Question for KS1 parents & teachers

[BobLobla]

If your child/pupils had the chance to work on an amazing STEM project with free resources (tools, circuits, robots, etc) but the materials/resouces were in American English how much of an issue would this be?
My thoughts were it wouldn't be terrible for KS2 as you could make a task out of spotting the differences if vocab & spelling but at KS1 when they're still learning, it would be confusing to have to read US English.

But my background is secondary so I wanted to get the opinions of parents and teachers of KS1. Any thoughts?

I’m a teacher and have a child in EYFS. I don’t think it would be a problem at all. I’d love for my child to have the chance to engage with STEM resources and on a project. The children I teach are older (KS2) and it wouldn’t stop us using it (they have a lot of exposure to that kind of thing and are old enough to understand)

I teach KS1 and, so long as it wasn't an English/phonics based lesson focus I think it'd be fine.

I'd just explain - to those who were reading it themselves - that the writer was American and there were some spelling differences.

Ideally it would be handy to have the resources in advance so the staff could identify any potential misunderstandings and even create their own vocab sheet to go alongside it.

It would be an issue for my dyslexic child as it would totally confuse the work we are doing with her on spellings. Spellings are the worst thing for her and she would really struggle seeing different spellings all of a sudden ie. color instead of colour as it is taking a lot of hard work for her to understand anyway.

Thanks for replies so far - exactly what I needed for a range of views. Any more gratefully received :-)

DS wouldn't have any issue as he knows both. We have some Nat Geo books in US English at home that he reads just fine.

How old is he?

Year 1.

As an LSA, I use American English SEN resources at times across all primary ages. I prefer to get them in good time, to read through/make alternative handouts/spot likely issues as needed.

I think it sounds lovely.

Not an issue but if it was more than a one off lesson it would have to fit into the curriculum, not just be something random. We just don't have time to go off curriculum.

It’s all mapped to the national curriculum - that’s what my input has been, to do the mapping and ‘Anglicise’ it

I could probably put up with the spelling differences (I believe there's about 1800 to 2000 of them in total) but what could drive me nuts is if there's lots of other Americanisms, whether that's in colloquial phrases or recorded vocal content.