Glad it's not just me with the flashing envelope :-) Thanks for the moral support, it does help.
A curiosity: DS5 hasn't done skip counting in school, that he's told me; I've shown him it, but he is not in the least interested. I wonder what it's for anyway. Eratosthenes' sieve I suppose... Maybe I'll tell him about that, come to think of it...
Those links are for the English national curriculum; Scotland has its own 5-14 guidelines, which are similar but not quite the same. However, the school doesn't strictly follow either (being private it doesn't have to). I should have said, it's sheer laziness on my part that I don't know when children are expected to do different things, I do know how to find out! (Well, efficiency maybe: I don't have a clear need to know.)
