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Spelling.Live has had a busy few weeks. Teachers asked for ways to run a whole class week without setting up thirty children one at a time, and parents asked for clearer pricing and less noise. Here are the changes that matter most, grouped by who they help.
For teachers: run a whole class week
Class weeks. You can now save a week as a template and apply it to the pupils you tick. A built-in "Cold and hot test week" puts the test on Monday: a Hot test on last week's list, then a Cold test on this week's. Any day can be the test day, and every activity in the week can be given its own name.
A scanned test counts. If your class writes the test on paper, scan the sheets and the result fills the pupil's test slot in their plan. Bulk scan marking is now out of beta.
Cold to hot. The class report shows each list's cold score, hot score and how many pupils improved, stayed the same or missed the hot test, plus the three words still most often wrong.
Groups inside a class. Put pupils into named groups, such as a main list and a bespoke list, and tick a whole group in one tap on every picker. A pupil can be in more than one group.
Queue, edit and unassign. Queue next week's list for every pupil at once, change the words on a list you have already sent, or take a list back from the pupils who should not have it. Their practice history is never deleted.
Practice packs for the class. Print a personalised screen-free pack for every pupil in one run. See the printed practice pack.
For everyone: the weekly scheme
The National Curriculum weekly spelling scheme now covers Years 3 to 6. Each week teaches one Appendix 1 rule, and every word is checked for UK spelling, the right letters and, for sound rules, the right sound. Parents can browse any year, an earlier one for revision or a later one for stretch.
For younger children
Sound Parts is out of beta. Every one of the 51 sounds is now a recording of one real British speaker, not a synthetic voice. Children build a word sound by sound and hear each sound as they tap it.
Fewer wasted pictures. Picture hints are no longer drawn for words no picture can show, such as "usual" or "that", and a picture is now reused across forms like write, wrote and written.
For parents
A clearer Progress screen. "Got right" is split into right on their own and right with help, and the help is shown on each word's history.
Pick it is cheaper. It now costs 1 credit for every 5 words. After a wrong pick it also shows the sound-spelling rule behind the right answer.
Family plan. There is now a yearly option at £59.99, which is two months free. US families pay in dollars, $7.99 a month or $79.99 a year.
Paper days in the plan. A paper activity now asks for a grown-up first, offers an on-screen option, and is ticked off only once the paper has been saved.
Fluid sessions. Games stay open between sessions, with a switch per child if you would rather they did not.
Under the hood
The spelling checker learned to name more mistakes: the /s/ sound spelt ce or se, "ei" and "eigh" words, word endings such as -le, -ture and -sion, and more silent letters. The Patterns and Curriculum reports use these names automatically.
For schools, there is a self-serve data protection pack on the trust page, and Spelling.Live is now an approved Wonde integration, so a school on Wonde can bring a class across from its MIS and sign pupils in with MyLogin. Teachers also no longer get a separate email for every pupil.
Try it
Open the app and look for Class week on your roster, or browse the weekly scheme under Browse Lists. If something here does not work for your class, use the feedback button in the app and tell us.