Spelling

Spellings for testing on Friday 19 December

Please note the amended spellings for Year one:

Year 1: all, are, sure, pure

Year 2: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty

These spellings will be tested on Friday 19 December

Spellings for Testing on Friday 05 December

Our new spellings are as follows:

Year 1: me, be, to, was, want

Year 2: was, we, were, where, you, your, well, who, what, when

These spellings will be tested on Friday 21 November

Spelling: Half Term 2

This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

• alternative ways for writing the long vowel ‘u’ sound
• more homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
• suffixes (for example, changing the root word ‘great’ to ‘greater’ or ‘greatest’
• plurals (more than one of a noun)
• apostrophes for contraction (eg can’t is less formal than cannot)
• apostrophes for possession (eg Brian’s bag, the school’s logo)

Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.

Spellings for testing on Friday 17 November

Our next set of spellings are as follows:

Year 1: me, be, to, was, want

Year 2:  was, we, were, where, you, well, your, who, what, when

These spellings will be tested on Friday 17 November

Remember: spellings are sent home weekly on homework sheets too.

Idea: Use your spellings and write them ‘across and down’.

Spellings for testing on Friday 07 November

Our next set of spellings are as follows:

Year 1: into, she, he, of, we

Year 2:  school, she, so, some, the, there, their, they, to, today

These spellings will be tested on Friday 07 November

Remember: spellings are sent home weekly on homework sheets too.

07 November 2025

This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

• plurals (more than one noun)
• ough words
• suffixes (for example, changing the root word ‘’success to ‘successful’ or ‘successfully’
• ible and able words
• apostrophes for possession (eg Brian’s bag, the school’s logo)
• more homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently
• adding the prefixes ‘co’ and ‘re’ using a hyphen

Every Friday, we’ll spend time practising or testing (informally) or discussing all things

spelling so be ready (one of our 8 Rs for learning) to join in!

If you need some ideas for practical things to do, check out the Super Spelling Strategies

Guide on the school website.

Spellings for Testing on Friday 17 October

Our next set of spellings are as follows:

Year 1: has, his, her, go, no

Year 2: of, once, one, our, pull, push, says, put, said, saw

These spellings will be tested on Friday 17 October

Remember: spellings are sent home weekly on homework sheets too.

Idea to help learn spellings: Write your spellings using dots. Join the dots with a different colour.

Spellings to be tested on Friday 03 October

Our next set of spellings are as follows:

Year 1: do, for, friend, full, go

Year 2: has, he, here, his, house, is, love, me, my, no

These spellings will be tested on Friday 03 October

Remember: spellings are sent home weekly on homework sheets too.

Why not try:

Spellings for testing on Friday 19 September

Welcome to KS1 spellings!

Children have a spelling test every other week on a Friday. We give them two weeks between tests as we know that learning spellings can be more difficult for some.

There will be time within school to learn them and we also ask parents/carers to support this learning at home too. The spellings will be added to the weekly homework sheet and posted online.

Here you will find the latest spellings and some ideas on how to support your child at home. Often parents/carers choose to have a spellings exercise book at home which they write the new spellings in for their child and practice daily.

The spellings are:

Year 1: are, ask, be, by, come

Year 2: are, ask, be, by, come, do, for, friend, full, go

These spellings will be tested on Friday 19 September

Why not try rainbow writing with your child. Write the spelling, then go over it again and again but with different coloured pencils, pens or crayons.

Half-Term 1 Spelling List

Instead of learning eight different words each week, we’d like you to learn these 40 words over the whole half-term. Lots of research suggests that learning more spellings over a longer time leads to better remembering how to spell them in the long term.

How you decide to do this is up to you. You might decide to focus on the trickiest words first. Or, you might decide to learn eight words a week and really focus on these whilst still practising the others, too. For some of you, you might already feel confident with some of the words so might choose to not practise these at all.

However you decide to do it, is up to you. The important thing is that you’re learning them and learning how you like to learn them best.

Each week, the children will be tested on 8 of the words. These tests aren’t pressured. They might just help you figure out which words you need to practise more.

If you need some ideas for practical things to do, check out the Super Spelling Strategies Guide on the school website.