Silly question about child’s education!

[babyt2020]

Our boys are in reception and year one and I’d really like to learn much more about exactly what they’re learning at school so I can educate them further at home and do educational activities etc. they are both really into reading and learning at the moment so I want to build on that. Could someone point me in the right direction to find out the curriculum etc please? I feel like it was about 100 years since I was at school! (I’m 43)

The long term curriculum should be on the school website. If you know what maths scheme they use it’s easy to look up. Every week you should have an update of roughly what they’ve been doing, e.g number bonds for maths or the class books for the week.

Don't bother trying to link with school. Talk to your kids, involve them in normal daily actitivies, talk through age appropriate decisions with them, include opportunities for reading, rhymes and counting.

The national curriculum is available online but every school will do something slightly different in a different order.

Don't try and recreate the curriculum and get ahead. Especially of they're already seemingly doing well.

Instead, apply the stuff they're learning to real life situations. Writing shopping lists, weighing out ingredients to make a cake, tell the time, tie shoelaces, board games that require some number skills etc. Follow their interests too.

School will have a long term plan and probably a termly newsletter stating topics etc.
I would only really look at topic content and enhance with days out and trips etc. it is very school specific as the national curriculum is vague and allows schools to choose content. E.g. an influential historical figure could be Florence nightingale or Nelson Mandela

Ancient civilization could be Aztec, Mayan or Egyptian

Most so Victorians and Tudors but this isn't always a given.

Geography will be a local study plus a world study. Usually Rivers and Seasides.

This.

Take them to the library. Read to them every day.
'Notice' things when you are out and about - numbers, patterns, the changing of the seasons, spiders' webs, a new moon. Help them look up things they are interested in. Cook together. Shop together. Play board games or card games together. Visit places at weekends and holidays. Put their name down for Beaver Scouts.

Thanks all! No im not going to try and get them ahead I just wanted to know what they’re learning so I can talk to them about it and build on the maths, counting money etc. they don’t tell me anything!