11 July 2025
There are no new spellings this week but please keep practising all the tricky words we’ve learnt in Year 1. To help make spelling practise more fun, we’ve attached some creative strategies you can try at home!
04 July 2025
This week we are practising how to make words plural. Please help your child practise ready for a spelling quiz on Friday 11 July. Why not try playing some spelling tennis to help your child to learn?
Group 1: chairs, birds, games, clocks, boxes, wishes, dishes, brushes
Group 2: chairs, birds, boxes, wishes
Spellings – 20.06.25
This week’s words relate to our spelling learning:
When c comes before i or y it sounds like /s/
ce at the end of a word sounds like /s/
circle
pencil
circus
juicy
cycle
exercise
fence
dance
silence
peace
20.06.25
This week we have been looking at how adding the prefix un onto a word changes the meaning. Please practise the following words for a spelling quiz on Friday 27 June.
Group 1: load, unload, happy, unhappy, lucky, unlucky, fair, unfair, tidy, untidy
Group 2: happy, unhappy, lucky, unlucky, tidy, untidy
13.06.25
This week, we’d like you to practise the days of the week ready for a spelling quiz on 20th June 2025. Use the ‘spelling tennis’ method to help you.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
06.06.25
There are no new spellings this week. Instead, please support your child in practising the real and ‘alien’ words attached, to help them prepare for next week’s Phonics Screening Check.
Don’t forget to use the decoding mantra to support your child as they sound out each word.
Spellings term 3.2
16.05.25
If your child has a spelling quiz ever two weeks. Please practise the following words for a spelling quiz on Thursday 22 May.
- their, there, they, were, here, you, your, was
If your child usually has a weekly spelling quiz, please note that there are no spelling words or quiz this week.
Spellings 09.05.25
This week’s words relate to our grammar learning about suffixes. A suffix is a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning.
enjoyment
movement
happiness
fairness
helpful
respectful
fearless
hopeless
bravely
quickly
09.05.25
If your child has a spelling quiz every two weeks please practise their spellings for a quiz on Thursday 22 May.
- their, there, they, were, here, you, your, was
If your child has a weekly spelling quiz here are the next four spellings. Their spelling quiz will be on Friday 16 May.
- they, there, you, here