Spelling

10 March 2023

This week’s spellings are all homophones and will be given to the children in sentences so it is important they know the meaning of each word.

• hear
• here
• too
• two
• one
• won
• are
• our

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 17 March.

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 March 2023

This week, we’ve been learning about the –tial and –cial spelling patterns. Please learn these words for a test on Friday 17^th March.

financial

social

racial

influential

preferential

confidential

residential

essential

Friday 3rd March

This week’s spellings are practising our work on plurals.

boxes

benches

wishes

misses

mangoes

The spellings will be tested on Friday 10th March.

03 March 2023

This week’s spellings are all Year 2 common exception words.

• children
• beautiful
• everybody
• move
• whole
• father
• busy
• money

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 10 March.

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 March 2023

This week, we’ve been adding a suffix to words ending in –fer. For some ideas of how to vary your spelling learning, see our ‘Super Spelling Strategies’ guide on the website. Learn these words by Friday 10^th March.

reference

referred

referral

preference

preferred

transferring

offering

offered

24 February 2023

This week, all the spellings are contracted words.

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 3 March.

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.

Spellings

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

24 February 2023

This week, we have been learning about the ‘shun’ sound. This can be written as –tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian. The spellings for this week will focus on the –tion spelling pattern. Learn these words for a test on Friday 3^rd March.

profession

accommodation

appreciation

communication

persuasion

occupation

determination

pronunciation

03 February 2023

This week, all the spellings have suffixes. The rule is double up for a short vowel sound. Can you spot the exception? Which letter is not doubled?

• chatting
• patting
• dropped
• runner
• clapping
• mixer
• biggest
• sadder

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 10 February.

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 February 2023

This week, we’ve been learning about using apostrophes. An apostrophe can be used to show that one thing belongs to or is connected to something. This is called a possessive apostrophe.

The cat’s fluffy tail.

An apostrophe because of omission is where an apostrophe is used to indicate the missing letters in a contraction (the shortened form of a word or group of words). For example, should’ve, could’ve.

Create your own sentences using both forms of apostrophes.

The test will take place on Friday 10^th February.