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.
| profession | precious | nutritious | automatic | cautious |
| morning | accommodation | official | transfer | special |
| mourning | interchangeable | omission | autograph | telescopic |
| controversial | anxious | interfere | communication | supernatural |
| optician | especially | refer | guessed | competition |
| musician | who’s | determination | guest | teleport |
| interrupt | whose | serial | permission | vicious |
| automatic | exaggeration | cereal | prefer | conscious |
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?
Spellings for Testing on Friday 30 January
Here are our next set of spellings. How will you help your child to learn them?
Year 1: come, love, do, were, here
Year 2: child, children, Christmas, class, climb, clothes, cold, could, door, even
These spellings will be tested on Friday 30 January.
09 January 2026
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)
- spelling patterns: ant/ance, ent/ence
- adding prefixes: co and re
- adding prefixes: un, dis, im, in, ir, il
- apostrophes for contraction and possession
- spelling patterns: silent letters
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
| desert | silence | unavailable | coordinate | hindrance |
| dessert | sufficient | apparent | unnecessary | know |
| unavailable | scissors | attendance | compliment | frequent |
| convenience | stationary | cooperate | complement | knock |
| knight | stationery | re-enter | reinvent | castle |
| innocence | doubt | prophet | nuisance | principle |
| excellence | impossible | profit | existence | principal |
| illegal | unconscious | gnaw | thumb | inconvenient |
Spellings for Testing on Friday 16 January
Welcome to a new year!
Year 1: said, so, have, like, some
Year 2: after, again, any, bath, beautiful, because, behind, both, break, busy
Here are the spellings that KS1 classes have begun learning since Monday 05 in school. Please help your child to learn them at home and be ready for their spelling test on Friday 16 January. We put our spelling tests in the back of our writing books and enjoy looking at our progress.
Please use a method to learn that is effective with your child.
An idea might be:
Write spellings with a shape around to show where the ascenders and descenders are. This links to our handwriting focus for Year 2’s.
Spellings for testing on Friday 19 December
Please note the amended spellings for Year one:
Year 1: all, are, sure, pure
Year 2: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty
These spellings will be tested on Friday 19 December
Spellings for Testing on Friday 05 December
Our new spellings are as follows:
Year 1: me, be, to, was, want
Year 2: was, we, were, where, you, your, well, who, what, when
These spellings will be tested on Friday 21 November
Spelling: Half Term 2
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- alternative ways for writing the long vowel ‘u’ sound
- more homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
- suffixes (for example, changing the root word ‘great’ to ‘greater’ or ‘greatest’
- plurals (more than one of a noun)
- apostrophes for contraction (eg can’t is less formal than cannot)
- apostrophes for possession (eg Brian’s bag, the school’s logo)
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
| continue | funnier/funniest | potato(es) | bicycle(s) | writer |
| library’s | peculiar | you are / you’re | group’s | rescue |
| witch | have not/ haven’t | bus(es) | knew | I would / I’d |
| which | where | braver / bravest | century(ies) | has not / hasn’t |
| regular | wear | answer(s) | they are / they’re | later / latest |
| address(es) | we’re | do not / don’t | particular | conclude |
| I will / I’ll | building’s | happier/happiest | will not / won’t | groups(s) |
| heart’s | nicer / nicest | Earth’s | hotter / hottest | you will / you’ll |
Spellings for testing on Friday 17 November
Our next set of spellings are as follows:
Year 1: me, be, to, was, want
Year 2: was, we, were, where, you, well, your, who, what, when
These spellings will be tested on Friday 17 November
Remember: spellings are sent home weekly on homework sheets too.
Idea: Use your spellings and write them ‘across and down’.
