Guess which year these spellings are for

[Todaynotalways]

... English primary school... Which school year/age do you think these spellings are suitable for...?

It would be an interesting experiment to test them 'cold' on one of last month's lists... I suspect many DCs will have forgotten most of the spellings. My DCs' school have recently sacked off weekly look/cover/write lists followed by a Friday test, as they found the spellings were mostly learnt purely for the test and soon forgotten (although I'm not sure I rate their new app-based approach either TBH). I agree with the PP, that unless these are words they are using or reading regularly, they just won't remember the spellings at this stage.

Based on average ability, that list looks suitable for the bulk of yr3 IMO OP, but it doesn't surprise me it would be set for much younger DCs given the general trend to push hard and treat them like little learning robots whilst ignoring developmental appropriateness. Before the weekly lists were binned, we would have 10 spellings (DCs are yr 2 & 4). 8 would be either from the NC list for the DC's year or following a recently-covered rule (eg 'ly' suffix). The last 2 would be either 'challenge' words from an upper year's NC list or trickier words from the current class topic.

Circumference
Dilapidated
Queue
Circumstance

I still remember some of the spellings from one weekly test I had at primary school 25 odd years ago, which I think was Year 5. Bloody hated it. Unless we got 8/10 we had to resit at lunchtime. It took me all week until I got there, and still didn't get queue right. We had to do a spelling test and dictation, I remember the dictation being about a man called Augustus with a dilapidated suitcase. And I remember feeling like a real failure by Friday.

Year 2? Much too hard in my opinion, but we’ve had some similar for year 2 ds.

I would have said year 3. I’m amazed they are year 1.

We moved our eldest shortly after the head at a state primary wrote "last year there was a 100 extra dinners served for Christmas". There was no hope really of an excellent education for the children once seeing that.

I always thought teachers had to have English O'Level/GCSE/CSE1 for admission to teacher training college. If that was the standard of a state education in the late 70s, it is reprehensible that her poor grammar was not sorted out at teacher training college.

The disappointment of many parents was palpable. The head might have got away with it at a school where the parents were not very well educated.

Y2/3

Yes state education is clearly only ok for children of thicko,s
not educated people like yourself .🙄

@x2boys that wasn't the point I was making. It is reprehensible that the teacher training colleges are not ensuring teachers have the foundation education to ensure everybody's children are well educated.

But you had to point out that people less educated than yourself ,would have been to thick to question anything 🙄

Of course it could have been a proof reading / correction error and not by the head at all.

Year 1/2/3

Unless you're in the US, in which case it's as you were... practicing 😀

Yr R to Yr1.

Sadly not, I just have a hard time with those sorts of words, ditto counsellor, and councilor, and principle and principal.

Year 2/3

Year 1

Have you tried the Squeebles spelling app OP? You can add that week’s list to it, recording your voice saying that words.

It adds an element of fun and also easy to do on your phone in while waiting around for something to start or on the bus.

Seems pointless to me doing rote learning of spellings at such a young age. Sure do phonics, reading and writing, but IMO time at that age is generally far better spent on more creative endeavours. Trickier spellings usually come naturally anyway as they pass through the primary years as long as they’re reading enough.

Y4

I’ve not seen them for Y3 as yet so maybe Y4?

year 4.

Year 3

Year 2 or 3

DS’s first words were “glistening cylindrical thistle”

I seem to recall my daughter coming home with something similar in year 1. I specifically remember it as I couldn't believe they were expecting her to spell them!