Welcome to Year 2

Turtle class: Mrs. Kristin Moth & Mr Paul Lunnemann Mrs Melanie Steel Squid class: Mrs Sophie Carter Mrs Julie Knight

Year 2 daily expectations In year 2 your child is expected to demonstrate increasing independence. This involves: Always coming into the class on their own. Taking responsibility for organising their own belongings: water bottles, lunch boxes, coats and giving in their home-school liaison books. Giving in letters/money etc. Getting straight on with their morning activities.

Homework expectations Practise reading at least 3 times a week following the book mark scheme. Doesn’t have to just be their school reading book! There will also be extra activities on top of these related to our topic – in the form of a learning grid.

Class Rules Children must adhere to the Golden Rules.

Behaviour Children will be rewarded for showing green behaviour and they will move their name up the rainbow When they get on the pot of gold they get a sticker on the bookmark. When their bookmark is full they can adopt one of the animals. There are 6 animals to collect!

Respect, Caring, Creativity, Perseverance & Independence. Our Values : Respect, Caring, Creativity, Perseverance & Independence. Every time an adult notices a child displaying one of these values a value card and sticker will be given by the head teacher. Coming soon: We are about to launch an animal for each value

Curriculum Content Autumn 1: Superheroes! Autumn 2: Oliver Twist and the Victorians Spring 1: The Space Race Spring 2: Animal Madness Summer 1: Explorers Summer 2: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

English Curriculum: Phonics Reading SPaG: Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Writing: Based around a text Handwriting

Reading and library books Children have several guided reading sessions each week. Children will be heard individually each week before changing their books to check comprehension and accuracy. We will record the books they are taking home in their reading log to ensure they are reading a range of styles. Library will be sent home once the new system is set up

In writing all children must: write simple, coherent narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real or fictional) write about real events, recording these simply and clearly demarcate most sentences with full stops and capital letters demarcate some sentences with question marks and exclamation marks use co-ordination (or/and/but) to join clauses use some subordination (when/if/because) to join clauses

In writing all children must: segmenting spoken words into phonemes and representing these by graphemes, spelling many correctly and making phonically-plausible attempts at others Spelling many common exception words* form capital letters and digits of the correct size, orientation and relationship to one another and to lower-case letters using spacing between words that reflects the size of the letters Spell words with these suffixes: ly, ment, ness, ful Use a variety of punctuation: possessive apostrophes, commas in a list Making revisions to their writing and self correcting Begin to join up their writing

Things you can do at home for English Ask the children questions about the book they are reading. For example can they retell what happened in the book? Practise handwriting Practise spelling of Common Exception words

Expected standard for maths pupil can: • read scales* in divisions of ones, twos, fives and tens • partition any two-digit number into different combinations of tens and ones, explaining their thinking verbally, in pictures or using apparatus • add and subtract any 2 two-digit numbers using an efficient strategy, explaining their method verbally, in pictures or using apparatus (e.g. 48 + 35; 72 – 17) • recall all number bonds to and within 10 and use these to reason with and calculate bonds to and within 20, recognising other associated additive relationships (e.g. If 7 + 3 = 10, then 17 + 3 = 20; if 7 – 3 = 4, then 17 – 3 = 14; leading to if 14 + 3 = 17, then 3 + 14 = 17, 17 – 14 = 3 and 17 – 3 = 14) • recall multiplication and division facts for 2, 5 and 10 and use them to solve simple problems, demonstrating an understanding of commutativity as necessary • identify 14, 13, 12, 24, 34, of a number or shape, and know that all parts must be equal parts of the whole • use different coins to make the same amount • read the time on a clock to the nearest 15 minutes • name and describe properties of 2-D and 3-D shapes, including number of sides, vertices, edges, faces and lines of symmetry

Maths things to work on at home Know their numbers to 100 Write them as words Learn their 2,5,10 times tables Know the coins and notes Tell the time: half past, quarter past, quarter to

SATS Week beginning 13th May Important for your child to be at school SATS information Eve 4th April 2018 at 3:30pm and 5:30pm

Marvellous Me https://marvellousme.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Parent-Walkthrough.pdf

PTA We would really like you to come to the AGM today at 4pm

Any questions?

Let’s have a great year!