Transcript Transition to Year 2 - Olive School Blackburn

Transition to Year 2
10th September 2014.
The aims of tonight’s content:
• To introduce you to the Year 2 staff.
• To give you an understanding of the Year
2 curriculum.
• To show you how the Year 2 curriculum
is different to the Year 1 curriculum.
• To give you an understanding of the Year
2 assessments.
Year 2 Staff
• Mrs Yusuf – Team leader and Class Teacher (Ibn Abbas)
• Miss Saiyed – Class Teacher (Ibn Abbas)
• Miss Jadoon – Class Teacher (Bint Abeebakar)
• Miss Qadir – Class Teacher (Ibn Zayd)
• Miss Patel – Learning Coach (Ibn Abbas)
• Miss Ali – Learning Coach (Bint Abeebakar)
• Miss Rifai – Learning Coach (Ibn Zayd)
The Year 2 Building.
• Three year 2 classrooms on the first floor.
• Entrance for all classes are on Bold Street.
•Children are dropped off at the Bold Street
entrance.
•Ibn Abbas and Bint Abeebakar children
areccollected from the Bold Street entrance.
•Bint Zayd children are collected from the Bicknell
Street entrance.
•Children take their shoes off and carry them into
the cloakroom.
•The dining rooms are located opposite the
classrooms.
The Year 2 Timetable.
Homework and Reading Books.
• Reading books are changed on Monday and
Friday.
• Homework will be given on Friday and needs
to be handed in by Wednesday at the latest.
• Children will read with an adult 1-1 at least
once a week, as well as an additional 2
Guided Reading Sessions and 1 Reading
Comprehension lesson.
How do we assess the children?
•Year 2 is classed as Key Stage 1 and is
assessed using the National Curriculum.
• We assess Reading, Writing and Maths.
• We track their progress on a levelled
tracker.
• The end of year expectation in all subjects
is a secure 2b.
How the National Curriculum levels work.
•1C
•1B
•1A (most children are expected to be emerging into this upon entry).
•2C
•2B - End of Year 2 expectation.
•2A
•3C
When do we assess the children?
•Assessed every half term in Maths, Reading
and Writing.
•To inform the teachers.
•Sats at the end of year 2 – May/June time.
Literacy units
•Instructions
•Stories with familiar settings
•Non-chronological reports
•Different stories written by the same
author
•Poetry
•Traditional stories
•Information texts
•Explanation texts
Literacy – Writing.
•Consistent capital letters
full stops, question marks and
exclamation marks.
• Work that can clearly be
read by an adult who is NOT
your child’s teacher.
• Frequent use of ‘wow’
adjectives and adventurous
vocabulary.
• Use of the connectives ‘and’,
‘but’, ‘because’, and ‘so’.
• Using time connectives to
order ideas in their writing.
•Grouping ideas together.
Numeracy – Number.
•Read and write two-digit numbers in
figures and words.
•Recognise odd and even numbers.
•Estimate a number of objects up to 100 by
grouping them e.g. In 2s, 5s and 10s.
•To work out money amounts.
•Count on or back in ones, twos, fives or
tens from any given number.
•Recognise the place value of each digit in
any two-digit number, and partition twodigit numbers into multiples of 10 and 1.
Numeracy – Number.
•To know number bonds to 20.
•Add or subtract mentally a one-digit
number to or from a two-digit number, e.g.
14 + 7, 18 – 6;
•Add or subtract mentally a multiple of 10
to or from any 2-digit number e.g. 58 – 30.
•Add three one-digit numbers
•To know the 2,3,4,5,10 times tables
• To be able to apply knowledge of number
and operations to solve word problems.
Numeracy – Number.
•Identify all coins and notes and begin to
use £.p notation.
•Find totals, give change and work out which
coins to use.
•Combine coins and notes to make a given
value and show different combinations of
coins and notes that equal the same value.
•Solve simple problems in a practical
context involving addition and subtraction
of money.
Numeracy – Shapes, Space and Measure.
•Choose and use appropriate standard units
to estimate and measure lengths(m/cm) and
masses (kg/g)
•Compare and order lengths and mass,
record the results using >, < and =
•Read relevant scales to the nearest
numbered division and interpret the
divisions between them.
