05 May 2023
This week, we’ve continued to learn about words with unusual spelling patterns. Learn the following words for a test on Friday 12th May.
muscle
privilege
programme
rhyme
rhythm
sacrifice
shoulder
soldier
05.05.23 and 12.05.23
This week’s spellings focus on a certain spelling rule. Year 1’s are focusing on plurals – adding s or es to show more than one. Year 2’s are looking at c making an s sound and silent k at the beginning of words.
Use the look, say, cover, write, check method the first week, then choose a writing style to write them in the second week.
Year 1
- cats
- dogs
- rocks
- trains
- books
- brushes
- glasses
- witches
- boxes
- buzzes
Year 2
- race
- city
- space
- fancy
- ice
- knock
- knee
- know
- knitting
- knife
28 April 2023
This week, we’ve been learning words that contain unusual spelling patterns. Learn these words for a test on Friday 5th May.
ancient
awkward
bargain
bruise
conscience
environment
foreign
forty
21 April 2023
This week, we’ve been learning about homophones. It would be useful for the children to write these within sentences so they are clear of the definitions of each word.
Learn the following words for a test on Friday 28th March.
draught
draft
dissent
descent
proceed
precede
wary
weary
21 April 2023
This half-term, 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 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.
Each week, we’ll choose eight random words to test you on. These tests aren’t pressured. They might just help you figure out which words you need to practise more.
Learning spellings in this way might feel quite different – or even scary – but it shouldn’t. In fact, you’ve actually got less words to learn this half-term than you normally would.
We’ll keep thinking about this in school and we’ll regularly talk about how we can best practise these words at home.
If you need some ideas for practical things to do, check out the Super Spelling Strategies Guide on the school website.
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immaterial
impatient impolite important impossible independent inexperienced infamous international machine |
mail
male measure mention naughty ordinary pleasure position possession pressure |
quarter
scene seen should special sugar supernatural therefore thought treasure |
21.04.23 and 28.04.23
The spellings for the next two weeks for Year 1 are double consonants that come after a vowel (nk, tch). The Year 2 spellings are common exception words (words that are exceptions to the common spelling rules).
Use the look, say, cover, write, check method the first week, then choose a writing style to write them.
Year 1
- think
- bank
- sunk
- honk
- wink
- witch
- fetch
- catch
- hutch
- stitch
Year 2
- who
- what
- where
- when
- why
- whole
- wild
- would
- should
- could
24 March 2023
This week, we’ve been learning about different prefixes. Learn these words for a test on Friday 31st March:
interfere
interrupt
interaction
supernatural
superimpose
automatically
television
telescopic
24.03.23 and 17.04.23
The spellings for the next two weeks for Year 1 are double consonants that come after a vowel. The Year 2 spellings are common exception words (words that are exceptions to the common spelling rules).
Use the look, say, cover, write, check method the first week, then choose a writing style to write them.
Year 1
- off
- huff
- well
- hill
- buzz
- whizz
- miss
- boss
- back
- duck
Year 2
- plant
- poor
- pretty
- prove
- should
- steak
- sugar
- sure
- told
- water
17 March 2023
This week we’ve been learning about the –cious and –tious spelling pattern. Please learn the following words for a test on Friday 24th March.
vicious
delicious
ambitious
infectious
cautious
nutritious
suspicious
fictitious
10 March 2023
This week, we’ve been learning about the –tial and –cial spelling patterns. Please learn these words for a test on Friday 17th March.
financial
social
racial
influential
preferential
confidential
residential
essential