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2. Agenda Key Stage One Aims The New National Curriculum 2014
A summary of the main changes
A closer look
- What is GPS/SpaG?
- Y1 and Y2 expectations in Reading and Writing
Assessing, testing and reporting to parents
How can parent/school partnership make a difference?
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3. Aims Key Stage One To help you support your child’s learning
To provide an insight into the 2014 New National Curriculum, how it has changed and how it will be assessed
To inform parents of the Y1 and Y2 expectations of the New Curriculum and the Statutory Assessments
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4. What is the National Curriculum?
A Government document that states what your child is supposed to learn in a range of subjects and when.
In 2014 a new version of the National Curriculum was introduced which led to many changes taking place in our school.
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5. What does the New Curriculum mean?
A greater focus on core skills
More ambitious end of year expectations for every group
Big changes to what your children learn at school
Do we have to do it? Yes, it is statutory for all maintained primary schools.
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6. Why the Change? Key Stage One Key Stage One To raise standards
To compete internationally
Be more challenging and rigorous
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7. Summary of the Main Changes
Stronger emphasis on grammar and spelling, vocabulary development and punctuation. (For example, the use of commas and apostrophes in KS1)
Handwriting should be fluent, legible and speedy
Spoken English has a greater emphasis
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8. Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar – Yr1
To leave spaces between words
Recognise capital letters and full stops when reading and name them correctly
Begin to use the term sentence
Know that a line of writing is not necessarily a sentence
To use full stops to demarcate sentences
To use a capital letter for the personal pronoun ‘I’ and the start of a sentence
To join words and join sentences using ‘and’
Recognise full stops and capital letters when reading and understand how they affect the way a passage is read
To recognise other common uses of capitalisation e.g. for personal titles, headings, book titles, emphasis, days of the week
To add question marks to questions
To use exclamation marks
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9. Spelling , Punctuation and Grammar - Yr 2
To use capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks to demarcate sentences, including in the use of Proper Nouns.
To identify nouns within sentences
To use nouns accurately within sentences
To know and use Proper Nouns
To be able to expand nouns phrases for description and specification
To use subordination within sentences (when, if, that, because) and co-ordination (or, and, but) for description and specification
To know what an adjective is
To identify adjectives within sentences
To use adjectives accurately within sentences
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10. Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar - Yr 2
To know how the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function as a statement, question, exclamation or command
To use correct choice and consistent use of present and past tense throughout writing. To use the progressive form of verbs in the present and past tense to mark actions in progress (e.g. she is drumming, he was shouting).
To know what a verb is
To identify verbs within sentences
To use verbs accurately within sentences
To write sentences with subject-verb agreements
To correct sentences with subject/verb agreements that are incorrect
To use apostrophes to mark where letters are missing in spelling and to mark singular possession in nouns.
To use commas to separate items in a list
Selecting correct punctuation to end a sentence. (!...?.)
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11. GPS/SPaG
Have a look at the jumbled glossary of terms in your envelope. See if you can match the name with the definition.
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12. A word or phrase that links two ideas or sentences.
Adjective
A word which describes a noun.
Connective
A word that names a person, place or thing.
Adverb
A word which describes a verb.
Noun
A word that tells you what a person or thing does or how they are.
Verb
a sentence that gives information.
Statement
A word that is shortened by missing out some letters.
A sentence that tells someone what to do.
Command
Contraction

13. GPS/SPaG Key Stage One Key Stage One
It is expected that children not only know these terms but that they are confident in identifying, using and talking about them.
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14. GPS/SPaG
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15. GPS/SPaG
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16. GPS/SPaG
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17. GPS/SPaG
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18. Reading in Year 1 Key Stage One
A typical Y1 child in reading is expected to…
Recognise if what they are reading makes sense.
Use their phonic knowledge when reading books.
Show awareness of punctuation marks, e.g. full stops, questions marks and exclamation mark.
To make plausible predictions about a story.
Recall the plot of a story. Discuss characters and their actions.
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19. Reading in Year 2 Key Stage One
A typical Y2 child in reading is expected to…
Continue with the above expectations of Y1.
Read most words quickly and accurately, without sounding out.
Show awareness of punctuation marks, e.g. pausing at full stops when reading with expression and intonation, taking into account when question marks, exclamation marks and inverted commas for dialogue are used.
Identify when reading does not make sense and quickly self- correct.
Use clues from what they have already read to make predictions.
Discuss reasons for events, using inference (Why? When? How?)
Summarise a story giving the main parts in the correct order.
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20. What can I do at home to help develop my child’s reading skills?
Listen to your children read at some point every day. Even if they have already read at school.
Talk about the reading book. Show that you are looking forward to finding out what the book is about.
Encourage children to make predictions. This could be at the start, middle or near the end of the book.
Ask about characters’ feelings and talk about their actions.
Discuss the meaning of words specific to the book that you think your child might be unsure of.
Ask questions throughout (especially why do you think…? questions) to ensure your child is understanding what they are reading.
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21. Writing in Year 1.
This is a typical example of what would be expected from a child in Year 1.
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24. Writing in Year 2.
This is a typical example of what would be expected from a child in Year 2.
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27. Statutory Assessment in Key Stage One
At the end of Year 1 children are required to complete a phonics screening test. Approximately 5-10 minutes with a pass or fail result.
The Department of Education has also overhauled the format and content of SATs taken in Year 2 to reflect the New Curriculum.
These were taken for the first time this year and were reported to parents using a new grading system that replaced NC Levels.
Example papers are available on the DFE website.
The way schools assess and report children’s progress has also changed. Old NC Levels are no longer used. Your child’s progress will be tracked and reported to you in terms of age related expectations
(emerging and developing/working towards, meeting/secure or greater depth)
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28. High Achievers Key Stage One
If your child is achieving above the expected level, rather than moving onto the following year group’s work they will focus on more in-depth and investigative work to allow a greater mastery and understanding of concepts and ideas.
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29. Working together for the achievement of all
Home
Read for pleasure, talk about
and discuss books
Read school book daily
When completing homework:
check handwriting, finger spaces, capital letters and full stops and
try to use the correct vocabulary
Practise spellings and encourage
correct spelling of common
exception words
Encourage use of phonics for spelling
Play, talk, draw, bake and write about experiences
School
Guided reading opportunities every week
Reading books and reading record sent home weekly
Daily provision to read for pleasure
Phonics sessions daily
Teacher led intervention (catch up)
Weekly spelling tests
Core skills and challenge embedded across the curriculum
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