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  • Curriculum

    Key Stage 2

    Guru Nanak Sikh Academy
    Key Stage 2 Curriculum Overview

     

    Year 3

     

    Writing Progression Map



     

    Final Outcome

    Ug; Boy Genius and the Stone Age

    Raymond Briggs

    Big Picture

    Into The Forest 

    Anthony Brown 

    Big Picture

    Oliver and The Sea wigs 

    Philp Reeve and Sarah McIntyre

    Big Picture

    Charlotte’s Web

    EB White

    Big Picture

    The Lion The Unicorn and Other Hairy Tales

    Big Picture

    The Great Kapok Tree 

    Lynne Cherry

    Big Picture

    Pupils will be writing their own set of instructions. 

    Pupils will be writing a recount of the story. 

    Pupils will be writing the ending of a narrative 

    Pupils will be writing a first person narrative from the perspective of a character. 

    Pupils will be writing a persuasive letter. 

    Pupils will be writing an information  text on the rainforest. 

    Poetry

    Hot like Fire by Valerie Bloom

     

    De Familiar Tings

    Hot like Fire by Valerie Bloom

     

    Trees on Parade

    Hot like Fire by Valerie Bloom

     

    Pirates

    Year 4

     

    Writing Progression Map



     

    Final Outcome

    King of the Sky

    Nicola Davies

    Big Picture - Updated 

    Tales of Wisdom and Wonder

    Hugh Lupton

    Big Picture

    Iron Man

    Ted Hughes

    Big Picture

    Animal tales from India

    Nikita Gill  

    Big Picture 

    The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane   

    Big Picture 

    One Plastic Bag

    Miranda Paul

    Big Picture

    Pupils will write an explanation text based on a topic in the text. 

    Writing a narrative based on the moral 'Be careful what you wish for.’

    Pupils will write a newspaper article on an event that happens in the text. 

    Pupils will write a fable based on a short story from the text. 

    Pupils will write a diary entry in the role of a character from the text.   

    Pupils will write a persuasive letter in the role of a character from the text. 

    Poetry

    Sympathy by Paul

    Laurence Dunbar

    The Owl and the Pussycat 

    by Edward Lear

    The British Poem by Benjamin

    Zephaniah

    Year 5

     

    Writing Progression Map



     

    Final Outcome

    The Last Wild 

    Piers Torday

    Big Picture

    Ride the Wind 

    Nicola Davies

    Big Picture 

    Journey to the River Sea

    Eva Ibbotson

    Big Picture

    Varmints

    Helen Ward

    Big Picture

    Suffragette: The Battle for Equality by David Roberts (Two Hoots)

    Big Picture

    The Adventures of Odysseus 

    Hugh Lupton

    Big Picture

    Pupils to write a chapter in the style of the author that fits the style of the book

    Pupils to write a balanced argument on commercial fishing. 

    Pupils to write a diary entry from the perspective of a character in the story.

    Pupils to write a persuasive letter

     

    Write their own ending to the poem

    Pupils to write a biography.

    Pupils to write a newspaper report based on events in the text.

    Poetry

    Tyger Tyger 

    by William Blake 

    The Lady of Shallot 

    by Alfred Atennyson

    Sensational - poems inspired by

    the five senses

    Year 6

     

    Writing Progression Map

     

    Final Outcome

    Ice Trap

    MP Robertson and Meredith Hooper

    Big picture

    There’s a Boy in the Girl’s bathroom

    Louis Sachar

    Big Picture

    Goodnight Mr Tom

    Michelle Magorian

    Big Picture

    The Highwayman

    Alfred Noyes

    Big Picture

    Wonder

    RJ Palacio

    Big Picture

    Rooftoppers

    Katherine Randall

    Big Picture

    Pupils to  write a Journal as an explorer

    Pupils to write a formal report from the headteacher to parent

    1. Character description

    2. Formal letter of complaint from Mr Tom to local authority

    Pupils to retell the poem as a narrative

    1. Pupils to write a continuation chapter from the Bleeding Scream situation

    2. Pupils write a diary entry from Jack’s perspective

    Pupils to write a setting description

    Poetry

    The Highwayman

     by Alfred Noyes

    Cosmic disco poems by

    Grace Nicols

    Cosmic disco poems 

    by Grace Nicols

    Punjabi and Sikh

    Studies

    Reception:-Rhyme:- Head,

    shoulder, knees and toes in

    Punjabi

     

    Year 1:- Rhyme:-Tim tim

    kardey nike nike taarey

     

    Year 2:- das pakayia rottia

    doa billion aayeea motian

     

    KS2:- Punjabi:- Maa boli vich

    bol, Muharni Poem, Poem

    about Guru Nanak Dev Ji

    Reception:-Rhyme:- 5 Little

    monkeys in Punjabi

     

    Year 1:- Rhyme:- Das

    pakayia rottia doa billion

    aayeea motian

     

    Year 2:-We are the Khalsa

     

    KS2:- Muharni Poem, Poem

    about Vaisakhi

    Reception:- Rhyme:- Rhyme:-Mano

    Billi Mano Billi Kithey gye see

     

    Year 1:- Rhyme:- das pakayia rottia

    doa billion aayeea motian

     

    Year 2:- Dadi ma meri dadi ma

     

    KS2:- Muharni Poem, Sikh Guru Da,

    Daadi ma meri daadi ma