Spelling

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.

Spellings for Testing on Friday 06 June

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

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

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

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

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

28 February 2025

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)

Spellings for Testing on Friday 31 January 2025

Here are our new spellings. Please support your child by learning them at home.

Year 1: there, their, they, to, today

Year 2: child, children, Christmas, class, climb, clothes, cold, could, door, even

Perhaps you could try one of the following methods:

Spellings for Testing on Thursday 17 January 2025

Year 1: school, she, so, some, the.

Year 2: after, again, any, bath, beautiful, because, behind, both, break, busy.

Which strategy helps your child to learn their spellings at home? Try this one:

10 January 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)
• 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.