Spelling

It’s half-term…

It’s the half-term, so in line with our current homework policy, there are no homework tasks or spellings to learn.

However, please make sure you’re reading lots with your child – we’re finding children are reading less than they need to if they are to gain fluency and understanding.  You could take your child to a local library, hunt down an old favourite to re-visit, plan a story book for each bedtime over the holiday, read more about a favourite subject on the internet, buy a comic or magazine… And, so they have good role models, make sure your child sees you read, too!

Our current homework policy will be reviewed soon.  A small number of you have told us you’re not entirely happy with it – it would be really helpful if you tell us more about what you’d like.  Send us an email or speak with Mrs Weekes or me about this.  Thank you.

07 February 2014

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on Friday 14 February 2014.

Don’t forget, there will be no spellings sent home over the half term holiday but you can still be looking at words and spellings while you are out and about!

07 February 2014

Our spellings this week investigate how words change when er and est are added. In the list, all the words are adjectives – they describe nouns.

Notice how you drop the y for an i when changing the root word to er or est.

31 January 2014

Our spellings this week investigate how words change when er and est are added.  In the list, all the words are adjectives – they describe nouns.

Notice how, when adding er and est, the final consonant is doubled due to the short vowel which precedes it.

31 January 2014

Here are this week’s spellings. There will be a spelling test on Friday 07 February.

24 January 2014

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on Friday 31 January.

Some children don’t seem to be learning their spellings.  Please remember that it is part of the children’s homework and needs to be done.  Five minutes every day will help the children to learn the spellings and be able to apply them in their writing.

24 January 2014

The rule for this week is double up for a short vowel sound.

This week, all the spellings are animals which contain a short vowel sound followed by a double consonant.

17 January 2014

Here are this week’s spellings. There will be a test on Friday 24 January.

17 January 2014

The spellings this week are all animal topic words which we will be using in both topic and literacy lessons next week.

10 January 2014

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on Friday 17 January 2014.