Spelling

01 July 24 and 08 July 24

How would you like to learn your spellings?

Year 1- want, what, with, any, many, you, your, who, how, saw

Year 2- all, ball, fall, small, wall, walk, talk, chalk, beanstalk, always

Spelling Test Date: Friday 12 July

17 June 24 and 21 June 24

Our new spellings are:

Year 1- have, has, were, where, when, give, gave, house, school, people

Year 2- cry, cries, fly, flies, dry, dries, try, tries, reply, replies

Spelling Test Date: Friday 28 June

This week you could rainbow write each word.

10 June 2024

This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

• etymology: cyclo, chrono, struct, port, tract, dict
• apostrophes for contraction and possession
• spelling patterns: tious, cious
• recapping of previously taught spellings

Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.

Y3/4 Spellings

Year 3,4

 This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

• alternative graphemes: tion, sion, ssion, cian
• alternative graphemes: i, ie, y, i-e
• homophones: he’ll, heel, plain, plane, groan, grown, rain, rein, reign
• alternative graphemes: sc
• spelling patterns: que
• alternative graphemes: u spelled ou

Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.

07 June 24 and 14 June 24

How do you want to learn you spellings this week? Have a look through our previous ideas. Tell your teacher which method you prefer.

Year 1- grander, grandest, fresher, freshest, slower, slowest, quicker, quickest, smaller and smallest.

Year 2- camel, tunnel, travel, towel, squirrel, metal, pedal, capital, animal and hospital.

Spelling Test Date: Friday 14 June

10 April 24 and 17 April 24

We keep spellings for two weeks. On the first week, children need to read and write the word using the ‘look, say, cover, write, check’ method. On the second week, they can write them using rainbow writing. There are some more ideas here too.

Year 1- jump, jumper, jumped, jumping, hunter, hunted, hunting, buzzed, buzzer, buzzing

Year 2- write, written, wrote, wrong, wrap, table, apple, bottle, little, middle

Spelling Test Date: Thursday 23 May (Friday 24 is a Training Day).

3,4 Spellings

Year 3,4

 This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

• alternative graphemes: sh (ch, ss, ti, s)
• alternative graphemes: k (ch)
• adding prefixes: mis, re
• adding prefixes: sub, tele, auto
• spelling patterns: gn, kn
• homophones: piece / peace, main / mane, fair / fare

Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.

26 April 24 and 03 May 24

For our new spellings, please try:

Year 1

• cats
• dogs
• rocks
• trains
• brushes
• glasses
• witches
• boxes
• buzzes

Year 2

• race
• city
• space
• fancy
• ice
• knock
• knee
• know
• knitting

Our spelling test will take place on Friday 10 May

19 March 2024

This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

• homophones: draught, draft, dissent, descent, proceed, precede, wary, weary
• applying rules: prefixes and suffixes
• spelling patterns: unusual patterns (eg bruise, guarantee, vehicle)
• spelling patterns: unusual patterns (eg yacht, immediately)
• etymology: phone, micro, tele, graph, auto, geo

Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.

19 April 24 and 26 April 24

Have a go at writing your spellings in bubble writing.

Year 1 

• think
• bank
• sunk
• honk
• wink
• witch
• fetch
• catch
• hutch
• stitch

Year 2

• who
• what
• where
• when
• why
• whole
• wild
• would
• should
• could