Holy Quran memorisation contestants with disabilities honoured
Published: 04:05 PM,May 10,2022 | EDITED : 08:05 PM,May 10,2022
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MUSCAT: The Ministry of Education, represented by the Directorate-General of Special Education and Continuing Learning, honoured the participants in the Holy Quran memorisation competition, the special level for people with hearing and visual disabilities on Tuesday, under the auspices of Dr Mohammed bin Said al Maamari, Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs,.
Prof Abdullah bin Khamis Ambosaidi, Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Education for Education, attended the ceremony with a number of Directors-General of the Directorates-General of the Ministry’s Headquarters, several heads of departments and supervisors of special education and supervisors of Islamic education in the ministry and the educational directorates in the governorates, a number of departments of special education schools, the teaching staff, and parents of students the honorees.
The ceremony included honouring 44 students who qualified for the final evaluation of the competition at the ministry level, including 22 students with hearing disabilities, 12 students with visual disabilities and 9 students with mental disabilities, and 28 teachers were honoured, as were a number of evaluators for the competition and the institutions and companies sponsoring it.
The ceremony began with students' recitations of verses from the Holy Quran. Dr Fathia al Sidiyah, Director-General of the Directorate-General of Special Education and Continuing Learning, in her speech said: “The Ministry of Education takes great care for the Holy Quran memorisation competition in general, and the competition for people with disabilities in particular, which was launched in the academic year 2015-2016, where it was applied to Al Amal School for the Deaf, and after the success of the experiment, it was generalised to the schools implementing the integration classes in the educational directorates in the academic year 2016-2017, and in the same year the competition for the visually impaired was approved for the students of the Omar Bin Al Khattab Institute for the Blind to include, in the following years, students with visual disabilities in schools in the educational governorates. The number of students participating in the competition for people with disabilities reached nearly 200 students from special education schools and various educational directorates in the governorates.”
Elias bin Hood al Shaibani, a student from the Omar Bin Al Khattab Institute for the Blind, spoke representing the participants, in which he said: “We are pleased in this regard to acknowledge the importance of this honourable competition to us students with disabilities from several aspects, as it contributed to raising our achievement levels, and clearly contributed towards building our personalities, as well as moral, social and personal values.
'In this regard, we are pleased to extend our heartfelt thanks to the esteemed Ministry of Education for the great care and generous sponsorship of the Holy Quran competition, and thanks go to the Directorate-General of Special Education and Continuous Learning, which strived to integrate us into the general competition that the ministry conducts annually within a special level for people with hearing and visual disabilities, and we cannot fail to express our deep gratitude to the distinguished teachers who gave a lot of their time and efforts in order to teach us the Holly Quran.”
Prof Abdullah bin Khamis Ambosaidi, Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Education for Education, attended the ceremony with a number of Directors-General of the Directorates-General of the Ministry’s Headquarters, several heads of departments and supervisors of special education and supervisors of Islamic education in the ministry and the educational directorates in the governorates, a number of departments of special education schools, the teaching staff, and parents of students the honorees.
The ceremony included honouring 44 students who qualified for the final evaluation of the competition at the ministry level, including 22 students with hearing disabilities, 12 students with visual disabilities and 9 students with mental disabilities, and 28 teachers were honoured, as were a number of evaluators for the competition and the institutions and companies sponsoring it.
The ceremony began with students' recitations of verses from the Holy Quran. Dr Fathia al Sidiyah, Director-General of the Directorate-General of Special Education and Continuing Learning, in her speech said: “The Ministry of Education takes great care for the Holy Quran memorisation competition in general, and the competition for people with disabilities in particular, which was launched in the academic year 2015-2016, where it was applied to Al Amal School for the Deaf, and after the success of the experiment, it was generalised to the schools implementing the integration classes in the educational directorates in the academic year 2016-2017, and in the same year the competition for the visually impaired was approved for the students of the Omar Bin Al Khattab Institute for the Blind to include, in the following years, students with visual disabilities in schools in the educational governorates. The number of students participating in the competition for people with disabilities reached nearly 200 students from special education schools and various educational directorates in the governorates.”
Elias bin Hood al Shaibani, a student from the Omar Bin Al Khattab Institute for the Blind, spoke representing the participants, in which he said: “We are pleased in this regard to acknowledge the importance of this honourable competition to us students with disabilities from several aspects, as it contributed to raising our achievement levels, and clearly contributed towards building our personalities, as well as moral, social and personal values.
'In this regard, we are pleased to extend our heartfelt thanks to the esteemed Ministry of Education for the great care and generous sponsorship of the Holy Quran competition, and thanks go to the Directorate-General of Special Education and Continuous Learning, which strived to integrate us into the general competition that the ministry conducts annually within a special level for people with hearing and visual disabilities, and we cannot fail to express our deep gratitude to the distinguished teachers who gave a lot of their time and efforts in order to teach us the Holly Quran.”