Friday 26 January
This week’s spellings are focussed on the c grapheme making the /s/ sound.
ice
space
circle
nice
race
The spellings will be tested on Friday 2nd January.
Friday 19 December
Our spellings this week focus on the g making a /j/ sound.
gem
giant
danger
magic
huge
The spellings will be tested on Friday 26th January
19 January 2024
Double up for a short vowel sound
- dinner
- summer
- ladder
- supper
- hotter
- shimmer
- bigger
- letter
The children will be tested on these words next Friday 26th January.
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 2.1 – spelling list
Half-term 3
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- alternative graphemes: o, ow, oa, o-e
- alternative graphemes: oe, ue
- adding prefixes: un, dis
- adding suffixes: ly
- homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
- spelling rule: double up for a short vowel sound
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.
| notice | regular | though | accident | two |
| witch | (dis)believe | wear | peculiar | different |
| difficult | their | particular | we’re | accidental(ly) |
| (dis)possess | suppose | (dis)appear | too | popular |
| possible | appear | hear | famous(ly) | (un)certain |
| there | (un)important | occasional(ly) | regular(ly) | surprising |
| which | they’re | where | (un)kind | (dis)allow |
| continue | here | to | although | issue |
Friday 12 January
We are practising words that use the y grapheme making the /ee/ sound.
happy
funny
smelly
pretty
silly
The spellings will be tested Friday 19th January.
12 January 2024
- baguette
- breathe
- little
- penguin
- autumn
- league
- ghost
- leaves
The children will be tested on these words next Friday 19th January.
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 3
Here are your new 32 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.
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 |
Friday 15 December
This week’s spellings are a revision of what we have already practised this half term. We will be doing a test on a random five from this list on Thursday 21st December.
your said were
here they where
come are once
some love ask
says there our
15 December 2023
- wasp
- what
- watch
- squash
- ball
- wall
- always
- water
The children will be tested on these words next Thursday 21st December.
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.
Friday 08 December
We are still practising our spellings from last week to make sure they are really secure. Try writing them in a sentence and using them when we talk.
were
where
once
ask
our
These spellings will be tested on Friday 15th December