Programs
Programs
Soccer Club | Creative Writing | Science Club | Gardening | Public Speaking | TaeKwon-do
Soccer Club
The program will be focused on teaching the essential skills of soccer, motivating the students to learn the fundamentals rules of soccer, help build a greater sense of teamwork among peers, knowledge, and appreciation of the game and good sportsmanship. The fundamentals that will be taught are how to receive, pass, and kick the ball. The goal is to prepare the students to play using the skills taught in this program.
Creative Writing
Through partnership with WITS (Writers In The Schools), Houston Peace Academy works hand-in-hand with educators and professional writers to teach students the craft of writing. Their work is true testament of a holistic education where students are encouraged to align their thought processes with the rapidly changing world around them through positive and meaningful written dialogue.
Science Club
Houston Peace Academy has partnered with the Children's Museum to bring fun and engaging science experiments to all our students. Students will work on different events involving hands-on activities.
Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
HPA Social Emotional Learning (SEL) classes are designed to support students' cognitive, behavioral and emotional wellbeing. The curriculum is focused on developing Emotional Intelligence and strengthening Executive Functioning Skills. Emotional Intelligence helps to understand, use, and manage emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict. Developing Executive Functioning Skills provides students with tools to help with task initiation, impulse control, time management, flexible thinking, self-regulation, organization, working memory and focus to support students’ academic and social success.
Gardening
The students are enjoying the new green areas immensely and it is used during lunch, play and Salah times, Alhamdullilah! Houston Peace Academy is sincerely grateful to all the contributors who stepped up to outer play area upgrade. A Zikr Garden for the students was completed during the second phase where planter boxes have been installed with one planter box allotted to each grade. School gardens can make lasting differences in the lives of children. The lessons taught through these outdoor learning laboratories transcend gardening to impact children, their families and entire communities for years to come. Schools that have garden programs incorporated into their science curriculum score significantly higher on science achievement tests than students who are taught by strictly traditional classroom methods.
Archery
The National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) is an in-school program aimed at improving educational performance among students in grades 4th – 12th. And through it, students are learning focus, self-control, discipline, patience, and the life lessons required to be successful in the classroom and in life.
TaeKwon-do
TaeKwon-Do is a Korean art of self-defense and means “The way of the hand and foot.” TaeKwon-Do focuses on teaching self-defense and developing character through the following tenets:
Courtesy
Integrity
Perseverance
Self-Control
Indomitable Spirit
"Available to community members 4 years old and up all levels"
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Public Speaking
The program is facilitated by the Main Street Theater. The goal of the club is to introduce students to what makes a dynamic speaker and how they use elements of language in their oratory activities. Rhetoric, volume, word emphasis, all of these are factors of making a dynamic speech. The class will also work on introducing them to different styles of poetry because often poetic cadence is used by dynamic speakers. At the end of the program the students will have the opportunity to write original speeches that relate to their personal lives.