Spelling

17.10.25

Here are the spellings for this week. Please practice using the look, say, cover, write and check method. Your child will have a spelling quiz on Thursday 23 October

next    after    first     finally    now    then    reptiles  birds

Please encourage your child to try practise the words by putting their words in a sentence using our handwriting guide. Also, look at the spelling activities guide for some ideas to practise these words.

10.10.25

Here are the spellings for this week. The children will be checked on these words next Friday 17 October.

love   once   our   because   field   shield   gem   magic

Please encourage your child to try practise the words by putting their words in a sentence using our handwriting guide. Also, look at the spelling activities guide for some ideas to practise these words.

03.10.25

Here are the spellings for this week. The children will be checked on these words next Friday 10 October.

thought    friend   two   eye   phone    white    grow   chasing

Please encourage your child to try practise the words by putting their words in a sentence using our handwriting guide. Also, look at the spelling activities guide for some ideas to practise these words.

26.09.25

Here are the spellings for this week. The children will be checked on these words next Friday 03 October.

mind  later  show  music  many  any  who whole

Please encourage your child to try practise the words by putting their words in a sentence using our handwriting guide. Also, look at the spelling activities guide for some ideas to practise these words.

19.09.25

Here are the spellings for this week. The children will be checked on these words next Friday 26th September.

today   there   people   your   blue   flew   use   saw

Please encourage your child to try practise the words by putting their words in a sentence using our handwriting guide. Also, look at the spelling activities guide for some ideas to practise these words.

12.09.25

Here are the spellings for this week. The children will be checked on these words next Friday 19th September.

• once
• here
• of
• his
• tie
• like
• both
• woke

Please encourage your child to try practise the words by putting their words in a sentence using our handwriting guide. Also, look at the spelling activities guide for some ideas to practise these words.

05.09.25

Here are the spellings for this week. The children will be tested on these words next Friday 12th September.

• eye
• sure
• said
• were
• play
• made
• read
• she

Please encourage your child to try practise the words by putting their words in a sentence using our handwriting guide. Also, look at the spelling activities guide for some ideas to practise these words.

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.

Half Term 1

In Key Stage 2, instead of asking you to learn a short list of spellings each week, you will be given a longer list (roughly 40 words) that we will focus on in that half-term. Don’t worry, we’re not asking you to learn them all in one week. Instead, we’ll ask you to focus on learning these words over the course of the entire half-term. There’s a few reasons for this:

1.     We want you take responsibility for your own learning and start to figure out how you learn best (there’s some ideas below). Even if that means making some mistakes along the way.

2.      Lots of research suggests that learning more spellings over a longer time leads to better remembering how to spell them in the long-term.

3.     Similarly, lots of research suggests that if you learn something for a week and don’t come back to it you’ll likely forget it anyway

4.     We won’t have a ‘formal’ test each week. Instead, we’ll mix it up. We might ask you to test each other on the words you’ve been learning. We might test the words at random and then you’ll know which words you need to practise more and which words you’re confident with. We might just think about some of the words and share ideas for how we’re going about learning them.

5.     Ultimately, we want this to be about learning – and not just getting them right in a test.

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.

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.

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.

11 July 2025

Here are the spellings for this week.

• health
• mental
• physical
• growth
• offspring
• adults
• parents
• life cycle

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 18 July 2025.

Please encourage your child to try practise the words by putting their words in a sentence using our handwriting guide. Also, look at the spelling activities guide for some ideas to practise these words.