Spelling

18 April 2019

This week, there’s no word list. Instead, children need to recap and practise one of our key spelling rules: double up for a short vowel sound.

Here are a few examples of Y5 appropriate words which contain a ‘double up’:
accommodate
aggressive
communicate

Children should find and practise other, similar words. They may find examples in their reading books or in previous Year 5 lists.

18 April 2019

The  spellings this week  are all plural nouns. When changing each noun to a plural, you need to drop the y for an i.

Please also remember to practise the Year 2 Common Exception Words as children need to know how to spell these by the end of the year.

18 April 2019

There is no list for week’s spelling homework. Instead we focus on three of the spelling rules that Year 3 should be familiar with. We have found that children often do well in tests with these spelling rules in isolation but are then finding them more challenging when doing independent writing.

1. Doubling up the consonant after the short vowel sound.
2. Adding the suffix ‘ing’ to make a verb into its present tense form.
3. Adding the suffix ‘ed’ to turn a verb into its past tense form.

Please note – there won’t be any new words tested. We will be testing these rules to words we have already learnt on Friday 26th April.

We are learning our 8 times tables.

22 March 2019

The words this week are all words where you need to drop the y for an i before adding –er or –ed. As children could be tested on any of the variations of the words, we only have five to learn.

22 March 2019

This week, our spellings are from the Year 1 common exception word list. These are that do not follow the common phonetic spelling rules of the language, or where the usual rules act in an unusual way.

22 March 2019

This week’s spellings all have the ‘super’ or ‘auto’ prefixes.

Practise by using one of the spelling strategies stuck into the back of your homework book. Check you understand their meaning by asking a friend, an adult or looking it up in a dictionary or (with an adult’s permission) online.

Children should practise spelling these words in preparation for a test on Friday 29 March 2019.

We are learning our 3 times tables.

15 March 2019

This week, our spellings are from the Year 1 common exception word list. These are that do not follow the common phonetic spelling rules of the language, or where the usual rules act in an unusual way.

15 March 2019

The Spelling homework this week is to begin to practise the Year 3 common exception word list.

Get your child to look at the list and pick out some of the words they struggle to spell and practise these. If your child isn’t sure where to start, the common exception words have been grouped and it would be best to pick one group to look at per fortnight. Learning how to spell the words listed will build your child’s confidence in spellings and improve their writing.

We are learning our 3 times tables.

15 March 2019

This week, all the spellings are adverbs where the y has been dropped for an i before adding ly. In the left column are the words as adjectives and in the right column are the words after they have been changed to an adverb. Children could be tested on either form.

15 March 2019