These spellings can’t be right surely?

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Ds has just joined year one. Turned five in august so youngest in year. Consistently assessed as reading at expected level for his age. Still sounds out words, struggled with some blending etc. His books are mainly composed of sentences like ‘zip and zap went to the zoo’.

He’s been given his first lot of words to practice for spelling this week on some online platform. I assumed they would be linked with his reading ability. The explanatory sheet they sent home had the word ‘jog’ as the example.

Logged on today to find a list of ten words. First two were privilege and conscience. Immediately logged off.

Yabu - they sound perfectly reasonable for the first words a just turned five year old should be learning to spell, what’s wrong with you

Yanbu - there’s been some sort of mistake here

My daughter is Y4 and these are the types of words she has on a weekly basis. Definitely not Y1 though

Wow and I thought mine was nuts last week when they announced the first spellings were days of the week! Why not start easy and build confidence?!

They uploaded the wrong set of words. It's perfectly obvious, surely?

These are the Y1 common exception words for spelling.

You’ve been given year 5/6 words!

These are the Y5/6 words

@Whitewolf2 They often write the days of the week in their workbooks on a daily basis, and they’re in the national curriculum for Y1, so it actually makes a lot of sense to start with them :)

This is most definitely a mistake

I would doubt that most adults could spell conscience. Haha.

Not perfectly obvious as these were the type of spellings given in yr1 for my DC at the very academically ambitious CofE Infant School that we left. However, ran into the same issue at the next school.

It was this massive disconnect between what words that age group needed to read and write with on a day to day basis and the words used to show off the school with a look at the sophisticated vocabulary of our students attitude.

They look like year 6 words that have been uploaded to the wrong year group.

That’s really helpful to know Clarkey86, thanks! I thought these would be really hard given they’re not very easy (Wednesday?!) and thought the teacher was being really hard on them! But sounds like there is a method there and hopefully won’t be an off putting start if that’s the case.

Does anyone remember the Schonell Reading List (I didn't know it was called that until I just found it again). I guess it's not still used but we used to be tested on it each year to see how far we could go to determine our reading age. That had conscience on it which is what reminded me of it.

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[quote SwedishEdith]Does anyone remember the Schonell Reading List (I didn't know it was called that until I just found it again). I guess it's not still used but we used to be tested on it each year to see how far we could go to determine our reading age. That had conscience on it which is what reminded me of it.

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Oh that brought back memories!! It used annoy me so much because I'd get stuck on a word and they wouldn't let me go further even though I knew words after the one I got stuck on!

I could cheat as my mum had a copy at home and used to test us . I always knew the last word was idiosyncrasy.

Why did you immediately log off?

Because pinko is contagious

I think someone's had a bad day and confused year 5 & 6 spellings with age 5 & 6 spellings.
Just talk to / message the teacher on Monday. Problem solved.

I initially assumed you thought the words were spelled incorrectly!
Logging out is a bit dramatic though.

@DrBlackbird

Not perfectly obvious as these were the type of spellings given in yr1 for my DC at the very academically ambitious CofE Infant School that we left. However, ran into the same issue at the next school.

It was this massive disconnect between what words that age group needed to read and write with on a day to day basis and the words used to show off the school with a look at the sophisticated vocabulary of our students attitude.

In the first week of year one?

Hmm. I doubt it somehow.

I am quite good at spelling, but privilege is my spelling nemesis

[quote SwedishEdith]Does anyone remember the Schonell Reading List (I didn't know it was called that until I just found it again). I guess it's not still used but we used to be tested on it each year to see how far we could go to determine our reading age. That had conscience on it which is what reminded me of it.

www.seomraranga.com/dev/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/schonellreadingtest.doc[/quote]
Omg that list has brought back memories of 1966! Someone whispered round the year 6 class that the last word was idiosyncrasy so we all got a few right and then scanned down and said 'idiosyncrasy'. We thought we were so clever

Year 1 teacher here - they must be a mistake.
I've never given Year 1 children spellings like that.
Spellings at this stage of the year would usually be high frequency words.
Looks like someone has accidentally set KS2 spellings.

Thank you all, another parent has already emailed the teacher as we all got the same absurd spellings. Phew!