Spelling

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.

27 January 2023

This week, all the spellings have suffixes. Ask you child about the different suffixes we have been learning in class this week.

• married
• carried
• played
• sprayed
• hurried
• cried
• enjoyed
• copied

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 03 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.

27 January 2023

This week, we’ve been learning about adding prefixes. Please learn the following words for a test on Friday 3^rd February.

unavailable

unattached

impossible

impractical

illegal

illegible

irregular

disapprove

Spellings – 27.01.2023

This week, we learned how to add the suffix ‘-ly’ to the end of words. Practise adding ‘-ly’ to these words for next week’s spelling test:

complete

separate

particular

busy

recent

ordinary

continual

strange

Ask your child what a suffix is and how it differs from a prefix!

20 January 2023

This week, all the spellings have suffixes. Ask you child about the different suffixes we have been learning in class this week.

• cheerful
• higher
• coldest
• playing
• happier
• listened
• smaller
• quietest

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 27 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.

Friday 20th January

This week’s spellings are our tricky words in phonics.

whole

call

different

school

two

Spellings will be tested on Friday 27^th January.

20 January 2023

This week, we’ve been learning about the prefix co- and re-. Learn the following words for a test on Friday 27 th January.

co-operate
co-own
re-enter
re-emerge
co-ordinate
co-exist
re-invent
re-tell