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What schools ask us most often about the Arabic Learning Journey — the year groups it covers, what arrives with it, and how to bring it into your school.
The Arabic Learning Journey covers three year groups: FS1 (EYFS1 / Pre-K, ages 3–4), FS2 (EYFS2 / KG1, ages 4–5) and Year 1 (KG2, ages 5–6). Each year group has its own twelve-book sequence, so a school can start with one year group or run all three as a continuous three-year pathway.
Twelve bilingual Arabic and English storybooks per year group, each anchoring a three-week teaching block. Alongside each book: daily lesson plans, individual 30-page workbooks for students to accompany the three-week block, daily PowerPoint slides for use with a class, flash cards to support teaching, a phonics strand for each week which extends across the year with each new book, printable classroom resources, Continuous Provision resources and ideas, and a Storybook Companion Pack of extension and support activities to facilitate further differentiation. Teachers also get CPD materials and parent workshop resources.
The books are fully bilingual and every daily lesson plan and PowerPoint comes with structured guidance, so a teacher does not need to plan in Arabic. The programme is designed to support Arabic specialists and to make the material accessible to non-Arabic class teachers working alongside them.
The Majlis Academy ecosystem is a comprehensive core provision rather than a supplement. The twelve blocks map to an academic year, with a defined language objective for each — numbers and counting, days of the week, family vocabulary, positional language and so on — and a phonics progression running through. Schools typically use it as the structure their Arabic teaching hangs on, rather than as extra resources beside something else.
Yes. The curriculum framework across FS1 to Year 1 is aligned with KHDA guidance, and the assessment framework provides look-fors and rubrics that support inspection evidence. The programme is aligned with all relevant MoE requirements and online content is updated as new requirements are published.
Schools are contracted and invoiced directly rather than buying through The Majlis Academy shop. Access is by membership, either a Class Licence for named teachers and their registered classes, or a Site Licence covering all teachers at the school. Get in touch and we’ll talk through your year groups and where your Arabic sits at the moment, in order to help you choose the best provision for your school or setting.
Yes. The Sample page shows a glimpse of a real teaching block: a selection of pages from the storybook, some of the classroom PowerPoint slides, a vocabulary card and a teacher activity, all taken from Salim’s Adventures in the Seven Emirates.
Victoria Hopkin and Mufida Al Digeil, education consultants with more than forty years of classroom and leadership experience between them across the UK, Singapore, Shanghai and the UAE.
Tell us about your school, your year groups and where Arabic sits at the moment, and we will come back to you with what would help most.
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