Year 2 Expectations

Monday 5th September

What assessments do Year 2 children complete?

• Maths– Paper 1: Arithmetic– Paper 2: Reasoning

What assessments do Year 2 children complete?

• Reading– Paper 1: Combined reading prompt and answer

booklet– Paper 2: Separate reading booklet and reading

answer booklet

What assessments do Year 2 children complete?

What the assessments consist of:• Drawing on knowledge of vocabulary to

understand texts. • Identifying key aspects of fiction and non fiction

texts.• Explaining and identifying sequences of events.• Making inferences and predicting what might

happen.

• Retrieval and deduction questions.

What assessments will Year 2 children complete?

• Grammar, punctuation and spelling– Paper 1: Spelling– Paper 2: Grammar and punctuation questions

What assessments will Year 2 children complete?

• Writing– No writing paper– Teacher assessment using interim framework

What assessments will Year 2 children complete?

• Working towards the expected standard– Using some capital letters and full stops– Spelling using phonics (sounds)– Spelling some common exception words– Writing lower-case letters in the correct

direction and size– Using spaces between words

What assessments will Year 2 children complete?

• Working at the expected standard– Using capital letters and full stops for most sentences and using

? and !– Using statements, questions, exclamations and commands– Expanded noun phrases– Using present and past tense correctly– Wide range of conjunctions (joining words)– Spelling most words correctly including common exception

words and contracted forms (e.g. don’t)– Adding suffixes –ment, -ness, -ful, -less, -ly– Joining handwriting– Writing capital letters and digits correctly– Using spaces between words