Ds's (Y2) spellings for this week were a series of words all ending 'ing'. Some just required the addition 'ing', some needed the final consonant doubled and others required the removal of the final 'e'.
Ds had no idea about any of these 'rules' and when I asked him whether he had been taught to, for example, remove the 'e' from a word with a split diagraph before adding 'ing', he said he hadn't. He said he had had no teaching of this at all.
I am wondering about the point of testing pupils on this if they have not been taught it yet. Why tell them to learn individual words when there are guidelines that cuold help them with this?
I am considering raising this at parents' evening this week, but I wanted to see whether there may be a good reason behind it before I do. Of course, there is also the possibility that ds may have forgotten being taught it, but he is generally pretty reliable. I have no intention of raising it in an aggressive, confrontational manner, but it's not the first time that spellings have seemed to be chosen with little thought.