukhari, 4937
Why Sukun Exists
A trust is raised with intention — not convenience
This shapes everything in this handbook. Our academic ambitions for your child — fluency in three languages, command of mathematics and science, the disciplined mind that Cambridge-based learning cultivates — are real and pursued seriously.
But they sit beneath a larger purpose: that your child grows to know Allah, to love His Messenger ﷺ, and to carry the Qur'an, both in the chest and in conduct. We take this seriously enough to build our entire school day around it, not merely one Islamic Studies period.
- ✓ Read this section alongside your child before their first day, in whatever way suits their age.
- ✓ Ask us, at enrolment, to walk you through how this purpose shows up in a typical week.
- ✓ Revisit this each new academic year as a reminder of why you chose Sukun.
Aqeedah, Manhaj & Guiding Principles
Grounded in the Qur'an and the authentic Sunnah — nothing added, nothing borrowed
Our teaching in matters of belief and worship follows the understanding of the righteous predecessors of this ummah. We do not introduce customs into acts of worship that were not practised or sanctioned by the Prophet ﷺ and his Companions — and we teach our students, from the earliest age appropriate, to love what Allah and His Messenger loved.
This is not confined to the Islamic Studies classroom. It governs our assemblies, how we mark occasions, and how our staff conduct themselves in front of children.
No innovation in worship
Nothing is introduced into acts of worship beyond what was practised or sanctioned by the Prophet ﷺ and his Companions.
Modelled, not merely taught
A child absorbs far more from what is modelled than what is told. Assemblies centre on dhikr and remembrance of Allah, never ritual borrowed from elsewhere.
Moderation, without extremism
Where matters are genuinely open to sound scholarly difference, we teach with humility — neither loose in worship, nor harsh where Allah has made things easy.
Open to your questions
Guardians are welcome to discuss our position on any specific matter of aqeedah or fiqh directly with the Head of Islamic Studies.
Our Distinctives
Why guardians choose Sukun
Fewer schools genuinely combine a serious Islamic upbringing with a serious academic education, without one becoming decoration for the other. Here is where Sukun is deliberately different.
Hifz is a real subject
Timetabled daily, assessed each term, with its own marks distribution — never an after-school add-on disconnected from the rest of schooling.
Genuinely trilingual
English, Arabic and Bengali run in parallel from the Elementary Section — mother tongue, the language of the Qur'an, and the language of wider opportunity.
Cambridge-benchmarked
Cambridge Primary and Early Years frameworks give us an internationally recognised structure built around understanding, not rote recall.
Arabic to comprehend, not recite
Taught as a living language building toward genuine understanding of the Qur'an — not only a set of memorised phrases.
A Day at Sukun
The shape of a Sukun education
A Sukun education runs in two connected sections, each with its own daily rhythm.
Playgroup – Upper KG
Play-based, activity-led learning; the earliest steps in Hifz and Arabic; the daily rhythms that carry a child into formal schooling.
Morning Assembly & Circle Time
Built around remembrance of Allah, not performance — the day and previous learning discussed together.
Arabic Class & Material Time
Children begin to converse, not merely recite; structured Montessori-style material builds coordination and focus.
Tiffin as a teaching moment
Bismillah, eating with the right hand, sharing — modelled by staff eating alongside the children.
Organised departure
Pick-up authorised only to a registered card holder, for every child's safety.
Grade I – Grade VI
The full Cambridge Primary subject range alongside a maturing Islamic Studies, Hifz and Arabic programme, and increasing independence.
Congregational Zuhr Salah
Not simply taught about — performed, together, on campus, as part of the school day.
A shared moral theme
Honesty, generosity or patience reinforced across every subject in the same month — not confined to Islamic Studies.
Scholar visits & competitions
Exclusive opportunities to meet religious scholars and professionals, and to compete locally and internationally.
Full Cambridge subject range
English, Mathematics, Science, Geography and (from Grade V) History, alongside Hifz and Arabic.
Hifzul Qur'an Programme
The Qur'an at the heart of Sukun
There can be no truly Islamic school without a serious Qur'an memorisation programme. We resource Hifz accordingly — timetabled daily, assessed each term, and tracked grade by grade, never left to chance.
