1. Year 2 Curriculum meeting
11/1/18

2. Aims of today
Review the Assessment Framework for Reading, Writing and Maths
Offer suggestions of what you can do to help at home
Homework grid
What is happening this term
Reminders

3. How to Help Your Child with Reading
Listening to your child read can take many forms:
Focus on developing an enjoyment and love of reading.
Enjoy stories together
Read regularly with your child
Talk about the story before, during and afterwards – discuss the plot, the characters, their feelings and actions, how it makes you feel, predict what will happen and encourage your child to have their own opinions.
Look up definitions of words together – you could use a dictionary, the Internet or an app on a phone or tablet.
All reading is valuable – it doesn’t have to be just stories. Reading can involve anything from fiction and non-fiction, poetry, newspapers, magazines, football programmes, TV guides.
Visit the local library - it’s free!

4. Reading Assessment:
Please look at the hand out to see the end of year expectations.
The Reading Test consists of two separate papers:
Paper 1 – consists of a combined reading prompt and answer booklet. The paper includes a list of useful words and some practice questions for teachers to use to introduce the contexts and question types to pupils. The test takes approximately 30 minutes to complete, but is not strictly timed.
Paper 2 – consists of an answer booklet and a separate reading booklet. There are no practice questions on this paper. Teachers can use their discretion to stop the test early if a pupil is struggling. The test takes approximately 40 minutes to complete, but is not strictly timed.
The texts will cover a range of poetry, fiction and non-fiction.

5. Reading: Sample Questions
Questions are designed to assess the comprehension and understanding of a child’s reading.
There are a variety of question types:
Multiple Choice

6. Reading: Sample Questions
Ranking/Ordering

7. Reading: Sample Questions
Matching/Labelling
Short-Answer Questions

8. How to Help Your Child with Writing
Please look at the hand out to see the end of year expectations.
Practise and learn the Common Exception Words (listed in your child's reading diary)
Encourage opportunities for writing, such as letters to family or friends, shopping lists, notes or reminders, stories or poems.
Write together – be a good role model for writing.
Encourage use of a dictionary to check spelling.
Allow your child to use a computer for word processing, which will allow for editing and correcting of errors without lots of crossing out.

9. How to help in Maths
Please look at the hand out. It shows the Assessment Framework and the expectations at the end of Key Stage One. On the right hand side there are examples to help you think of questions to ask your child and ideas of how you can help.

10. Number Children need to be able to recall and calculate mentally.
The more your child practises the more confident they will become.
Try using everyday experiences and talk about them.
Some children are better at mental calculations or working things out in their head, than others. If your child finds this difficult, continue to be positive and praise them for what they can do and keep on practising with them.

11. Money Try using money –it can be a great motivator!
The real stuff is the best!
Give your children a jar of coins or your purse. Help them count the money.
How much is there?
How many ways can you make 50p?
What is the highest value you can make using 4 coins?
Use 2p, 5p and 10p coins to support learning the times tables.

12. Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables to solve simple problems; demonstrate an understanding of commutativity as necessary.
Try using food to encourage children to learn their times tables and the corresponding division facts!
e.g raisins can be grouped and counted
children can count the biscuits in a packet in twos as they put them in the biscuit barrel
strawberries can be shared equally
You can ask questions. There are 4 people in our family. If we have 20 grapes how many can we each have?
There are 3 bars of chocolate. Each bar has 10 chunks. How many are there altogether?

13. Homework Grid How much money is in the picture?
Count the money in your money box. Is there more than £1?
At home, ask someone if you can count the money in their purse.
See if you can find different ways to make 50p or £1.
Write a recipe for a marvellous medicine/ potion.
What will it be used for?
Remember to use bossy words to give the instructions, numbers and pictures to help someone else to
make the potion.
Become a materials detective!
Which materials can you find around your home? Gather some objects. Decide how to sort the objects you find by their materials. Record how you sorted the objects.
Challenge: Choose an object. What is it made of, why do you think it is made of this material?
Learn any poem by heart.
Perform it to family or friends. Add expression and actions. Be ready to share with Squirrel Class. You could also write the poem out in your best writing.
Make a sculpture.
It can be made out of anything. Have fun and be creative!
Research a famous scientist and choose how to present the information.
You could use books or the internet to help you.
Challenge
Make or do anything related to our topic.
Investigate, experiment and enjoy!
Ongoing activities.
Remember to read at least 4 times a week to become a reading champion.
Please try and learn your times tables with the cards you have made. (2, 10, 5 and 3)
Practise reading and spelling common exception words.
Practise joining your writing.

14. Super Scientists
We have written to James Dyson to ask him to visit us to tell us about his inventions.
Fizz Pop Science are coming in to present a Science Assembly.

15. Reminders Please try to hear your child read at least 4 times a week.
Named PE Kits and drinks bottles need to be in school.
Next half term our topic is ‘We’re going on a book hunt’ when your child will be asked to bring a favourite book into school to talk about to the rest of the class.
Tapestry