Year 2 Curriculum Evening6.30pm -7.45pm

Learning Together;

Learning for life

Year 2 Teachers Mrs Sewell Mrs Smith

Educational Teaching Assistants Sarah Yates Sharon Hirst Helen Ward Jayne Simpson

Children to arrive between 8:45 and 8:55 am. An early morning task will be set for the children. Registration 9:00 am. Phonics 9:05 - 9:30 am Assembly is at 10:30, apart from singing which begins at 10:25

am. During assembly time, staff work with guided reading groups. Play time 10:45 - 11:00 am. Second session 11:00 - 12:00 am Dinner 12 - 1:15 pm. Third session 1:15 - 2:15. Afternoon playtime 2:15 -2:30 Last session 2:30 -3:15 Children can be picked up between 3:15 and 3:30 pm. After school clubs 3.15-4.15

PE kits should include clothes for both outdoor and indoor PE.

All clothes should be labelled. Footwear should be either pumps or trainers

(named). Can parents check kits periodically to ensure

they still fit their child. The PE kit should be in a clearly labelled bag

and should remain in school for the duration of the half term.

No jewellery is to be worn. Earrings must be removed.

PE is on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Children are welcome to take books home as long as they can remember to bring them back.

Every effort will be made to make sure a range of books to suit all abilities are available.

If children like a particular type of book - please ask, we may be able to find some. e.g. spooky stories, fairy tales.

Work is sent out fortnightly and is linked to the topic. It is an opportunity for your child to share their learning with you.

We ask for this to be returned on or before the date requested.

Learning logs are a vital communication between home and school.

This is where we will share what your child has been reading, their current targets and any areas your child may need to work on.

Parents are invited to write in them when reading, to tell us about any achievements or ask questions. Please share what your child has been doing at home too.

Please can the children be reminded to put learning logs into the boxes provided in the classrooms every morning.

New Curriculum 2014Designed to produce productive, creative and well educated pupils

Stronger emphasis on:vocabulary developmentgrammarpunctuationspelling

(for example, the use of commas and apostrophes will be taught in KS1)

Handwriting is expected to be fluent, legible and speedy

Spoken English will focus on debating and presenting skills

5 year olds will be expected to learn to count up to 100

(compared to 20 under the old curriculum) Learn number bonds to 20 (instead of 10) Simple fractions (1/4 and 1/2 ) will be

taught from KS1 By 9 children will be expected to know

times tables up to 12 x 12 (compared to 10 x 1o by the end of primary school)

Stronger emphasis on scientific knowledge and language

Caring for animals will be replaced by topics like the human circulatory system

Evolution to be taught in primary schools for the first time.

Afforded greater importance in the curriculum

Setting children on the path to become designers and engineers of the future

Use of design equipment such as electronics and robiotics

Stronger emphasis on food technology

Computing replaces Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

Greater focus on programming rather than on operating programs

From age of 5 children will learn to:write and test simple programsorganise store and retrieve datadigital literacy (e-safety)

In year 2 we offer a rich curriculum through our half termly topics:-

Autumn 1 World Kitchen Autumn 2 Famous People from the

Past Spring 1 Pirates Spring 2 Oceans and Seas Summer 1 Animals and Zoos Summer 2 Recycling

Children in key stage 1 (both year 1 and 2) are attending differentiated phonics groups.

Every fortnight, Super Spelling tasks will be sent home linked to what they have been learning in Phonics. This does not need to come back. It is for them to complete at home and to inform you what they have been doing.

As you will be aware, last year Year 1 children were required to complete a phonics check.

Some children may need to repeat this check this year if they did not meet the required level.

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Marking is done daily Feedback to your child can be verbal or

written We use two colours:

◦ “Tickled pink” to show children they have worked successfully

◦ “Green for growth” to show children were they can improve their work further

◦ Stickers and certificates

Children's writing is assessed against levelled criteria.

After an assessment a target will be shared with your child. This will come home in the learning log so you and your child know their target and you can help them achieve the target.

Targets are shared for reading, writing and maths

The SATs are implemented in a very relaxed and low key way - the children are generally not aware that they are being tested.

Teacher assessment is also an important part of levelling children and the SATs provide additional evidence to support our overall levels.

This will be the last year SATs will be used. A new test will be introduced next year.

After school sports clubs Enterprise club Spanish club Choir Drums Recorders School trips

Transition to Junior School begins in the summer term

Each child has a book buddy First visit – tour of school Second visit – lunch time Third visit – morning and lunch with children

from new class For parents – information evenings Admission packs for Junior school sent

out in October to be completed