Parents’ Information Evening – Year 2

1. Parents’ Information Evening – Year 2 Class 5 – Miss Booth and Mrs Dixon Class 6 – Miss Dyke Mrs Dunne, Mrs Botterill, and Mrs Hardy.

2. Log on to our Blog! • Class Blog on website. (Please encourage your child to comment on our class blogs but they must not include their surname. We also encourage parents to comment on our blog – please use the name e.g. ‘Lucy’s Dad’) • Purple Mash home access. • KS1 hub.

3. Reading • Please try to listen to your child read as often as possible. • Don’t worry if the reading books appear easy. • Don’t worry if your child is asked to re-read some books. • Please comment on your child’s reading and let us know whether they have completed the book.

4. Phonics • In Year 2 we continue with phonics lessons. • Please see the KS1 Hub for lots of phonics games. • ‘Say It, Spell It’ words, Tricky words • There is a list of the 100 HFWs and 200 common words in the front of each child’s homework book to be learnt over the course of the year.

5. Spelling • Spelling Test is on Tuesdays. • After the test, children will be given their new spellings to learn for the following Tuesday. • Sometimes spellings will be practised in class but will still need to be learnt at home. Spellings will often be linked to their phonics work. • Children are also asked to complete spelling sentences as part of their homework.

6. Homework • Homework will be given on a Friday . It may be Numeracy, Literacy or Topic related. • Sometimes children will be asked to find things out or bring things in from home. • Homework will be collected in on a Wednesday. If homework arrives later than Wednesday it will not be marked that week.

7. Handwriting • After initial practise children will begin to learn joined up handwriting in Year 2.

8. KS1 Curriculum & Testing • As a school we are now implementing the new curriculum. • Children will be assessed throughout the year by teachers at the end of a unit of work • Year 2 sit tests during Summer term. This forms part of our assessment.

9. New Assessments • Attainment Steps are now used to describe children’s attainment in maths, reading, writing and SPaG (spelling, punctuation & grammar). • The steps are organised in the same way that the new curriculum is, so that they provide expectations for each stage of attainment (e.g. a typical Y2 would be at step 21 by the end of the year). • Just as before each class will have children at lots of different steps (e.g. Y2 children will not all be at a Y2 stage of attainment between steps 19-21). • The new curriculum is harder so children are likely to start lower down the scale.

10. Year 2 STAT: Reading

11. Year 2 STAT: Writing

12. Year 2 STAT: SPAG

13. Year 2 STAT: Maths

14. Numeracy • Children are in two groups for numeracy. • Miss Dyke teaches higher numeracy. • Miss Booth teaches the lower numeracy group. • The majority of the children are working at the same level but grouped according to confidence.

15. Big Maths It is a daily sequential programme of mental maths provision, with a strong emphasis on learned facts and developing the mental agility to do something with these facts. It develops core skills in one clear method. All are taught in the same way, repeatedly, to embed these fundamental skills. Big Maths highlights how small steps of progress with core numeracy follow on logically from one to the next.

16. Big Maths Big Maths is based upon the principle that there are 4 core skills that lie at the heart of numeracy. These core skills form the platform for virtually all other maths skills and are affectionately known as CLIC …. Counting Learn Its It’s Nothing New Calculations

17. Beat That! Big Maths Beat That – On Mondays, year 2 will sit a timed challenge where children answer ‘Learn Its’ questions. The aim is to beat their previous score. You will have seen the ‘Learn Its’ sheet sent home. These are for the children to keep practising their learn its at home. CLIC Challenges– A weekly assessment used to identify areas to work on and progress made.

18. Beat That! Squigglesworth Mully PIM Super FAB Count Fourways Speedy Col

19. Jigsaw Numbers

20. PE • PE kit must be kept in school. • Outdoor PE kit – Trainers, Jogging Bottoms. • Your child must be able to take their earrings out themselves. • Clothes must be named.

21. Food • Healthy eating – fruit is available during morning playtime. • Snack on a Friday – 30p each. No more than 60p please. Water • Please provide your child with a water bottle that will stay in school from Monday to Friday.

22. Performances Class assemblies Class 5 – 24th September Class 6 – TBC House Activities Cross Country – 22nd September Christmas Production 9th December

23. Drop Off and Collection Please see your child into the line and allow them to come into school on their own. On collection (at 3:00pm) your child will not be allowed to leave until they see their adult on the school playground. Please encourage children to be prepared with their reading books and things to be handed in.

24. Parents Evening • Individual Consultations are on 20th and 21st October

25. Health Care Plans • If your child currently has a health care plan at school, please can you stay behind to sign the form to ensure all our information is up to date. • If you think your child may need a health care plan (allergy, asthma, health condition, etc.), please stay behind and notify their teacher.

26. PTFA • We are desperate for new PTFA members, please!!!! • Parent forums!!! • Thank You