Team
Specialist in supporting Islamic schools in achieving academic excellence

Making a difference to the lives of others has always been a passion and principle for Mehnaz. It is the drive behind her personal and professional pursuits. Since receiving the opportunity to teach aged nineteen, she has felt honoured to have worked in the education field for over seventeen years.

Mehnaz went on to become a qualified teacher and headteacher during her journey as an Educator. She had become Deputy Head Teacher by the age of twenty-three and has been in senior leadership roles across several settings in State, Grammar and Private Schools, with a heavier focus of Islamic and Private schools. She has also undertaken the role of Executive Head Teacher at several schools in the North of England alongside running her own Consultancy company where she has supported and guided schools to attain excellence and achieve their respected visions, with a 100% success rate in reviving failing schools. Alongside her consultancy, she is a performance coach for a cohort of sixteen NPQH learners with Best Practice Network.

Her most recent endeavour has been to join AMS as a specialist Improvement partner, for the North, enabling her to support more Islamic schools across the country to reach and exceed their potential, with the collective vision to support all independent schools to become outstanding providers.
Always seeking to widen her horizons, Miss Kauser has had 10 successful OFSTED inspections over the four years . Outside of her work as an Educational Professional, she is a Magistrate in her local City and a fellow for the Society of Education.

A serving Headteacher with over 20 years’ experience as a senior leader, during that time I have built up a wealth of practical skills that I use to support and advise on school improvement and leadership. My experience spans the secondary, primary and Early Years range. My exceptional inter-personal skills underpin my effective working with colleagues at all levels. I exude calm and positivity and always place the needs and welfare of the pupils at the heart of all interactions demonstrating absolute professional integrity. 
I have worked with schools on developing the quality of teaching and learning through monitoring and evaluation systems, school improvement planning, staff development, including developing effective teams and distributed leadership. I have in a decade been though 3 successful Ofsted inspections achieving Good with outstanding features in 3 schools.

Creating successful teams; Coaching/mentoring/training staff and developing leadership to improve provision and outcomes for children.

Creating and implementing strong systems to support the personal development of pupils focusing on their holistic development.

Excellent working understanding of Ofsted requirements;  including ‘deep dives’; making clear judgements about the quality of teaching, learning/assessment, curriculum design and the 3 i’s, safeguarding and self-evaluation

Dr Abdussamad Mulla became the Chief Executive Officer of Benefit Mankind in July 2020. Dr Mulla has over 20 years of experience in the humanitarian and public sector, leading on marketing and fundraising campaigns for a number of international development and humanitarian agencies.

During these years, Dr Mulla has travelled extensively around the world raising awareness of major emergencies such as the East African famine, Indonesian earthquake/tsunami and the Syrian crisis to name a few.

Dr Mulla gained his PhD in 2018 from the University of Spain and another PhD in 2019 from the Business University of USA. Dr Mulla is renowned for his charitable work around the world and is well recognised in the humanitarian field. He also has a passion to help local projects in the United Kingdom.

Dr Mulla is also a Doctor of Letters, which is a rare academic title given to established and accomplished scholars and academics. Recipients of the D.Litt honour have all contributed to knowledge in humanities, published scholarly articles and journals and their original ideas have progressed human understanding in some profound way.

Dr Mulla has also published his book ‘Road to Success’ which has been distributed across Sri Lanka in the English & Tamil Language. Professionally, Dr Mulla has 20 years of senior management, leadership and training experience, having worked in various capacities within both government and the voluntary sector. Dr Mulla for over 7 years worked for the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) as a crisis loan decision maker providing high quality welfare service to the British community. Thereafter, for 9 years became a Country Director for a leading International aid relief organisation.

He has been engaged in consultancy within the field of HR and strategy as well as delivering capacity building through leadership and management programmes to organisations of all size in various countries, particularly in Europe, Asia and Africa.

With over a decade of teaching and leadership experience, Dewan is an outstanding Mathematics teacher and now a Senior Leader who has expert knowledge of Progress 8 and Attainment 8 and is a highly skilled Data Analyst specialising in Target Setting, Tracking Pupil Progress and Assessments, Recording and Reporting.

• Progress 8 & Attainment 8 calculations and analysis
• Headline Measure with key focus groups
• Effective curriculum review considering P8 Pots
• Effective assessment review with scheme of work
• Pupil progress tracker with RAG coding
• Supporting teachers with using data in classroom

Mr. Mubarak holds an MBA (Masters in Business Administration) with distinction and brings vast management experience from industry, the civil service and the NHS. He has extensive experience and knowledge of human resource management, operations management, change management and project management. He has successfully overseen 2 Ofsted inspections in the space of 4 months and navigated a new school setup school through COVID including exam centre registration.

Mr. Mubarak is amongst the founding member of Beacon Lights Educational Trust and was involved in the setup, registration and operational setup of Beacon Lights School. His skills in both curriculum and policy design from key stage 1 to key stage 4 led to a successful first inspection for his school. He is currently head of Beacon Lights School which is an all-through mixed primary and secondary school.

Shireen is an independent Early year’s advisor and trainer and has over 25 years working in various roles within the  early years sector, she is dedicated to creating high quality learning environments that foster children’s creativity, resilience, and love for learning.

• Curriculum development and implementation.
• Preparation for OFSTED inspections
• Review leadership and management practices
• Staff training and development.
• Developing strategies to manage children’s behaviour.

Dr Fiaz Farooq is a GP and Islamic teacher based in the north of England.

Dr Farooq has been learning and teaching religious knowledge to young and old for over 20 years. He has a particular interest in teaching “the personal obligatory knowledge of the religion” to enable Muslims to become pious obedient slaves of `Allaah who make a positive contribution to the communities within which reside. Dr Farooq has been involved in the establishment of Islamic schools in the UK over the last 10 years with a commitment to encourage academic excellence and self-betterment among young people.

Zaira is an enthusiastic, dedicated and successful Deputy head Teacher with proven ability to lead, motivate and focus staff in order to raise standards for all pupils. As an experienced educational leader of the school’s SEND department.

She aims to ensure the classroom is positive, inclusive space, with high but realistic expectations for learning. She has extensive knowledge in the subjects of the departments that I lead which I use to assist the provision of exemplary teaching.

Serving the education sector with over 15 years of experience. Saima is a qualified English specialist with outstanding teaching and senior leadership practice. She has expert knowledge of the OFSTED requirements; coaching and mentoring staff/teams and a highly skilled curriculum analyst.

• Senior leadership/Assistant Headteacher
• Teaching and Learning Lead
• Curriculum audit
• English Specialist
• Leading an Outstanding English Department for over 15 years
• Providing expert advice and guidance in preparation for inspection
  

Rumaisa is an experienced graphic designer; she conceptualises visuals based on ideas, develops illustrations, logos, and other designs using various software. Having a zeal to teach children and a passion to promote various organisations on social media platforms, Rumaisa has over 8 years of experience as a Primary, Secondary/SEN Teacher and Social Media Manager. She is also a qualified Specialist Support Assistant and an active charity aid volunteer who has undertaken and fundraised for local and international projects for a well-established international charity organisation.

• Proven graphic designing experience
• A strong portfolio of graphics
• Ability to work methodically and meet deadlines
• Charity aid volunteer
• Organisational skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Project and campaign management skills
• Strong copywriting and editing skills suitable for each platform, from knowing how to write a successful tweet using effective storytelling techniques
• MFL specialist in KS3 and KS4
• Support Assistant (SEN/EAL)