Year 2 Assessment Evening

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Year 2 Assessment Evening 21.01.15 Mrs de
Graaf, Miss Newman Miss Knight
Roding Primary School
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• 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

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• 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)

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• 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 childrens 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

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The Reading Test Level 2 Some examples.
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Questions that require reading back and
retrieving detail from the text
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Questions that require thinking beyond the
literal, between the lines.
He made some good catches in the supermarket. He
got an appleand a bag of sweets. The manager
made him put it all back.              Then
Bens mother said he must leave his net at home
when theywent shopping. 4     (a)   What did
Bens 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
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Questions that focus on understanding of features
of non-fiction
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Questions that focus on structure and layout of
non-fiction texts
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Questions that focus on the whole text
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The Reading Test Level 3 Some examples
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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) 
..
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Questions that focus on understanding of
vocabulary
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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
birds wings.   A magical swan
appeared. 1..  Anton went hunting at
night.   The family feasted on delicious
food.   Anton thought about shooting the
swan.
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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 characters 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?
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The Writing Assessment What does a Level 2 piece
of writing look like? What does a Level 3 piece
of writing look like?
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Any questions?
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The Writing Test
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The Maths Test Level 2 Some examples
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Rounding Numbers
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Number Patterns
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Ordering Numbers
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Reading and writing numbers, ordering and using a
number line
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Grouping
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Fractions
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Money
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Addition and Subtraction, including solving
problems
Write the answer. 7 5 7
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Properties of shapes, sorting
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Pictograms
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Bar Charts, interpreting information
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The Maths Test Level 3 Some examples
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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?
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Addition and Subtraction 2 / 3 digit numbers
Write the answer. 150    56      Q11.     
   Write the answer. 253 138
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Using a number line to calculate differences
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Missing Numbers
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Money and calculating change
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Fractions
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Multiplication and division in context of a
problem
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Reflective Symmetry
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Properties of shapes
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Problem solving, sorting diagram
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• 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 childs 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

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Any Questions?
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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 stressedthey are maximising
learning and achieving aspirational
opportunities! Thank you for attending