Spelling

10 April 24 and 17 April 24

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- jump, jumper, jumped, jumping, hunter, hunted, hunting, buzzed, buzzer, buzzing

Year 2- write, written, wrote, wrong, wrap, table, apple, bottle, little, middle

Spelling Test Date: Thursday 23 May (Friday 24 is a Training Day).

3,4 Spellings

Year 3,4

 This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

• alternative graphemes: sh (ch, ss, ti, s)
• alternative graphemes: k (ch)
• adding prefixes: mis, re
• adding prefixes: sub, tele, auto
• spelling patterns: gn, kn
• homophones: piece / peace, main / mane, fair / fare

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

26 April 24 and 03 May 24

For our new spellings, please try:

Year 1

• cats
• dogs
• rocks
• trains
• brushes
• glasses
• witches
• boxes
• buzzes

Year 2

• race
• city
• space
• fancy
• ice
• knock
• knee
• know
• knitting

Our spelling test will take place on Friday 10 May

19 March 2024

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

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

19 April 24 and 26 April 24

Have a go at writing your spellings in bubble writing.

Year 1 

• think
• bank
• sunk
• honk
• wink
• witch
• fetch
• catch
• hutch
• stitch

Year 2

• who
• what
• where
• when
• why
• whole
• wild
• would
• should
• could

01 March 2024

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)

29 February 24 and 07 March 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.

Idea: Draw a large flower and write a spelling word in each petal.

Year 1- who, what, when, why, which, how

Year 2- move, Mr, Mrs, old, only, parents, pass, past, path, people

Spelling test to take place on Friday 14th March

09 February 24 and 23 February 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.

Perhaps you could draw a shape around each word to show the ascenders (letters that stick up high) and descenders (letters that go below the line).

Year 1

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

Year 2

• half
• hold
• hour
• improve
• kind
• last
• many
• mind
• money
• most

26 January 24 and 02 February 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

• was
• we
• were
• where
• you
• your

Year 2

• every
• everybody
• eye
• fast
• father
• find
• gold
• grass
• great

19 January 2024 and 26 January 2024

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

• there
• their
• they
• to
• today

Year 2

• child
• children
• Christmas
• class
• climb
• clothes
• could
• cold
• door
• even