Transcript Welcome To Year 2!

Parent Information Meeting
- 16th September 2013
Rules and Expectations
 We follow the school golden rules
 If children do not follow the rules, we use the following system:
 Children are given a verbal warning to stop the unwanted behaviour
 Then, children are asked to turn their name over
 Children move their name and lose 5 minutes of their golden time on a
Friday afternoon
 Children can also gain time back!
PE
 We do two sessions of PE on Monday and Thursdays
 Mondays is Outdoor PE (Games) and Thursday is Indoor PE
(Gymnastics/Dance)
 The children will need a PE kit in school EVERY day (white t-shirt, black shorts
and daps)
 You might also want to put in a pair of jogging bottoms/jumper
Our topics for the year...
Term 1 – The Ugly Bug Ball
Term 2 – Rainforests
Term 3 – World War II
Term 4 – Anthony Browne
Term 5 – Sculpture
Term 6 – Geography
Reading
 Children change their books every Monday, Wednesday and Friday
 Guided Reading happens every day (one focus group per day) and a comment
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will be recorded in your child’s reading record
Priority readers heard daily
Each child in the class reads their individual reading book to an adult at least
once a week
Benchmarking to assess children’s reading levels (October)
Regular reading tests to assess children’s reading and comprehension
Children have group targets for reading
Helping your child with reading...
 Try NOT to cover up the pictures in the book
 If your child is stuck on a word, encourage them to use a variety of strategies (picture cues,
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phonics, context)
Ask your child questions about the story to check their comprehension of the story
Encourage their skills of inference and prediction by asking questions like ‘What do you
think will happen next?’ and questions that go ‘beyond the literal’
Ask them to talk about the language used in the text –Is that a good describing word? What
other words could you use there?
Ask your child to share their opinion of the text – What did you like/not like about this
book?
Encourage them to use expression in their reading when they see ! and ?
Writing
 Every Friday we do BIG writing:
 VCOP games before playtime (30 minutes building up to 45 minutes by the end
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of Year 2)
Vocabulary
Connectives
Openers
Punctuation
Planning and independent writing after playtime (30 minutes building up to 45
minutes by the end of Year 2)
Children have individual writing targets which are referred to on a daily basis
We will also be doing daily cursive handwriting practice
Cursive Handwriting…
Writing Levels
 Level 1 – spell simple words and use phonics to spell words not known,
beginning to use full stops and capital letters, can usually form letters correctly,
work can be decoded by an adult without child present
 Level 2 – can use any connective to join two simple sentences, beginning to
make writing more interesting, can use basic punctuation correctly, can link ideas
to create flow
 Level 3 – can adapt chosen form to the audience, produce work which is
organised, imaginative and clear, experimenting with different punctuation, uses
a wide range of connectives to clarify relationships between points and ideas,
using paragraphs to separate ideas
Key Writing Vocabulary
 Connective – a word we use to ‘join’ two parts of a sentence together, e.g. and, but,
because, so, then, after
 Opener – a word that we use at the start of a sentence, for example my, the, we,
next, she, he, I, then, after
 Punctuation – full stops, exclamation marks, question marks, speech marks, commas
 Paragraph – a section of text on the same theme
Parts of a sentence
This year, we are going to do lots of work on grammar and different parts of a sentence. The
children will learn the following terms:
 Noun – a word that names a person, place, thing or idea, e.g. grandma, forest, wolf, joy
 Adjective – a word we use to describe a noun, e.g. ‘The dangerous, fierce lion ate the
man.’
 Verb – a word which shows actions. These actions can be physical or mental, e.g. run,
speak, dream, think
 Adverb – a word we use to describe a verb, e.g. ‘She slowly walked down the road.’
Phonics
Daily 20 minute phonics sessions
We are learning:
 New ways to spell different graphemes
 Split digraphs
 Reading high frequency words
 Reading two and three-syllable words
We will move on to:
 Learning spelling rules when adding suffixes (ed, ing, est, er)
 Strategies to spell longer words
Maths
 2 week units of Maths – different focus for each of the units
 Block A – Counting, partitioning and calculating
 Block B – Securing number facts, understanding shape
 Block C – Handling data and measures
 Block D – Calculating, measuring and understanding shape
 Block E – Securing number facts, relationships and calculating
 Collect evidence in a variety of ways – group work
End of year expectations
 Count on and back in ones from any given number up to 100 (Know the number that comes before
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the multiple of ten e.g. 59 is one less than 60)
Know ten more and ten less than any given number up to 100 (e.g. ten more than 26)
Recall doubles of all numbers to a total of 30 (15+15) and the corresponding halves (e.g. 15 + 15 = 30
so half of 30 = 15)
Know pairs of numbers that add up to 20 and solve problems using these number facts.
Be able to partition two digit numbers in different ways (e.g. 26 = 20 + 6 or 10 + 16)
Count in steps of 2,3,5 and 10 (forwards and backwards)
Recognise the place value of each digit in a 2-digit number
Compare numbers to 100 using ≤ and ≥
Read/ write 2-digit numbers in numerals and words
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add
plus
total
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altogether
more than
x
times
multiple
repeated addition
multiplied by
lots of
groups of
The four operations
take away
subtract
minus
less than
difference
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divide
divided by
group into
repeated subtraction
Spellings
 Spellings are sent home every Thursday and tested in school the following
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Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check strategy
We also check letter formation when testing children
Spellings are from the 300 key words which are taken from Letters and Sounds
If a child mis-spells a word one week, they have it the following week. Also we
may include words that children mis-spell in their BIG writing
Homework
 Reading books every night – write in reading records
 Education City and Bug Club will be used for web-based homework and will be
set termly
 Learning logs will come home on 27th September. This is going to be used for
homework from Year 2 upwards and gives children the opportunity to be
creative and present their homework in different ways.
 Learning logs will be set on a Friday and be due in two weeks later (Friday)
 Children will have two weeks to complete the tasks set and one week where they
can focus on web-based homework while learning logs are in school
SATs!
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All through teacher assessment at Year 2
We use the national assessment papers for reading, spelling, writing and maths
to support our judgements
Evidence from school work is also used to assess children
Continuously assessing children throughout the year, making targets for the
end of the year
Children do their SATs in small groups as part of normal lessons and are
given as much time as they need
All with as little pressure as possible!
Don’t Worry!
Websites to use at home
 www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize - Literacy and Numeracy games to play (Literacy
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games support our VCOP strategy)
www.ictgames.com – A range of games to support the curriculum
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/parents - Supporting your child at home, a range of information
about the national curriculum
www.orchidvale.swindon.sch.uk – Our new school website which is updated frequently,
so remember to check!
www.mathszone.co.uk – A range of Maths games
www.bbc.co.uk/history/forkids - A good place to start with researching new topics!
Extra bits!
 We will be doing ‘Show and Tell’ on Fridays. Please only send in things to show
that are related to topic or extra-curricular activities
 Please ensure your child has a bag of clothes they can wear when we go into the
wildlife area. We will be going into the wildlife area every Wednesday afternoon