year 2 curriculum meeting how you can help your child
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Year 2 Curriculum Meeting
How you can help your child
Numeracy
• Progression from Year 1.
• Using and applying the key facts from Year 1 such as number bonds
• Becoming confident with place value to use 3 and 4 digit numbers
Numeracy
• Shape, space and measure
• Length, weight, capacity, time,
• 2D and 3D shapes – names and properties.
• Regular and irregular, angles
• Vocabulary • Operations, addition,
subtraction, multiplication, division.
• larger, smaller, greater, fewer
• The difference between, strategy
Year 2 Numeracy
• Calculating• 2 digit to 2 digit
numbers: addition and subtraction strategies (see handout)
• 2,5,10x tables and related division facts (3,4,6)
• Problem solving• Problems using
calculating but in real life situations eg time, money, measurement, fractions.
• 2 step problem solving eg buy 2 items then work out change
Addition and Subtraction
• 25+37
• 20+30=50
• 5+7=12
• 50+12=62
• 82-37
• 82-30=52
• 52-7=45
Book banding
• A national system for levelling books
• Colour coded
• Implications – one level may consist of a variety of old ORT levels
• There are more books in each bookband
Book Bands
• Pink• Red• Yellow• Blue• Green• Orange• Turquoise• Purple
• Gold• White• Lime• Copper
Reading
• Look and say• Relies on children
learning all words by rote.
• Makes it harder to decode unfamiliar words.
• Phonics• Children learn the 44
phonemes in the English language.
• Provides a strategy to decode unfamiliar words.
Phonics
• Phase 2• s, a, t, i, p, n, c, k, e, o,
r, u, d, g, u, l, o, ck, h, b, f, ff, ll, ss
• Phase 3• j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu,
ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, oo, ow
• air, ure, er, or, ur, ow, oi, ear
Phase 4,5 and 6
• Phase 4 revisits Phase 3 and looks at words with more complex blends of sounds e.g. spring, scrunch,
• Phase 5 has split digraphs – “magic e” e.g. like, stripe, cake etc. Also rarer patterns such as aw (claw) ey (money) ch (chef)
• Phase 6 looks at past tense, endings such as er, est, ment, ness
Other reading strategies
• Picture clues• Read on for the context• Repetition in the text• Explaining vocabulary• Adults as role models – children need to
see adults reading. • Let them know we need to check meaning
and pronunciation too.
Home reading
• From Turquoise bookband onwards take 2 nights to read each book
• Answer questions, or discussion points from the same book, if your child is a reluctant writer can be oral but must be signed
• Every couple of weeks complete a book review
Writing
• Key Stage 1 Assessments require children to be familiar with a variety of genres.
• Instructions
• Stories
• Poems
• Explanations
• Recounts
• Need to be consistent to achieve that level
The writing process
• Copy writing?
• Using sounds and tricky word spellings
• Using have a go books and word banks
• Rehearsing ideas using drama
• Checking work - does it make sense?
• Editing work – how could I make this better?
Spelling
• Look, cover, write, check.
• Using sounds from the phases such as igh, knowing which pattern to use
• Prefixes and suffixes such as –ful, dis
• Plurals
• Past tense regular –ed and irregular eg was
Speaking and Listening
• Essential to developing good literacy skills.• Good listening skills – looking at the person
who is speaking.• Expressing ideas – speaking audibly and
clearly giving detail to the listener. • Confidence is the key – encourage children
to speak at home and enter into discussions.
Basic Skills across the curriculum
• Basic literacy skills are essential if children are to access other curriculum areas.
• Being able to listen, question and discuss will allow children to develop their understanding of history, geography and maths.
• These skills will make sure children can transfer to the Junior school successfully
Assertive Mentoring
• Consistent with Victoria Junior School
•Colour grading for pupils so easy to understand
•Assessed and given targets for Writing and Numeracy
•Assessed on 5 different areas for Attitude
•Pupils have 1:1 interviews
•Parents are given a copy at Parent Evening
Homework
• Reading books – as discussed
• Some children will have words
• Spellings weekly
• Maths – weekly
• Taking responsibility for getting homework done on time
General Notices
• Year 2 Resource area• Changing books• Water bottles• Visiting the toilet• Named Clothing• Parking in Cardinal Road, WOW• Healthy Schools• End of KS1 Assessment meeting• Year 2 Charity