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Guru Nanak Sikh Academy
Key Stage 1 Curriculum Overview

At Guru Nanak Sikh Academy, our Phonics and Early Reading is the starting point to build competent and lifelong readers. We teach reading through Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised; which is a systematic and synthetic phonics programme.

Key Stage 1 Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2

Year 1

Writing Progression
Map


Reading Progression
Map

If all the world
where
Joseph Coelho
Big Picture

 
Halibut Jackson
David Lucas
Big Picture
Beegu
Alexis Deacon
Big Picture
Anna Hibiscus
Atinuke
Big Picture
Moth
Isabel Thomas and
Daniel Egneus
Big Picture
The Jolly Postman
Allan Alhberg
Big Picture
Pupils will be
Writing a retell of
the story.
Pupils will be writing a
descriptive paragraph
for an outfit to sell in
Halibut’s shop.
Pupils will be writing
an informational text
by creating a
guide to Earth.
Pupils will be writing a
letter of advice to
Aunty Comfort from
Anna Hibiscus
Pupils will be writing a non
chronological report on
Moths.
Pupils will be writing a
narrative of an additional
scene for
The Jolly Postman.

Year 2

Writing Progression
Map


Reading Progression
Map

I Want my Hat
Back
Jon Klassen
Rapunzel
Bethan Woollvin
Big Picture

Augustus and his
Smile
Catherine Rayner
Big Picture
The Last Wolf
Mini Grey
Big Picture
Ten Things I can
do to Help my
World
Melanie Walsh
Big Picture
The Storm Whale
Benji Davies
Big Picture
Lila and the Secret of
Rain-
David Conway and Jude Daly
Big Picture
Pupils will write a
letter of complaint
to the police fromthe point of view of
a character.
Pupils will retell a
story with key element
changes.
pupils will write a
letter from the
perspective of the
main character.
Pupils to make a ‘top
ten things to help the
world’ information
leaflet.
Pupils to write a diary entry
as the main character in the
story.
Pupils will write a non-fiction
report about Kenya.