Spelling

Spellings for Testing Friday 05 June

Our next lots of spellings are as follows:

Year 1: our, house, mouse, water, want

Year 2: write, written, wrote, wrong, wrap, table, apple, bottle, little, middle

Spellings for Testing Friday 15 May

Please help your child to learn their spellings.

Year 1: September, October, November, December.

Year 2: race, city, space, fancy, ice, knock, knee, know, knitting, knife.

Spellings for Testing Friday 01 May

Please help your child to learn their spellings.

Year 1: April, May, June, July, August.

Year 2: who, what, where, when, why, whole, wild, would, should

24 April 2026

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

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

Spelling: 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 Thursday 02 April

Please help your child to learn their spellings.

Year 1: Saturday, Sunday, January, February, March

Year 2: plant, poor, pretty, prove, should, steak, sugar, sure, told, water

These will be tested on: Thursday 02 April

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Spellings for testing Friday 20 March

Please help your child to learn their spellings.

Year 1: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Year 2: move, Mr, Mrs, old, only, parents, pass, past, path, people

These will be tested on: Friday 20 March

24 February 2026

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)

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

Spellings for testing on Friday 06 February

We’ve reached another half term holiday! Just so that you are super prepared for the spelling test ahead, the following are what your child should learn at home:

Year 1: one, out, today, Mr, Mrs. Ms,

Year 2: half, hold, hour, improve, kind, last, many, mind, money, most

We will look at these spellings in school too. See you when we return on Monday 23 February.

Spellings for Testing on Friday 13 February 26

Year 1: little, says, there, when, what

Year 2: every, everybody, eye, fast, father, find, floor, gold, grass, great

These spellings will be tested on Friday 13 February.

We have spelling booklets in school that we use daily to help pupils learn their spellings. What do you do at home to ensure the spellings are part of your child’s long term memory?