Spelling

Spellings for testing on Friday 18 October 24

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

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

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

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.

06 September 2024

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.

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.

01 July 24 and 08 July 24

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

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

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.

Y3/4 Spellings

Year 3,4

 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 graphemes: i, ie, y, i-e
• homophones: he’ll, heel, plain, plane, groan, grown, rain, rein, reign
• alternative graphemes: sc
• spelling patterns: que
• alternative graphemes: u spelled ou

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

07 June 24 and 14 June 24

How do you want to learn you spellings this week? Have a look through our previous ideas. Tell your teacher which method you prefer.

Year 1- grander, grandest, fresher, freshest, slower, slowest, quicker, quickest, smaller and smallest.

Year 2- camel, tunnel, travel, towel, squirrel, metal, pedal, capital, animal and hospital.

Spelling Test Date: Friday 14 June