Spelling

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.

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.

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.

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