13 May 2022
Y1: have live give love was
Y2: race ice cell city fancy knock know knee gnat gnaw
06 May 2022
In maths, the children have been learning about fractions. The spellings, this week, are mathematical words linking to fractions.
- half
- quarter
- third
- fourth
- fifth
- sixth
- seventh
- eighth
- ninth
- tenth
- whole
The children will be tested on these words on Thursday 12th May 2022.
29 April 2022
These words all have an alternative grapheme ‘ch’ to make the ‘k’ sound.
ache
stomach
echo
anchor
character
school
technology
chemist
choir
mechanic
The children will be tested on Friday 06 May 2022.
22 April 2022
The -t sound is usually spelt as -tch in the spoken word. Words of more than one syllable often have an unstressed syllable in which the vowel sound is unclear. There are some exceptions.
Y1: catch, fetch, kitchen, much, which
Adding -ed and -ing to words of one syllable ending in a single constant letter after a single vowel letter. The last constant letter of the root word is doubled to keep the short vowel sound. Exception: the letter ‘x’ is never doubled
Y2: pat, patted, patting hum, hummed, humming drop, dropped, dropping mix, mixed, mixing
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.
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
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.
