16 October 2026
This week, we’ll be reviewing all the spelling rules that we’ve learnt this half term:
- double up for a short vowel sound
- drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’
- drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’
Please learn the following ten spellings for a test next Thursday.
09 October 2026
For the next week, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
When adding -ing to a verb, the spelling of the word may change. You may need to double the
final consonant, drop the final e, or make another spelling change.
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.
Next Friday, you’ll be tested on the ten words below:
01 October 2026
For the next week, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
When adding -ing to a verb, the spelling of the word may change. You may need to double the
final consonant, drop the final e, or make another spelling change.
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.
Next Friday, you’ll be tested on the ten words below:
18 September 2026
For the next two weeks, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- two syllable words containing double consonants
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 o our school website.
Next Friday, you’ll be tested on the ten words below.
11 September 2026
For the next two weeks, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- ‘double up for a short vowel sound’
- ‘drop the y for an i’
- ‘drop the e for ing’
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.
Next Friday, you’ll be tested on the ten words below.
04 September 2026
For the next two weeks, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- ‘double up for a short vowel sound’
- ‘drop the y for an i’
- ‘drop the e for ing’
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 o our school website.
Next Friday, you’ll be tested on the ten words below.
beginning
occurring
committed
copied
happiest
replied
variety
secretary
immediately
committee
05 June 2026
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- etymology: cyclo, chrono, struct, port, tract, dict
- apostrophes for contraction and possession
- spelling patterns: tious, cious
- recapping of previously taught spellings
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
| conscious | yacht | chronology | determined | explanation |
| vicious | profession | occur | convenience | nutritious |
| accommodation | structure | delicious | friend | soldier |
| contraction | foreign | scissors | language | photography |
| awkward | dictionary | vegetable | ambitious | ancient |
| vehicle | cautious | infectious | picturesque | excellent |
| automatic | possession | shan’t | designer | beautiful |
| portable | shouldn’t | anxious | desperate | thorough |
24 April 2026
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- homophones: draught, draft, dissent, descent, proceed, precede, wary, weary
- applying rules: prefixes and suffixes
- spelling patterns: unusual patterns (eg bruise, guarantee, vehicle)
- spelling patterns: unusual patterns (eg yacht, immediately)
- etymology: phone, micro, tele, graph, auto, geo
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
| draught | bruise | muscle | language | thorough |
| draft | bargain | programme | misbehave | microwave |
| amateur | weary | rhyme | lightning | miscommunicate |
| ancient | wary | marvellous | reconsider | vehicle |
| disbelieve | environment | precede | rhythm | telephone |
| awkward | foreign | proceed | shoulder | deescalate |
| committee | mischievous | parliament | descent | stomach |
| community | autograph | submarine | decent | yacht |
24 February 2026
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)
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
| 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 |
09 January 2026
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 |