Spelling

12 March 2021

This week’s spellings are common exception words – words that are used frequently but don’t always following the usual spelling rules.

Year 1

• school
• some
• so
• the
• she

Year 2

• after
• because
• again
• behind
• any
• both
• bath
• break
• beautiful
• busy

05 March 2021

This week, we are looking at adding the suffix –ly.

Here are some of the words that we will be learning. Can you work out the root word for each spelling?

 e.g. The root word of completely is complete.

 Spelling list:

• accidentally
• completely
• closely
• frantically
• particularly
• occasionally
• separately
• basically
• probably
• surprisingly

05 March 2021

This week’s spellings are common exception words – words that are used frequently but don’t always following the usual spelling rules.

Year 1

• school
• some
• so
• the
• she

Year 2

• after
• because
• again
• behind
• any
• both
• bath
• break
• beautiful
• busy

Week beginning 11 January 2021

This week we are recapping learning of the alternative graphemes (different spellings) for long vowel sounds. We have looked at these before last term, so we are only spending a day on each sound. The words that we will focus on each day are in the list below. Concentrate on a couple of words that you are less confident with for each day – you choose which ones you will work on, as we are all different. Choose which ten words you are going to focus on and ask someone at home to test you on those ten words on Friday.

11 December 2020

This week, we’d like children to learn how to spell the plural of a noun (plural means more than one). In the English language, there are a few ways to this. We’ll be focussing on adding s, es or ies. We’d like children to be confident spelling these root words and their plural forms.

Answer(s)                             century(ies)                                         group(s)                                bicycle(s)

Address(es)                          bus(es)                                                church(es)                            jelly(ies)

Children should practise in preparation for a test on Thursday 18 December 2020.

This week, we have been focusing on homophones, in preparation for a test on Thursday 17 December 2020.

Isle

aisle

aloud

allowed

heard

herd

affect

effect

11 December 2020

Use last week’s spellings and choose something from the ideas below to write them.

Year 1

• push
• put
• said
• saw
• says

Year 2

• Monday
• Tuesday
• Wednesday
• Thursday
• Friday
• Saturday
• Sunday

This week, we have been focusing on words that contain an apostrophe for possession, in preparation for a test on Friday 11 December 2020.

committee’s

community’s

dictionary’s

environment’s

government’s

vehicle’s

neighbour’s

soldier’s

04 December 2020

This week, we’ve been practising adding er or est to the end of words to change their tense. Because the English language is really tricky, there’s lots of ways to do this. Complete the table that shows you some different ways to do this (one has been done for you. Then, use some of our ‘super spelling strategies’ form this week’s post (go to the Scholes website, learn more, spelling, Year 3 & 4).  There’s more than usual but when you can spell the root word you just need to apply the rule to spell it correctly.

Children should practise in preparation for a test on Thursday 10  December 2020.

04 December 2020

This week’s spellings are more common exception words.

Year 1

• push
• put
• said
• saw
• says

Year 2

• Monday
• Tuesday
• Wednesday
• Thursday
• Friday
• Saturday
• Sunday