Spelling

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

28 February 2025

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

• adding suffixes: sion, tion, ssion, cian
• adding suffixes: words ending in ‘fer’
• spelling patterns: tial, cial
• spelling patterns: tious, cious
• adding prefixes: tele, super, auto, inter
• homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)

Spellings for Testing on Friday 31 January 2025

Here are our new spellings. Please support your child by learning them at home.

Year 1: there, their, they, to, today

Year 2: child, children, Christmas, class, climb, clothes, cold, could, door, even

Perhaps you could try one of the following methods:

Spellings for Testing on Thursday 17 January 2025

Year 1: school, she, so, some, the.

Year 2: after, again, any, bath, beautiful, because, behind, both, break, busy.

Which strategy helps your child to learn their spellings at home? Try this one:

10 January 2025

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

• homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
• spelling patterns: ant/ance, ent/ence
• adding prefixes: co and re
• adding prefixes: un, dis, im, in, ir, il
• apostrophes for contraction and possession
• spelling patterns: silent letters

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

Spellings – Half Term 3

Year 3,4

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

• alternative ways for writing the ‘igh’ sound
• alternative ways for writing the ‘o’ and ‘u’ sound
• adding the prefixes un, dis
• adding the suffixes il, ir
• homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
• ‘double up for a short vowel sound’

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

Spellings for Testing on Friday 20 December 2024

Children have a spelling test every two weeks on a Friday. These spellings will be tested on Friday 20 December.

Year 1: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten

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

How will you choose to learn these?

Spelling – Year 3,4 Half Term 2

Year 3,4

Autumn 2

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

• alternative ways for writing the ‘oo’ sound
• homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
• adding the suffixes er, est
• plural nouns
• using apostrophes for contraction (combining two words to shorten them or be more informal)
• using apostrophes for possession (to show belonging)

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

Spellings for testing on Friday 22 November 2024

Our new spellings are:

Year 1: of, once, one, our, pull

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

Here are a few new ideas to help you to learn them at home:

08 November 2024

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.