Year 3 & 4 Spelling

08 October 2026

This is the second block of spellings for this half term. We will practice these spellings for two weeks. They will be tested on Friday 16th October.

Drop the ‘Y’ for an ‘I’

Spelling rule:
When a word ends in y, we often change the y to i before adding a suffix.

This week’s words:

1. happily
2. happier
3. happiest
4. easily
5. easier
6. carried
7. worried
8. copied
9. tried
10. cried

Remember: y → i before adding the suffix 

• happy → happily
• carry → carried
• easy → easily

The children will be sent home a list of ten words that they will need to learn. Please help your child with this as it will have a positive impact in class. If you need any ideas on how to support your child, please see our Spelling Strategies Guide on our school website.

18 September 2026

For the next two weeks, our spellings are all two-Syllable Words Containing Double Consonants.

 Spelling rule:
Some two-syllable words contain double consonants. Look carefully at the middle of the word and listen for the short vowel sound. 

The children will be sent home a list of ten words that they will need to learn. Please help your child with this as it will have a positive impact in class. If you need any ideas on how to support your child, please see our Spelling Strategies Guide in the Learn More section of our school website.

1. address
2. different
3. difficult
4. opposite
5. possible
6. occasion
7. occasionally
8. suppose
9. appear
10. disappear

There will be a spelling test in school on Thursday 01 October.

Spelling: Half Term 5

This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

• alternative ways to write the ‘sh’ sound (ch, ss, ti, s)
• alternative ways to write the ‘or’ sound
• adding prefixes: in, im
• adding prefixes: inter, anti, super
• spelling patterns: ture, sure
• homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)

Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.

Spelling: Half Term 2

This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

• alternative ways for writing the long vowel ‘u’ sound
• more homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
• suffixes (for example, changing the root word ‘great’ to ‘greater’ or ‘greatest’
• plurals (more than one of a noun)
• apostrophes for contraction (eg can’t is less formal than cannot)
• apostrophes for possession (eg Brian’s bag, the school’s logo)

Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.

Half-Term 1 Spelling List

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 eight 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, the children will be tested on 8 of the words. These tests aren’t pressured. They might just help you figure out which words you need to practise more.

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

Spelling: Half Term 1

This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

• alternative ways for writing the ‘ay’ sound
• alternative ways for writing the ‘ee’ sound
• ‘double up for a short vowel sound’
• ‘drop the e for ing’
• ‘drop the y for an i’
• adding the suffixes ed, ing
• homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)

Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.

Spellings – Half Term 6

This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

• alternative graphemes: tion, sion, ssion, cian
• alternative ways to write the ‘igh’ sound
• homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled different)
• writing the s sound with c / ce
• spelling patterns: gu
• alternative ways to write the ‘ul’ sound

Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.

Spellings – Half Term 5

This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

• alternative ways to write the ‘sh’ sound (ch, ss, ti, s)
• alternative ways to write the ‘or’ sound
• adding prefixes: in, im
• adding prefixes: inter, anti, super
• spelling patterns: ture, sure
• homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)

Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.

Spellings – Half Term 4

This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

• alternative graphemes: ai, ee, ie
• homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
• adding suffixes: ed, ing, er, est, ly, ful, less, ness
• adding suffixes: ful, less
• apostrophes for contraction and possession

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.