Year 2 SATS MEETING 2017

What are SATS? What are KS1 SATS

DURING MAY 2017 Some administered in smaller groups Some as whole class Some one-to-one Will follow normal classroom practice DFE guidance: “If pupils are able to answer the easiest questions, they should be entered for the tests” Parents will be informed if children will not be taking the tests

Reading test 2 reading papers Strong focus on comprehension 1. Text and questions combined Guidance 30-60 minutes Includes some useful words and practice questions

Text and questions separate Approx. 40 minutes Reading test - Paper 2 Text and questions separate Approx. 40 minutes

Mathematics 2 papers Paper 1 – Arithmetic – assesses pupils’ confidence and mathematical fluency with whole numbers, place value and counting. Approx 20 minutes

Mathematics 2 Paper 2 – Reasoning – assess fluency, problem solving and reasoning skills. Includes a practice question and 5 aural questions Approx. 35 minutes

writing Writing is based on teacher assessment evidenced by a wide range of writing across the curriculum over a period of time. Teacher’s judgements are moderated by the local authority and in cluster meetings with other schools.

reporting Reporting will be in the form of a scaled score where 100 represents the expected standard for year 2. This is available upon request. Pupils will be reported as: Working towards the expected level Working within the expected level Working above the expected level

Reading How you can help at home Read together every day and ask questions about the story [use the questions that have been given to you]. Segmenting words into manageable parts before blending together. Inference questions i.e. How do you think the character is feeling? Giving multiple choice questions (3 or 4 options) Writing questions Getting children to make up their own questions.

Addition and subtraction Multiplication and division (2,3,5,10) Maths – areas covered Addition and subtraction Multiplication and division (2,3,5,10) Word problems (reasoning) Arithmetic Place value Length Mass Temperature Picture graphs Money Fractions Shapes (2D and 3D) Time Volume

How you can help at home Use number problems in every day life, at the shops, on the bus, telling the time etc. Play times table games – who can get the right answer? Children should know their 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s tables in any order and corresponding division facts.

How can you help at home Look for 2D and 3D shapes around the home and talk about what properties they have e.g. Vertices, sides, faces. Get children involved in cooking so they can be using weights and measures. Card games, dominoes, chess and draughts are great for maths so the children are using their reasoning skills.

How can you help at home Blank number lines Dienes (base 10 materials) 100 squares Numicon

Handwriting Form lower-case letters of the correct size relative to one another. Begin to use some of the diagonal and horizontal strokes needed to join letters. Show which letters are best left unjoined. Use capital letters and digits of the correct size, orientation and relationship to one another and to lower case letters. Use spacing between words that reflects the size of the letters.

How you can help at home Encourage writing at home and ensuring they have formed their letters correctly – this could be in shopping lists, letters to family, writing birthday cards. Dictating sentences to children for them to write i.e. from a story. Write together and share ideas when completing home learning tasks. Ask your child what they have been learning in phonics or literacy – can they think of words using a particular sound or spelling pattern? Can they put them into sentences or even talk the sentences?

Punctuation Capital letters for names of people, places, days of the week and the personal pronoun ‘I’. Question marks and exclamation marks Commas to separate items in a list. Use apostrophes to show where letters are missing i.e. We’re To mark singular possession in nouns i.e. Tom’s cat.

How you can help at home Kung- fu punctuation Re- reading work Punctuation dice game Write a sentence with no punctuation Point out words using apostrophes whilst reading and ask for the missing letters.

How you can help at home Sentences with words missing i.e. Conjunctions: I really like cats _______ I dislike dogs. Adverbs: _______, the young boy ran down the road.

How you can help at home Guessing games (verbs): Children acting out verbs for their partner to guess what the word is i.e. crawling. Highlighting the different types of words in different colour.

Spellings Segment spoken words into phonemes and record these as graphemes. Spell words with alternatives spellings, including a few common homophones. Spell longer words using suffixes such as ‘ment’, ‘ness’, ‘ful’, ‘less’, ‘ly’. Use my knowledge of alternative phonemes to narrow down possibilities for accurate spelling. Identify phonemes in unfamiliar words and use syllables to divide words.

How you can help at home Mnemonic- because- big elephants can always understand small elephants Look, cover, write, check Thinking of the different phonemes you can hear in the word Words within words e.g. brilliant

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