Spelling

Spellings to be tested on Friday 03 October

Our next set of spellings are as follows:

Year 1: do, for, friend, full, go

Year 2: has, he, here, his, house, is, love, me, my, no

These spellings will be tested on Friday 03 October

Remember: spellings are sent home weekly on homework sheets too.

Why not try:

Spellings for testing on Friday 19 September

Welcome to KS1 spellings!

Children have a spelling test every other week on a Friday. We give them two weeks between tests as we know that learning spellings can be more difficult for some.

There will be time within school to learn them and we also ask parents/carers to support this learning at home too. The spellings will be added to the weekly homework sheet and posted online.

Here you will find the latest spellings and some ideas on how to support your child at home. Often parents/carers choose to have a spellings exercise book at home which they write the new spellings in for their child and practice daily.

The spellings are:

Year 1: are, ask, be, by, come

Year 2: are, ask, be, by, come, do, for, friend, full, go

These spellings will be tested on Friday 19 September

Why not try rainbow writing with your child. Write the spelling, then go over it again and again but with different coloured pencils, pens or crayons.

Half-Term 1 Spelling List

Instead of learning eight different words each week, we’d like you to learn these 40 words over the whole half-term. Lots of research suggests that learning more spellings over a longer time leads to better remembering how to spell them in the long term.

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 eight 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.

Each week, the children will be tested on 8 of the words. These tests aren’t pressured. They might just help you figure out which words you need to practise more.

If you need some ideas for practical things to do, check out the Super Spelling Strategies Guide on the school website.

05 September 2025

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.

Spelling: 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.

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.