Spelling

10.11.23 and 17.11.23

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

• of
• once
• one
• our
• pull

Year 2

• was
• we
• were
• where
• you
• what
• when
• well
• your
• who

10 November 2023

Here are your new  40 words for this half-term. Let’s get learning them! 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.If you need some ideas for practical things to do, check out the Super Spelling Strategies Guide on the school website.

20.10.23

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

• is
• love
• me
• my
• no

Year 2

• school
• she
• so
• some
• the
• there
• their
• they
• to
• today

06.10.23 and 13.10.23

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

• has
• he
• here
• his
• house

Year 2

• of
• once
• one
• our
• pull
• push
• put
• said
• saw
• says

22.09.23 and 29.09.23

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

• do
• for
• friend
• full
• go

Year 2

• has
• he
• here
• his
• house
• is
• love
• me
• my
• no

08 September 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 – this will take place every Friday.

If you need some ideas for practical things to do, check out the Super Spelling Strategies Guide on the school website.

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