Transcript What are Year 2 children assessed in?

Year 2 Assessment Evening
21.01.15
Mrs de Graaf, Miss Newman
& Miss Knight
Aims of Session:
• To understand the assessment
process for Year 2 pupils
• To understand what is expected at
the end of Year 2
• To understand how you can help
support your child with their
learning at home
What are Year 2 children assessed in?
•English – Reading, Writing, Spelling and Speaking
and Listening
•Maths
•Science
•Phonics (for children who did not meet the
required standard at Year One)
How are children assessed?
•Teacher assessments form the final judgement of
what children achieve at the end of Year 2
•Teachers will analyse and ‘level’ children’s work that
they do as part of their normal lessons, but they will
also carry out a more formal assessment as part of
this process
When do the assessments take place?
•May – June 2015 – over 2 weeks
The Reading Test –
Level 2
Some examples….
Questions that require reading back and retrieving detail from
the text
Questions that require thinking beyond the literal,
‘between the lines’.
He made some good catches in the supermarket. He got an apple
and a bag of sweets. The manager made him put it all back.
Then Ben’s mother said he must leave his net at home when they
went shopping.
4 (a) What did Ben’s mother tell him to do?
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(b) Why did she say this?
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Questions that focus on reflecting on the
whole story
Questions that focus on understanding of features of non-fiction
Questions that focus on structure and
layout of non-fiction texts
Questions that focus on the whole text
The Reading Test –
Level 3
Some examples…
Questions that require children to read back
and retrieve detail from the text:
When he first saw the swan, what did Anton
imagine?
Write 2 things.
a) ……………………………………………………………………..
b) ……………………………………………………………………..
Questions that focus on understanding of vocabulary
Questions that encourage children to ‘read
between the lines’
8 What made Rubina think that Anton had become a
robber?
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9 Why did Anton and Rubina wake the children?
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Questions that require scanning back over whole story
Put these sentences in the right order by
numbering them from 1 to 5.
The first one has been done for you.
…………… Jewels fell from the bird’s wings.
…………… A magical swan appeared.
……1.……. Anton went hunting at night.
…………… The family feasted on delicious food.
…………… Anton thought about shooting the
swan.
Questions that require children to back up what
they say with evidence from the text
Choose a character from the story who was kind.
a) What is the character’s name? ……………………….........
b) How was the character kind in the story?
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Questions that require thinking about the
theme of the text
Any questions?
The Writing Assessment
What does a Level 2 piece of writing look
like?
What does a Level 3 piece of writing look
like?
Any questions?
The Writing Test
The Maths Test
– Level 2
Some examples…
Rounding Numbers
Number Patterns
Ordering Numbers
Reading and writing numbers, ordering and using a number line
Grouping
Fractions
Money
Addition and Subtraction, including solving problems
Write the answer.
7+5+7=
Properties of shapes, sorting
Pictograms
Bar Charts, interpreting information
The Maths Test –
Level 3
Some examples…
Ordering 4-digit numbers
Kiz has these numbers.
1330
1303
1033
1003
1030
He writes them in order from smallest to largest.
What is the fourth number he writes?
Addition and Subtraction – 2 / 3 digit numbers
Write the answer.
150 + 56 =
Q11.
Write the answer.
253 – 138 =
Using a number line to calculate differences
Missing Numbers
Money and calculating change
Fractions
Multiplication and division in context of a
problem
Reflective Symmetry
Properties of shapes
Problem solving, sorting diagram
How can you help and support your child with their
learning?
•Listen to your child read regularly – preferably every day
•Ask your child questions about the story and check they understand any
new words.
•Read TO your child so your child develops a real interest and desire to read
for themselves
•Support and encourage your child with their homework
•Help support your child learn the ‘basics’ of maths – number bonds to 10
then 20, timestables. Mental maths, for example adding 10 and 2 in in their
head and 23 add 6.
•Play games to support your child’s learning –
‘snap’ / BINGO – help develops their sight vocabulary
Hangman – supports spelling
Timestables games – Woodlands junior website has a great
number of timestables games, especially good is ‘Hit the Button’
Any Questions?
Please speak to your class teacher for any
further queries
BUT
Please remember your child is just 6/7 years
old and they SHOULD NOT feel pressured or
stressed…they are maximising learning and
achieving aspirational opportunities!
Thank you for attending