07.03.25
Please continue to practise your spellings using the words pyramid method ready for a spelling quiz on Friday 14 March.
- oh
- their
- once
- our
- are
- ask
- be
- by
Spellings term 2.2
Spellings – 28.02.25
This week’s spelling words relate to our phonics learning:
“Double the letter to protect the short vowel sound when adding -ing.”
Please practise these words for a test on Friday 7th March.
Challenge: Which word on this list breaks the rule?
helping
looking
jumping
mixing
printing
raining
shopping
sorting
swimming
watching
Spellings – 07.02.25
This week’s spelling words relate to our phonics learning:
“Use ck at the end of a word after a short vowel sound.”
Please practise these words for a test on Friday 14th February.
Challenge: Which word on this list breaks the rule?
shark
shock
cloak
brick
magic
duck
quick
sock
crack
check
24.01.25
Here are the spellings for the next two weeks. We will be reading these words as part of our daily phonics lessons. Please practise using the look, say, cover, write and check method. Your child will have a spelling quiz on Friday 07 February.
- school
- call
- different
- people
- your
- their
- thought
- through
- friend
- work
Spellings, January 2025
Spellings – 10.01.25
This week’s spelling words are the days of the week!
Please practise these words for a test on Friday 17th January.
Challenge: Why do they all have capital letters?
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
10.01.25
Here are the spellings for the next two weeks. We will be reading these words as part of our daily phonics lessons. Please practise using the look, say, cover, write and check method. Your child will have a spelling quiz on Friday 24 January.
- many
- many
- any
- again
- who
- whole
- where
- some
- what
- when
- why
Year 5/6 Spelling – Half Term 3
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
- spelling patterns: ant/ance, ent/ence
- adding prefixes: co and re
- adding prefixes: un, dis, im, in, ir, il
- apostrophes for contraction and possession
- spelling patterns: silent letters
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
| desert | silence | unavailable | coordinate | hindrance |
| dessert | sufficient | apparent | unnecessary | know |
| unavailable | scissors | attendance | compliment | frequent |
| convenience | stationary | cooperate | complement | knock |
| knight | stationery | re-enter | reinvent | castle |
| innocence | doubt | prophet | nuisance | principle |
| excellence | impossible | profit | existence | principal |
| illegal | unconscious | gnaw | thumb | inconvenient |
Spellings – 06.12.24
This week’s spelling words are all tricky words. They are common exception words that don’t follow usual spelling/sound patterns so we learn to read them at sight (without decoding).
Please practise these words for a test on Friday 13th December.
Challenge: What makes each of these words tricky?
again
any
break
climb
every
floor
hour
many
only
prove