Year 2 Assessment Evening Mrs de Graaf, Miss Newman & Miss Knight

Aims of Session: To understand the assessment process for Year 2 pupils To understand what is expected at the end of Year 2 To understand how you can help support your child with their learning at home

What are Year 2 children assessed in? English – Reading, Writing, Spelling and Speaking and Listening Maths Science Phonics (for children who did not meet the required standard at Year One)

How are children assessed? Teacher assessments form the final judgement of what children achieve at the end of Year 2 Teachers will analyse and ‘level’ children’s work that they do as part of their normal lessons, but they will also carry out a more formal assessment as part of this process When do the assessments take place? May – June 2015 – over 2 weeks

The Reading Test – Level 2 Some examples….

Questions that require reading back and retrieving detail from the text

He made some good catches in the supermarket. He got an apple and a bag of sweets. The manager made him put it all back. Then Ben’s mother said he must leave his net at home when they went shopping. 4 (a) What did Ben’s mother tell him to do? (b) Why did she say this? Questions that require thinking beyond the literal, ‘between the lines’.

Questions that focus on reflecting on the whole story

Questions that focus on understanding of features of non-fiction

Questions that focus on structure and layout of non-fiction texts

Questions that focus on the whole text

The Reading Test – Level 3 Some examples…

When he first saw the swan, what did Anton imagine? Write 2 things. a) …………………………………………………………………….. b) …………………………………………………………………….. Questions that require children to read back and retrieve detail from the text:

Questions that focus on understanding of vocabulary

8 What made Rubina think that Anton had become a robber? Why did Anton and Rubina wake the children? Questions that encourage children to ‘read between the lines’

Put these sentences in the right order by numbering them from 1 to 5. The first one has been done for you. …………… Jewels fell from the bird’s wings. …………… A magical swan appeared. ……1.……. Anton went hunting at night. …………… The family feasted on delicious food. …………… Anton thought about shooting the swan. Questions that require scanning back over whole story

Choose a character from the story who was kind. a) What is the character’s name? ……………………… b) How was the character kind in the story? Questions that require children to back up what they say with evidence from the text

Questions that require thinking about the theme of the text Any questions?

The Writing Assessment What does a Level 2 piece of writing look like? What does a Level 3 piece of writing look like?

Any questions?

The Writing Test

The Maths Test – Level 2 Some examples…

Rounding Numbers

Number Patterns

Ordering Numbers

Reading and writing numbers, ordering and using a number line

Grouping

Fractions

Money

Write the answer = Addition and Subtraction, including solving problems

Properties of shapes, sorting

Pictograms

Bar Charts, interpreting information

The Maths Test – Level 3 Some examples…

Kiz has these numbers He writes them in order from smallest to largest. What is the fourth number he writes? Ordering 4-digit numbers

Write the answer = Q11. Write the answer. 253 – 138 = Addition and Subtraction – 2 / 3 digit numbers

Using a number line to calculate differences

Missing Numbers

Money and calculating change

Fractions

Multiplication and division in context of a problem

Reflective Symmetry

Properties of shapes

Problem solving, sorting diagram

How can you help and support your child with their learning? Listen to your child read regularly – preferably every day Ask your child questions about the story and check they understand any new words. Read TO your child so your child develops a real interest and desire to read for themselves Support and encourage your child with their homework Help support your child learn the ‘basics’ of maths – number bonds to 10 then 20, timestables. Mental maths, for example adding 10 and 2 in in their head and 23 add 6. Play games to support your child’s learning – ‘snap’ / BINGO – help develops their sight vocabulary Hangman – supports spelling Timestables games – Woodlands junior website has a great number of timestables games, especially good is ‘Hit the Button’

Any Questions?

Please speak to your class teacher for any further queries BUT Please remember your child is just 6/7 years old and they SHOULD NOT feel pressured or stressed…they are maximising learning and achieving aspirational opportunities! Thank you for attending