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