Need some Year 1 phonics/spelling advice please

[Justnormal]

Hi new member here and could really do with some sound advice regarding my year 1's spelling list and phonics sounds. Spelling lists sent home weekly that focus on RWI sounds (or not). My DC is a strong reader and does well at school, however the spelling lists are hard to learn and starting to drive me bonkers. I'm struggling to understand the benefit of giving 5/6 year olds such lists. Can anyone shed any light on this and advise if the below is ok for this age range and makes sense re phonics. TIA

Sounds oi & oy

Disappointed
annoying
would
voice
checkpoints
choices
joyfullness
couldn't
avoiding
marmalade

Most of them look rather hard for Y1, so it's no wonder they are driving you bonkers. It looks like everything has been thrown in there, including suffixes and apostrophes. I would be surprised if they they could possibly be teacing all these things at once. I can see the pattern of oy/oi words but am not sure why they would introduce compound words to more or less rote learn. Why not just point, joy, voice, choice, avoid at this stage, and other words, like enjoy and join, that might be useful for a 6 year old. I wonder how many of them would use checkpoint and joyfulness (only one 'l') in their own writing - so utterly pointless.

I can see the point of introducing the high frequency words would, could and should as a group, but think it is more than a little early to be teaching apostrophes. So, no, to me your list does not make much sense.

Thank you CecilyP, nice to know I'm not nuts by thinking these are of no if any benefit. The next issue is how to approach the teacher, this school has a strong "We are right at all costs and never question us" policy.

DS2, Yr1 is top set spelling in a very academic prep school (not boasting, just trying to illustrate the point!), this weeks spellings are;
don't
water
sky
fry
fly
lying
reply
half
why
my
myself
crying
satisfy
It may not be the teacher that sets the spellings, approach with caution!!

OP, I meant to add that if you also post on Primary Education, you will probably get more response both from other KS1 parents and from teachers.

I have a child in year 1 and those spellings are very tough. They are much, much harder than what we get home. I have friends with children in year 1 in other schools as well and their spellings are similar to the ones my DS gets. Yours are hard!