What curriculum info do you get from your childs teacher?

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DC are in a new school in Years 1 and 3.

I have been surprised and disappointed that we seem to get NOTHING from the school about what topics they will be studying, what learning goals etc.

At the last school, each half term, at the beginning of term we got a letter to parents saying:

...This half term we will be focusing on...

In Maths we will be learning number bonds to 20..
In English we will be looking at adjectives, prepositions etc

In PHSE we will be...

Please help your child by (e.g.) taking them to a transport museum...
etc, etc

I have talked to other parents and have found they would also find this helpful (although they haven't 'missed it' as such, because they never had it IYSWIM!)
I want to talk to the teachers and the head and give them some examples of what I think works, so can I have all your examples please?

e.g.My friends DD (in another school) has a simple A5 page pasted into the home school contact book every week with the following weeks objectives/ class topics etc.

My Dd is in year 3 ,we have just been given a A4 sheet with what they'll be learning this year,but it's not in great detail.

I agree a weekly/monthly objective for each subject would be alot more helpful.

We get a folded piece of A6 paper, stating what topics they will cover that term....tbh its not very detailed and we tend to get seperate notes home "Can eldest manky bring in X for project tomorrow/day after" seems to be fairly standard.

We get an A4 sheet at the start of each term. Has one column listing subject areas, and second coloumn the topics they will cover.

We get outline information for the year by subject which I think is also on the school website and sometimes a meet the staff evening. Every half term for dd (now year 2) we also get a short note about the current topic either sent home or posted on the classroom window with perhaps what trips/things to bring in may be involved(not always given that much notice though) but that hasn't been the case for ds who joined the school at year 3.

We.have..a.parents.meeting.for.an.hourand.I.always.forget.about.them.till.i.see.the.other.parents.cl utching.thethickbooklet.coveringeverythingand.thenrealisewhyim.on.myown.outside.the.clasroom.sorry.s pacebarknackered.

We have a curriculum bulletin at least once a term, but mostly I think every half term; this is usually two or three sides of A4 detailing things by subject. In KS1 we also get separate bulletins on reading and spelling at the start of the year. There is also a folded-over sheet of A4 making a booklet for each year group called something like "How to help your child with maths". This year every year group has had a curriculum evening as well, where the teachers have talked through things and there's been a chance for questions.

I've never had advanced information, which would have been useful, but end-of-year reports usually start with 'we have been studying...' which just seems to be an easy, cut'n'paste way to pad out comments.

Last year we had nothing.

At parents evening we were told what the numeracy goals for hte year were. We were also told what their individualised numneracy goals were (e.g. remembering capital letters & full stops). We only found out about 'topics' indirectly.

This year we have been sent a letter telling us the overall theme for each half of this term, and a slightly more specific outline of the topic in each subject.

We have found this very useful.

Give feedback to the teacher in a positive way. If lots of parents do it I am sure they will see the benefit and send a letter out.

Schools pretty much follow the government's advice, aka QCA.

If you want to know what your specific school does week by week, you can inspect their 'schemes of work'. Most parents are not so interestes which is why they don't proactively infrom you - but it is not a secret what they do and you can inspect their plans if you want to.

We get an A4 sheet at the beginning of each term which tells us the topic and how it will relate to each part of the curriculum. Later on in the term we are given a set of targets for children to work towards.