20 April 2018
For the rest of the year, Year 6 won’t have a specific list of spellings. Instead, they should think about the spelling skills they need to develop (from the list below) and create their own spelling practice. There will be a test each week and, along with this, we’ll discuss the sorts of spellings we’re finding more difficult.
- tion/ssion/sion/cian endings
- homophones
- ant/ent/ancy/ency/ance/ence endings
- adding prefixes
- adding suffixes
- unusual spellings
- ible/able/ibly/ably
- fer endings
- spelling rules
- tious/cious
- ough
- tial/ciail endings
09 March 2018
For spelling this week, the children have looked through the Year 5.6 spelling list and chosen 15 words which they feel they need to practise.
Create ways for you to remember how to spell these words and generally practise using the strategies in the back of your homework book. Don’t forget to try adding prefixes and suffixes to the words. Spelling practice is best done little and often so make sure you come back to the spellings at least three times in the week. Date your practice and ask an adult to sign it to show that you’re practising regularly. There will be a test on Friday 16 March.
23 February 2018
This week’s spelling list continues our exploration of the Year 5,6 spelling list and we move on to the ‘p, q, r’ section.
There will be a test on these words on Friday 02 March.
parliament
persuade
physical
prejudice
privilege
profession
programme
pronunciation
queue
recognise
recommend
relevant
restaurant
rhyme
rhythm
02 February 2018
Create ways for you to remember how to spell these words and generally practise using the strategies in the back of your homework book. Don’t forget to try adding prefixes and suffixes to the words. Spelling practice is best done little and often so make sure you come back to the spellings at least three times in the week. Date your practice and ask an adult to sign it to show that you’re practising regularly. There will be a test on Friday 07 February.
- language
- leisure
- lightning
- marvellous
- mischievous
- muscle
- necessary
- neighbour
- nuisance
- occupy
- occur
- opportunity
26 January 2018
This week’s spellings start with f, g, h, or i.
Create ways for you to remember how to spell these words and generally practise using the strategies in the back of your homework book. Don’t forget to try adding prefixes and suffixes to the words. Spelling practice is best done little and often so make sure you come back to the spellings at least three times in the week. Date your practice and ask an adult to sign it to show that you’re practising regularly. There will be no test on Friday 02 February. Instead, there’ll be a crossword to complete.
- familiar
- foreign
- forty
- frequently
- government
- guarantee
- harass
- hindrance
- identity
- immediately
- individual
- interfere
- interrupt
19 January 2018
Create ways for you to remember how to spell these words and generally practise using the strategies in the back of your homework book. Don’t forget to try adding prefixes and suffixes to the words. Spelling practice is best done little and often so make sure you come back to the spellings at least three times in the week. Date your practice and ask an adult to sign it to show that you’re practising regularly. There will be a test on Friday 26 January.
- definite
- desperate
- determined
- develop
- dictionary
- embarrass
- environment
- equip
- especially
- exaggerate
- excellent
- existence
- explanation
12 January 2018
Create ways for you to remember how to spell these words and generally practise using the strategies in the back of your homework book. Spelling practice is best done little and often so make sure you come back to the spellings at least three times in the week. Date your practice and ask an adult to sign it to show that you’re practising regularly. There will be no test from this list but instead there’ll be a word search to complete on Friday which will include these words.
- category
- cemetery
- committee
- communicate
- community
- competition
- conscience
- conscious
- controversy
- convenience
- correspond
- criticise
- curiosity
05 January 2018
Create ways for you to remember how to spell these words and generally practise using the strategies in the back of your homework book. Spelling practice is best done little and often so make sure you come back to the spellings at least three times in the week. Date your practice and ask an adult to sign it to show that you’re practising regularly. There will be a test on Friday 12 January.
- accommodate
- accompany
- according
- achieve
- aggressive
- amateur
- ancient
- apparent
- appreciate
- attached
- available
- average
- awkward
08 December 2017
I’ve given the children the Year 5/6 spelling list for them to choose ten words which they feel they need to practise.
We’ve discussed that spelling practice should be little and often rather than being completed all in one night. The practice the children have been doing has improved massively from the beginning of the year (and there are lots of good examples for you to take a look at on the website). However, we’re now going to work on maintaining this standard by practising little and often.
I’ve asked the children to date the practice they do and make sure that they complete a small amount at least three times during the week.
These spellings will then be tested by their partner as we’ll all be learning different words.
01 December 2017
This week’s spelling activity is all about homophones and is due on Thursday 07 December.
Using the list of homophone groups, create sentence which us all of the homophones correctly.
there/their/they’re: They’re going over there to find their shoes.
- there/their/they’re
- wear/where/were
- of/off
- its/it’s
- which/witch
- practise/practice
- heard/herd
- pause/pours/paws/pores
- your/you’re
- device/devise
- hole/whole
- one/won
- are/our