19 Nov 2021
This week we would like you to learn these spellings that use the suffixes:
-ful, -ness, -less and -ly. We will be having a test on Thursday 25 November.
thoughtful
meaningless
successful
thankless
careful
aggressively
consciousness
hungrily
loneliness
happily
12 November 2021
Next week, we’ll be learning about the spelling rules for suffixes:
Adding the suffixes –ed and -ing
To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home. A mixture of both endings will be tested on Friday 19th November.
It is really important that your child practises in the way that best suits them. For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here.
Y3 Y4
help – helped -helping answer – answered -answering
laugh – laughed – laughing laugh – laughed – laughing
hiss – hissed – hissing surprise – surprised – surprising
beg – begged – begging learn – learned – learning
rob – robbed – robbing notice – noticed – noticing
hate – hated – hating help – helped – helping
live – lived – living cry – cried – crying
smile – smiled -smiling smile – smiled -smiling
12 November 2021
During Autumn Term 1, we worked our way through lots of the ‘common exception words’ (words that do not follow the usual spelling rules). This half term we will repeat those spellings to give the children the oppourtunity to consolidate their learning.
Encourage children to write their spellings out a few times over the week, ready to be tested at school on a Friday.
Year 1
• are
• ask
• be
• by
• come
Year 2
• are
• ask
• be
• by
• come
• do
• for
• friend
• full
• go
05 November 2021
Next week, we’ll be learning about the spelling rule:
double up for a short vowel sound
An example of this is in the word difficult. The ‘i’ is a short sound if you read it aloud, therefore the following consonant ‘f’ needs to be doubled up. Another example is trapped.
To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home.
Yellow group
appear, different, difficult, possible, trapped, happening, opposite, arrive
Blue group
shop- shopped – shopping
hop – hopped- hopping
plod – plodded – plodding
trap – trapped -trapping
arrive, different
We’ll test ourselves on Friday 12 November to see how we’ve got on.
05 November 2021
We will be working our way through the ‘common exception words’ (words that do not follow the usual spelling rules).
Encourage children to write their spellings out a few times over the week, ready to be tested at school on a Friday.
This week, we will be repeating the spellings from the last week of last term.
Year 1
• push
• put
• said
• saw
• says
Year 2
• Monday
• Tuesday
• Wednesday
• Thursday
• Friday
• Saturday
• Sunday
15 October 2021
We will be working our way through the ‘common exception words’ (words that do not follow the usual spelling rules).
Encourage children to write their spellings out a few times over the week, ready to be tested at school on a Friday.
Year 1
• push
• put
• said
• saw
• says
Year 2
• Monday
• Tuesday
• Wednesday
• Thursday
• Friday
• Saturday
• Sunday
Spellings
This week, we have been learning about adding prefixes.
Please learn these spellings for a spelling test on Friday 22nd October.
il/legal
il/logical
dis/appear
un/avoidable
im/mature
ir/responsible
ir/rational
im/possible
in/accurate
in/active
15 October 2021
Next week, we’ll been learning about some common homophones. Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings – this is one of the reasons why English spelling is super tricky!
To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home. Because they’re homophones, it’s most useful to practise these in sentences. You could do this in the car, on a walk or around the table.
there, they’re, their, which, witch, to, two, too
We’ll test ourselves on Thursday 21 October to see how we’ve got on.
For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here.
08 October 2021
We will be working our way through the ‘common exception words’ (words that do not follow the usual spelling rules).
Encourage children to write their spellings out a few times over the week, ready to be tested at school on a Friday.
Year 1
• of
• once
• one
• our
• pull
Year 2
• was
• we
• were
• where
• you
• your
• who
• what
• when
• well
08 October 2021
Next week, we’ll be learning how the ‘ue’ sound can be spelled in lots of different ways. For example, in the word ‘conclude’, the letters ‘u-e’ make the ‘ue’ sound but in the word ‘popular’ it’s the letter ‘u’.
To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home.
yellow group: continue, popular, June, regular, queue, rescue, conclude, amuse
blue group: glue, June, moon, true, rule, prune, blue, knew
We’ll test ourselves on Friday 15 October to see how we’ve got on.
For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here.