Spelling

15 October 2021

Next week, we’ll been learning about some common homophones. Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings – this is one of the reasons why English spelling is super tricky!

To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home. Because they’re homophones, it’s most useful to practise these in sentences. You could do this in the car, on a walk or around the table.

there, they’re, their, which, witch, to, two, too

We’ll test ourselves on Thursday 21 October to see how we’ve got on.

For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here.

08 October 2021

We will be working our way through the ‘common exception words’ (words that do not follow the usual spelling rules).

Encourage children to write their spellings out a few times over the week, ready to be tested at school on a Friday.

Year 1

• of
• once
• one
• our
• pull

Year 2
• was
• we
• were
• where
• you
• your
• who
• what
• when
• well

08 October 2021

Next week, we’ll be learning how the ‘ue’ sound can be spelled in lots of different ways. For example, in the word ‘conclude’, the letters ‘u-e’ make the ‘ue’ sound but in the word ‘popular’ it’s the letter ‘u’.

To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home.

yellow group:            continue, popular, June, regular, queue, rescue, conclude, amuse

blue group:                 glue, June, moon, true, rule, prune, blue, knew

We’ll test ourselves on Friday 15 October to see how we’ve got on.

For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here.

Spellings

This week, we have been learning about adding suffixes.

Please learn these spellings for a spelling test on Friday 15th October.

achieve/ed/ing

develop/ed/ing

embarrass/ed/ing

guarantee/ed/ing

occur/ed/ing

brave/er/est

crazy/er/est

hairy/er/est

lovely/er/est

sad/er/est

Spellings

This week, we have been learning about apostrophes for contraction.

Please learn the following spellings for a spelling test on Friday 8th October.

haven’t

couldn’t

I’ve

you’ll

can’t

they’re

aren’t

don’t

she’ll

he’ll

Next week, we’ll be learning how the ‘ie’ sound can be spelled in lots of different ways. For example, in the word ‘describe’, the letters ‘i-e’ make the ‘ie’ sound but in the word ‘supply’ it’s the letter ‘y’.

To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home.

yellow                                                                                    blue

describe                                                                               dry

decide                                                                                  five

surprise                                                                               light

replied                                                                                 inside

polite                                                                                   nine

cried                                                                                    cried

supply                                                                                 right

height                                                                                  tie

We’ll test ourselves on Friday 08 October to see how we’ve got on.

For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here.

01 October 2021

We will be working our way through the ‘common exception words’ (words that do not follow the usual spelling rules).

Encourage children to write their spellings out a few times over the week, ready to be tested at school on a Friday.

Year 1

• is
• love
• me
• my
• no

Year 2
• school
• she
• so
• some
• their
• there
• they
• to
• today
• the

24 September 2021

We will be working our way through the ‘common exception words’ (words that do not follow the usual spelling rules).

Encourage children to write their spellings out a few times over the week, ready to be tested at school on a Friday.

Year 1

• has
• he
• here
• his
• house

Year 2
• of
• once
• one
• our
• pull
• push
• put
• said
• saw
• says

24 September 2021

Next week, we’ll been learning how the ‘oa’ sound can be spelled in lots of different ways. For example, in the word ‘Joe’, the letters ‘oe’ make the ‘oa’ sound but in the word ‘slow’ it’s the letters ‘ow’.

To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home.

 yellow group                                                                 blue group

notice                                                                               boat                 

suppose                                                                           smoke

though                                                                             though

although                                                                          flow

heroes                                                                              home

those                                                                                those

glowing                                                                           glowing

phone                                                                              road

We’ll test ourselves on Friday 1 October to see how we’ve got on.

For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here.

24 September 2021

This week, we have been learning about dropping the y for an i. Please learn the following spellings for a spelling test on Friday 01 October.

• opportunity
• secretary
• variety
• happy/er/est
• category
• community
• curiosity
• identity
• reply/ing/ed
• funny/er/est