24.01.25
Here are the spellings for the next two weeks. We will be reading these words as part of our daily phonics lessons. Please practise using the look, say, cover, write and check method. Your child will have a spelling quiz on Friday 07 February.
- school
- call
- different
- people
- your
- their
- thought
- through
- friend
- work
Spellings, January 2025
Spellings – 10.01.25
This week’s spelling words are the days of the week!
Please practise these words for a test on Friday 17th January.
Challenge: Why do they all have capital letters?
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
10.01.25
Here are the spellings for the next two weeks. We will be reading these words as part of our daily phonics lessons. Please practise using the look, say, cover, write and check method. Your child will have a spelling quiz on Friday 24 January.
- many
- many
- any
- again
- who
- whole
- where
- some
- what
- when
- why
Year 5/6 Spelling – Half Term 3
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
- spelling patterns: ant/ance, ent/ence
- adding prefixes: co and re
- adding prefixes: un, dis, im, in, ir, il
- apostrophes for contraction and possession
- spelling patterns: silent letters
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
desert | silence | unavailable | coordinate | hindrance |
dessert | sufficient | apparent | unnecessary | know |
unavailable | scissors | attendance | compliment | frequent |
convenience | stationary | cooperate | complement | knock |
knight | stationery | re-enter | reinvent | castle |
innocence | doubt | prophet | nuisance | principle |
excellence | impossible | profit | existence | principal |
illegal | unconscious | gnaw | thumb | inconvenient |
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