Key Stage 2
Key Stage 2 is the legal term for the four years of schooling in maintained schools in England and Wales normally known as Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6, when the pupils are aged between 7 and 11 years.
Your child will take national tests in May when they reach the end of key stage 2. These test your child’s skills in:
- English reading
- English grammar, punctuation and spelling
- maths
The tests last less than 4 hours. You’ll get the results in July.
Reading, writing, speaking and listening are very important for KS2. Topics we during this Key Stage 2 include:
- Myths and legends
- Adventure and mystery stories
- Poetry
- Stories with historical settings
- Stories in imaginary worlds
- Stories from other cultures
- Significant authors
- Classic novels
- Drama
- Newspapers and magazine articles
- Information texts
- Persuasive writing
- Biography and autobiography
Throughout KS2 the children move from decoding words to interpretation. At the start of year 3 most children are reading around 300 of the most frequent words: by the end of year 5, most are confident, fluent readers.
- Your child will learn to:
- Read new words independently
- Understand themes, plots and ideas
- Recognise the use of figurative language
- Use structure
- Compare different writing styles
- Find information in a piece of non-fiction
Children take part in class discussions and develop more confidence with discuss topics with their classmates.
What your child will learn:
- Performance skills
- Improvisation
- Speaking to an audience
We cover all topics in maths which include:
- Order, partition and round numbers to three decimal places
- Negative numbers, Prime numbers, Factors and multiples
- Square numbers and cube numbers
- Time-tables from 1 to 20
- Add, subtract, divide and multiply numbers of up to four digits along with mental calculations
- Know equivalents between decimals, fractions and percentages
- Ratio and proportion
- Basic algebra
- Problems involving decimals, fractions and percentages
- Use of brackets, including BODMAS and BIDMAS
- Read and plot coordinates on graphs
- Measure and draw angles
- Calculate the sum of angles around a point, on a straight line andin a triangle and quadrilateral
- Calculate perimeter and area
- Visualise and describe 2D and 3D shapes
- Rotation, reflection and translation of shapes
- Measure length, mass and capacity
- Convert units of measurement
- Tell the time from a 12- or 24-hour clock and calculate time intervals
- Draw and interpret line graphs, bar charts, pie-charts and pictograms and vein diagrams
- Mean, median and mode average, plus the range
- Understand probability