Year 5 Spelling

It’s half-term…

It’s the half-term, so in line with our current homework policy, there are no homework tasks or spellings to learn.

However, please make sure you’re reading lots with your child – we’re finding children are reading less than they need to if they are to gain fluency and understanding.  You could take your child to a local library, hunt down an old favourite to re-visit, plan a story book for each bedtime over the holiday, read more about a favourite subject on the internet, buy a comic or magazine… And, so they have good role models, make sure your child sees you read, too!

Our current homework policy will be reviewed soon.  A small number of you have told us you’re not entirely happy with it – it would be really helpful if you tell us more about what you’d like.  Send us an email or speak with Mrs Weekes or me about this.  Thank you.

It’s half-term…

…so no specific homework, spellings or tables this week.  It’s a good time to relax and enjoy some time with your children – have you visited the free exhibition of Anthony Browne pictures at Leeds City Museum, for example?

It’s the half-term break…

…so there’s no homework or spellings this week.  Enjoy the holiday, whatever you get up to.

It’s Christmas…

…so enjoy the break.

We don’t give homework or spellings and tables to learn during holidays.  Instead, we hope you all enjoy the break and spend some fabulously festive family time, whether it’s playing board games, enjoying a book or two or simply relaxing in front of the telly for a treat.

19 October 2012

This week’s spellings are “irregular” spellings for past tense.  They do not follow the regular rules for adding “ed”.

These will be tested on Friday 26 October 2012.

12 October 2012

This week’s spellings are continuing the rule of changing the “y” to “i”.  They will be tested on Friday 19 October 2012.

There seem to be a lot of spellings on this list but the children have been learning about this rule all week and are familiar with these words.  Please encourage them to add any more words that they can think of.  The spelling test will test them on 8 of these words and we will be verbally discussing all of them.

05 October 2012

This week’s spellings are words where you need drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’.  There are lots of words that could have been chosen for this rule; we’ve chosen words that will help to make our narrative writing more interesting next week. They will be tested on Friday 12 October 2012.

The words in orange are abstract nouns.  Can you think of any other abstract nouns?

28 September 2012

This week’s spellings are all about shortened forms of words.  They are known as contractions.  The table shows the full version and the shortened form; the children are only expected to learn the shortened form.  The apostrophe replaces the letters that have been missed out.

They will be tested on Friday 05 October 2012.

21 September 2012

This week’s spellings are looking at another rule for adding ‘ing’.   These spellings will be tested on Friday 28 September.

short vowel sounds – double up and add “ing”

14 September 2012

This week’s spellings are following the rule of:

when a verb ends in “e” then drop the “e” for “ing”

These will be tested on Friday 21 September.