Spelling

04.10.24

Here are the spellings for the next two weeks. Please practise using the look, say, cover, write and check method. Your child will have a spelling quiz on Friday 18 October. 

• is
• love
• me
• my
• no
• of
• once
• one

20.09.24

Here are the spellings for the next two weeks. Please practise using the look, say, cover, write and check method. Your child will have a spelling quiz on Friday 04 October. 

• full
• go
• has
• he
• here
• his
• house
• I

Spellings 06.09.24

To start the year, we’ll be recapping some common exception words. These are words with unfamiliar spelling and sound patterns that ‘break’ common phonics rules.

This week’s words will be tested on Friday 13.09.24.

Spellings for term 1.1

06.09.24

In Year 1, we’ll send a new set of spellings home every 2 weeks. Here are the spellings for the next two weeks. Please practise using the look, say, cover, write and check method. Your child will have a spelling quiz on Friday 20 September. 

• are
• ask
• be
• by
• come
• do
• for
• friend

12 July 2024

The last spelling list this year is days of the week.

• Monday
• Tuesday
• Wednesday
• Thursday
• Friday
• Saturday
• Sunday

The test will be on Thursday 18th July 2024.

05 July 2024

This week, the children have been learning some alternative spellings for the sound ‘sh’.

Please revise the following words with your child.

• mission
• mansion
• station
• action
• fiction

Tricky words

• hour
• our

Please refer to our school website for some creative ideas to help your child to learn their spellings.

Help your child in Reading and Writing

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