Spelling

08 November 2024

Posted on Friday 08 November 2024 by Mrs Hogarth

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.

 

attaches restaurant’s aloud terrible thought
I’ll government’s allowed categories co-own
isle bargains tough co-operate yacht’s
aisle re-invent consciousness dictionaries re-tell
aggressively thorough consciously soldier’s opportunities
aggressiveness reliable bruises desperately affect
reversible apparently enjoyable communities effect
opportunities possible enough valuable although

Spellings for testing on Friday 08 November 24

Posted on Saturday 19 October 2024 by Mrs Wilkins

An idea to help you learn our new spellings:

Why not use your spellings and write them showing ascenders (tall letters) and descenders (letters that go below the line), like this –

Year 1: is, love, me, my, no

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

Spellings for testing on Friday 18 October 24

Posted on Saturday 19 October 2024 by Mrs Wilkins

How would you like to learn your spellings this week?

Year 1: has, he, here, his, house

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

 

Spellings for testing on Friday 04 October 24

Posted on Friday 20 September 2024 by Mrs Wilkins

This week’s spellings are more common exception words (words that don’t follow the usual spelling rules). There are lots of ideas in our super spelling strategies to help you child learn them.

Year 1

  • do
  • for
  • friend
  • full
  • go

Year 2

  • has
  • he
  • here
  • his
  • house
  • is
  • love
  • me
  • my
  • no

Spellings for testing on Friday 20 September 24

Posted on Monday 16 September 2024 by Mrs Wilkins

This week’s spellings are ‘common exception’ words – words that don’t follow the usual spelling rule or pattern. We keep spellings for two weeks. On the first week, children need to read and write the word using the ‘look, say, cover, write, check’ method. On the second week, they can write them using rainbow writing. There are some more ideas here too.

 

Year 1

  • are
  • ask
  • be
  • by
  • come

Year 2

  • are
  • ask
  • be
  • by
  • come
  • do
  • for
  • friend
  • full
  • go

 

Spelling – Year 3/4 Half Term 1

Posted on Friday 06 September 2024 by Mrs Wadsworth

In Key Stage 2, instead of asking you to learn a short list of spellings each week, you will be given a longer list (roughly 40 words) that we will focus on in that half-term. Don’t worry, we’re not asking you to learn them all in one week. Instead, we’ll ask you to focus on learning these words over the course of the entire half-term. There’s a few reasons for this:

1.     We want you take responsibility for your own learning and start to figure out how you learn best (there’s some ideas below). Even if that means making some mistakes along the way.

2.      Lots of research suggests that learning more spellings over a longer time leads to better remembering how to spell them in the long-term.

3.     Similarly, lots of research suggests that if you learn something for a week and don’t come back to it you’ll likely forget it anyway

4.     We won’t have a ‘formal’ test each week. Instead, we’ll mix it up. We might ask you to test each other on the words you’ve been learning. We might test the words at random and then you’ll know which words you need to practise more and which words you’re confident with. We might just think about some of the words and share ideas for how we’re going about learning them.

5.     Ultimately, we want this to be about learning – and not just getting them right in a test.

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 8 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.

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.

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

  • alternative ways for writing the ‘ay’ sound
  • alternative ways for writing the ‘ee’ sound
  • ‘double up for a short vowel sound’
  • ‘drop the e for ing’
  • ‘drop the y for an i’
  • adding the suffixes ed, ing
  • 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.

famous believe accident breathe answer
library passion notice were possess
century address favourite appear here
their weight complete ordinary wear
straight they’re surprise busy increase
session possible there hear where
suppose mission eighth extreme occasion
fraction different attention learn possession

 

06 September 2024

Posted on Friday 06 September 2024 by Mrs Hogarth

In Key Stage 2, instead of asking you to learn a short list of spellings each week, you will be

given a longer list (roughly 40 words) that we will focus on in that half-term. Don’t worry,

we’re not asking you to learn them all in one week. Instead, we’ll ask you to focus on

learning these words over the course of the entire half-term. There’s a few reasons for this:

 

  1. We want you take responsibility for your own learning and start to figure out how you

learn best (there’s some ideas below). Even if that means making some mistakes

along the way.

  1. Lots of research suggests that learning more spellings over a longer time leads to

better remembering how to spell them in the long-term.

  1. Similarly, lots of research suggests that if you learn something for a week and don’t

come back to it you’ll likely forget it anyway

  1. We won’t have a ‘formal’ test each week. Instead, we’ll mix it up. We might ask you

to test each other on the words you’ve been learning. We might test the words at

random and then you’ll know which words you need to practise more and which

words you’re confident with. We might just think about some of the words and share

ideas for how we’re going about learning them.

  1. Ultimately, we want this to be about learning – and not just getting them right in a

test.

 

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 8 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.

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.

 

Half-term 1

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

  • alternative ways for writing the ‘ay’ sound
  • alternative ways for writing the ‘ee’ sound
  • ‘double up for a short vowel sound’
  • ‘drop the e for ing’
  • ‘drop the y for an i’
  • adding the suffixes ed, ing
  • 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.

Half-term 1

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)
  • ‘double up for a short vowel sound’
  • ‘drop the y for an i’
  • using apostrophes for contraction (eg can’t, won’t)
  • adding the suffixes ed, ing, er, est
  • adding the prefixes un, dis, im, in, ir, il

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

there their they’re inactive accommodate
occur/ing/ed can’t won’t category busy
opportunity advice advise practice practise
naughty dictionary witch which according
irregular embarrass determine/ing/ed century ordinary
curiosity library identity achieve/ed/ing aggressive
disappear appreciate device devise cemetery
queue/ing/ed unavoidable immediately impossible variety

 

01 July 24 and 08 July 24

Posted on Tuesday 02 July 2024 by Mrs Wilkins

How would you like to learn your spellings?

Year 1- want, what, with, any, many, you, your, who, how, saw

Year 2- all, ball, fall, small, wall, walk, talk, chalk, beanstalk, always

Spelling Test Date: Friday 12 July

17 June 24 and 21 June 24

Posted on Wednesday 19 June 2024 by Mrs Wilkins

Our new spellings are:

Year 1- have, has, were, where, when, give, gave, house, school, people

Year 2- cry, cries, fly, flies, dry, dries, try, tries, reply, replies

Spelling Test Date: Friday 28 June

This week you could rainbow write each word.

10 June 2024

Posted on Monday 10 June 2024 by Mrs Hogarth

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