Our Lady of Grace Catholic Infant School ‘We are learning to grow and love like Jesus’ Year 2 Curriculum Evening

Tonight we want you to Have an insight into the Year 2 curriculum Have a better understanding of the age related expectations for the end of Year 2 To recognise how you can best support your child in partnership with Our Lady of Grace Infants

General Information Uniform Attendance Punctuality Soft Start Collection of children PE – Friday Home Learning Communication

End of Year Expectations National Curriculum 2014 High standards Essential Knowledge Depth of knowledge

English Linked to topic Children ‘build’ their understanding of a genre throughout the week Grammar Punctuation Spelling – Red Words

Spelling Year 2 Children should be able to spell the high frequency words and common exception words. Red word spelling is essential.

Reading Oxford Reading Tree/ Book bag Book RWI (child to read) Read Write Inc (child to read) Library (read to child) -develop a pleasure for reading Reading Journal

Maths Number Measurement Position Shape Addition and Subtraction

Cornerstone Curriculum

End of Year Expectations Working Towards Expected Exceeding

How to support and help your child RE Talking about the Gospel – Wednesday Word Reading Take time to listen to your child read Encourage your child to sound out words (Fred it) and to read words they already know to develop their fluency Ask questions about the book Writing Encourage your child to say their sentence out loud Use their phonics to write Simple sentences capital letters, finger spaces and full stops Spell high frequency words Speaking and Listening Ask questions Develop language Topic Home learning projects Practical activities

Learning Behaviours

SMART S = Sensible M= Manners A= Acceptance R= Respect T= Tolerance

Houses Winston Churchill Emmeline Pankhurst Nelson Mandela Mary Seacole The children have been allocated houses. Each child will belong to a house. They will be given points for their attitude to work and how they treat each other.

SATS

Examples of SATS  This will include a short arithmetic test of 15 questions, and a second paper of broader mathematics which will last around 35 minutes. Arithmetic questions examples: 89 + 10 = …. + 5 = 9 87 − 40 = 8 x 10 = 2 x 0 = 35 ÷ 5 = ¼ of 20 =

End of Year Tests - Maths Reasoning questions examples: Reasoning

Reasoning questions examples:

Reading

Find out more School Noticeboard School website and App Knowledge organisers Parent Pamphlet

Trips – Really important and enhance the curriculum, however we need volunteers to help us otherwise trips cannot go ahead and also if we do not receive the money to cover the trips they will be cancelled. All payments must be made onlne Important that all parents are able to access online as all reports and other resources such as mymaths is online.

Summary Have an understanding of the Year 2 curriculum Have an understanding of the year 2 expectations Have an understanding of how to support your child.