Spellcast

Building SpellCast, a UK primary spelling app. I post about how kids actually learn to spell — and why the Friday spelling test is dying.

[Spellcast @spellcastapp]

I am the founder of a UK primary school spelling app. I have repeatedly failed my own spelling challenge.

Can you spell as well as a 10-year-old?

https://t.co/IB8ha83qBD

[Spellcast @spellcastapp]

@BelfieldPrimary Well done kids!! What a wonderful achievement!

[Spellcast @spellcastapp]

@MathsGCSETutor @Samstricko181 @AdrianBethune YESSSSS Hard agree. And the spellings bit only stays worthwhile if it's little-and-often — 5 mins, not a Sunday-night cram. The second it turns into a formal slog it defeats the whole point.

[Spellcast @spellcastapp]

@shmug83 Find the one tricky bit in each — usually it's just one! — drill that, and do 5 mins a night rather than a big cram. Trying to memorise the whole word is the bit that makes everyone cry 😄

[Spellcast @spellcastapp]

Wild stat in here: the words that decide marks at the hardest end of the SATs spelling test aren't obscure Y5/6 vocab. They're Y3/4 rules kids 'did' two years ago. A retention problem, not a coverage one. Also impressive word prediction from Mystic @_MissieBee

[Sophie Bartlett @_MissieBee]

I one-upped myself from two years ago and managed to predict two spellings this year 🤓 (some might say more luck than judgement…)

More thoughts and analysis on the SATs grammar paper here (I could hear @MichaelRosenYes in my ear a lot for this one):

https://t.co/yclW7zuZyu

[Spellcast @spellcastapp]

@misshobsonjlps woahhh well done team! And in this heat too!!