Year 2 Curriculum Evening
Year 2 Curriculum Evening
Similarities and Differences to Year 1
Similarities
Differences
• Home readers – 3 times week
• Monitors – assembly, milk, book,
buddies, playleaders
• Words of the week – Monday, Maths
homework – fortnightly
• Split classes for Literacy and Maths
• Library books – weekly (dependent on
a parent helper)
• Self assessment – learning steps, maths
and literacy targets
• PE twice a week
• Greater level of independence
• Book bags in daily
• Celebration Assembly – Friday
• Timetabling
• Cross-curricular learning
Reading
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Colour bands
Expectations and levels
Comprehension – reading skills
How we teach reading at school
Phonics
Guided reading
Individual reading
Interventions
Reading across the curriculum
Reading as part of all learning
Reading at home
Writing
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Styles of writing
How we teach writing at school
Shared writing
Guided writing
Supported independent writing
Writing journals
Cross curricular writing
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Handwriting
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Maths
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Mental maths skills
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Counting in 2’s, 5’s, 10’s
Times tables
Doubling – dominoes as visual
Halving, up to 20 and beyond with partitioning
Number bonds to 10 and 20
Adding 1 digit number to a 2 digit number
Counting on in 10’s from any number
Counting on in 100’s from any number
Target numbers – have a go!
Maths
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Using and applying, number, shape space and
measure, data handling
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Calculating
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100 square, dienes
Partitioning into 10s and units – key skill – have a go!
Addition and subtraction
Multiplication and division
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At home – practical ‘maths’
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Use partitioning to add 2 digit numbers
together
36
+ 22 =
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+ 28 =
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Or,
use a 100 square, draw the 10s and units, draw a numberline
Draw the 10s and units
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36 + 22 =
Any questions?