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Does your reception child have spellings?

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Iamnotminterested · 15/01/2013 09:12

Just curious and nosey. DC has had first list home and I was a little surprised at the words, compared to the tiger mother year 1 thread going on.

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allnewtaketwo · 15/01/2013 09:14

What were the words?

sheeplikessleep · 15/01/2013 09:15

DS1 is in reception.
He's learnt all the phonic sounds last term and blending simple words.
Now they're onto high frequency words (first week, words like on, in, said, I, he, the, at, and).

simpson · 15/01/2013 09:21

Yes, DD has 10 spellings a week with igh, ie or i/e sounds in them (flies, kite, bright etc)....

Well, she does not have this sound every weekly obviously, but it's this weeks list iyswim....

bluebiscuit · 15/01/2013 09:24

They don't send spellings home at all in reception in our school. My DD is in reception, but my DS has already gone through reception in the same school so I know none will be coming the whole year.

I am interested in whether other reception children have to do spellings.

learnandsay · 15/01/2013 09:31

Not yet but she has seen the list and remembered it anyway.

PlumSykes · 15/01/2013 09:33

Yes. Ten words, and a test at teh end of the week.

allnewtaketwo · 15/01/2013 09:35

at test for 4/5 year olds. I think that's awful

learnandsay · 15/01/2013 09:38

Spose it depends on how it's conducted. I'm all for it. I like the idea that they should know how words are put together. But I think it's far too early to introduce success and failure. So it should be a game.

DewDr0p · 15/01/2013 09:38

At our school it starts when they reach a certain stage in phonics I think. So a child who progresses through phonics quicker will get spellings sooner than one who progresses more slowly. I think ds2 got some in the summer term of Reception. Ds3 not until Year 1.

allnewtaketwo they quite enjoy it! It's very low key and they practice at school as well as at home - half a dozen words a week and to start with they can pretty much work them out or they are very high frequency words. Tbh I was dreading it with ds3 as he has hearing issues, struggles with phonics and hates writing - but he is dead keen

perceptionreality · 15/01/2013 09:40

My dd, who goes to a prep school didn't have spellings until year 1.

DeWe · 15/01/2013 09:54

No spellings for any of mine in reception. Dd1 had a few at the end of year 1, and some in year 2. Dd2 had a few over year 2. Ds is in year 1 and hasn't had any yet.
They were all in the top literacy/phonics group, who were first to bring spellings home to be learnt. I don't think it's made any difference to how well they can spell.

numbum · 15/01/2013 10:14

Our school doesn't do spelling tests anymore and I'm glad

brainonastick · 15/01/2013 10:16

No, and its an 'outstanding' school, so hopefully they know what they are doing!

Beehatch · 15/01/2013 10:29

Spellings only started in Y1 for us. They get 6 words featuring their current phonics. We are supposed to practice them 5 times over a week. They are not tested as such, but they use the words in sentences to practice their phonics and handwriting.

CaseyShraeger · 15/01/2013 10:59

No, they don't get spellings until Y1.

BarbarianMum · 15/01/2013 11:27

Not at our school - in reception they concentrate on the children hearing and trying to replicate all the sounds in a word in a 'phonetically feasible' manner. Obviously English doesn't really work like this and we had quite a lot of 'ther woz a big bang' work from ds1.

Learning spellings starts in Y1 but there is still a much greater emphasis on writing-volume and quality-than on correct spelling. By Y2 we get 9 spellings a week.

Having been initially horrified sceptical about this approach, I am now a complete convert.

Shybairns · 15/01/2013 11:42

DS didn't get spellings in reception and is now in year 1 and still isn't getting spellings. They are encouraged to spell correctly but the emphasis is on working independently and so they do a lot of writing by themselves and so spell phonetically. Untill they learn the spelling rules. Which they are taught.

lostintoys · 15/01/2013 12:09

No spellings until year 2 here - and the school gets fantastic results for writing.

retropops · 15/01/2013 12:21

My son is in reception (prep school) and has just started to get spellings after the christmas break

NoWayNoHow · 15/01/2013 12:31

DS has been given a list of 40 high frequency words that we're supposed to help him read and spell, but that's something to do over the period of the year, not weekly homework-type spelling.

megandraper · 15/01/2013 12:34

DS (Reception) is doing some spellings at school, but not bringing them home yet - just see a note in his reading book from his teaching saying which words he has been doing.

simpson · 15/01/2013 12:36

What words have they got??

DD has a spelling test every Friday. She loves doing her spellings.

MimsyBorogroves · 15/01/2013 13:12

No, I know one child in the class does - which strikes me as a bit strange really - but he has 5 high frequency words on his bag to learn to read. He then gets "tested" as to whether he can read them, and then 5 more are added on. In theory, anyway - he has had the last set since a couple of weeks before Christmas, can read them all, but he hasn't had a new set yet. Then again, he's also supposed to get a prize when he completes 5 learning journeys. He has just been given his 7th, and still no prize.

PeppermintCreams · 15/01/2013 22:24

At my son's school they have to be able to "read" the 300 high frequency words, then they move on to spellings. He gets 25 words (currently phonetic based HFWs) that he has to learn every half term, but if he learns them quickly he can move on to the next 25, so could potentially learn 50 words over 6 weeks or so.

However he is a bit ahead of the rest of the class, along with two other children. He started learning to read the HFWs in the nursery class. They like to move them on to the next stage of stuff as soon as they are ready. Sorry don't mean to brag just wanted to let you know that it's unusual.

P.S. I put "read" because when he first brought words home to learn he had to memorise them, but by the end of the 300 he had finished the main phonics programme so could sound out all the decodable ones.

PeppermintCreams · 15/01/2013 22:25

Oh and he has to spell the words orally. Doesn't have to write anything yet. Don't know if this is normal or because he's a reluctant writer?!

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