In the current National Development Plan 2006 2010, the government is committed to providing efficient and affordable education. It intends to improve access, quality, relevance and management of secondary education. To achieve this one on the strategies is to encourage the effective provision of learning aids for secondary schools. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, six specific research objectives were addressed to establish the common learning aids in effective teaching and learning of Islam, to find out the level of adequacy of common learning aids on Islam, to establish the benefits of adequate learning aids on the perfonnance of ordinary level of Islam, to establish the effects of inadequacy of learning aids on the performance of Islam, to find out the challenges facing schools on the provision of Islam Learning aids and to suggest policies to be adopted for effective provision of learning aids for Islam. The research looked at the effects of learning aids on the performance of Islam at ordinary level in Malcindye Division Kampala. The researcher looked at some of the unique challenges that facing Islam student on their road to academic excellence. The research was carried out in Makindye Division because of the financial constraints and time limit facing the researcher.