18 March 2022
This week, we’d like you to practise adding the suffix ‘ly’ to these words:
– accidental
– complete
– famous
– natural
– occasional
– ordinary
– happy
– basic
These will be tested on Friday 25th March. Good luck!
18 March 2022
The /f/, /l/, /s/, /z/ and /k/ sounds are usually spelt as ff, ll, ss, zz, ck if they come straight after a single vowel letter in short words. This week’s spellings for year 1 follow this rule.
Y1: off, well, miss, buzz, back
This week’s spellings for year 2 will focus on suffixes. A suffix is a letter or group of letters that goes on the end of a word. Adding suffixes changes their meaning.
Y2: enjoyment, amazement, sadness, kindness, careful, playful, hopeless, plainness, badly, loudly
18 March 2022
This week we have been learning about the -tial and -cial spelling pattern.
Please learn the following words for a test on Thursday 24 March
- controversial
- official
- commercial
- special
- artificial
- glacial
- social
- influential
- confidential
11 March 2022
Y1: was, we, were, where, you, your
This week, Year 2 have been looking at plurals by adding s and es to words and -es to nouns and verbs ending in -y. The y is changed to i before -es is added.
Y2: thanks, spends, catches, rocks, flies, tries, replies, copies, babies, carries.
11 March 20
This week, we have been learning about the suffix –fer. Please learn the following spellings for a test on Thursday 17th March.
- refer
- referring
- referral
- prefer
- preferring
- preferred
- transfer
- transferred
- offering
11th March 2022
This weeks spelling focus on the suffix ful/less. We will be including both suffixes in our test next week.
though/ful/less
care/ful/less
harm/ful/less
use/ful/less
hopeful/less
rest/ful/less
fear/ful/less
fear/ful/less
doubt/ful/less
04 March 2022
Please find this week’s spellings below:
- library
- building
- century
- circle
- experiment
- February
- group
- question
Ask your child why February has a capital letter!
These will be tested on Friday 11th March.
Good luck!
4 March 2022
Y1: there, their, they, to, do
This week, the Year 2 children have some contractions words for their spellings. We talked about how it is the process of shortening a word or a group of words. E.g. cannot becomes can’t.
Y2: children, Christmas, class, climb, can’t, didn’t, hasn’t, couldn’t, it’s, i’ll
04 March 2022
This week’s focus is on the -sion, -tion and -cian endings to words. Please learn these words for a test on Thursday 10th March.
- profession
- accommodation
- communication
- suggestion
- competition
- definition
- interruption
- persuasion
- musician
11th February 2022
This week, for our spellings we’ve been learning about homophones: words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have a different meaning.
Year 3/4
brake / break
eight / ate
son / sun
great / grate
weight / wait
one / won