1. Welcome to the Year 2 Information Evening

2. Our Year - Our Team
Mrs Lucas,
Mrs Murphy,
Mrs Colman, Mrs Bryson
Mrs Oakley

3. What are the themes in Year 2?
Weekly Timetable
What are the themes in Year 2?
Term 1 – Oliver’s Vegetables (Healthy Choices)
Term 2 – The Greatest Stories Ever Told
(Traditional Tales and Myths)
Term 3 – Over in Australia
Term 4 – Watch Me Grow (Life Cycles)
Term 5 – Dinosaurs in My School
Term 6 – Yo Ho Ho! A-Pirating We’ll Go!

4. How do we judge how well your children are progressing?
The children will be working on the Year 2 standards in the 2014 National Curriculum.
How do we judge how well your children are progressing?
Sharing learning objectives and success criteria together.
Questioning.
Partners / small group work.
Self evaluation.
TASC / using and applying.
Guided groups.
Recorded work.
Summative assessment.

5. Mathematics: Term 1 Weeks 1 & 2 Number and place value Week 3 Addition
Week 4 Subtraction
Week 5 Multiplication and division
Week 6 Properties of shapes
Week 7 Measures
On-Going Time
School website –> Our Learning -> Maths support

6. Mathematics expectations for Year 2

7. English: Term 1
Week 1 Story writing (based on woodland folk made in clay).
Week 2 Story writing (based on ‘Oliver’s Vegetables’).
Week 3 Reading recipes.
Week 4 Writing recipes. 
Week 5 Writing for different purposes (healthy eating posters).
Week 6 Letters (thank you for our trip to Tesco).
Week 7 Poems (healthy food choices).

8. Writing expectations for Year 2 (1/5)
Spelling common exception words
Spelling patterns:
the j sound spelt as ge (cage) and dge (badge) at the end of words, and sometimes spelt as g (magic)
the s sound spelt c before e, i and y (city)
the n sound spelt kn and (less often) gn at the beginning of words (knife, gnome)
the r sound spelt wr at the beginning of words (wrong)
the ul or el sound spelt le at the end of words (bottle)
the ul or el sound spelt el (less often) at the end of words (camel)
the ul or el sound spelt al (less often) at the end of words (metal)
the igh sound spelt y at the end of words (fly)
the or sound spelt a before l and ll (walk, all)
the o sound spelt a after w and qu (want, quantity)
the er sound spelt or after w (work)
the or sound spelt ar after w (warm)

9. Writing expectations for Year 2 (2/5)
Spelling patterns continued:
the u sound spelt o (mother)
the zh sound spelt s (treasure, usual)
words ending in tion (station)
words ending il (fossil)
adding es suffix to nouns and verbs ending in y (carry -> carries)
the ees sound spelt eys for plurals (donkeys)
adding ed, ing, er and est suffixes to words ending in y with a consonant before it (happy -> happier)
adding ed, ing, er and est suffixes to words ending in e with a consonant before it (love -> loved)
adding ed, ing, er, est and y suffixes to words of one syllable ending in a single consonant letter after a single vowel letter (hop -> hopped)
the suffixes ment, ness, ful , less and ly

10. Writing expectations for Year 2 (3/5)
Spelling patterns continued:
contractions (can’t, didn’t, hasn’t, couldn’t, it’s, I’m, I’ll, she’ll, etc)
possessive apostrophes for singular nouns (The girl’s dress is blue.)
homophones and near-homophones (see/sea, sun/son, to/too/two, quite/quiet, etc)

11. Writing expectations for Year 2 (4/5)

12. Writing expectations for Year 2 (5/5)

13. Reading expectations for Year 2

14. Science Animals, including Humans (Term 1) Uses of Everyday Materials
Things that are living, dead and have never been alive. The basic needs of animals for survival (water, food and air). The importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene.
Uses of Everyday Materials
Plants and Conditions for Growth
Plant and Animal Life Cycles
Food Chains
Habitats

15. Homework
Mrs Lucas will give homework out on a Tuesday or Wednesday which will consist of Spellings (10-12 in Year 2) and Mathematics. This will be returned on the following Monday.
Reading books will be changed once a week. The expectation in Year 2 is that children will spend 5-10 minutes reading on most days.
The amount of time that we ask pupils to spend on their homework in Year 2 equates to approximately 10 minutes a day.

16. What’s happening? 03/10/17 Harvest Festival at St Guthlac’s 04/10/17 &
11/10/17 Parents’ Evenings
12/10/17 Individual Photos
10/11/17 Remembrance Service
01/12/17 Christmas Fair
08/12/17 Bring Grandparents to School
14/12/17 Nativity Service at St Guthlac’s

17. What can you do to help your child?
Listening to your child read and questioning them about what they have read.
Reading to your child (anything and everything).
Helping your child to learn their spellings (for ever, not just for the following day’s spelling test).
Helping your child to learn number facts (times tables).
Use maths in everyday situations. Ask your child to tell you the time, read ingredients to you, look at maps.
Encourage your child to be involved with money when shopping, reading price labels, using coins, etc.

18. Useful Information
Your child needs to bring a water bottle (with water inside) every day.
Your child needs to bring their book bag every day. Please look inside book bags every evening or you may miss some important information or letters.
Please do not put keyrings or charms on book bags as they make the trays difficult to close.
Please keep other bags (such as back-packs) to a minimum as we do not have room to store them in KS1 lockers.
Swimming is on Wednesdays during Term 1 and Term 3 (January). We will also swim during Term 6 (June).
PE is every Thursday. Your child needs a PE top, shorts and tracksuit bottoms, trainers or plimsolls. If it is cold outside, they can also wear their jumper or a tracksuit top. Please ensure that hair is tied back and earrings removed on PE and swimming days.
Forest schools will continue. This is a valuable learning experience for children. Further information will be sent out in due course.

19. Remember the school website for additional information.

20. We look forward to an exciting term ahead! Thank you for your time.