Spelling

Spellings for Testing on Friday 28 June

Posted on Friday 20 June 2025 by Mrs Wilkins

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

Posted on Tuesday 17 June 2025 by Oli Wain

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.

natural team bicycle experience accident
material teem possession direction surprise
describe actual height whose centre
weather bicycle guilt who’s magician
whether decide guard certain mist
guide confusion circle medal missed
passion exercise fraction meddle century
sentence politician optician notice guest

Spellings – Half Term 5

Posted on Tuesday 17 June 2025 by Oli Wain

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.

position inexperienced supernatural international machine
caught mention immaterial impossible moisture
infamous forward possession enclosure mission
people busy history pressure chef
measure therefore picture important special
thought improper quarter should naughty
fracture pressure leisure ordinary superior
beautiful anticlockwise because interrupt feature

 

Spellings for testing on Thursday 19 June

Posted on Friday 13 June 2025 by Mrs Wilkins

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

Posted on Friday 06 June 2025 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

Spellings for Testing on Friday 06 June

Posted on Friday 16 May 2025 by Mrs Wilkins

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

Posted on Thursday 01 May 2025 by Mrs Wilkins

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

Posted on Thursday 24 April 2025 by Mrs Wilkins

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

Posted on Thursday 24 April 2025 by Mr Goodwin

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

Posted on Thursday 06 March 2025 by Mrs Wadsworth

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
favourite clumsy (er/est/ly) break fruit (ful/less) son
grate straight brake shouldn’t sun
great isn’t believe wouldn’t don’t
begin (ing/er) doubt (ful/less) build (ing/er) complete didn’t
describe heart (less) haven’t busy (er/est/ed/ing) increase
thought (ful,less) bicycle surprise increase thank (ful/less)
eight appear separate (ly,ed,ing) weight(less, ness) one
ate rest (ful/less) achieve wait won
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