22 April 2022
The spellings this week are based on homophones- words that have the same pronunciation but different meanings or spellings. Please learn them for a test on Thursday 28th April
- draught
- draft
- dissent
- descent
- decent
- proceed
- precede
- wary
- weary
22 April 2022 – Year 3
This week, we have been learning about the alternative graphemes that make the /sh/ sound. Here is a list of the words we have covered:
mission
pressure
fraction
mention
position
delicious
optician
special
parachute
brochure
The children will be tested on these words on Friday 29th April 2022.
25 March 2022
This week we would like to children to look back at some of the spellings they have already been tested on. The words below are being misspelt in class regularly.
library disagree
building unnatural
describe increase
bicycle straight
great complete
eight favourite
The children will be tested on Friday 01 April 2022
25 March 2022
Please practise your spellings for another week.
Y1: off, well, miss, buzz, back
Challenge: Can you think of any other words that end in ff, ll, ss, zz, ck? Bring them in to share.
Y2: enjoyment, amazement, sadness, kindness, careful, playful, hopeless, plainness, badly, loudly
Challenge: Can you think of any other words that end in ment, ness, ful, less, ness or ly? Bring them in to share.
25 March 2022
This week we have been learning about prefixes such as tele, super and inter. Please learn them for a test on Thursday 31st March.
- interfere
- interrupt
- supernatural
- superimpose
- autobiography
- autograph
- television
- telescope
- teleport
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