welcome to the y2 parents’ information evening
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Welcome to the Y2 Parents’ Information Evening. Helping Your Child in Year 2. Please take a seat. Outline of the Evening. The curriculum End of key stage assessments(+ SATS) How to help your child PTFA Liaison with and transfer to National School. Curriculum. 1 topic a term - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Welcome to the Y2 Parents’ Information Evening
Helping Your Child in Year 2
Please take a seat
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Outline of the Evening
The curriculum End of key stage assessments(+ SATS) How to help your child PTFA Liaison with and transfer to National
School
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Curriculum
1 topic a term All subjects are linked to the topic Children will be encouraged to carry out
more activities independently The children can change their own
reading books everyday once they have read them
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Our Topics This Year…
All about me Celebrations and Festivals Famous People Space Katie Morag – An Island Home Castles, Myths and legends
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Read Write Inc Programme
Children have a phonics/reading/writing lesson everyday which takes 1 hour.
Children are taught individual sounds for each letter. Each letter has a picture and ‘saying’ to help the
children remember. It is linked closely with reading and writing – children
have a different book to read every week in class. They work in partners to read the book They then have writing activities linked with the book
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Helping your child to read… Read as often as possible – even 10 minutes a night
will have a good impact on your child’s reading Help the child sound out the word and blend together
e.g. c-a-t d-ay n- igh- t s-ee s-t-ar s-n-ow
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Helping your child to read…
Tricky words – cannot be sounded out
tell your child the word and find the tricky part of the word e.g. said, he, she
With bigger words encourage your child to split the word into smaller part
e.g. won-der-ful in-cred-ible
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BIG WRITING
An initiative introduced in November 2009 at
both Harrowby and National School
A method of teaching writing in many schools throughout the country
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What is Big Writing?
Big Writing is taught on a Friday morning. It is taught in 2 parts 45 minutes before playtime is for ‘Big Talk’
this is where they discuss and plan the things they are going to write about.
The 2nd part takes place after playtime where the children write about the topic they have been discussing.
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Big Writing…
Big Writing focuses on: Vocabulary Connectives Openers Punctuation If your child does big writing they will have
‘talk homework’ on a Monday saying what the topic is and ideas to talk about before Friday.
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Help with writing
Your child should be able to: - write stories with a beginning, middle and end - write in different ways, e.g. lists, instructions, recipes - use interesting vocabulary to keep the reader interested - choose words and details that interest the reader - write in sentences using full stops and capital letters - begin to use speech, question and exclamation marks - begin to write more interesting sentences - spell familiar words correctly - write neatly and clearly
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Maths in Year 2 Some of the areas we teach the children are:- To be able to add, subtract, multiply and divide- To solve problems involving money, time and measures.- To read, write and order 3 digit numbers - To double and halve numbers- To round numbers to the nearest 10 - To find halves and quarters of shapes and numbers - To name, sort and describe 2D and 3D shapes - To use ordinal number – 1st, 2nd, 3rd
To tell the time in 5 minute intervals, know days of the week and months of the year
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Helping your child with maths
Practice counting Recognising numbers when out and about Using money and paying for things, finding
the change Tell the time Weighing ingredients for cooking Sharing out objects Play games like snakes and ladders
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Year 2 SATS
Take place in May/June They are spread out over the whole term
to keep it as relaxed as possible Children do SATs in reading, writing and
maths SATs confirm our teachers assessments Parents will be informed of levels in the
end of year report
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Year 2 SATS
An average year 2 child should achieve a level 2b.
A child working below year 2 expectations would achieve a level 1 or 2c
A child working above year 2 expectations would achieve a level 2a or level 3.
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Reading
All children do the level 2 booklet and those that achieve a high score in level 2 will go on to do level 3
Level 2 reading consists of sharing a book with the adult and discussing OR
Answering comprehension questions in a booklet All the questions for each part of the story are at
the bottom of the same page There are 2 types of question, a multi-choice and
one written
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Reading - Level 3
At level 3, the children have to answer the comprehension questions in a booklet
There are 2 books, one fiction and 1 factual
Each book has questions in a separate answer booklet
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Writing
Children's writing is assessed in different areas The longer task will be a story or an
information text The short task will be a description or a set of
instructions Spelling Handwriting
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Spelling
There are 2 parts to the spelling assessment
Part one consists of writing a given word under a picture, the word must be spelt correctly to gain a mark
Part 2 consists of a dictation and the children are given the passage to fill in the missing words
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Mathematics
Maths is also assessed using booklets There are 2 booklets – one at level 2 and
one at level 3 All children do the level 2 booklet and
those that achieve a high score in level 2 will go on to do level 3
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Liaison with National School prior to transfer in September 2013
Visits by teachers to the National Visits by National School staff to Harrowby Children’s visits to the National
- to see Y3 assembly in March
- to spend morning with receiving class
teacher in July Parents’ Meeting at National, 2 July 2013 at
1.30pm
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Transfer to the National School – September 2013
Your child is guaranteed a place at the National as long as you follow the correct procedures
Applications have to be made, preferably online :
www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/schooladmissions
or telephoning admissions at 01522 782030
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Transfer to the National School – September 2013
14 January 2013– Applications close at noon
16 April 2013 - Offer of place posted by LA or view online
13 May 2013 – Accept or refuse offer
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School Website
To keep up to date on all aspects of Harrowby log on to:
www.harrowbyinfantschool.com Latest prospectus Latest news Letters home School newsletters Useful educational links Snow closures!
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That’s all Folks…… We hope your children enjoy their last year
with us at Harrowby We would appreciate your comments on
the usefulness of this evening’s session for feedback purposes
- what went well
- even better if
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Thank you for coming
Goodnight!
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