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
17 September 2021
Next week, we’ll be learning how the ‘ee’ sound can be spelled in lots of different ways. For example, in the word ‘breathe’, the letters ‘ea’ make the ‘ee’ sound but in the word ‘bee’ it’s the letters ‘ee’.
To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home over the week.
yellow group blue group
believe clean
breathe key
beneath queen
complete team
extreme teeth
increase mean
money theme
people treat
We’ll test ourselves on Friday 24 September 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.
17 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
• do
• for
• friend
• full
• go
Year 2
• has
• he
• here
• his
• house
• is
• love
• me
• my
• no