Spellings

Thursday 23 February 2023

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. These tests aren’t pressured. They might just help you figure out which words you need to practise more.
Learning spellings in this way might feel quite different – or even scary – but it shouldn’t. In fact, you’ve actually got less words to learn this half-term than you normally would.
We’ll keep thinking about this in school and we’ll regularly talk about how we can best practise these words at home.
If you need some ideas for practical things to do, check out the Super Spelling Strategies Guide on the school website.

appear
believe
break, brake
build (ing, er)
busy (er, est, ed,
ing)
can’t
couldn’t
describe
didn’t
don’t
eight
eight, ate
eighth
extreme
favourite
fruit (less, ful)
grate, great
guide
haven’t
heart (less, ness)
height
isn’t
one, won
separate (ly, ed,
ing)
shan’t
shouldn’t
son, sun
straight
strange
surprise
thought (ful, less)
weight, wait
won’t
wouldn’t