1. Year 2 Parents Assessment Briefing

2. End of Key Stage
Teacher assessment for reading, writing and maths
Tests for reading, maths and spelling, punctuation and grammar
Tests form part of the teacher assessment judgement
For this year only the pupils are being teacher assessed against an interim framework.
Tests form a very tiny part of the evidence base for the final judgement – so please don’t spend time practising test papers at home.

3. What is Teacher assessment ?
Teacher assessment is about reviewing a wide range of everyday evidence to make a judgement against a set of criteria. The evidence might include the following: Observations Planning Books and any written work on white boards, jotters etc Tests /mini assessments Writing and maths in other subjects

4. Interim framework standards at KS1
Working towards the expected standard
Working at the expected standard
Working at greater depth within the expected standard
For each of the above there is a set of statements a child must meet.
In order to be at the expected standard a child must meet all of the working towards.

5. Tests Must be taken during the month of May No set timetable
Recommended how long a test should take but this is not fixed
Small groups or class – school choice
Familiar environment
Familiar adults – teachers, support staff
Tests can be split up into smaller sections
Parts of the tests can be read to pupils
Forms part of the evidence teachers will use to make their end of year judgement

6. Maths Arithmetic test 25 calculation questions
Later questions get more difficult
No apparatus
No context
Space for workings
Approx 20 minutes

7. Maths Reasoning test 35 minutes 30 questions
Context – word problems/diagrams
Mix of tick boxes and show method
Some 2 marks questions
Space for workings
Increase difficulty as go through paper

9. Reading paper 1 30 minutes 20 questions
Mix of fiction and factual text
One booklet – text and questions
Some tick boxes
Some ordering of answers
Meaning of words
Some answers needed in sentences

11. Reading paper 2
40 minutes
Text and questions in separate booklets, longer texts
One fiction text
One factual text
Questions – some 2 marks questions
More focus on inference

12. Spelling test 20 words Read as part of a sentence
Words get more difficult as test progresses
Faster, sunny, kittens,
Peaceful ,hurried, teddies

13. Punctuation and Grammar test
20 minute test
Mix of adding the correct word to a sentence
Changing the punctuation or correcting it
Identifying verbs, nouns
Gets more difficult
Some 1 and 2 mark questions
Mix of ticking, circling, ordering,

15. Test results
For each of the test taken the children will have a raw score and this will be converted into a scaled score.
The scaled scores are then against a threshold.
The threshold will be set nationally for all.
If your child meets the set threshold then they will have met the expected standard in that test.
Remember that the test form part of the teacher assessment.

16. Writing – teacher assessment only
Teacher have a set of statements to assess against for this year only.
Spelling is assessed within writing
Range of fiction and non fiction writing from across their everyday writing from a range of writing.

17. End of the year reporting
At the end of the year teachers will report as to whether your child has either:
Working towards the expected standard
Working at the expected standard
Working at the expected standard in greater depth

18. How you can support at home
Hear your child read as often as possible and talk to them about their books , ask questions
Practice times tables and addition ,subtraction facts
Practice spellings
Practice spellings within their writing
Don’t panic your children – most year 2 children don’t even know they are doing tests