Year 5 & 6 Spelling

01 March 2024

Posted on Friday 01 March 2024 by Mrs Hogarth

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)

12 January 2024

Posted on Friday 12 January 2024 by Mrs Hogarth

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  

 

10 November 2023

Posted on Friday 10 November 2023 by Mrs Hogarth

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.

08 September 2023

Posted on Friday 08 September 2023 by Mrs Hogarth

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.

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

14 July 2023

Posted on Friday 14 July 2023 by Mrs Hogarth

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

Posted on Friday 07 July 2023 by Mrs Hogarth

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

 

30 June 2023

Posted on Friday 30 June 2023 by Mrs Hogarth

This week, we have been looking at words that contain specific spelling patterns. Please learn the words for a test on Friday 7th July.

vicious

delicious

ambitious

infectious

precious

malicious

cautious

nutritious

23 June 2023

Posted on Friday 23 June 2023 by Mrs Hogarth

This week, we’ve been learning about using apostrophes for contractions – when letters are omitted from words. Learn these words for a test on Friday 30th June.

should’ve

couldn’t

could’ve

doesn’t

I’ll

don’t

can’t

we’re

16 June 2023

Posted on Friday 16 June 2023 by Mrs Hogarth

This week we have been looking at different root words and how by adding prefixes and suffixes, this changes the meaning. Learn the following words for a test on Friday 23rd June.

 

redesign

chronology

structure

dictionary

signalling

designation

assignment

geographically

09 June 2023

Posted on Friday 09 June 2023 by Mrs Hogarth

This week, we’ve been learning about the prefixes un-, re- and in-. Can your child create some words that contain these prefixes? For example, unable.

We also looked at other prefix roots. Use the table below to create your own words.