Qaidah Nooraniyah
Letter recognition, harakat, tanween & the letters of prolongation — complete by Upper KG.
Najera
Fluent, unassisted recitation of an increasing portion of the Qur'an with correct Tajweed.
Hifz
Memorisation proceeds Surah by Surah, from the thirtieth Juz backward, at a pace suited to the child.
Qaidah letters & harakat; Surah Al-Fatiha, Al-Ikhlas, Al-‘Asr, Al-Masad.
Tanween & Huruful Madd; Surah An-Nasr, Al-Ma’un, Quraish.
Qaidah Nooraniyah pages 1–12; Surah An-Naas back to Al-Lahab.
Qaidah Nooraniyah pages 1–26; Surah An-Nasr back to Al-Feel.
Qaidah Nooraniyah complete.
Najera: 30th & half of 29th Juz; Surah An-Naas back to Al-Humazah.
Surah An-Naas back to Al-Humazah memorised; Najera 30th, half of 29th Juz.
Surah Al-‘Asr back to Ad-Duha; Najera 29th, 28th, half of 27th Juz.
Surah An-Naas back to Al-Layl memorised; Najera 30th & 29th Juz.
Surah Ash-Shams back to An-Naba; Najera 28th, 27th, 26th Juz.
30th & 29th Juz memorised; Najera 27th, 26th, 25th Juz.
30th, 29th & half of 28th Juz memorised; Najera 26th, 25th, 24th Juz.
Indicative pathway — exact figures confirmed by the Curriculum Department at enrolment.
30th, 29th & 28th Juz memorised; Najera 25th, 24th, 23rd Juz.
30th, 29th, 28th & half of 27th Juz memorised; Najera 24th, 23rd, 22nd Juz.
Indicative pathway — exact figures confirmed by the Curriculum Department at enrolment.
30th, 29th, 28th & 27th Juz memorised; Najera 30th–26th Juz.
26th & 25th Juz memorised; Najera 25th–23rd Juz.
30th–27th & half of 26th Juz memorised; Najera 25th, 24th, 23rd Juz.
30th–26th Juz memorised; Najera 24th, 23rd, 22nd Juz.
Indicative pathway — exact figures confirmed by the Curriculum Department at enrolment.
Figures for Nursery through Grade II and Grade V are drawn directly from the Sukun curriculum handbook. Grade III, Grade IV and Grade VI targets shown here are indicative, projected on the same cumulative pattern, and should be confirmed with the Curriculum Department before publishing or sharing with guardians.
Islamic Studies & Arabic Language
Belief, character & the language of the Qur'an
Islamic Studies, Aqeedah & Akhlaq
Knowledge of Allah, first
Our curriculum moves in a deliberate order: Tawheed first, then the Five Pillars and correct worship, then the Seerah of the Prophet ﷺ, then the lives of the Sahaba and the wider history of this ummah.
Running alongside is our Hisnul Muslim du’a curriculum — a defined, cumulative bank of daily supplications. A child leaving Sukun's Primary Section carries a genuine, practised repertoire of du’a for daily life, not a handful of memorised lines forgotten after the exam.
Arabic — The Language of the Qur'an
Comprehension, not decoration
Our aim is not a child who can recite without understanding. It is comprehension: that by the time a student completes the Primary Section, Qur'anic vocabulary encountered daily in Hifz and Salah is no longer foreign to them.
Upper KG — Rawdatul Atfal
Body parts, livestock, nature, simple sentences — vocabulary a young child can actually use.
Grade I — Al-‘Arabiyyah Bayna Yaday Awladina, Book 1
Numbers, self-introduction, daily routines.
Grade II–V — Book 2 & beyond
Increasingly complex sentence structure, building directly toward Qur'anic comprehension.
Academic Subjects
A rigorous Cambridge-aligned academic core
English, Mathematics and Science follow Cambridge Primary stage by stage. Islamic Studies, Hifz, Arabic and Bengali are sequenced in-house by our own Curriculum Department, to the same standard of rigour.
Personal Development
Movement and physical skills, healthy attitudes, emotional regulation and social cooperation — the foundation beneath every other subject.
English Language & Literacy
A phonics-led pathway using Jolly Phonics, moving from single letter sounds toward compound sentences and guided writing by Upper KG.
