Without sounding like a pushy parent, dd is in Year 2 and will be doing entrance tests in January to two very academic schools where there are over a 100 children going for 20 spaces. The school feel that she is a very strong candidate - especially in Maths, Science, reading and written comprehension. However, the one area that "lets her down" is spelling where her spelling age is assessed as being "only" 7 yrs 11 months.. the school would like her to be more consistent in spelling...I agree. However, I just don't know how to support her in this. She hates rote learning and so I bought a spelling package on the computer which is OK but she gets bored with it. She writes lovely stories with descriptions and great story lines but sometimes I think she gets carried away and doesn't seem to think about her spelling. Any ideas welcome.