•Use a ruler to measure and draw lengths to
the nearest centimetre.
Numeracy – Shapes, Space and Measure.
•To name common 2-D shapes, including circle, triangle,
square, rectangle, pentagon, hexagon and octagon.
•To name common 3-D solids, including cube, cuboid,
sphere, cylinder, cone, square-based pyramid and
tetrahedron.
•Use everyday language to describe features of common 2D shapes, including the number of sides, number of right
angles and symmetry.
•Use everyday language to describe features of common 3D solids, including the shapes of faces, number of faces,
edges and vertices.
•Compare and sort common shapes and solids, including
those in different orientations and in the environment.
Use shapes and solids to make patterns, pictures and
models, including congruent shapes and designs.
Numeracy – Shapes, Space and Measure.
•Use units of time and know the relationship
between them, e.g. second, minute, hour,
day, week, month, year.
•Read the time to an hour and half past the
hour on an analogue and 12-hour digital
clock.
•Compare duration of events, including
those that cross the hour.
•Use appropriate mathematical language to
describe position, direction and movement.
Science.
• The topics we will cover this year in Science are:
• Use of everyday materials
• Forces and movement.
• All living things.
• Electricity & An introduction to Astronomy
• Habitats
• Animals including humans
• Children will learn to make simple, plausible
predictions and compare this prediction to the
actual outcome.
• Children will collect data, describe
observations and understand the
concept of fair testing.
History.
• We will cover the following History topics this
year:
•Florence Nightingale
• Remembrance Day
• Romans
• Children will learn how to use primary and
secondary sources.
• Children will understand how lives have
changed over time and that the world
has not always been as it is now.
• Children will learn about the
development of technology.
Geography.
• We will cover the following Geography topics
this year:
•The school setting
•Compare Blackburn to a village in
India/Africa
• British Isles
• Children will learn about the size of the school
/ Blackburn in comparison to the country /
world.
• Children will understand how the
lives of others are different
depending on where they live.
• Geographical history.
ICT
New Curriculum
Computer science
Information technology
Digital literacy
Year 2 ICT units
1) We are games testers
2) We are detectives -Collecting clues
3) We are photographers – Taking better
photos
4) We are astronauts – Programming on
screen
5) We are researchers – Researching a
topic
6) We are zoologists – Collecting data
about bugs
Art and DT (Design Technology).
• We will cover the following Art and DT topics
this year:
• DT - Puppets – textiles
• DT – Winding up
• Art - Can buildings speak?
• Art - Mother nature, designer
R.E.
Autumn Term Units:
• Unit 1: What does it mean to belong?
(Islam and Christianity)
•Unit 2: What does it mean to live with
family and friends? (Hinduism)
•Unit 3: Who influences our lives?
(Christianity and Sikhism)
•Unit 4: What can we learn from stories
about children? (Christianity, Hinduism and Judaism)
Grammar.
• Grammar lessons are 15-20 minutes long, daily.
• The foci of the sessions are as follows:
• Punctuation.
• Different connectives and sentence openers.
• Up-levelling vocabulary.
• Writing 2a sentences.
• Improving and correcting sentences.
• Although Grammar sounds quite formal, the
sessions aren’t difficult. They
are there to improve overall
sentence formation.
Reading Comprehension.
• There are 3 30-40 minute sessions on Reading
Comprehension each week.
• The whole class read and unpick a text.
• The children complete basic comprehension
exercises on the text.
• Towards the end of the year, the children have
a go at SATs Reading questions.
• A lot of the work in these
sessions is oral comprehension.
• These lessons each week are in
addition to standard reading.
Guided Reading.
• The children are streamed into GR groups based
on ability.
• The groups contain between 4 – 6 children.
• Each group gets 1 session with the class teacher
and 1 session with the class LC per week.
• Every session is planned and records are made
which are used to adjust groups if necessary.
• GR is the main form of reading
assessment for all children.
• The children do not use their
home reading books for GR.
What writing looks like by the end of
Year 2.
Thank you for your time.
Any questions?