Key Stage 1 Parents Coffee Morning

1. Key Stage 1 Parents Coffee Morning 14th November 2012

2. Literacy in KS1

3. Phonics • Guided reading • Writing in a range of fiction and non-fiction styles • Literacy games on the internet and typing • Writing in other subjects • Role play What does your child do for literacy?

4. By the end of year 1, your child should: • Sound out CVC words e.g. bat, sit, cut. • Know around 45 high frequency words • Be able to talk about a story and say what might happen next, or think about a character’s feelings. • Be able to retell a story and say what parts of the story they do and don’t like. Year 1 - reading

5. By the end of year 1, your child should: • Write simple phrases and statements • Remember capital letters and full stops some of the time • Write clearly so people can read his/her writing • Try to put all his/ her ideas into writing • Spell some common and CVC words correctly Year 1 - writing

6. By the end of year 2, your child should: • Have a range of strategies to help with reading e.g. sounding out, looking at other words in the sentence, using pictures etc • Predict what will happen in a story and be able to talk about the setting, characters and make comparisons to other similar stories • Recognise and be able to explain the difference between fiction and non-fiction books. Year 2 - reading

7. By the end of year 2, your child should: • Begin sentences in lots of different ways • Use more interesting joining words than ‘and’ • Write stories with a beginning, middle and end • Try to include interesting vocabulary • Spell frequently used words correctly and use phonics to help with less familiar words. Year 2 - writing

8. When you listen to your child read, please encourage them to sound out unfamiliar words or use the pictures and what they’ve just read to help. • Ask them questions to check understanding – use the bookmarks. • Read to them and with them – if they see you reading regularly they will want to do it too! How you can help with reading

9. As with reading, please encourage your child to sound out words. • Find what they enjoy writing about and encourage it – find their passions! • Try to encourage the correct pencil grip – this will help throughout their school life and is very hard to correct when they are older. How you can help with writing

10. The thumb and forefinger should look like two frogs legs jumping up and down. Froggy legs pencil grip!

11. Maths in Key Stage 1

12. Number • Shape and measure • Handling data • Using and applying 1 2 3 4 Areas of maths

13. By the end of the year your child should be able to: • add and subtract numbers of objects to 10 • solve addition/subtraction problems involving up to 10 objects • sort and classify objects demonstrating the criterion they have used • measure and order objects using direct comparison • use everyday language to describe properties and positions of 2-D and 3-D shapes • use mathematics as an integral part of classroom activities • represent their work with objects or pictures • discuss their work, e.g. with support 1 2 3 4 Year 1

14. 1 2 3 4 By the end of year 2 your child should: • use the knowledge that subtraction is the inverse of addition • use mental recall of addition and subtraction facts to 10 • begin to use halves and quarters • count sets of objects reliably • know 2, 5 and 10 times tables • understand angle as a measurement of turn • begin to use everyday non-standard and standard units to measure • sort and classify objects using more than one criterion • communicate their findings, using the simple lists, tables, pictograms and block graphs • select the mathematics they use in some classroom activities • discuss their work using mathematical language Year 2

15. Encourage them to recognise numbers, shapes, data in everyday situations. • Make maths fun – shopping, out in the card, tickets, the cinema (real life contexts) • Allow them to make mistakes – it is a journey: those praised for trying will achieve more than those praised for being clever. • Use the methods taught at SIS. How to help your child

16. Thanks for listening!

17. Science in Key Stage 1 By Francesca

18. Topics of work varying between • Chemistry • Biology • Physics • In Year 1 topics include • Sound and Hearing • Pushes and Pulls • Light and Dark • Ourselves • Growing Plant • Sorting Materials Science Curriculum in SISWhat your children do in SIS

19. Year 2 Topics • Plants • Variation • Changing and Grouping Materials • Using Electricity • Forces and Movement • Food and Health • Investigations • Which material makes the car go down the ramp fastest? • Making circuits In our classrooms

20. To talk about what they observe when they do things. • To record observations using pictures. Investigations – what students should be able to do by the end of year 1

21. Use simple equipment provided. • Describe observations using some scientific vocabulary. • Observe and compare results. • Say whether what happened was what they expected. Investigations – what students should be able to do by the end of year 2

22. Science is in everything we do • Science at home booklet • Activities you can do at home • Activities in the community • http://scienceofeverydaylife.discoveryeducation.com/families/activities.cfm What can students learn at home?

23. Any questions? Thank you for listening