02 July 2021
Group 1
This week’s spellings are based on words with alternative pronunciations of g, ey and some tricky words.
energy magic they bridge could when
Group 2
This week’s spellings are based on Phase 4 words.
milk fast jump thank think clap
The children will be tested on these words next Friday 09 July.
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.
25 June 2021
This week’s spelling are words ending in the ‘est’ suffix.
fast – fastest
happy – happiest
long – longest
short – shortest
silly – silliest
muddy – muddiest
tall – tallest
tasty – tastiest
Remember, when the word ends in a ‘y’, drop the ‘y’, add an ‘i’ and add ‘est’.
25 June 2021
This week, we are learning to spell words beginning with the super and sub prefix.
Here are the words we would like you to learn at home. Could you write each word into a sentence?
- subheading
- submarine
- subordinate
- subtitles
- subscribe
- submerge
- supervise
- supermarket
- superpower
- superhuman
- superstar
25 June 2021
Group 1
This week’s spellings are based on words with alternative pronunciations of ou, y, ch and c.
group you why funny school cycle
Group 2
This week’s spellings are based on Phase 3 and 4 tricky words.
The children will be tested on these words next Friday 02 July.
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.
18 June 2021
I’m very sorry for the delay in posting. Here are the words and rule for this week’s spellings.
We are learning to spell words beginning with the anti and inter prefix.
Here are the words we would like you to learn at home. Could you write each word into a sentence?
antiseptic
anticlockwise
antisocial
antibiotic
antibacterial
antifreeze
international
interrupt
interact
interfere
18 June 2021
In lessons, the children have been learning another key spelling rule: drop the e for ing. All of the words in the list are verbs.
Before the suffix ing is added to the verb, the e needs to be removed.
- to have having
- to hike hiking
- to write writing
- to use using
- to make making
- to like liking
- to give giving
- to excite exciting
18 June 2021
Group 1
This week’s spellings are based on words with alternative pronunciations of the digraphs ow (show rather than owl), ie (field rather than tie) and ea (head rather than sea).
window slower field shield bread head
Group 2
This week’s spellings are based on Phase 4 words.
hair hear cow star fork fur
The children will be tested on these words next Friday 25 June.
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.
11 June 2021
For this week’s spellings, we were looking at spelling the /o/ phoneme with an ‘a’ after a ‘w’.
We were also looking at spelling the /ir/ phoneme with an ‘or’ after a ‘w’.
watch
wasp
swamp
wallet
worm
worth
word
world
11 June 2021
Group 1
This week’s spellings are based on words with alternative pronunciations of the vowels a, e, i, o and u.
was want she kindest colder unicorn
Group 2
This week’s spellings are based on Phase 4 words.
stop trip went just sport swing
The children will be tested on these words next Friday 18 June.
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.
21 May 2021
This week’s spellings are common exception words (words that we use a lot but do not follow the usual spelling patterns).
only
old
parents
who
plant
any
many
pretty