I firmly believe that young people want to learn and if we can find an interesting way to engage them in a particular topic, they will enjoy watching how their efforts will lead to improvements.
That said, learning the basic rules of spelling is often seen as repetitive and many pupils think “why bother when I have a spell-checker on any device I use?” – but good spelling is fundamental to good literacy and in the longer-term, essential for the employability of our pupils. In hard-to-reach pupils, the ability to spell well is often missing, but I believe that it can be addressed no matter how old the pupil.
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