To expect my Yr2 son to have some spellings correcting at school?

[Wisteriahills]

I have just been into my son's primary school and looked at all his work. Throughout all six or seven different subject books, there was not one single spelling mistake corrected. I would not necessarily expect this in science or in PSHE, but in literacy, surely! He has spelling homework every week, with fairly advanced vocabulary, including a good smattering of names of people and places (some of them in foreign languages). That is fine, but he can't spell very basic words such as "where", "should" etc.

AIBU to expect his teacher to correct two or three spellings in each piece of work? If any of you are teachers, what is the thinking behind no correction at all? I understand not over-correcting but cannot understand how he is going to learn if there is none.

I think you have the right idea with regards to literacy work being marked and highlighting a few incorrect words - it can be so disheartening for them to see hoards of corrections!

Does the teacher have support? I ask because in my last class I had 33 pupils, many learning and behavioural issues and had both learning support and classroom assistant withdrawn so the first thing that went out the window was thorough marking.