Summer Half Term
In line with our Homework Policy, there are no homework tasks or spellings to learn next week because it’s the Summer half-term holiday. Of course, there are plenty of ways to help your child continue learning: get reading, go places, talk lots!
Have a happy and healthy holiday.
20 May 2016
There are no spellings for Year 1 and Year 2 this week due to next week’s themed week.
20 May 2016
This week’s spellings link to our themed ‘Money Week’ and will be tested on Friday 27 May.
- expensive
- extortionate
- discounted
- bargain
- accumulate
- contribute
- squander
- currency
- income
- earnings
As we’re going to be developing our understanding of money next week – what it’s worth, where it comes from, where it goes – it is just as important that the children explore what these words mean as well as how they are spelled.
20 May 2016
The week’s spellings all link in with money week.
- penny
- pound
- amount
- pence
- currency
- Euro
- change
- budget
- charity
Your child has nine spellings to learn and must find their own money word that they will also be tested on.
13 May 2016
13 May 2016
This week’s spellings are all common exception words. These are words that Year 3 children are expected to know. Lower down school they are often called tricky words because they don’t always follow expected phonetic rules. For example the ‘ar’ in forward makes an ‘uh’ sound.
- forward
- fruit
- grammar
- group
- guide
- heard
- heart
- height
- history
We’ve learnt some of these words before but they are still cropping up as errors in class.
13 May 2016
This week’s spellings are to practise changing …ble to …bly. Note how each word initially ends in ‘e’ but this is removed when the ‘y’ is added.
- possible, possibly,
- impossible
- horrible, horribly,
- terrible, terribly,
- visible, visibly,
- invisible
- incredible, incredibly,
- sensible, sensibly
These words will be tested on Friday 20 May but, don’t forget, the point of learning these spellings is to spell them correctly – not to do well in a test!
The words have now been added to Spellodrome so there are plenty of different ways we can practise our spellings.
06 May 2016
This week’s spellings are all homophones. Homophones are two or more words that sound the same but are spelt differently and mean different things. For example: fair (a place with rides and games) and fare (the cost of public transport).
- grown / groan
- eight / ate
- woman / women
- heard / herd
Your child also needs to find their own pair (not pear!) of homophones which they will be tested on.
06 May 2016
06 May 2016
This week’s spellings mainly focus on words with the ‘erred‘ spelling pattern with some other odd double ups included. Ten of these spellings will be tested on Friday 13 May.
- referred, reference, referee
- preferred, preference, preferring
- transferred, transferring, transference
- interrupt, interrupting, interrupted
- necessary, unnecessary
- assistance, assistant, assisted, assisting
Don’t forget: it’s really important to learn what these spellings mean, how to use them in a sentence and be able to spell them beyond a test.