Curriculm info and extra work for your kids questions

PasturesNew

I think what the OP was really wanting was to understand what an 8 year old child should be expected to learn in the classroom at that age, so they know if they're pitching their efforts too high or too low.

I mean ... should they be practising writing letters/words nicely? Or able to name 20 trees? If the OP had planned to get them writing Latin in calligraphy and naming 40 trees in Latin they'd see from any website they were aiming a bit high .... on the other hand if they were just teaching their child to count to 10 they'd realise they were aiming too low.

There's helping, not helping and pushing. And if you don't know where the benchmarks are you've no idea what to aim for.

It might be that he's ready to start doing the scoring for playing darts, say, or can be the declared Banker in Monopoly .... so that'd be "hidden/fun learning". You need to know what you're aiming for in order to ask the right questions/expect the right efforts, without p***ing off the kid.

liney

I forgot to add, make sure you teach him to tell the time! It's amazing how many children get to Year 6 without being able to.


To really understand, it really is the kind of thing that a parent needs to do on a constant basis, not a teacher for an odd maths lesson.

liney

I forgot to add, make sure you teach him to tell the time! It's amazing how many children get to Year 6 without being able to.


To really understand, it really is the kind of thing that a parent needs to do on a constant basis, not a teacher for an odd maths lesson.


If you want to know what is covered in Year 3, then you need to look at the National Curriculum which is a sizable document, but available online.