Key Stage 1 Parents Coffee Morning

14th November 2012

Literacy in KS1

What does your child do for literacy?

PhonicsGuided readingWriting in a range of fiction and non-fiction stylesLiteracy games on the internet and typingWriting in other subjectsRole play

Year 1 - reading

By the end of year 1, your child should:Sound out CVC words e.g. bat, sit, cut.Know around 45 high frequency wordsBe able to talk about a story and say what

might happen next, or think about a character’s feelings.

Be able to retell a story and say what parts of the story they do and don’t like.

Year 1 - writing

By the end of year 1, your child should:Write simple phrases and statementsRemember capital letters and full stops

some of the timeWrite clearly so people can read his/her

writingTry to put all his/ her ideas into writingSpell some common and CVC words

correctly

Year 2 - reading

By the end of year 2, your child should:Have a range of strategies to help with

reading e.g. sounding out, looking at other words in the sentence, using pictures etc

Predict what will happen in a story and be able to talk about the setting, characters and make comparisons to other similar stories

Recognise and be able to explain the difference between fiction and non-fiction books.

Year 2 - writing

By the end of year 2, your child should:Begin sentences in lots of different waysUse more interesting joining words than

‘and’Write stories with a beginning, middle and

endTry to include interesting vocabularySpell frequently used words correctly and

use phonics to help with less familiar words.

How you can help with reading

When you listen to your child read, please encourage them to sound out unfamiliar words or use the pictures and what they’ve just read to help.

Ask them questions to check understanding – use the bookmarks.

Read to them and with them – if they see you reading regularly they will want to do it too!

How you can help with writingAs with reading, please encourage your child

to sound out words. Find what they enjoy writing about and

encourage it – find their passions!Try to encourage the correct pencil grip – this

will help throughout their school life and is very hard to correct when they are older.

Froggy legs pencil grip!

The thumb and forefinger should look like two frogs legs jumping up and down.

Maths in Key Stage 1

Areas of maths

Number Shape and measureHandling dataUsing and applying

1 2 3 4

Year 1By the end of the year your child should be able to:add and subtract numbers of objects to 10solve addition/subtraction problems involving up

to 10 objectssort and classify objects demonstrating the

criterion they have usedmeasure and order objects using direct

comparisonuse everyday language to describe properties

and positions of 2-D and 3-D shapesuse mathematics as an integral part of classroom

activitiesrepresent their work with objects or pictures discuss their work, e.g. with support

1 2 3 4

Year 2By the end of year 2 your child should:use the knowledge that subtraction is the inverse of

additionuse mental recall of addition and subtraction facts to 10begin to use halves and quarterscount sets of objects reliablyknow 2, 5 and 10 times tablesunderstand angle as a measurement of turnbegin to use everyday non-standard and standard units to

measuresort and classify objects using more than one criterioncommunicate their findings, using the simple lists, tables,

pictograms and block graphsselect the mathematics they use in some classroom

activitiesdiscuss their work using mathematical language

1 2 3 4

How to help your childEncourage them to recognise numbers,

shapes, data in everyday situations.Make maths fun – shopping, out in the card,

tickets, the cinema (real life contexts)Allow them to make mistakes – it is a

journey: those praised for trying will achieve more than those praised for being clever.

Use the methods taught at SIS.

Thanks for listening!

Science in Key Stage 1

By Francesca

Science Curriculum in SISWhat your children do in SIS

Topics of work varying between ◦Chemistry◦Biology◦Physics

In Year 1 topics include◦Sound and Hearing◦Pushes and Pulls◦Light and Dark◦Ourselves◦Growing Plant◦Sorting Materials

In our classrooms

Year 2 Topics◦Plants◦Variation◦Changing and Grouping Materials◦Using Electricity◦Forces and Movement◦Food and Health

Investigations◦Which material makes the car go down the ramp

fastest?◦Making circuits

Investigations – what students should be able to do by the end of year 1

To talk about what they observe when they do things.

To record observations using pictures.

Investigations – what students should be able to do by the end of year 2

Use simple equipment provided.Describe observations using some

scientific vocabulary.Observe and compare results.Say whether what happened was what

they expected.

What can students learn at home?

Science is in everything we do

Science at home booklet◦Activities you can do at home◦Activities in the community

http://scienceofeverydaylife.discoveryeducation.com/families/activities.cfm

Thank you for listening

Any questions?