Spelling

13 October 2023

• wild
• child
• paper
• acorn
• many
• who
• snow
• grow

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 20th October.

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 06 October

This week in spelling we are going to continue to review the last 3 weeks of spelling words. Try to focus on the words your child has found tricky. This is to make sure the children can use these spellings automatically in their writing. We will test 5 of these spellings on Friday 13th October.

so                                                             me                                     the

by                                                             no                                      she

my                                                           his                                      he

do                                                            go                                       has

be                                                           was                                     to

Any questions please speak to Mr McGriffiths.

06 October 2023

• first
• third
• about
• proud
• annoy
• enjoy
• they
• friend

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 13th October.

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 29th September

This week in spelling we are going to review the last 3 weeks of spelling words. Try to focus on the words your child has found tricky. This is to make sure the children can use these spellings automatically in their writing. We will test 5 of these spellings on Friday 6th October.

so                                                             me                                     the

by                                                             no                                      she

my                                                           his                                      he

do                                                            go                                       has

be                                                           was                                     to

Any questions please speak to Mr McGriffiths.

29 September 2023

• paw
• straw
• bread
• head
• lawn
• have
• are
• our

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 6th October.

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.

22 September 2023

• seventeen
• thirty
• bone
• alone
• true
• blue
• chew
• threw

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 29th September.

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 15th September

This week’s spellings are from the Year 1 common exception words list These spellings don’t follow the phonics rules we have already learnt.

Practise by learning to spell the words on their own and then use them in a sentence.

We will be practising these at school as well.

go

no

his

me

was

The spellings will be tested on Friday 22nd September.

15 September 2023

• were
• where
• here
• crayon
• snake
• fever
• cried
• like

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 22nd September.

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 September

08 September 2023

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. 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.

Half-term 1

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.