In which year (if ever) are adjectives, nouns and adverbs taught? The homework mixes them all up!

[ParentOfOne]

Our child is in reception (state school in England). The latest homework received makes a lot of confusion among adjectives, nouns and adverbs.

The kids have to read a story and then come up with adjectives to describe the main character. However, some of the examples provided are actually nouns and adverbs (e.g. quickly).

So we wondered: what is the national curriculum like? When exactly, if ever, are these concepts studied? Is there a lot of variability from school to school? Are they studied properly around Y2 - Y3? Or, basically, never, since I genuinely have no idea if any grammar is still taught formally?

We are quite speechless; we are not talking about some rare subtlety here, how can teachers confuse adjectives and adverbs like this?

I think it’s taught from year 1. Reception children are usually just aiming at phonetically plausible sentences so adjectives sound a bit of a stretch.

I’d email the teacher and clarify.

To be honest looking at the homework being set currently in lockdown - I don't think some teachers at our school know the difference. DD is in Y5 (state primary) and she has work set on this topic but I'm not sure when it was first introduced year wise. The misuse of grammar I see on teacher comments/school reports and even in head teacher letters has often made me wince.

The National Curriculum for England (you want appendix 2) specifies Year 2:

NC for English

It doesn't mean that they can't be talked about earlier, but they must be known by the end of Year 2.

Year 1 for noun, Year 2 for adjective and adverb.

@Babymamamama

Although introduced in Year 2, adverbs are built on and taught in different ways throughout primary so it is entirely appropriate for Year 5 to have homework on adverbs.

Year 2 here.

It's very common to ask young children to use "describing word" in their writing even if they haven't formally been taught the terms and concepts of adjectives and adverbs.
We normally begin teaching nouns and proper nouns in reception and build upon this in KS1