Friday 20th January 2023
This week’s spellings focus on prefixes – the bit at the start of a word…
OR this spelling list…
The spellings your child needs to learn ready for our weekly spelling test is clearly shown on their homework sheet given each Friday.
Every week, we complete a weekly spelling test. This is used to monitor your child’s progress, their ability to practise words at home and as a helpful hint to inform our conversations at parents’ evenings and later in the year, school reports.
As always, be sure to chat to us if your child is finding this learning tricky!
Spellings 20.01.23
Our spellings for the next week will be more common exception words: every, everybody, eye, fast, father, find, floor, gold, grass, great.
Look out for the super spelling strategy on our homework sheets!
20.01.23
This half term, we’ll continue to have new spellings every two weeks. There will be 5 new spellings to learn as well as 5 spellings from the Autumn term to re-visit. Please practise ready for a spelling test on Friday 02 February.
On the first week, use the look, say, cover, write, check method and on the second week please try a different spelling strategy from the selection below.
- there
- their
- they
- to
- today
Please also re-visit and practise the below spellings from the Autumn term.
- do
- for
- friend
- full
- go
Spellings 20/02.2023
Next week, Year 3 will be learning and tested on alternative graphemes for the ue sound.
argue
Tuesday
popular
peculiar
regular
continue
statue
Friday 13th January 2023
This week’s spellings to practise:
- why
- light
- night
- try
- fright
OR
- bicycle
- decide
- describe
- exercise
- guide
- height
- surprise
- increase
The right spellings for your child to practice are detailed on their homework sheet.
Spellings 13.01.2023
Next week, we will be looking at adding the prefixes un and dis to change the meaning of a root word.
unkind
uncertain
unemployed
unclear
unfriendly
unstable
unclear
disappear
discontinue
disbelief
Spellings 13.01.21
What a great start to the year we’ve had with our spellings. Thank you for practicing these at home.
We continue with our common exception words. Our spellings for the next week will be: child, children, Christmas, class, climb, clothes, could, cold, door, even.
Look out for our super spelling strategy on the homework sheet!
13.01.23 Spellings
This week, we’ve been adding suffixes to root words. These have included –ent, -ence, -ant and –ance.
Please learn the following words for a test on Friday 20 th January.
assistance
tolerant
hesitant
attendance
abundant
violence
dependent
innocence
confidence
Help at home:
See if your child can identify the root word for each of these words, for example:
The root word of assistance is to assist.
Spellings 9th January 2022
This week’s spellings are going to be very useful to us as they are some of the time connectives we will use in our recount writing.
They will be tested on Friday 13th February.
first
meanwhile
suddenly
finally
morning
afternoon
o’clock
after
Year 5/6 Spellings 09.01.23
We have been learning regularly about homophones. Learn these words for a test on Friday 13th January. We recommend putting these words into sentences so that you understand the meaning of each word.
desert
dessert
stationary
stationery
complement
compliment
principle
principal
Help at home
To aid your child, you could try the following techniques to help learn spellings at home:
look, say, cover, write, check
syllable chunking
word pyramids
