Parents Information Evening Year 2 Miss Booth Miss

Parents’ Information Evening Year 2 Miss Booth & Miss Dyke Mrs Dunne, Mrs Botterill, and Mrs Spensley.

KS 1 Curriculum & Testing • As a school we are now implementing the new curriculum. • Children will be assessed throughout the year by teachers at the end of a unit of work • Year 2 sit SATs during May. This forms part of our assessment but levels are teacher assessed.

Reading • Please try to listen to your child read as often as possible. • Don’t worry if the reading books appear easy. • Don’t worry if your child is asked to re-read some books. • Please comment on your child’s reading.

Phonics • In Year 2 we continue with phonics lessons. • Please see the KS 1 Hub for lots of phonics games. • ‘Say It, Spell It’ words, Tricky words • There is a list of the 100 HFWs and 200 common words in the back of each child’s homework book.

Spelling • Spelling Test is on Tuesdays. • After the test, children will be given their new spellings to learn for the following Tuesday. • Sometimes spellings will be practised in class but will still need to be learnt at home. • Children are also asked to complete 6 spelling sentences in addition to their homework.

Homework • Homework will be given on a Friday. It may be Numeracy, Literacy or Topic related. • Sometimes children will be asked to find things out or bring things in from home. • Homework will be collected in on a Wednesday.

ICT • Class Blog on website. (Please encourage your child to comment on our class blogs but they should not include their surname. ) • Purple Mash home access. • KS 1 hub. • Ipads, classmates and computers.

Handwriting • After initial practice children will begin to learn joined up handwriting in Year 2.

Year 2 Non Negotiables: Reading Secure with year group phonic expectations. Recognise simple recurring literary language. Read ahead to help with fluency and expression. Comment on plot, setting & characters in familiar & unfamiliar stories. Recount main themes and events. Comment on structure of the text. Use commas, question marks and exclamation marks to vary expression. Read aloud with expression and intonation. Recognise: - commas in lists - apostrophe of omission and possession (singular noun) • Identify past/present tense and why the writer has used a tense. • Use content and index to locate information. • • •

Year 2 Non Negotiables: Writing • Write different kinds of sentence: statement, question, exclamation, command. • Use expanded noun phrases to add description and specification. • Write using subordination (when, if, that, because) and co-ordination (or, and, but). • Correct and consistent use of present tense & past tense. • Correct use of verb tenses. • Write with correct and consistent use of: - capital letters and full stops - question marks - exclamation marks • Use commas in a list. • Use apostrophe to mark omission and singular possession in nouns. • Write under headings. • Write lower case letters correct size relative to one another. • Show evidence of diagonal and horizontal strokes to join handwriting.

Year 2 Non Negotiables: Maths Mathematics • Compare and order numbers up to 100 and use < > =. • Read and write all numbers to 100 in digits & words. • Say 10 more/less than any number to 100. • Count in steps of 2, 3 & 5 from zero and in 10 s from any number (forwards and backwards) • Recall and use multiplication & division facts for 2, 5 & 10 tables. • Recall and use +/- facts to 20. • Derive and use related facts to 100. • Recognise place value of any 2 -digit number. • Add & subtract two 2 -digit numbers and three 1 -digit number. • Recognise and use inverse (+/-). • Calculate and write multiplication & division calculations using multiplication tables. • Recognise, find, name and write 1/3; 1/4; 2/4; 3/4. • Write and recognise equivalence of simple fractions. • Tell time to five minutes, including quarter past/to.

PE • PE kit must be kept in school. • Outdoor PE kit – Trainers, Jogging Bottoms. • Your child must be able to take their earrings out themselves. • Clothes must be named.

Food • Healthy eating – fruit is available during morning playtime. • Snack on a Friday – 25 p each. No more than 50 p please. Water • Please provide your child with a water bottle that will stay in school from Monday to Friday. • Water will be changed daily.

Performances Class as semblie Class 5 s – 25 th S Class 6 th eptember – 9 Oc tober roduction P s a m t s i r Ch Hous e Cros Activitie s s 30 th Country – Sept embe r

Drop Off and Collection Please see your child into the line and allow them to come into school on their own. On collection (at 3: 00 pm) your child will not be allowed to leave until they see their adult on the school playground.

Parents Evening • Individual Consultations are on 21 st and 22 nd October

PTFA • We are desperate for new PTFA members, please!!!! • Parent forums!!! • Thank You