Age-Related Expectations

 
In English, by the end of Year 2, children should be able to…

• Write simply and coherently.
• Correctly use: capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, apostrophes and commas in lists.
• Use developing phonic skills when writing sentences.
• Use co-ordination (e.g. or/and/but) and subordination (e.g. when/if/that/because).
• Use finger spaces that reflect the size of the letters.
• Form both lower and upper case letters.
• Be able to answer questions in more detail on what they have read.
• Know about tenses, suffixes and rarer graphemes (the 2 or 3 letters that make 1 sound).
• All children should read for 10—15 minutes daily. Please talk to your child about what they have read and sign the reading record so we know how they have progressed.

In Maths, by the end of Year 2, children should be able to…

• Know the place value of 2-digit numbers.
• Add & subtract 2-digit numbers and tens, and two 2-digit numbers.
• Recall addition & subtraction facts to 20.
• Recall multiplication and division facts for 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
• Identify fractions of a number or shape.
• Read the time on a clock to the nearest 15 minutes.
• Use different coins to make the same amount.
• Name and describe properties of 2D and 3D shapes.