1. Year 2 Summer Forum

2. SATs Happening this half term. Children not told about them.
Assessing areas of English and Maths.
Levels backed up by teacher assessment.

3. SATs - English Reading comprehension paper. Spelling test.
Longer piece of writing.
Shorter piece of writing.
Handwriting.

4. SATs - Maths
Metal maths test.
Maths paper.

5. Literacy – Quest Stories
What is a quest? Components of the story.
How do we plan an exciting quest?
Writing –
Using checklists, punctuation pyramids to ‘up-level’ work.

6. Literacy – Information Booklets
How to look after animals –
Contents
Index
Glossary
Bullet Points
Captions
Appropriate vocabulary

7. Literacy – Fables Aesop's Fables - Stories with morals
Read Fables together – find the morals in them.
What is a moral? Links to P4C
Understand the structure and format of a Fable.
Plan and write our own Fables.

8. Literacy - Poetry Animal Poetry – Shape poems Acrostic
Imaginative and descriptive language
Lots of reading poems just for pleasure!

9. Literacy - Spelling
Encourage children to use rules taught in daily spelling session.
Relate back to phonic sounds.
Using a dictionary – practice at home would put your children at a massive advantage for KS2.

10. Handwriting Handwriting must be joined.
Need to check that children are forming their letters correctly.
Remembering their flicks.

11. Maths Addition with partitioning – TU TU 23 + 45 = 68 20 + 40 = 60
= 68
= 60
= 8

12. Maths Subtraction using a number line – 54 – 32 = 22 54 -10 -10 -10 -2

13. Maths 2, 5 and 10 times table to be known.
Tables through arrays for other tables.

14. Maths Division – 2, 5 and 10 times table facts to be known.
Division through sharing.

15. Maths – at home Look at the time
Look for numbers – weight, temperature, heights
Count in 2s, 5s and 10s
Use money
Positive attitude!

16. Topic - Animals Pets – What pets we have. What pets we would like.
How to care for pets – links to literacy.
RSPA – the work they do.

17. Topic - Animals
Working animals –
World animal day.
Dog Trainers.
Zoo.

18. Topic - Animals Dangerous animals – Aggressive, venomous and stinging.
Camouflaged animals.
Computing – research topic.

19. Topic - Animals Sacred and mythical animals –
Links to literacy – Fables.
Creating own.
Art and DT project.

20. Computing Word. Excel. Powerpoint. Publisher. Search engines.
Scratch – programming for algorithm.

21. PSHE
Keeping safe
Age appropriate content
Acceptable use

22. Student Final PGCE student
Planning alongside me for groups and whole class teaching.

23. Getting ready for KS2 Children expected to have more responsibility.
Packing own field bag/PE bag – so they know what’s in it.
More jobs around school.
More clubs to join.