1. Welcome to the Year 2 Briefing
Testing and Assessment Arrangements for the end of Year 2

2. End of KS1 Assessments
At the end of Year 2 there are statutory National assessments
Pupils are assessed in 2 ways:
Tests & Teacher Assessment using the Interim Framework

3. New Tests for Year 2 Throughout May 2017….
2 Reading papers – with a comprehension focus
(1 harder than the other but all children must take both tests)
Spelling test & a Grammar & Punctuation paper
Maths – an Arithmetic paper – pure maths – number understanding, place value, counting & formal methods of addition/subtraction etc
& a Maths Reasoning paper- 5 mental maths questions then 30 minutes of using and applying questions

4. P & G examples

5. Reading paper example

6. Maths examples

7. Interim Framework – What is it?
The Standards and Testing Agency has introduced an interim assessment for this year
A set of expectations to be used by teachers at the end of Key Stage One to teacher assess how children have achieved against their curriculum
It needed to be introduced as levels no longer matched the new curriculum

8. What are the standards? Under the umbrella of Key Stage One –
Pre – key stage standard
Working towards expected standard
Working at the expected standard
Working in greater depth

9. How does the assessment work?
Teacher assessment is used in the same way – building up a picture of your child’s classwork, (the tests in May are used to help to support the judgements made by the teacher)
It has “I can” statements and your child will need to have all of these to be assessed at the standard
The proceeding standard/s must also have evidence for them covered to be at the given standard

10. What does it mean for my child?
In class, teachers are still teaching the National Curriculum and using school assessments but know and understand the framework to give the right opportunities for the children to meet their targets
If they have an area they find tricky, it is no longer best fit, so they couldn’t be awarded something unless it is all covered.
Spelling, handwriting, maths … help at home advice

11. Ways to help at home - Reading.
Little and often reading at home would help because…
To be age expected children need to read over 90words per minute.
Sound out unfamiliar words without hesitation
Developing fluency (and accuracy) when reading aloud
Answer questions based on inference and referencing the text.

12. SPAG (Spelling, punctuation and grammar)
End of Year 2 expectations.
Consolidation of capitals letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas in lists, adjectives, conjunctions, contractions, expanded noun phrases
Understanding sentences as statements, questions, commands & exclamations
Conjunctions for coordination (or, and, but) subordination (when, if, because)
Key vocabulary children should be using:
noun, noun phrase, statement, question, exclamation, command, suffix, adjective, adverb, verb, tense (past, present) apostrophe, comma

13. Spelling

14. New Curriculum/New Expectations
Age related spelling patterns
Age related ‘common exception words’
Regular assessment of independent use within English writing

15. What we do in school…
Spelling Board in classroom
Morning/Booktime work
Handwriting
Access resources
Individual Word books
Additional provision

16. Common Exception Words

17. HANDWRITING

18. Handwriting Key skills your child needs by the end of the year.
Letters correctly formed using a cursive form.
Lower case letters all sizes accurately.
Upper case letters formed correctly and accurately sized.
Using horizontal and diagonal joins accurately.
Letters to be of the correct size and orientation in relation to each other.

19. What are horizontal joins?
These joins are often called washing line joins.
They can be tricky for children as they often exit with a downwards movement.
They are where the letter exiting from requires a slide across join into the new letter e.g. oa

20. What are diagonal joins?
These are when the letter you are joining into requires a diagonal slide up to the new letter e.g. ae
Diagonal to no ascender ei
Diagonal to an ascender ad

21. Example of writing where letters are not sized

23. Ways to help at home Think three P’s Posture Pencil grip
Paper position
Regular practise of key skills for words and short sentences.
Useful websites:
letterjoin.co.uk
teachhandwriting.co.uk/letter-joins
Apps: crazy cursive letters - joined

24. MATHS

25. Maths in Year 2 How can you help at home?
Place value of 2 and 3 digit numbers
Addition facts to 20 and 100 and the related subtraction facts
Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables.
Practical activities linked to real life
Fractions: identifying fractions of shapes and amounts
Money: using different coins to make same amounts
Measures: reading time to at least 15 minute intervals, reading scales.

26. Any questions?