Spelling

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

29.11.24

Please continue to practise the tricky words below. We’re reading and spelling these words daily as part of our phonics lessons. Your child will have a spelling quiz on Friday 06 December.

• could
• would
• should
• our
• house
• mouse
• water
• want

Spellings – 22.11.24

This week’s spelling words relate to our phonics learning.

We’ve been learning about graphemes ‘ci’ and ‘ti’ which both sound like /sh/.

Please practise these words for a test on Friday 29th November.

Challenge: Can you find any other words that use ci or ti sounding like /sh/?

fiction
station
emotion
cautious
action
special
magician
delicious
precious
social

This week’s tricky words are:

hour
any
many
through

22.11.24

Here are the spellings for the next two weeks. We have been reading these tricky words daily as part of our phonics lessons this week. Please practise using the look, say, cover, write and check method. Your child will have a spelling quiz on Friday 06 December. 

• could
• would
• should
• our
• house
• mouse
• water
• want

Spellings – 15.11.24

This week’s spelling words relate to our phonics learning.

We’ve been learning about grapheme ‘y’ sounding like /i/ as in words like myth and gym, and grapheme ‘dge’ sounding like /j/ as in edge and dodge.

Please practise these words for a test on Friday 22nd November.

gym
myth
bicycle
mystery
crystal
bridge
badge
dodge
fudge
ledge

This week’s tricky words are:

move
improve
parents
shoe

15.11.24

Please continue to practise the 10 tricky words below. We’re reading and spelling these words daily as part of our phonics lessons. Your child will have a spelling quiz on Friday 22 November. 

• here
• today
• one
• their
• people
• your
• oh
• Mr
• Mrs
• Ms

08.11.24

Here are the spellings for the next two weeks. We have been reading most of these tricky words daily as part of our phonics lessons this week. Please practise using the look, say, cover, write and check method. Your child will have a spelling quiz on Friday 22 November. 

• here
• today
• one
• their
• people
• your
• oh
• Mr
• Mrs
• Ms

Spellings for term 1.2

Year 5/6 Spelling – Half Term 2

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

• plurals (more than one noun)
• ough words
• suffixes (for example, changing the root word ‘’success to ‘successful’ or ‘successfully’
• ible and able words
• apostrophes for possession (eg Brian’s bag, the school’s logo)
• more homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently
• adding the prefixes ‘co’ and ‘re’ using a hyphen

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

Spellings – 18.10.24

This week’s spelling words relate to our phonics learning.

We’ve been learning about grapheme ‘wh’ sounding like /w/ as in words like wheel and white, and grapheme ‘ie’ sounding like /ee/ as in field and shield.

Please practise these words for a test on Thursday 24th October.

whale
while
wheel
white
whisper
field
shriek
belief
shield
brownie

This week’s tricky words are:

because
once
our
friend