Help for my 7r old dd returning to UK schooling

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HI there

We are moving back to the UK and my Dd has never been educated in the UK. Throughout her life we have been in Canada and the US. She is in Yr2 here and doing well at school whereas in the UK she would currently be Yr3 because the age per year is worked out differently. So for sept 2018 she will start Y4 in the UK. I wondered if anyone could point me to some good resources to see where she is according to where she should be in the UK curriculum. She loves doing worksheets at home so I thought I would get that going with her. I don't want to her to start school in the UK and take a confidence hit feeling like she is behind.

Any help would be appreciated. I know there is so much online but I know not all sources are trusted sources and so wanted some info from the experts!
Thank you!

Good luck with the move!
You can have a look at the National Curriculum expectations for the end of Year 3 - either on a government website or probably too on the website of most state primary schools somewhere in the curriculum section. If you want to look at books, try one of the main ranges in bookshops (Schofield & Sims, CGP, Lett's, WHSmith own brand) for Y3 and you'll see the sort of things they do.
If your daughter has been taught different maths methods, personally I'd not try and undo that - rather have a look at what sort of topics they are expected to know and to what level.
The English curriculum is probably a bit trickier to gauge: if your daughter has done a fair bit of comprehension and formal work (grammar etc), she'll be fine. If the US teaching does not do much and concentrates on free writing, you could do a bit of making sure she knows about verbs/adverbs/adjectives; some features such as similes etc and look at basic punctuation.
I wouldn't give the other subjects a second thought as they are mainly topic based.

I'd buy some materials for the British (England & Wales) National curriculum so you know what she will be expected to know before she gets here.

Focus on English and Maths. English in the UK essentially means literacy - fluent reading, writing and handwriting skills together with comprehension and SPaG (spelling, punctuation and grammar). Maths speaks for itself and what's expected can all be found in the National curriculum guidelines.

Exam Ninja do packs for Year 3 (see below). I only suggest them as they do international delivery (used them before when I was in the UAE and it was fast).

www.examninja.co.uk/Key-Stage-2/Year-3-Age-7-8

With the internet there ought to be something you can find to help.

I was going to recommend Bond 11 plus (don't worry about verbal/non-verbal reasoning unless you plan to go for selective/Independent schools later on). They provide resources from 5-12 years (some of which are bite-size tests).

On that site they also provide a link to a series of videos called Oxford Owl learning at home. That might be really helpful for literacy and grammar www.youtube.com/channel/UCllFxIfCNYQvsRepWxT7n8A

Otherwise I wouldn't worry too much. DD's school has plenty of children at school with English as a second language who seem to settle well and thrive.

Thank you everyone for your responses! I will look into all thats been suggested.

I think the best place to look is the actual curriculum, schools have some flexibility of course, but it should give you a very good idea of expectations:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum

Given that Canadian and US education is very varied by province and state it may help if you give some indication of where you're coming from for people to compare, although two countries in three years suggests you're unlikely to be embedded in the system.

I wouldn't bother buying packs or workbooks or anything like that, if having looked at the curriculum you've found a big deficiency in an area, just work on that. Given you're an international family with the ability to work in multiple countries your kid likely is not coming in disadvantaged.