Transition to Year 2

10th September 2014.

The aims of tonight’s content:

• To introduce you to the Year 2 staff.• To give you an understanding of the Year 2 curriculum.• To show you how the Year 2 curriculum is different to the Year 1 curriculum.• To give you an understanding of the Year 2 assessments.

Year 2 Staff• Mrs Yusuf – Team leader and Class Teacher (Ibn Abbas)

• Miss Saiyed – Class Teacher (Ibn Abbas)

• Miss Jadoon – Class Teacher (Bint Abeebakar)

• Miss Qadir – Class Teacher (Ibn Zayd)

• Miss Patel – Learning Coach (Ibn Abbas)

• Miss Ali – Learning Coach (Bint Abeebakar)

• Miss Rifai – Learning Coach (Ibn Zayd)

The Year 2 Building.• Three year 2 classrooms on the first floor.• Entrance for all classes are on Bold Street.•Children are dropped off at the Bold Street entrance.•Ibn Abbas and Bint Abeebakar children areccollected from the Bold Street entrance.•Bint Zayd children are collected from the Bicknell Street entrance.

•Children take their shoes off and carry them into the cloakroom.

•The dining rooms are located opposite the classrooms.

The Year 2 Timetable.

Homework and Reading Books.• Reading books are changed on Monday and Friday.

• Homework will be given on Friday and needs to be handed in by Wednesday at the latest.

• Children will read with an adult 1-1 at least once a week, as well as an additional 2 Guided Reading Sessions and 1 Reading Comprehension lesson.

How do we assess the children?

•Year 2 is classed as Key Stage 1 and is assessed using the National Curriculum.

• We assess Reading, Writing and Maths.

• We track their progress on a levelled tracker.

• The end of year expectation in all subjects is a secure 2b.

How the National Curriculum levels work.

•1C •1B•1A (most children are expected to be emerging into this upon entry).

•2C•2B - End of Year 2 expectation.•2A•3C

When do we assess the children?

•Assessed every half term in Maths, Reading and Writing.

•To inform the teachers.

•Sats at the end of year 2 – May/June time.

Literacy units

•Instructions•Stories with familiar settings•Non-chronological reports•Different stories written by the same author•Poetry•Traditional stories•Information texts•Explanation texts

Literacy – Writing.•Consistent capital letters full stops, question marks and exclamation marks.• Work that can clearly be read by an adult who is NOT your child’s teacher.• Frequent use of ‘wow’ adjectives and adventurous vocabulary.• Use of the connectives ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘because’, and ‘so’.• Using time connectives to order ideas in their writing.•Grouping ideas together.

Numeracy – Number.

•Read and write two-digit numbers in figures and words. •Recognise odd and even numbers.•Estimate a number of objects up to 100 by grouping them e.g. In 2s, 5s and 10s.•To work out money amounts.•Count on or back in ones, twos, fives or tens from any given number. •Recognise the place value of each digit in any two-digit number, and partition two-digit numbers into multiples of 10 and 1.

Numeracy – Number.•To know number bonds to 20.•Add or subtract mentally a one-digit number to or from a two-digit number, e.g. 14 + 7, 18 – 6; •Add or subtract mentally a multiple of 10 to or from any 2-digit number e.g. 58 – 30. •Add three one-digit numbers•To know the 2,3,4,5,10 times tables• To be able to apply knowledge of number and operations to solve word problems.

Numeracy – Number.

•Identify all coins and notes and begin to use £.p notation. •Find totals, give change and work out which coins to use. •Combine coins and notes to make a given value and show different combinations of coins and notes that equal the same value. •Solve simple problems in a practical context involving addition and subtraction of money.

Numeracy – Shapes, Space and Measure.

•Choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure lengths(m/cm) and masses (kg/g)•Compare and order lengths and mass, record the results using >, < and = •Read relevant scales to the nearest numbered division and interpret the divisions between them. •Use a ruler to measure and draw lengths to the nearest centimetre.

Numeracy – Shapes, Space and Measure.•To name common 2-D shapes, including circle, triangle, square, rectangle, pentagon, hexagon and octagon. •To name common 3-D solids, including cube, cuboid, sphere, cylinder, cone, square-based pyramid and tetrahedron. •Use everyday language to describe features of common 2-D shapes, including the number of sides, number of right angles and symmetry. •Use everyday language to describe features of common 3-D solids, including the shapes of faces, number of faces, edges and vertices. •Compare and sort common shapes and solids, including those in different orientations and in the environment. Use shapes and solids to make patterns, pictures and models, including congruent shapes and designs.

Numeracy – Shapes, Space and Measure.

•Use units of time and know the relationship between them, e.g. second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year. •Read the time to an hour and half past the hour on an analogue and 12-hour digital clock.•Compare duration of events, including those that cross the hour. •Use appropriate mathematical language to describe position, direction and movement.

Science.• The topics we will cover this year in Science are:• Use of everyday materials• Forces and movement.• All living things.• Electricity & An introduction to

Astronomy• Habitats• Animals including humans

• Children will learn to make simple, plausible predictions and compare this prediction to the actual outcome.• Children will collect data, describeobservations and understand the concept of fair testing.

History.

• We will cover the following History topics this year:• Florence Nightingale• Remembrance Day• Romans• Children will learn how to use primary and secondary sources.• Children will understand how lives have changed over time and that the world has not always been as it is now.• Children will learn about the development of technology.

Geography.• We will cover the following Geography topics this year:• The school setting• Compare Blackburn to a village in India/Africa• British Isles• Children will learn about the size of the school / Blackburn in comparison to the country / world.• Children will understand how thelives of others are different depending on where they live.• Geographical history.

ICT

New Curriculum

Computer science

Information technology

Digital literacy

Year 2 ICT units

1) We are games testers2) We are detectives -Collecting clues3) We are photographers – Taking

better photos4) We are astronauts –

Programming on screen5) We are researchers –

Researching a topic6) We are zoologists – Collecting

data about bugs

Art and DT (Design Technology).

• We will cover the following Art and DT topics this year:• DT - Puppets – textiles • DT – Winding up• Art - Can buildings speak?• Art - Mother nature, designer

R.E.

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Autumn Term Units:• Unit 1: What does it mean to belong?

(Islam and Christianity)

•Unit 2: What does it mean to live with family and friends? (Hinduism)

•Unit 3: Who influences our lives? (Christianity and Sikhism)

•Unit 4: What can we learn from stories about children? (Christianity, Hinduism and Judaism)

Grammar.• Grammar lessons are 15-20 minutes long, daily.• The foci of the sessions are as follows:• Punctuation.• Different connectives and sentence openers.• Up-levelling vocabulary.• Writing 2a sentences.• Improving and correcting sentences.• Although Grammar sounds quite formal, the sessions aren’t difficult. They are there to improve overall sentence formation.

Reading Comprehension.

• There are 3 30-40 minute sessions on Reading Comprehension each week.• The whole class read and unpick a text.• The children complete basic comprehension exercises on the text.• Towards the end of the year, the children have a go at SATs Reading questions.• A lot of the work in these sessions is oral comprehension.• These lessons each week are inaddition to standard reading.

Guided Reading.• The children are streamed into GR groups based on ability.• The groups contain between 4 – 6 children.• Each group gets 1 session with the class teacher and 1 session with the class LC per week.• Every session is planned and records are made which are used to adjust groups if necessary.• GR is the main form of readingassessment for all children.• The children do not use theirhome reading books for GR.

What writing looks like by the end of Year 2.

Thank you for your time.

Any questions?