Spelling

Friday 19th November

Well done to all the children on their spellings last week – you have been practising really hard!

Our spellings this week are focussed on the /ur/ phoneme. We have learnt different ways of writing the /ur/ sound. Ask your child if they can name them.

girl

turn

letter

first

river

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 26th November

When checking the spellings with your child, it is useful to put the word in a sentence so they understand its meaning

19 November 2021

For this week’s spelling, we’d like you to practise adding the suffixes -er and -est to these words:

nice
late
rude
brave
happy
funny
tall
hot

19 November 2021

This week’s spellings are all homophones. Discuss with your child what homophones are. Children need to learn how to spell these words but also understand their meanings. When the children are tested on these words, we will say the word in a sentence to test their understanding of each word. For example. I threw the ball.

• there
• their
• one
• won
• through
• threw
• here
• hear

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 26 November.

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.

12 November 2021

This week’s spellings are Year 2 common exception words. These words need to be spelled correctly in children’s writing. When spelling these words, children often make mistakes.

• Mr
• Mrs
• would
• should
• could
• who
• whole
• clothes

What do you notice about Mr and Mrs?

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 19 November.

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 12th November

Well done to all the children on their spellings last week – you have been practising really hard!

Our spellings this week are focussed on the /oa/ phoneme. We have learnt different ways of writing the /oa/ sound. Ask your child if they can name them.

cloak

home

tiptoe

slow

tone

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 19th November

When checking the spellings with your child, it is useful to put the word in a sentence so they understand its meaning

05 November 2021

This week’s spellings are high frequency words. When spelling these words, children often make mistakes.

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 12 November.

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.

05 November 2021

This week, we’ve been learning about the spelling rule:

double up for a short vowel sound

An example of this is in the word difficult. The ‘i’ is a short sound if you read it aloud, therefore the following consonant ‘f’ needs to be doubled up. Another example is trapped.

To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home.

different, difficult, possible, trapped, happening, opposite, arrive

We’ll test ourselves on Friday 12 November to see how we’ve got on.

For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, click here.

Friday 15th October

Well done to all the children on their spellings last week – you have been practising really hard!

Our spellings this week are focussed on the /ai/ phoneme. We have learnt different ways of writing the /ai/ sound. Ask your child if they can name them.

play

pain

snake

cave

grey

The children will be tested on these words next Thursday 21st October

When checking the spellings with your child, it is useful to put the word in a sentence so they understand its meaning

15 October 2021

This week’s spellings are high frequency words. When spelling these words, children often make mistakes.

• were
• some
• you
• where
• house
• what
• why
• who

The children will be tested on these words next Thursday 21 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.

Spellings

This week, we have been learning about adding prefixes.

Please learn these spellings for a spelling test on Friday 22nd October.

il/legal

il/logical

dis/appear

un/avoidable

im/mature

ir/responsible

ir/rational

im/possible

in/accurate

in/active