What is the name of the website that..

[BullieMama]

Last weekend I was reading a post on here that linked to a site that listed year by year the topics that should be covered in the different subjects in school 'in an ideal world'.

I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the site and hours of trawling hasn't turned up the post.

Can anybody point me in the right direction?

It was some home education site.... I remember the thread.

While we're here - Feenie, what was the website which showed how important full stops was by making a funny story with full stops in the wrong place.....?

This one?

Sorry, don't know that one, OP.

OP - did you mean This one?

Thanks Feenie. I can't convince DD that full stops are important :)

It's a very common affliction in 8 and 9 year olds, I've found. That and apostrophe measles.

Thank you Indigo Bell your awesome !!!

I have searching for this for days and couldnt remember the name!

Is there one for science, literacy, history? Would be interesting to read.

Its all there, just remove the maths bit from the link in your browser or google the campaign for real education and the main site is there with all the links you need!

ok thanks!

IndigoBell that Campaign for Real Education website is absolutley fascinating. The articles, curricula and analysis on it are very compelling.

I just read on about how Geography at secondary school has mutated to telling pupils how they should feel about the world on topics like 'environment' and no longer teach facts so that the pupil can make up their own mind as they become mature adults.

I did A Level Geography and must say I feel incredibly uncomfortable about the way Geography is now taught. The primary maths curriculum is similarly compelling and very close to how I learned maths 40 years ago. I really recommend people take a look at that website to see how far wrong our education system has gone.

It would be an excellent curriculum for non autonomous home schoolers.

IndigoBell - sorry but that numeracy link is utter pants from a calculation standpoint. Teaching column method to year 2's? With borrowing! Im not saying you cant teach it to children of this age, they will pick up a pattern easily but their understanding of the processes behind it will be very limited. There are so many strategies they should cover before column method is introduced. The link is a VERY old fashioned approach to calculation.
I can recommend a book called Maths for Mums and Dads for a more up to date approach.

Fourcats - that is why I really liked it. I remember learning column method at school in Yr2 (40 yrs ago). I liked it for its return to traditional approaches.

I hate the whole contrived number lines, number square, number bonds my DSs were taught. In fact, I had to teach DS2 over the summer to use column method as he was just getting nowhere stuck with 'strategies'. Fair enough as a starting point but really, as the piece on the numeracy link says, children have to get a method in their heads to get sums right well before they actually understand the intracacies of why.

Some children will never truely understand why for many years but that is far too long to wait.

I taught column method to my Y2 class

In Scotland they teach column method for addition (with carrying) and subtraction (with exchange) in P3 (=Y2) by Christmas time. I don't think it's only our school, I think it's everywhere in Scotland.

In Italy it's the same: they teach the column method In "seconda" (when children are around 7 years old).

Hi all:

I posted the general link to Campaign for Real Education Primary Curriculum: www.cre.org.uk/subjects_contents.html.

Fascinating to hear about Scotland & Italy for column addition. Thanks for posting that albachiara. Our school (in England) insists they can't learn such a complicated thing until Y5 - glad to see others disagree than just me!