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
12 January 2024
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
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
| desert | silence | apparent | unnecessary | frequent |
| dessert | sufficient | attendance | compliment | principle |
| unavailable | scissors | cooperate | complement | principal |
| convenience | stationary | re-enter | reinvent | inconvenient |
| illegal | stationery | prophet | nuisance | |
| innocence | impossible | profit | existence | |
| excellence | unconscious | coordinate | hindrance |
12 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
- school
- so
- she
- some
- the
Year 2
- after
- again
- any
- bath
- beautiful
- because
- behind
- both
- break
- busy
08 December 23 and 22 December 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
- 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
24 November 2023 and 01 December 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
- push
- put
- said
- saw
- says
Year 2
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Saturday
- Sunday
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