Spelling

25 September 2015

This week, our spellings will focus on a common spelling rule: double up for a short vowel sound.

1. different
2. difficult
3. disappear
4. grammar
5. happen
6. opposite
7. possess
8. possession
9. possible
10. suppose

Some of these words are included in the Year 3 and 4 spelling list in the National Curriculum. Therefore, it is key that your child knows these spellings but even more importantly, the rule that applies. When consonants are doubled up (accident), it forces the vowel in front to be a short sound (accident).

Feel free to pop in if you’d like some advice on helping your child to spell at home.

25 September 2015

This week’s spellings focus on the ‘double up for a short vowel‘ rule and will be tested on Friday 02 October.

• aggression
• accommodate
• accompany
• according
• lugging
• possibility
• approached
• clattering
• pummelled
• toppled

Your child will be tested on six of these spellings. In addition, they’ll be tested on two spellings they’ve learnt in previous weeks and two spellings that follow the double up rule but aren’t on the spelling list.

18 September 2015

Children in Year 1 and Year 2 split into groups to learn phonics. There are three groups: Red Group (taught by Mrs Weekes), Yellow Group (taught by Mrs Wells) and Green Group (taught by Mr Wilks). Each week, your child will have a set of spellings in their Learning Lists which matches the phonics group they are in.

Below, are the spellings for each group. If you have any questions, please ask.

Additional spellings

Although we’re learning the spellings given in our red learning list books, here are some additional ones picked from mistakes in books this week.

• thing
• there
• for
• no-one
• found
• saw

18 September 2015

This week’s spellings use the spelling part ‘ough’ – this week, the ‘ough’ is pronounced in different ways. There are some tricky words to remember as well. We’re focusing on the 8 times table. Both will be tested on Friday 25 September.

• though
• although
• dough
• through
• thorough
• borough
• plough

…And here are the tricky words.

• achieve
• amateur
• ancient

11 September 2015

Children have been given a new Learning List book, which gives lots of great tips for learning spellings as well as being designed to allow children to practise independently.

This week’s spellings are all words that include ough:

thought

bought

ought

nought

brought

ought

rough

tough

enough

cough

11 September 2015

The spellings this week are the numbers one to ten.

This links to our work in maths this week. Common mistakes are writing the word two as tow and four as for. You might look at the corresponding tens numbers and see how the spelling changes or stays the same. Unfortunately, there are some frustrating differences. For example, four changes to forty and five to fifty.

The children will be tested on all ten spellings on Friday. If you have any questions, please ask.

10 July 2015

The spellings this week are a little different. The children won’t know the spelling list until the test. However, they have been told that the words will be from the three main spelling rules we talk about:

• drop the e for ing
• double up for short vowel sounds
• drop the y for an i

Children should look back at their learning lists for spelling lists featuring these rules.

03 July 2015

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on Friday 10 July.  Please note that there will be no spellings sent home next week.

03 July 2015

This week in Year 5, there are no spellings to learn.

Next week, we’ll be carrying out short progress tests to help inform my end of year assessments.  These will include a spelling test.