A primary school has stopped giving its pupils spelling tests because children find them distressing.
Whitminster Endowed Church of England Primary School, near Stroud, in Gloucestershire, has dropped the traditional spelling lists for homework.
The new policy was revealed in a newsletter to parents which said many of the school's 105 pupils found the activity "unnecessarily distressing".
Headteacher Debbie Marklove wrote in the newsletter: "You will notice that the children will not be given spelling lists to learn over the week and then be tested in class.
"We have taken the decision to stop spellings 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 feels this activity unnecessarily distressing.
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