1. Welcome to the “Getting to Know Year 2” Meeting for Parents.
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2. Statutory Assessments
Foundation Stage – PIPs
Year 1 – Phonics Screening
Key Stage 1 – end of Year 2
Key Stage 2 – end of Year 6
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3. Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world
Results at KS1 W 1 2C 2B 2A 3
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4. Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world
Our expectations
Year 1 1A
Year 2 2B
Year 3 2A
Year 4 3B
Year 5 3A
Year 6 4B
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5. Expectations and Daily Organisation
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6. Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world
More emphasis on subjects – less play
Less activity time
Differentiated groups for reading, writing, numeracy and Phonics
Talking partners
Increased independence and responsibility
- Personal organisation, books, bags, playground,
homework, letters, behaviour (developing strategies to deal with different situations etc.)
Importance of water bottles (named and refilled daily)
Break time fruit is provided
Socks in PE bags
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7. Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world
Mathematics
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8. Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world
Addition
Rapid recall of addition facts, numbers up to 10, then 20.
Number lines, including blank ones
Big emphasis on different strategies
Pencil and paper methods
Inverse operations
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9. Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world
Subtraction
Rapid recall of subtraction facts, numbers up to 10, then 20.
Number lines including blank ones
Big emphasis on different strategies
Pencil and paper methods
Inverse operations
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10. Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world
Multiplication
Know by heart multiplication facts for 2, 5 and 10 up to 10 x
Number lines
Terminology (lots of, arrays etc)
Understand that 4 x 5 = 4 “lots of” 5 ( )
Inverse operations
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Division
Dividing and sharing
There are two ways of doing this, but at the start of the year we stick to one method
“How many” sums.
20 shared by 5 is how many 5’s are in 20?
Inverse operations
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12. Mathletics is still ongoing!
New password and user name will have been given to the children.

14. Learn Its are facts that we want the children to learn.
It provides an instructional message to the children that they need to Learn it!

15. Addition ‘Learn It’s’ – By Year Group+ 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Foundation
Year 1
Year 2

16. Multiplication ‘Learn Its’ – by Year Groupx 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 16 10 15 20 25 18 24 30 36 14 21 28 35 42 49 32 40 48 56 64 27 45 54 63 72 81
Foundation
Counting in 10s, 5s, 2s
Year 1
Year 2
X10, X5, X2
Year 3
X3, X4, X9
Year 4
X6, X7, X8
Year 5 & 6
‘must hit’ all of them
Foundation
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4

18. Other key areas within Maths
Fractions of shapes and numbers – ½ , ¼, 3/4 ¹/3
Time
Money
Problem Solving
Symmetry and Right Angles
Interpreting Data
2D and 3D shapes
Weight, length, capacity measures
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19. Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world
Literacy
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20. Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world
Phonics
Letters and Sounds Phases 5 and 6
One main sound taught each week
3 differentiated group activities, using a variety of resources
Blending and segmenting
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21. Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world
Reading
Reading diaries
Shared reading
Guided reading
Independent reading
Reading Comprehension
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22. Speaking and Listening
Speaking to different audiences
Vocabulary
Talking partners
Expressing ideas and reasoning
Drama – hot seating
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23. Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world
Writing
Primary National Strategy/new draft curriculum
Focus on pride in all written work
Handwriting (including joining letters)
Big Write (including Big Write skills)
VCOP and GHaSP
Spelling & phonic strategies
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24. Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world
How to help
Continue to listen to reading on a daily basis where possible (approx 10 – 15 mins)
Big Write homework (this is mainly a talking homework)
Phonics homework - individual
Help with developing basic numeracy skills including helping pupils master their ‘Learn Its’ for each term
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25. Thank you for attending tonight; we hope it has been useful!
We look forward to seeing you at the forthcoming parents’ evenings throughout the year!
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