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Another week gone.Spellings still not done.
Spelling Bees gives your child ten minutes a day they can do on their own: this week’s list from school, the words they meet in their reading, and 700+ words for Years 3 to 6 and the 11+.
No last-minute cramming. No lost word lists. Short, steady practice, and a child who can spell the words when it matters.
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If this sounds familiar…
- You meant to do spellings this week. Again. But life got in the way.
- Your child learns the list for Friday’s test and forgets it all by Monday.
- You have tried flashcards, apps, writing them out three times. Nothing sticks.
- The 11+ is getting closer and you are not sure which words they need to know.
- You want them to practise on their own, but they need you there to test them.
Consistency is the hard part. That is what Spelling Bees builds.
A week with Spelling Bees
Three parts a family flips between in a week. Each one is short, and each one feeds the others.
Daily Buzz
Ten words a day, school words first, then book words, then the bank. Hear each one, learn its meaning and origin, then spell it from hearing.
School Spelling Bees
Type in the week’s list the day it comes home, one word per box. Your child practises a little each day, takes our test before Friday’s as a rehearsal, and any misses feed back into later sessions.
Book Bees
A word met while reading goes in, and back comes a child-friendly card: meaning, example sentence, similar words, opposites, origin. It stays in your child’s own words and visits the Daily Buzz, turning a word they did not know into one they do.
How you see it working
Word Grid
One honeycomb map of the whole bank: Year 3/4, Year 5/6 and 11+ vocabulary. Green mastered, amber learning, cream not yet.
Honeypot
Daily scores as a bar chart across the weeks, with the school’s real test result alongside and the words to nail. Once a month the Monthly Nectar Run rounds the month up in one big test.
Ten minutes a day. One payment for the whole family.
Get Spelling Bees · £24.99How it works
Every spelling uses Cover-Copy-Compare, a retrieval-practice method drawn from the cognitive science of memory (Roediger & Karpicke, 2006) to build lasting recall.
See the word
Read it, hear it, spot the tricky bit in amber.
Cover it
The word disappears. Hold it in your mind.
Type it
Spell it from memory. No peeking.
Compare
Letter by letter: green for right, red for wrong. Learn from the miss straight away.
Words your child gets wrong come back sooner. Words they know well space out further. The app remembers so you do not have to.
700+ words your child needs to know.
Every statutory spelling word from the national curriculum, plus the vocabulary that comes up again and again in 11+ exams. British English throughout (colour, practise, organise): the spellings your child’s school marks as correct.
109
DfE Year 3/4
Statutory spelling list
100
DfE Year 5/6
Statutory spelling list
584
11+ vocabulary
Words that come up in entrance exams
Built for independence
10 minutes a day
Short enough to fit before school, after dinner, or in the car. Ten words a day, no marathon sessions.
Spaced repetition that adapts
The app tracks which words your child finds hard and brings them back at the right time. Words they know well space out on their own.
Mastery you can see
Every word on the Word Grid turns amber as your child learns it and green once it is mastered. Your child watches the grid fill up, and that keeps them going.
Starts at the right level
A 15-word level check works out where your child should begin, so they skip what they already know and are not overwhelmed by what they do not.
£24.99
One payment · Whole family · No subscription
- Daily Buzz: ten minutes a day
- School Spelling Bees: the week’s list from school
- Book Bees: words from their reading
- Word Grid: 700+ words, coloured by mastery
- Whole family on one purchase
- 7-day money-back guarantee
Five to ten words a week, the pace of a school spelling list. Roughly 200 to 400 words an academic year.
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7-day money-back guarantee
Try it for 7 days. If it is not right for your child, email us and we will refund you in full. No forms. No questions.
Parents ask…
Why I built Spelling Bees
I’m Rebecca, a working mother of two girls, with a background in psychology, and the person behind Spelling Bees. I built it for my own daughter first.
I watched the same thing happen every week: the Friday spelling test crammed on Thursday night, and forgotten by the next Monday. She could spell perfectly well. Nothing was helping the words stick, because nothing was bringing them back.
So I built the system I wanted for her: ten minutes a day she can do on her own, a method drawn from how memory works, and words that come back at the right moment instead of being forgotten. That is the whole idea.
Read the research behind the method →The method rests on published research
Every source is named and linked in full in our research-backed method guide.
Already got flashcards and apps? Try this first.
Grab our free printable workbook: the 50 trickiest 11+ spelling words with meanings, hints, and space to practise. See if your child can spell them all.
Your child can learn every spelling they need for the 11+.
They need a system that fits your week.
10 minutes a day. 700+ words. A habit that builds itself.
Get Spelling Bees · £24.99One payment · Whole family · 7-day money-back guarantee
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