1. Welcome to Year 2

2. Turtle class: Mrs. Kristin Moth & Mr Paul Lunnemann Mrs Melanie Steel Squid class: Mrs Sophie Carter Mrs Julie Knight

3. Year 2 daily expectations
In year 2 your child is expected to demonstrate increasing independence. This involves:
Always coming into the class on their own.
Taking responsibility for organising their own belongings: water bottles, lunch boxes, coats and giving in their home-school liaison books.
Giving in letters/money etc.
Getting straight on with their morning activities.

4. Homework expectations
Practise reading at least 3 times a week following the book mark scheme. Doesn’t have to just be their school reading book!
There will also be extra activities on top of these related to our topic – in the form of a learning grid.

5. Class Rules
Children must adhere to the Golden Rules.

6. Behaviour
Children will be rewarded for showing green behaviour and they will move their name up the rainbow
When they get on the pot of gold they get a sticker on the bookmark.
When their bookmark is full they can adopt one of the animals.
There are 6 animals to collect!

7. Respect, Caring, Creativity, Perseverance & Independence.
Our Values :
Respect, Caring, Creativity, Perseverance & Independence.
Every time an adult notices a child displaying one of these values a value card and sticker will be given by the head teacher.
Coming soon: We are about to launch an animal for each value

8. Curriculum Content Autumn 1: Superheroes!
Autumn 2: Oliver Twist and the Victorians
Spring 1: The Space Race
Spring 2: Animal Madness
Summer 1: Explorers
Summer 2: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

9. English Curriculum: Phonics Reading
SPaG: Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
Writing: Based around a text
Handwriting

10. Reading and library books
Children have several guided reading sessions each week.
Children will be heard individually each week before changing their books to check comprehension and accuracy.
We will record the books they are taking home in their reading log to ensure they are reading a range of styles.
Library will be sent home once the new system is set up

13. In writing all children must:
write simple, coherent narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real or fictional)
write about real events, recording these simply and clearly
demarcate most sentences with full stops and capital letters
demarcate some sentences with question marks and exclamation marks
use co-ordination (or/and/but) to join clauses
use some subordination (when/if/because) to join clauses

14. In writing all children must:
segmenting spoken words into phonemes and representing these by graphemes, spelling many correctly and making phonically-plausible attempts at others
Spelling many common exception words*
form capital letters and digits of the correct size, orientation and relationship to one another and to lower-case letters
using spacing between words that reflects the size of the letters
Spell words with these suffixes: ly, ment, ness, ful
Use a variety of punctuation: possessive apostrophes, commas in a list
Making revisions to their writing and self correcting
Begin to join up their writing

15. Things you can do at home for English
Ask the children questions about the book they are reading. For example can they retell what happened in the book?
Practise handwriting
Practise spelling of Common Exception words

16. Expected standard for maths
pupil can:
• read scales* in divisions of ones, twos, fives and tens
• partition any two-digit number into different combinations of tens and ones, explaining their thinking verbally, in pictures or using apparatus
• add and subtract any 2 two-digit numbers using an efficient strategy, explaining their method verbally, in pictures or using apparatus (e.g ; 72 – 17)
• recall all number bonds to and within 10 and use these to reason with and calculate bonds to and within 20, recognising other associated additive relationships
(e.g. If = 10, then = 20; if 7 – 3 = 4, then 17 – 3 = 14; leading to if = 17, then = 17, 17 – 14 = 3 and 17 – 3 = 14)
• recall multiplication and division facts for 2, 5 and 10 and use them to solve simple problems, demonstrating an understanding of commutativity as necessary
• identify 14, 13, 12, 24, 34, of a number or shape, and know that all parts must be equal parts of the whole
• use different coins to make the same amount
• read the time on a clock to the nearest 15 minutes
• name and describe properties of 2-D and 3-D shapes, including number of sides, vertices, edges, faces and lines of symmetry

17. Maths things to work on at home
Know their numbers to 100
Write them as words
Learn their 2,5,10 times tables
Know the coins and notes
Tell the time: half past, quarter past, quarter to

18. SATS Week beginning 13th May Important for your child to be at school
SATS information Eve 4th April 2018 at 3:30pm and 5:30pm

19. Marvellous Me

20. PTA
We would really like you to come to the AGM today at 4pm

21. Any questions?

22. Let’s have a great year!