If you see the below curriculum (an international school), what year group (English system) do you think it is the closest to? Because it doesn't start phonics and reading/writing, it should be nursery?
LITERACY
• Use vocabulary and forms of speech that are increasingly influenced by their experiences of books.
• Enjoy an increasing range of books.
• Know that information can be retrieved from books and computers.
• Demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read.
• Give meaning to marks they make as they draw, write and paint.
• Continue a rhyming string.
• Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas.
• Speak audibly and fluently with an increasing command of Standard English.
• Listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary.
COMMUNICATION & LANGUAGE
• Maintain attention, concentrate and sit quietly during appropriate activity.
• Listen attentively in a range of situations.
• Listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events and respond to what they hear with relevant comments, questions or actions.
• Give their attention to what others say and respond appropriately, while engaged in another activity.
• Respond to instructions involving a two-part sequence. Understand humour, e.g. nonsense, rhymes, jokes.
• Follow a story without pictures or props.
• Listen and respond to ideas expressed by others in conversation or discussion.
• Follow instructions involving several ideas or actions.
• Answer ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions about their experiences and in response to stories or events.
• Extend vocabulary, especially by grouping and naming, exploring the meaning and sounds of new words.
• Use language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences in play situations.
• Link statements and sticks to a main theme or intention.
• Use talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events.
• Introduce a storyline or narrative into their play.
• Express themselves effectively, showing awareness of listeners’ needs.
• Use past, present and future forms accurately when talking about events that have happened or are to happen in the future.
• Develop their own narratives and explanations by connecting ideas or events.
MATHEMATICS
• Recognise some numerals of personal significance.
• Count to 20
• Identify and represent numbers up to 10 using objects or pictures
• Compare quantities up to 10
• Select a particular named shape.
• Describe their relative position such as ‘behind’ or ‘next to’.
• Use familiar objects and common shapes to create and recreate patterns and build models.
• Use everyday language related to time.
• Order and sequence familiar events.
• Use mathematical names for ‘solid’ 3D shapes and ‘flat’ 2D shapes, and mathematical terms to describe shapes.
• Order two or three items by length or height.
• Order two items by weight or capacity.
• Measure short periods of time in simple ways.
• Use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time to compare quantities and objects.