1. Welcome to the Year 2 Information Evening

2. Our Year - Our Team
Mrs Lucas,
Mrs Evans, Mrs Murphy,
Mrs Goode, Mrs Oakley

3. Weekly Timetable
What are the themes in Year 2?
Term 1 – Explorers
Term 2 – Traditional Tales
Term 3 – Australia
Term 4 – Life Cycles
Term 5 – Dinosaurs
Term 6 – Pirates

4. How do we judge how well your children are progressing?
The children will be working on the Year 2 standards in the new National Curriculum.
How do we judge how well your children are progressing?
Sharing learning objectives and success criteria together.
Questioning.
Partners / small group work.
Self evaluation.
TASC / using and applying.
Guided groups.
Recorded work.
Summative assessment.

5. Mathematics: Term 1 Weeks 1 & 2 Number and place value Week 3 Addition
Week 4 Subtraction
Week 5 Multiplication and division
Week 6 Properties of shapes
Week 7 Measures (money)
School website –> Our Learning -> Maths support

6. Mathematics expectations for Year 2

7. English: Term 1
Active English
Week 1 Narratives (based on the woodland folk we made in clay).
Week 2 Roald Dahl 100 Celebrations – ‘The Twits’.
Week 3 Reading recipes.
Week 4 Writing recipes. 
Week 5 Writing for different purposes (healthy eating posters) – ‘Oliver’s Vegetables.’
Week 6 Poetry.
Week 7 Narratives – ‘I Do Not Eat The Colour Green.’

8. Writing expectations for Year 2 (1/2)

9. Writing expectations for Year 2 (2/2)

10. Reading expectations for Year 2

11. Science Animals, including Humans Uses of Everyday Materials
Things that are living, dead and have never been alive. The basic needs of animals for survival (water, food and air). The importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene.
Uses of Everyday Materials
Plants and Conditions for Growth
Plant and Animal Life Cycles
Food Chains
Habitats

12. Homework
Mrs Lucas will give homework out on a Wednesday which will consist of Spellings (8-10 in Year 2) and Mathematics. This will be returned on the following Monday.
Reading books will be changed once a week. The expectation in Year 2 is that children will spend 5-10 min reading on most days.
The amount of time that we ask pupils to spend on their homework in Year 2 equates to approximately min a day.

13. What’s happening? 04/10/16 Harvest Festival at St Guthlac’s 12/10/16 &
19/10/16 Parents’ Evenings
13/10/16 Individual Photos
21/10/16 Disco
02/12/16 Christmas Fair
16/12/16 Nativity Service at St Guthlac’s
20/12/16 Carols on the Playground

14. What can you do to help your child?
Listening to your child read and questioning them about what they have read.
Reading to your child (anything and everything).
Helping your child to learn their spellings (for ever, not just for the following days’ spelling test).
Helping your child to learn number facts (times tables).
Use maths in everyday situations. Ask your child to tell you the time, read ingredients to you, look at maps.
Encourage your child to be involved with money when shopping, reading price labels, using coins, etc.

15. Useful Information
Your child needs to bring a water bottle (with water inside) every day.
Your child needs to bring their book bag every day. Please look inside book bags every evening or you may miss some important information or letters.
Please do not put keyrings or charms on book bags as they make the trays difficult to close.
Please keep other bags (such as back-packs) to a minimum as we do not have room to store them in KS1 lockers.
Swimming is on Wednesdays during Term 1, Term 3 (January) and Term 6 (June).
PE is every Thursday with Mrs Oakley and, when we are not swimming, on Wednesdays with Mrs Lucas.
Your child needs a PE top, shorts and tracksuit bottoms, trainers or plimsolls. If it is cold outside, they can also wear their jumper or a tracksuit top. Please ensure that hair is tied back and earrings removed on PE and swimming days.
Forest schools will continue. This is a valuable learning experience for children. Further information will be sent out in due course.

16. Remember the school website for additional information.

17. We look forward to an exciting term ahead! Thank you for your time.