Spellings term 1.1
Spelling – Autumn 1
In Key Stage 2, instead of asking you to learn a short list of spellings each week, you will be given a longer list (roughly 40 words) that we will focus on in that half-term. Don’t worry, we’re not asking you to learn them all in one week. Instead, we’ll ask you to focus on learning these words over the course of the entire half-term. There’s a few reasons for this:
- We want you take responsibility for your own learning and start to figure out how you learn best (there’s some ideas below). Even if that means making some mistakes along the way.
- Lots of research suggests that learning more spellings over a longer time leads to better remembering how to spell them in the long-term.
- Similarly, lots of research suggests that if you learn something for a week and don’t come back to it you’ll likely forget it anyway
- We won’t have a ‘formal’ test each week. Instead, we’ll mix it up. We might ask you to test each other on the words you’ve been learning. We might test the words at random and then you’ll know which words you need to practise more and which words you’re confident with. We might just think about some of the words and share ideas for how we’re going about learning them.
- Ultimately, we want this to be about learning – and not just getting them right in a test.
How you decide to do this is up to you. You might decide to focus on the trickiest words first. Or, you might decide to learn 8 words a week and really focus on these whilst still practising the others, too. For some of you, you might already feel confident with some of the words so might choose to not practise these at all. However you decide to do it is up to you. The important thing is that you’re learning them and learning how you like to learn them best.
Every Friday, we’ll spend time practising or testing (informally) or discussing all things spelling so be ready (one of our 8 Rs for learning) to join in!
If you need some ideas for practical things to do, check out the Super Spelling Strategies Guide on the school website.
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- alternative ways for writing the ‘ay’ sound
- alternative ways for writing the ‘ee’ sound
- ‘double up for a short vowel sound’
- ‘drop the e for ing’
- ‘drop the y for an i’
- adding the suffixes ed, ing
- homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
| famous | believe | accident | breathe | answer |
| library | passion | notice | were | possess |
| century | address | favourite | appear | here |
| their | weight | complete | ordinary | wear |
| straight | they’re | surprise | busy | increase |
| session | possible | there | hear | where |
| suppose | mission | eighth | extreme | occasion |
| fraction | different | attention | learn | possession |
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.