Spelling

08 September 2023 and 15 September 2023

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

• are
• ask
• be
• by
• come

Year 2

• are
• ask
• be
• by
• come
• do
• for
• friend
• full
• go

14 July 2023

This week, we’ve been learning about words that contain the ant/ance, ent/ence word endings. Please learn the following words for a test on Friday 21st July:

hindrance

apparent

convenience

excellent

existence

frequent

nuisance

sufficient

07 July 2023

This week, we’ve been learning about words that contain the –cial and –tial word endings. Please learn the following words for a test on Friday 14th July:

glacial

social

racial

influential

preferential

confidential

substantial

residential

07.07.23 and 14.07.23

This week’s spellings for Year 1 are words that children are frequently making mistakes with in their independent writing. Year 2 are focusing on the all and al spelling patterns.

Use the look, say, cover, write, check method the first week, then choose a writing style to write them in the final week of term!

Year 1

• want
• what
• with
• any
• many
• you
• your
• who
• how
• saw

Year 2

• all
• ball
• fall
• small
• wall
• walk
• talk
• chalk
• beanstalk
• always

30 June 2023

This week, we have been looking at words that contain specific spelling patterns. Please learn the words for a test on Friday 7th July.

vicious

delicious

ambitious

infectious

precious

malicious

cautious

nutritious

05 June 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.

23 June 2023

This week, we’ve been learning about using apostrophes for contractions – when letters are omitted from words. Learn these words for a test on Friday 30th June.

should’ve

couldn’t

could’ve

doesn’t

I’ll

don’t

can’t

we’re

23.06.23 and 30.06.23

This week’s spellings for Year 1 return to spellings that children are frequently making mistakes with in their writing. Year 2 are learning a new spelling rule : drop the y for an i

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

• have
• has
• were
• where
• when
• give
• gave
• house
• school
• people

Year 2

• cry
• cries
• fly
• flies
• dry
• dries
• try
• tries
• reply
• replies

16 June 2023

This week we have been looking at different root words and how by adding prefixes and suffixes, this changes the meaning. Learn the following words for a test on Friday 23rd June.

redesign

chronology

structure

dictionary

signalling

designation

assignment

geographically

09 June 2023

This week, we’ve been learning about the prefixes un-, re- and in-. Can your child create some words that contain these prefixes? For example, unable.

We also looked at other prefix roots. Use the table below to create your own words.