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 |
07 November 2025
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- plurals (more than one noun)
- ough words
- suffixes (for example, changing the root word ‘’success to ‘successful’ or ‘successfully’
- ible and able words
- apostrophes for possession (eg Brian’s bag, the school’s logo)
- more homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently
- adding the prefixes ‘co’ and ‘re’ using a hyphen
Every Friday, we’ll spend time practising or testing (informally) or discussing all things
spelling so be ready (one of our 8 Rs for learning) to join in!
If you need some ideas for practical things to do, check out the Super Spelling Strategies
Guide on the school website.
| attaches | restaurant’s | aloud | terrible | thought |
| I’ll | government’s | allowed | categories | co-own |
| isle | bargains | tough | co-operate | yacht’s |
| aisle | re-invent | consciousness | dictionaries | re-tell |
| aggressively | thorough | consciously | soldier’s | opportunities |
| aggressiveness | reliable | bruises | desperately | affect |
| reversible | apparently | enjoyable | communities | effect |
| opportunities | possible | enough | valuable | although |
05 September 2025
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)
- ‘double up for a short vowel sound’
- ‘drop the y for an i’
- using apostrophes for contraction (eg can’t, won’t)
- adding the suffixes ed, ing, er, est
- adding the prefixes un, dis, im, in, ir, il
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
| there | their | they’re | inactive | accommodate |
| occur/ing/ed | can’t | won’t | category | busy |
| opportunity | advice | advise | practice | practise |
| naughty | dictionary | witch | which | according |
| irregular | embarrass | determine/ing/ed | century | ordinary |
| curiosity | library | identity | achieve/ed/ing | aggressive |
| disappear | appreciate | device | devise | cemetery |
| queue/ing/ed | unavoidable | immediately | impossible | variety |
06 June 2025
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 2025
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
28 February 2025
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)
| 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 |
10 January 2025
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 |