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 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

Harrowby Infant School 2.10.12

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



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


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.


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.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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!


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


Thank you for coming

Goodnight!


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Welcome to the Y2 Parents’ Information Evening