Student Life

Find your people.Find your thing.

Clubs, teams, student council, and friends who share your faith: there is plenty to do at Huda Academy beyond the classroom.

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After the bell

Clubs that grow with your child.

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Join • Belong • Lead

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Run by teachers who chose to

Huda Academy’s clubs meet after school hours, and they are run by teacher volunteers: members of staff who give their own time because they care about robotics, or writing, or art, as much as the students do. Any student can join a club with a parent’s consent and a sign-up fee, so a family always knows what their child has signed up for and who is looking after them.

More to choose from as they grow

What is on offer widens with age. Younger children can join the Hifz program, Art Club, Recorder Club and student council. In the middle grades the list opens up to Mustang Minds, the puzzle and logic club, as well as Mathletes, quiz bowl, robotics, coding, creative writing and journalism. High school students add service learning, Model UN and the yearbook.

Where to find the full list

The Clubs & Student Leadership page sets out every club by stage, explains how student council is elected, and describes how students join the yearbook team. It is the best place to start if your child already knows what they want to try, or wants to see what is there before deciding.

Teams and PE

A team to join, and PE for everyone.

Sport at Huda Academy works on two levels: teams for students who want to train and play together, and physical education on the timetable for every child.

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Teams

Volleyball and soccer

The school has two teams. Volleyball is a girls’ team and soccer is a boys’ team. Teams are the one part of school life where boys and girls are separated; the classrooms themselves are mixed.

Both teams appear among the activities the school lists for middle and high school studentsNeeds fixing. The school is working with other schools to arrange games against them, so for now the teams are about training and playing together. The Athletics & PE page explains where that stands.

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Physical education for every child

PE is part of the timetable from Kindergarten onward, at every stage, rather than an extra that families opt into. Classes take place in the school’s own gymnasium, so they go ahead whatever the Arkansas weather is doing.

According to the school’s previous website, students have PE twice a weekNeeds fixing. For children who are not drawn to team sport, PE is where they build fitness and coordination alongside everyone else in their class.

Competitions and events

Chances to compete, present and speak up.

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Across the year, students get chances to show what they have learned in front of judges, audiences and their own classmates.

Some of these are close to the heart of an Islamic school. There is a Qur’an competition, and alongside the English spelling bee there is an Arabic spelling bee, so the languages children study every day have a stage of their own.

Others ask students to research and present. The science fair and National History Day both have students choose a question, investigate it over time, and explain what they found. TED-style talks, debate and Model UN build the confidence to stand up and argue a case in public.

Faith is part of it too. On Fridays an older student gives the khutbah, and older students mentor the younger ones during salah, so speaking in front of the school is something children see their own classmates do before they do it themselves.

The year also has its milestones: graduation ceremonies for PreK, Kindergarten, Grade 5 and Grade 8, and a trip for Grade 8 every year.

The school will confirm

Which of these competitions and events run every year, roughly when in the year each one happens, and which grades take part, so families can plan around them.