DS2's extraordinary spellings list...

[Clary]

...or maybe it isn't?

He's just 6, in yr 1 then, and this week's list (practising ph) includes

alphabetical
sphinx
Philippa
Christopher

Bit hard no? Well Christopher easy enough if it's your name but although we know one it's not DS2.

This is in a week when DD (yr 3) has had: jelly/ies
party/ies etc

Oh and DS1 (yr 5) had a series including
use
used
useless
love
loved
loving

Oh thank goodness this is real - was expecting a load of expletives from the trolls!

Oh yes that would be good

Porno spelling list, like playing rude Scrabble (don't do it with yr mum)

Really tho, doesn't the 6yo have the hardest spellings here??

They are tres difficult - maybe I have low expectations ofr a 6 year old but I would have been thinking that cat, sat, mat would have been more age-appropriate?

Well cat sat and mat are more like FS2 spellings (not that they do them).

But last week's were when, who, where, and previous weeks have included ue words (glue, blue, argue) and squ words (squash, square etc).

I just thought the other two had such easy peasy lists it made me laugh. Not sure DS1 can spell alphabetical.

Just wait until they get abominable and government. This can get interesting!

ds is 6 and would love to get those.

Ok am 30 and I can't spell sphinx without looking it up. How often does a 6 yo need to use this word?

Not doing a project on egypt is dc?

BLIMEY !! Is this a private school ?

I thought dd2's Y1 spellings were hard. I cannot remember this weeks but a typical example would be:
Wednesday
Saturday
February
friend
another
brother
again

DD is 6 and according to the teacher is on the top level for spellings
THEY are not like that

I thought you said year 6 at first... I sincerely hope he didn't have to produce a sentence illustrating the meaning of each one, which has often been our downfall: my year 4 child recently struggled with 'extrude', defined in my dictionary (not her school-level one, funnily enough) as '1) thrust or force out; 2) shape metal, plastics, etc. by forcing them through a die'. I told her about extruded potato products, (e.g. oven chips) and we worked out something around that. Undeniably educational, but don't know how often she'll get to use it.

When my dd was in Yr2 she had spellings similar to your ds (no names though)

Andnow she's in Yr3 she sometimes has spellings similar to your older ds

DD is in Y2 and gets nothing like these. Her weekly spellings are much simpler. The teacher only does them really to ensure they practise and get used to doing tests. I still wonder why schools even other with spelling tests as research appears to suggets that weekly tests make no doifference anyway.

To be fair the words in the OP for the 6y are all phoneticaly written. Just the choice of words are odd, unless part of work they are currently doing perhaps (clutches at straws!!!)

The Y3/Y5 ones seem more sensible and beneficial.

Sometimes ours get the phonics words the children themselves have suggested in a brainstorm. So Philippa and Christopher might be some parents' names. And if anyone's ever seen Joseph in the theatre, then they'd know the word "sphinx".

Although what's wrong with telephone, phonics and others that are a bit more everyday?

DD1 used to get similarly eccentric spelling lists in Yr1. I think the idea was just that they practiced noticing particulary phonic sounds (like "ph") in some big words. There was no big deal about learning them or retaining the information beyond the end of that week. It was just part of the phonics work.

They haven't had any spellings at all in Yr2!

no not a private school (tho why that would make a difference I am not sure...)

cat64 interesting about phonics basis for learning.

Yes I thought how about photo, phone etc. Phonics was one tho! Anyway I was telling him how to do sphinx and he told me he knew! so what do I know?!

Test is tomorrow so we shall see if he manages not to miss any letters out of alphabetical.

Agree Hula's DS1's rather more useful.
Not that it matters because none of them ever seem to spell the words right in an actual piece of writing

wow!
Here we are re doing what wind wish most etc just the same as last year.

(Even more evidence that the school is not that good)

Why can't they use 'phonic'
or graph
aphid
etc

lol. dd1 (yr 4) always has easier spellings than ds1 (yr 2).
my faves of his corkers have been

conscientious
fluorescent

whilst dd1 is happily going backwards - they seem to ramp it up all the way to the end of ks1 and then brake sharply to build it up sloooooooowly to the exact same point in yr 6 for the end of ks2. utterly barking.

When did they start giving names as spellings? . Seems a bit silly , people spell their names in different ways anyway.

Letters and Sounds, phase five, Ph words. My DS is also year one, also six (though in y2 group for phoincs) and we've just had them. Ours were elephant, alphabet, nephew though. Did you have wh last week and sure the week before? DS's first ever spelling test ahd measure, treasure, pleasure, Leisure (three weeks ago). I thought they were 'rock 'ard!'

Clary, my friend's ds is the same year and had v v similar. He is at a catholic school.

Other friend's ds, same year, not Catholic school, had v v different.

Starnge, isn't it?

He got them all right in his test according to him!

DH tested him this am before school and he wrote them soooooo neatly that even super-neat DD commented. Bless.

My son is coming to the end of year 2 and has never had a spelling test. Yet his spelling is improving.