Spellings for Testing on Friday 28 June
Being able to spell words accurately really enables children to write efficiently. Please help your child to learn these spellings and put them in their long term memory.
Year 1- have, has, were, where, when, give, gave, house, school, people
Year 2- cry, cries, fly, flies, dry, dries, try, tries, reply, replies
Why not put your spellings into bubble writing.
Spellings – Half Term 6
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- alternative graphemes: tion, sion, ssion, cian
- alternative ways to write the ‘igh’ sound
- homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled different)
- writing the s sound with c / ce
- spelling patterns: gu
- alternative ways to write the ‘ul’ sound
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
natural | team | bicycle | experience | accident |
material | teem | possession | direction | surprise |
describe | actual | height | whose | centre |
weather | bicycle | guilt | who’s | magician |
whether | decide | guard | certain | mist |
guide | confusion | circle | medal | missed |
passion | exercise | fraction | meddle | century |
sentence | politician | optician | notice | guest |
Spellings – Half Term 5
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- alternative ways to write the ‘sh’ sound (ch, ss, ti, s)
- alternative ways to write the ‘or’ sound
- adding prefixes: in, im
- adding prefixes: inter, anti, super
- spelling patterns: ture, sure
- homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
position | inexperienced | supernatural | international | machine |
caught | mention | immaterial | impossible | moisture |
infamous | forward | possession | enclosure | mission |
people | busy | history | pressure | chef |
measure | therefore | picture | important | special |
thought | improper | quarter | should | naughty |
fracture | pressure | leisure | ordinary | superior |
beautiful | anticlockwise | because | interrupt | feature |
Spellings for testing on Thursday 19 June
Owing to our KS1 school trip, we will be testing our spellings on Thursday 20 June.
Year 1– grander, grandest, fresher, freshest, slower, slowest, quicker, quickest, smaller, smallest
Year 2– camel, tunnel, travel, towel, squirrel, metal, pedal, capital, animal, hospital
Please help your child to learn their spellings. Spellings help with the flow and speed at which your child can write with confidence.
06 June 2025
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- etymology: cyclo, chrono, struct, port, tract, dict
- apostrophes for contraction and possession
- spelling patterns: tious, cious
- recapping of previously taught spellings
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
conscious | yacht | chronology | determined | explanation |
vicious | profession | occur | convenience | nutritious |
accommodation | structure | delicious | friend | soldier |
contraction | foreign | scissors | language | photography |
awkward | dictionary | vegetable | ambitious | ancient |
vehicle | cautious | infectious | picturesque | excellent |
automatic | possession | shan’t | designer | beautiful |
portable | shouldn’t | anxious | desperate | thorough |
Spellings for Testing on Friday 06 June
Our latest spellings are:
Year 1: jump, jumper, jumped, jumping, hunter, hunted, hunting, buzzed, buzzer, buzzing
Year 2: write, written, wrote, wrong, wrap, table, apple, bottle, little, middle
Here are some ideas to help your child learn their spellings:
Spellings for Testing on Friday 16 May
Here are our new spellings:
Year 1: cats, dogs, rocks, trains, books, brushes, glasses, witches, boxes, buzzes
Year 2: race, city, space, fancy, ice, knock, knee, know, knitting, knife
Spellings for Testing on Friday 02 May 2025
Here are our new spellings.
Year 1: think, bank, sunk, honk, wink, witch, fetch, catch, hutch, stitch
Year 2: who, what, where, when, why, whole, wild, would, should, could
Here are a few ideas to help your child to learn their spellings:
24 April 2025
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
homophones: draught, draft, dissent, descent, proceed, precede, wary, weary
applying rules: prefixes and suffixes
spelling patterns: unusual patterns (eg bruise, guarantee, vehicle)
spelling patterns: unusual patterns (eg yacht, immediately)
etymology: phone, micro, tele, graph, auto, geo
Spellings – Half Term 4
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- alternative graphemes: ai, ee, ie
- homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
- adding suffixes: ed, ing, er, est, ly, ful, less, ness
- adding suffixes: ful, less
- apostrophes for contraction and possession
favourite | clumsy (er/est/ly) | break | fruit (ful/less) | son |
grate | straight | brake | shouldn’t | sun |
great | isn’t | believe | wouldn’t | don’t |
begin (ing/er) | doubt (ful/less) | build (ing/er) | complete | didn’t |
describe | heart (less) | haven’t | busy (er/est/ed/ing) | increase |
thought (ful,less) | bicycle | surprise | increase | thank (ful/less) |
eight | appear | separate (ly,ed,ing) | weight(less, ness) | one |
ate | rest (ful/less) | achieve | wait | won |