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)
| 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 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.
| 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 – Half Term 3
Year 3,4
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- alternative ways for writing the ‘igh’ sound
- alternative ways for writing the ‘o’ and ‘u’ sound
- adding the prefixes un, dis
- adding the suffixes il, ir
- homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
- ‘double up for a short vowel sound’
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
| bicycle | accidental | disinterest | possess | unpopular |
| notice | decide | uncertain | unimportant | different |
| disappear | suppose | describe | address | occasion |
| disbelieve | to | though | exercise | difficult |
| there | two | although | continue | guide |
| their | too | height | irregular | peculiar |
| they’re | surprise | illegible | popular | hear |
| increase | particular | regular | different | here |
Spellings for Testing on Friday 20 December 2024
Children have a spelling test every two weeks on a Friday. These spellings will be tested on Friday 20 December.
Year 1: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten
Year 2: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty
How will you choose to learn these?
Spelling – Year 3,4 Half Term 2
Year 3,4
Autumn 2
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- alternative ways for writing the ‘oo’ sound
- homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
- adding the suffixes er, est
- plural nouns
- using apostrophes for contraction (combining two words to shorten them or be more informal)
- using apostrophes for possession (to show belonging)
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
| continue | conclude | fruit | you are – you’re | island |
| witch | peculiar | venue | bicycles | potatoes |
| which | where | popular | issue | circle |
| experiment | wear | addresses | regular | have not – haven’t |
| amuse | we’re | do not – don’t | lorries | particular |
| had not – hadn’t | answers | earth | centuries | knew |
| February | calendar | building | I will – I am | groups |
| calves | wolves | library | sentence | queue |
Spellings for testing on Friday 22 November 2024
Our new spellings are:
Year 1: of, once, one, our, pull
Year 2: was, we, were, where, you, what, when, well, your, who
Here are a few new ideas to help you to learn them at home:
08 November 2024
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- plurals (more than one noun)
- ough words
- suffixes (for example, changing the root word ‘’success to ‘successful’ or ‘successfully’
- ible and able words
- apostrophes for possession (eg Brian’s bag, the school’s logo)
- more homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently
- adding the prefixes ‘co’ and ‘re’ using a hyphen
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.
| attaches | restaurant’s | aloud | terrible | thought |
| I’ll | government’s | allowed | categories | co-own |
| isle | bargains | tough | co-operate | yacht’s |
| aisle | re-invent | consciousness | dictionaries | re-tell |
| aggressively | thorough | consciously | soldier’s | opportunities |
| aggressiveness | reliable | bruises | desperately | affect |
| reversible | apparently | enjoyable | communities | effect |
| opportunities | possible | enough | valuable | although |
Spellings for testing on Friday 08 November 24
An idea to help you learn our new spellings:
Why not use your spellings and write them showing ascenders (tall letters) and descenders (letters that go below the line), like this –
Year 1: is, love, me, my, no
Year 2: school, she, so, some, the, there, their, they, to, today