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Teacher help please

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Damnkidneystones · 27/06/2026 23:29

We are returning to the uk next year. Over the summer I want to get my Dc up to scratch with the British curriculum.
I’m going to order some work books off Amazon for Maths and English-Year 2 & 3.
Which are the best? Rose maths, Heinemann…?
There seem to be a fair few teachers on here, please help-English too?

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AtlasPine · 27/06/2026 23:32

BBC Bitesize online is good.

A selection of the main workbooks is the best idea- the weakness of one may be the strength of another and visa versa.

Are your children coming to a state school or are you intending to seek a place for each at a private school?

Damnkidneystones · 27/06/2026 23:37

AtlasPine · 27/06/2026 23:32

BBC Bitesize online is good.

A selection of the main workbooks is the best idea- the weakness of one may be the strength of another and visa versa.

Are your children coming to a state school or are you intending to seek a place for each at a private school?

Edited

Thank you, yes they do seem to vary.
State school

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Iwiicit · 27/06/2026 23:41

Depends which part of the UK you are going to.

BraOffPjsOn · 27/06/2026 23:56

I’d recommend the CGP workbooks. Make sure you get the year your child currently is to go over what pupils would have learnt this year.

If they’re younger make sure you let them complete the maths one with physical objects - cubes, number line etc

MrsDroughtFire · 28/06/2026 05:46

I wouldn’t bother trying to cover year 2. Likelihood is you’d bore dc to tears and lose cooperation!

First I’d join Twinkl (first 30 days are free) and I’d download a curriculum map for Year2 and read carefully to be familiar with content. The id download a couple of the KS1 SAT-style assessments for English and Maths and spelling. See if dc can mostly do this independently; if anything is tricky then download some individual worksheets and focus on those for a week.

Then repeat for y3. Twinkl has a mountain of revision material you can download and make sure you have no gaps in English, maths.

Don’t forget that you also need to think about SpaG (spelling and grammar), handwriting, times tables.

I would also download a couple of “spelling mats” for KS1 and I would check dc has nailed all the spelling for year 3 also.

By end of year 3 they should thoroughly know 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10. A lot of schools use use TT rockstars and my kids had nailed these tables by end of year 2. Note they should be as good at division as multiplication (instant recall), whilst perfection isn’t required until end y6 having the facts at their fingertips reduces cognitive load in lessons so they can focus on learning other things.

By end of year 2, at my kids’ state school everyone is doing very nice, even joined-up handwriting in pencil (no pens yet) using regular lined paper, but still writing quite slowly and we are expecting a lot of spelling errors! They should be using initial capitals and full stops, and starting to add adjectives and adverbs. By end y3 they can write faster and with fewer errors and obviously a range of increased sophistication. Some kids get their “pen licence” during year 3 but definitely not all of them; writing with a pencil is still ok.

MrsDroughtFire · 28/06/2026 05:59

Also worth mentioning that the National curriculum now has a bigger focus on oracy so it’s worth looking into how this impacts work in year 2 /year 3. For example in maths, they learn to reason out loud when doing mental arithmetic so a year2 might say “if I know that 40-10 is 30, then I know that to solve 40-13 i need to subtract three more so the answer is 27”. Or the teacher might have a maths huddle and ask the class to solve 5 x 3. And first kid answers “five times three is 15”. And teacher asks “how else could we express this?” And next kid says “three fives are 15, and five threes are 15.” Teacher says “what other facts do we know about this?” And then the next kid will say “so we know that 15 divided by 5 is three and 15 divided by three is five.”

There is a focus in using correct terms in maths like “solve” and “express” even in year 2 so it’s worth finding out about this so your child is not surprised.

Octavia64 · 28/06/2026 06:03

Scotland has a different curriculum.

in wales some schools teach in welsh,

I’m going to presume you mean England.

maths - white rose is quite good but builds on stuff it introduces earlier on. It’s methods may not be the methods of your country.

I agree, get your child to do a couple of year 2 sats papers to see if you need to do this at all.

past papers here:

https://www.satspapers.org.uk/Page.aspx?TId=4

SophieJo · 28/06/2026 06:19

https://www.cgpbooks.co.uk/online-products?srsltid=AfmBOorPX5yEO-_05_sgneoJy3VHoHZsD8W5AGeapCev9N98kDFTo54b

You could have a look at this website for workbooks.

Onceuponatimethen · 28/06/2026 06:26

We find the No Nonsense Maths series by Oxford university press excellent - covers the maths curriculum for each year and neatly laid out. Can get on Amazon

Familygal1 · 28/06/2026 06:59

Most schools follow the White Rose Maths scheme. They have free to access video lessons. I'd do these over a workbook as chn will then be familiar with the strategies they'll be using in school.

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