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Guess which year these spellings are for

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Todaynotalways · 08/05/2023 18:11

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

Guess which year these spellings are for
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Dracarys1 · 08/05/2023 18:51

That's ridiculous. My year 1 dd has hour, behind, busy and money and she's absolutely excelling at spring in her class so is given harder words.

Yuja · 08/05/2023 18:51

My DS has had some of these words crop up in spelling lists this year and is year 3

frankgu · 08/05/2023 18:52

I think they are the kind of spellings my daughter got at the end of year 1 and start of year 2 in a state primary. Top set.

Is it normal to have streams in primary?

x2boys · 08/05/2023 18:52

TeenDivided · 08/05/2023 18:15

My dyslexic DD can't spell all of those, so based on that y13. Grin

My year 11would struggle too,but this being mumsnet im.going for reception😂

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Todaynotalways · 08/05/2023 18:52

Amammai · 08/05/2023 18:49

They are challenging for that year group but I assume with an independent school the push for academic excellence begins very early on and the onus is on parents to support with home learning.

To support your daughter, I would concentrate on maybe 5 words from the list each week - really practise those ones and maybe looks over the other five but don’t do lots of extras with them. Then she is more likely to get at least 5/10. 5 might be more manageable to drop in as games etc too.

‘5 minute Mum’ on Facebook/Insta has some brilliant games for practising spellings in a fun way (not just the look, cover, write, check etc, which can be a bit dull for younger kids. Well worth a look!

Great tip, thank you ❤️ I'll look at that IG account.

We try to make it fun, with various missing letter games, and word searches, etc.

But often we end up a bit frazzled and stressed by it (mainly me).

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Yuja · 08/05/2023 18:52

Just seen your update. Seems quite hard for year 1!

x2boys · 08/05/2023 18:53

frankgu · 08/05/2023 18:52

I think they are the kind of spellings my daughter got at the end of year 1 and start of year 2 in a state primary. Top set.

Is it normal to have streams in primary?

They had top tables in my sons primary but not streams .

TeenDivided · 08/05/2023 18:54

x2boys · 08/05/2023 18:52

My year 11would struggle too,but this being mumsnet im.going for reception😂

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I like to try to add balance to these types of threads.

frankgu · 08/05/2023 18:54

@x2boys is that normal though? The schools I know always mix the tables every half term.

amidsummernightsdream · 08/05/2023 18:54

Y2/ y3

GodSaveTheClean · 08/05/2023 18:55

Year 2

eatdrinkandbemerry · 08/05/2023 18:55

Year 3

Dracarys1 · 08/05/2023 18:55

Sorry I meant excelling at spelling not spring. Autocorrect!

AlyssumandHelianthus · 08/05/2023 18:56

Y4

IsThePopeCatholic · 08/05/2023 18:56

I guess it’s to make parents feel they’re getting their money’s worth. The best way to learn to spell is through lots of reading at this age.

bluesky45 · 08/05/2023 18:57

They show different ways to write various sounds e.g school has the Ch making the /c/ sound, glistens has the st making the /s/ sound etc. So given alternative graphemes for known phonemes is a year 1 objective, I'd say year 1? It's hard though, I appreciate that.

Mammyofonlyone · 08/05/2023 18:57

Todaynotalways · 08/05/2023 18:18

YEAR ONE!!!

I forgot to say it's an independent school. Which may make a difference.

But I am tired of DD (just 6) struggling with her spellings every week, it's starting to put her off literacy.

She usually cobbles together a 7 or 8 out of 10 by practicing every night. But some weeks it's a 3 or 4, which really dents her confidence.

They just seem so hard!

Maybe because I went to a state primary (35 years ago)... I was just wondering if this is normal.

I think it depends on why they are being set. In Y1/2 my daughter got mostly 'easy' high frequency words, then a few 'tricky' words after that, such as the ones in your screen shot. She usually finished with words she had misspelled in her work that week.
If it is relevant, she is in an independent school too (although not sure that's the reason)

x2boys · 08/05/2023 18:57

frankgu · 08/05/2023 18:54

@x2boys is that normal though? The schools I know always mix the tables every half term.

No.idea ,I just saying what happened in my sons primary school,personally think it's unnecessary

Dracarys1 · 08/05/2023 18:57

Also having 10 a week is ridiculous at that age. My dd gets 4 or 5

Marigoldilock · 08/05/2023 18:58

ChocChipHandbag · 08/05/2023 18:36

JFYI, it's "practising".

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Bit rude.

AlyssumandHelianthus · 08/05/2023 18:58

Todaynotalways · 08/05/2023 18:21

Yes, 5-6 year olds. Reading, writing and spelling in cursive... With these really tricky words...

And some thrive (their parents sure as hell tell you about it), but it's just a bit too much for DD.

What I find hard is that she's bright, but is starting to feel stupid compared to her peers, and that's not cool.

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In many countries children that age would not have started formal education.

Chocolatesandroses · 08/05/2023 18:58

Year 2 or 3

FlounderingFruitcake · 08/05/2023 18:59

My DD is also in Y1 at an independent and I would say she’d have about half words of that difficulty every week but the other half are easy ones. So in the test 5/10 are pretty much guaranteed then of the trickier words she’d typically get 2-3 correct meaning she always gets 7 or 8 out of 10. Which is confidence boosting and also practices words they’re likely to use in their own writing. I wouldn’t be happy with them all being that tough, she’d be really upset. IDK if you want to address it with the teacher but if not I would focus on 6 words, nail those and forget the rest. 6/10 is a much better score and should help her confidence.

MsInterpret · 08/05/2023 18:59

Year 3

Silent letters
'y' as i
and statutory spellings

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Todaynotalways · 08/05/2023 19:00

Mammyofonlyone · 08/05/2023 18:57

I think it depends on why they are being set. In Y1/2 my daughter got mostly 'easy' high frequency words, then a few 'tricky' words after that, such as the ones in your screen shot. She usually finished with words she had misspelled in her work that week.
If it is relevant, she is in an independent school too (although not sure that's the reason)

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Our school do it the other way around, 7 tricky ones, plus 3 HFW.

Other than spellings she's very happy at achool, loves other subjects, reading is coming along, gets along with everyone. But the spellings are brutal!!

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