Spelling

28 June 2024

This week, we have been exploring the sound ‘zh’. This is a unique sound. To help with the pronunciation, please refer to this video.

• pleasure
• vision
• measure
• usual
• treasure
• Tricky words
• because
• friend

Help at home by encouraging your children to use our decoding mantra to help them to read the words. Can they spot the letters that make the zh sound?

1.  Spot the digraph. (or trigraph)
2. Say the sounds. (add the sound buttons)
3.  Read the word.

21 June 2024

This week, the children need to rehearse words containing the phonemes mb, kn and gn for their spelling test.

• know
• gnaw
• sign
• knee
• knock
• thumb
• crumb
• lamb

We have read and written sentences.

Help at home by assisting your child to spot any tricky words.

Can they see this week’s focus phonemes?

Can your child read the sentences below?  

The bear gnawed at the meat.

A knock on the door let me know that the grey monkey was here.

The lambs were gentle. We enjoyed playing with them.

14 June 2024

This week, the children need to revise some of the tricky words previously learnt.

‘Tricky words’ are words that cannot easily be decoded (‘sounded out’ and read). This is because some of the sounds in the words are spelled in an unusual way. It is important for children to be able to read these words as they are among the most common words in English.

Our Super Spelling Strategies has lots of ideas to encourage and engage your child to learn spellings. There’s no one best way to learn spellings, so it’s worth trying out the various ideas contained in the leaflet. Some you and your child will like, some you and your child may not – give them all a go!
https://www.stjameswetherby.leeds.sch.uk/learn-more/help-your-child/

• oh
• their
• people
• Mr
• Mrs
• looked
• called
• asked
• could

Spellings for the final half-term

07 June 2024

This week, the children have been focusing on the digraph or and the alternative spellings for this sound.

or, aw, au

• Paul
• straw
• yawn
• August
• draw
• autumn

Help at home by playing this rainbow spelling game.

There are more ideas of how to support your child with their spellings on our school website.

https://www.stjameswetherby.leeds.sch.uk/learn-more/help-your-child/

Spellings – Half Term 6

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. 

Spellings – 10.05.24

This week’s spelling words are from our current spelling unit – Why do some words have the spelling ey for the sound /ee/?

We’re continuing to work on adding -s and -es to words.

Swap the y for an i before adding -es.

When the word ends in the digraphs ay, oy, ey, we just add -s.

Please practise these words for a test on Friday 17th May.

chimneys
berries
jellies
turkeys
valleys
monkeys
lollies
trolleys
alleys
jockeys

10 May 2024

This week, the children have been learning alternative spellings for the sounds ur and ow. (ir, ou)

• cloud
• sound
• proud
• first
• third

Try and put the words into sentences. Can you put 2 words into one sentence?

I came first in the race and my friend came third.

Spellings – 03.05.24

This week’s spelling words are from our current spelling unit – Why do I swap the y for an i when I add the suffix -es?

Swap the y for an i before adding -es.

When the word ends in the digraphs ay, oy, ey, we just add -s.

Please practise these words for a test on Friday 10th May.

cry/cries
fly/flies
dry/dries
try/tries
baby/babies
party/parties
penny/pennies
body/bodies
donkey/donkeys
enjoy/enjoys

03 May 2024

This week, the children need to rehearse some tricky words that have been taught in phonics sessions.

today

people

their

your

any

many

Encourage your child to put the words in sentences and refer to the school website for more ideas on how to help your child learn their spellings.