1. Our Lady of Grace Catholic Infant School
‘We are learning to grow and love like Jesus’
Year 2 Curriculum Evening

2. Tonight we want you to Have an insight into the Year 2 curriculum
Have a better understanding of the age related expectations for the end of Year 2
To recognise how you can best support your child in partnership with Our Lady of Grace Infants

3. General Information Uniform Attendance Punctuality Soft Start
Collection of children
PE – Friday
Home Learning
Communication

4. End of Year Expectations
National Curriculum 2014
High standards
Essential Knowledge
Depth of knowledge

6. English Linked to topic
Children ‘build’ their understanding of a genre throughout the week
Grammar
Punctuation
Spelling – Red Words

7. Spelling
Year 2 Children should be able to spell the high frequency words and common exception words.
Red word spelling is essential.

8. Reading Oxford Reading Tree/ Book bag Book RWI (child to read)
Read Write Inc (child to read)
Library (read to child) -develop a pleasure for reading
Reading Journal

9. Maths
Number
Measurement
Position
Shape
Addition and Subtraction

10. Cornerstone Curriculum

12. End of Year Expectations
Working Towards
Expected
Exceeding

15. How to support and help your childRE
Talking about the Gospel – Wednesday Word
Reading
Take time to listen to your child read
Encourage your child to sound out words (Fred it) and to read words they already know to develop their fluency
Ask questions about the book
Writing
Encourage your child to say their sentence out loud
Use their phonics to write
Simple sentences capital letters, finger spaces and full stops
Spell high frequency words
Speaking and Listening
Ask questions
Develop language
Topic
Home learning projects
Practical activities

16. Learning Behaviours

17. SMART
S = Sensible
M= Manners
A= Acceptance
R= Respect
T= Tolerance

18. Houses Winston Churchill Emmeline Pankhurst Nelson Mandela
Mary Seacole
The children have been allocated houses. Each child will belong to a house. They will be given points for their attitude to work and how they treat each other.

19. SATS

20. Examples of SATS
 This will include a short arithmetic test of 15 questions, and a second paper of broader mathematics which will last around 35 minutes.
Arithmetic questions examples: =
…. + 5 = 9
87 − 40 =
8 x 10 =
2 x 0 =
35 ÷ 5 =
¼ of 20 =

21. End of Year Tests - Maths
Reasoning questions examples:
Reasoning

22. Reasoning questions examples:

24. Reading

28. Find out more School Noticeboard School website and App
Knowledge organisers
Parent Pamphlet

29. Trips – Really important and enhance the curriculum, however we need volunteers to help us otherwise trips cannot go ahead and also if we do not receive the money to cover the trips they will be cancelled.
All payments must be made onlne
Important that all parents are able to access online as all reports and other resources such as mymaths is online.

30. Summary Have an understanding of the Year 2 curriculum
Have an understanding of the year 2 expectations
Have an understanding of how to support your child.