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    Key Stage 1

    Guru Nanak Sikh Academy
    Key Stage 1 Curriculum Overview


    Key Stage 1 Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2
    Year 1
    Big Picture
    Fundamentals
    Key skills: physical - balancing, sprinting, jogging, dodging, jumping, skipping and hopping. Social - taking turns, supporting and encouraging others, working safely and communication. Emotional - challenging myself, perseverance and honesty. Thinking - selecting and applying, identifying strengths, listening and following instructions.
    Team building
    Key skills: Physical - balancing and travelling actions. Social - communication, sharing ideas, inclusion, encouraging and supporting others. Emotional - confidence, trust and honesty. Thinking - decision making, using tactics, providing instructions, planning and problem solving.
    Gymnastics (First 3 weeks) Dance (Second 3 weeks) Gymnastics, key skills: Physical: travelling actions, shapes, balances, jumps, barrel roll, straight roll, forward roll progressions. Social: sharing, working safely. Emotional: confidence Thinking: observing and providing feedback, selecting and applying actions.

    Dance key skills: Physical: travel, copying and performing actions, using shape, balance, coordination. Social: co-operation, communication, coming to decisions with a partner, respect. Emotional: confidence, acceptance. Thinking: counting, observing and providing feedback, selecting and applying actions
    Sending and receiving
    Key skills: Physical: rolling, kicking, throwing, catching, tracking. Social: taking turns, supporting and encouraging others, respect, communication. Emotional: challenging myself, perseverance, honesty, being happy to succeed. Thinking: transferring skills.
    Striking and fielding Key skills: Physical: throwing, catching, retrieving a ball, tracking a ball, striking a ball. Social: communication, supporting and encouraging others, consideration of others. Emotional: perseverance, honesty and fair play. Thinking: using tactics, selecting and applying skills, decision making Athletics
    Key skills: Physical: running at varying speeds, agility, balance, jumping, hopping and leaping in combination and for distance, throwing for distance. Social: working safely, collaborating with others. Emotional: working independently, honesty and playing to the rules, determination. Thinking: exploring ideas.
    Year 2
    Big Picture
    Ball skills
    Key skills: Physical: rolling, kicking, throwing, catching, bouncing, dribbling. Social: co-operation, communication, leadership, supporting others. Emotional: honesty, perseverance, challenging myself. Thinking: using tactics, exploring actions
    Invasion games
    Key skills: Physical: throwing and catching, kicking, dribbling with hands and feet, dodging, finding space. Social: communication, respect, co-operation, kindness. Emotional: empathy, integrity, independence, determination, perseverance. Thinking: creativity, reflection, decision making, comprehension
    Gymnastics (First 3 weeks) Dance (Second 3 weeks)
    Gymnastics Key skills: Physical: shapes, balances, shape jumps, travelling movements, barrel roll, straight roll, forwards roll. Social: sharing, working safely, Emotional: confidence, independence. Thinking: observing and providing feedback, selecting and applying actions.

    Dance key skills: Physical: travel, copying and performing actions, using dynamics, pathway, expression and speed, balance, coordination. Social: respect, consideration, sharing ideas, decision making with others. Emotional: acceptance, confidence. Thinking: selecting and applying actions, counting, observing and providing feedback, creating.
    Sending and receiving
    Key skills: Physical: rolling, kicking, throwing, catching, tracking. Social: taking turns, supporting and encouraging others, respect, communication. Emotional: challenging myself, perseverance, honesty, being happy to succeed. Thinking: transferring skills
    Striking and fielding Key skills: Physical: throwing and catching, tracking a ball, bowling, batting. Social: communication, collaboration. Emotional: honesty, acceptance, controlling emotions. Thinking: select and apply, using tactics, decision making Athletics
    Key skills: Physical: running at different speeds, jumping for distance, throwing for distance. Social: working safely, collaborating with others. Emotional: working independently, determination. Thinking: observing and providing feedback, exploring ideas