Teacher guide

Spell Beasts for Schools, step by step

Everything a teacher or School Admin needs: from signing in for the first time to setting challenges, reading progress and running the Friday test.

Contents

1. 1Getting startedHow your school gets Spell Beasts, how you sign in, and the few things to set up before children start.
2. 2Running your schoolFor School Admins: the whole school at a glance, staff accounts, classes, year groups, holidays and reports for governors.
3. 3Classes, groups and childrenAdding children, splitting a class into groups, and looking at one child’s practice.
4. 4How children sign inChildren never have passwords or accounts. Choose the way that suits your class, then print their login cards.
5. 5Inviting familiesFamilies practise at home with the same code. Spell Beasts never contacts families itself: everything goes through your school’s own channels.
6. 6Choosing wordsEvery National Curriculum statutory word and 90 spelling-pattern lists are ready to set. You can add your own topic words too.
7. 7Setting challengesA challenge is a set of words with dates, for the whole class, some groups or particular children.
8. 8This weekYour class’s home page: everything that matters this week, with nothing to mark.
9. 9Progress and reportsSee exactly who has practised, which words each child knows and what the class keeps getting wrong.
10. 10Insights and Teach itShort, plain-English pointers that spot patterns for you, and a full-screen way to teach a tricky word.
11. 11Class spelling testsRun your Friday test on any devices. Answers are marked as children type, and results are ready when you close the test.
12. 12Your account and children’s dataWhat we store, the Monday email, and how to sign out.
13. 13QuestionsQuick answers to the things teachers ask most.