Would this concern you, teachers spelling

[Hollyy8]

my Dson Y1 teacher puts posts on to show what they have been learning and things are often misspelt. Today colourful was spelt ‘couliurful’

Typing? I would assume fat fingers - certainly looks like a plausible typo.

Handwirtten, yes, obviously unacceptable.

Yes - I would be very concerned. However, are you sure it’s the teacher and not the TA who posts. Still not ideal though.

Seems more of a typo than a speeling mistake. Obviously written in a hurry, but yes, they should have checked before posting.

Yes, I'd worry about it, she needs to proof read. As do you (missing apostrophe in thread title)

Yes, it definitely is the teacher as it says the name of who has posted it above. A vast majority of the posts have one word misspelt.

Ooh that's bad. Year 1 is when children should be introduced to basic spelling patterns and structures so they need to get a good grounding from someone who knows what they're doing to build on.

Yes. When ds2 had an NQT with poor spelling I highlighted it to her mentor. She never sent incorrectly spelt homework out again.

Yes it would concern me. Very much.

My first thought would be spell check changing it rather than the teacher not being able to spell. If it really is a spelling issue then that’s worrying.

My DS handed me a homework sheet in the playground when he was in year 1.

The subject was 'favourite foods'.

One of the questions was "How old was you when you first tasted this food?"

I saw the HT standing in the playground and showed it to him.

He was fuming about it!

I will never forget my daughter’s Year 2 teacher. She came home from school one day and was very upset because she said her teacher had changed her work incorrectly. My daughter had written ‘I would have gone’ and the teacher changed it to ‘I would OF gone’ 😳. I made appointments to visit two other schools the next day.

Not ideal. But your post is riddled with faults, too. I realise I'm being pedantic, but if you're talking about leading by example...

I would not be happy to know that my kids' teachers can't spell. Same way I wouldn't be happy to have surgery by a doctor that doesn't know how to handle a scalpel. Sorry to say, but if you can't spell properly, and therefore teach children how to spell words correctly, you shouldn't be a teacher.

@Chocolate85
Have you ever seen spellcheck changing 'colourful' to ‘couliurful'.
'Couliurful' is not even a word.

You changed your child's school over that?! Wouldn't it just have been easier to talk to the teacher?

It defanately woudn’t bothher me.

@GoKatForDinner
Is the op claiming to be a teacher?

I don't believe she is.

No I agree. So probably no need for you to nitpick her grammatical or spelling errors.

Offstead, now. Lividd. Fuming.

One of the reasons children go to school is to learn to spell. Therefore it is entirely reasonable to expect the teachers and other staff to get things right.

I'm not saying I once corrected the teacher's spelling on a homework sheet in red pen and sent it back into school, but I might have done. 😂

Defiantly dunt bovver me nighver

@GoKatForDinnerIt was the final straw. My daughter had the same teacher in Year 1 and Year 2, and she was truly dreadful. There was very little differentiation in lessons and the teacher wasn’t interested in stretching her or the other more able children. Standards at the school were pretty low, academically and in terms of behaviour, and my daughter was complaining that she was bored every day. We felt her education was far too important to waste any more time at a school that we thought was unsuitable.

I agree this doesn’t look good and should be checked before sending but what if the teacher is dyslexic?
I have worked with a few amazing teachers who have been dyslexic, admittedly in secondary and not primary. I would handle this sensitively just in case.

How many year 1 kids are likely to be reading this?

I mean approximately? 🤣

In all seriousness, unless the OP says she's a teacher, why should her SPAG be an example to anyone?