Annual Seerah Competition
Sunday, October 29 from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Program Agenda:
- The competition will start at 10 AM.
- The Seerah competition will be held in the basement and the main floor
- Students from grades 1-5 will be in the basement
- Students from grades 6-12 will be in the congregation hall upstairs
- Students must sit/stay in the designated area for their grade
- Lunch/snacks will be provided
- Parents are welcome to attend
Poster Competition (Grades 1-5):
Grade 1 Topic: The Family Tree of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
Grade 2 Topic: Isra and Miraj: The Miraculous Night Journey
Grade 3 Topic: The Hijrah: The journey of the prophet Muhammad (PBUH) from Mecca to Medina
Grade 4 Topic: The revelation of the Quran to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
Grade 5 Topic: The Year of the Elephant - Arabia before Islam
Instructions for posters (grades 1-5):
- Students must create posters on the topic assigned to their grade
- Posters board size should be no bigger than 22" x 28"
- On the day of the competition, bring your posters to your class. Volunteers will help display the posters
- All students must stay in their class
- Judges will visit each grade and assign points based on the following criteria:
- Poster design/presentation (layout, creativity): 10 points
- Student explaining the poster to judges: 10 points
- Knowledge of the selected story: 10 points
Quiz Competition (Grades 6, 7 & 8):
Rules of the competition:
- The competition will be held in the Jeopardy format
- Each student will be called in one by one based on their grades
- Total 3 rounds
- Each student will be asked one question in each round
- A student must answer all three questions correctly to be a winner (multiple winners in each grade are possible)
- A student with one incorrect answer will be a runner-up (multiple runners-up in each grade are possible)
- Any student with multiple incorrect answers will be disqualified
- Questions are created from the material shared with the students
Study Material for Grades 6,7 and 8
Click below to download both documents for the study
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Speech Competition (Grades 10-12):
Grade 10 Topic: The Treaty of Hudaybiyyah
Grade 11 Topic: Lessons from the Battle of Uhud
Grade 12 Topic: Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) life as a youth
Instruction for speech:
- Maximum 5 slides (PowerPoint) and total time no longer than 2.5 minutes
- Students must bring a copy of the slides in a USB and must submit before the start of competition
- Each student from a grade will be called to deliver a speech
- Judges will be grading each speech based on the following criteria:
Organization, Points: 10
Presentation, Points: 10
Conclusion, Points: 10
The results of the judges will be final and cannot be challenged.
Seerah competition is part of the curriculum and each student participating in the competition will be awarded grade points based on their result
(winner-10, runner up-8, participants-5, non-participants-0)
