A primary school has axed spelling homework because pupils find learning lists of words 'distressing'.
Children at the Whitminster Church of England Primary, in Gloucestershire, will no longer be given a short list of words to learn each week because staff believe it leaves them feeling like failures.
Parents' groups called the move 'ridiculous' but headmistress Debbie Marklove, whose school has just over 100 pupils aged four to 11, has invited parents to a meeting to explain her reasons.
In a newsletter, Mrs Marklove wrote: 'You will notice that the children will not be given spelling lists to learn over the week.
'We have taken the decision to stop spelling as homework as it is felt that although children may learn them perfectly at home they are often unable to use them in their daily written work.
'Also many children find this activity unnecessarily distressing.'
Children at the Whitminster Church of England Primary, in Gloucestershire, will no longer be given a short list of words to learn each week because staff believe it leaves them feeling like failures.
Parents' groups called the move 'ridiculous' but headmistress Debbie Marklove, whose school has just over 100 pupils aged four to 11, has invited parents to a meeting to explain her reasons.
In a newsletter, Mrs Marklove wrote: 'You will notice that the children will not be given spelling lists to learn over the week.
'We have taken the decision to stop spelling as homework as it is felt that although children may learn them perfectly at home they are often unable to use them in their daily written work.
'Also many children find this activity unnecessarily distressing.'
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