Bengali Literacy
Bengali alphabet, reading and writing, moral rhymes (chora) and short stories carrying Islamic values.
Mathematics & Numeracy
Numbers, shapes and abacus-based counting, progressing to two- and three-digit addition, subtraction and simple currency.
Islamic Studies & Moral Education
Knowledge of Allah, the Prophet ﷺ, the Five Pillars, Islamic manners, and a growing bank of daily du’as.
Hifzul Qur'an
Qaidah Nooraniyah through harakat and tanween, alongside memorisation of the shorter Surahs.
Arabic Language
Introduced through the Rawdatul Atfal series — building the ear and tongue before formal grammar begins.
Understanding the World
Shapes, colours, vehicles, family, the seasons and geography of Bangladesh, moving toward simple STEM sequencing.
Creative Arts
Pencil colour, poster colour and craft work, always within the bounds of what is permissible.
English Language & Literacy
Cambridge Grammar and Writing Skills, Learner's Books, Workbooks and the Toontoon graded reader series — to full punctuation control by Grade V.
Bengali Literacy
Reading comprehension, composition and translation practice, weaving in Qur'anic stories and Hadith-based narratives.
Mathematics
Cambridge Primary Mathematics, times tables to 20, and abacus practice, progressing to fractions, decimals and data handling.
Islamic Studies
Tawheed, the Five Pillars, Seerah and the lives of the Sahaba, paired with a growing Hisnul Muslim du’a bank.
Qur'anic Studies & Hifzul Qur'an
Memorisation of specific Surahs each term alongside fluent Najera recitation of a defined portion of the Qur'an.
Arabic Language
Al-‘Arabiyyah Bayna Yaday Awladina Books 1 & 2, building vocabulary toward genuine comprehension of Qur'anic Arabic.
Science
Cambridge Primary Science — living things, materials, forces, the digestive system, and the adaptations of plants and animals.
Geography
From the seasons and land of Bangladesh through to world geography — continents, oceans and population.
History & ICT
From Grade V: human communication, great inventions and Islamic historical figures. Plus MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and basic HTML.
Tarbiyah Beyond the Classroom
Character is built monthly, not just termly
Every month carries a single moral theme — honesty, kindness to parents, patience, generosity — reinforced consistently across Islamic Studies, English composition and everyday classroom conduct, so it is lived, not merely lectured.
Scholar & professional visits
Exclusive opportunities to meet religious scholars and professionals, exposing children to living examples of knowledge and character.
Competitions, local & international
Structured opportunities to compete in Hifz, Islamic knowledge and academic events beyond the school gates.
Physical wellbeing
Regular structured physical activity, building strength and discipline alongside academic and spiritual growth.
Illustrative theme cycle — the full year's calendar is shared with guardians each September.
Assessment & Reporting
How we track progress — and how you'll know
Continuous, in-class assessment
Teachers assess understanding as it happens — not only at exam time — across every academic and Islamic subject, including Hifz and Najera.
Termly written reports
A clear, subject-by-subject report each term, including a dedicated Hifz and Islamic Studies breakdown — not folded silently into a single "religion" mark.
Guardian meetings
Scheduled parent-teacher meetings to discuss the report in person, and to agree together on how to support your child at home.
Partnering With Guardians
You are not handing your child over — you are joining a team
The Amanah is shared. Everything in this handbook works best when what happens at Sukun during the day is reinforced, gently, at home in the evening.
Guardian workshops
Sessions on supporting Hifz revision, Arabic vocabulary and Islamic manners at home.
Open-door communication
A direct channel to your child's class and Hifz teacher, not only at scheduled meetings.
Home revision guidance
Clear, weekly guidance on which Surahs and Qaidah pages to revise with your child at home.
A shared moral calendar
The monthly theme calendar, so the same value is being reinforced at home and at school in the same month.
Admissions
Ready to entrust your child's education to Sukun?
Places for the 2026–2027 session are limited by class size, particularly in the Elementary Section. We would be glad to walk you through this entire curriculum, section by section, in person.
Submit the enquiry form or visit us in Lalbagh, Dhaka.
Meet the Head of Section and tour the school with your child.
Complete the age-appropriate admissions assessment.
Receive your offer and complete enrolment formalities.
