Spellings – 20.06.25
This week’s words relate to our spelling learning:
When c comes before i or y it sounds like /s/
ce at the end of a word sounds like /s/
circle
pencil
circus
juicy
cycle
exercise
fence
dance
silence
peace
Spellings 09.05.25
This week’s words relate to our grammar learning about suffixes. A suffix is a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning.
enjoyment
movement
happiness
fairness
helpful
respectful
fearless
hopeless
bravely
quickly
Spellings 02.05.25
This week’s words relate to our spelling learning:
The grapheme a sounds like /o/ after the phoneme /w/.
The grapheme ar sounds like /or/ after the phoneme /w/.
Please practise these words for a test on Friday 9th May.
want
wash
wasp
swap
squash
warm
reward
swarm
award
quarter
Spellings 25.04.25
This week’s words relate to our spelling learning:
Use ge at the end of a word after a digraph or a consonant.
Use dge at the end of a word to protect a short vowel sound.
Homophones – where/wear
Please practise these words for a test on Friday 2nd May.
large
charge
range
change
edge
badge
fridge
dodge
where
wear
Spellings – 21.03.25
This week’s spelling words relate to our phonics learning:
gn – /n/ (as in gnome)
kn – /n/ (as in knee)
wr – /r/ (as in wrong)
Please practise these words for a test on Friday 28th March.
gnome
sign
design
knock
knife
knee
wrap
wrong
write
wriggle
Spellings – 14.03.25
This week’s spelling words relate to our learning:
“Drop the e when adding -ing”
Please practise these words for a test on Friday 21st March.
Challenge: Which words on this list break the rule?
arguing
baking
being
coming
freeing
having
hiding
scaring
seeing
using
Spellings – 28.02.25
This week’s spelling words relate to our phonics learning:
“Double the letter to protect the short vowel sound when adding -ing.”
Please practise these words for a test on Friday 7th March.
Challenge: Which word on this list breaks the rule?
helping
looking
jumping
mixing
printing
raining
shopping
sorting
swimming
watching
Spellings – 07.02.25
This week’s spelling words relate to our phonics learning:
“Use ck at the end of a word after a short vowel sound.”
Please practise these words for a test on Friday 14th February.
Challenge: Which word on this list breaks the rule?
shark
shock
cloak
brick
magic
duck
quick
sock
crack
check
Spellings – 10.01.25
This week’s spelling words are the days of the week!
Please practise these words for a test on Friday 17th January.
Challenge: Why do they all have capital letters?
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Spellings – 06.12.24
This week’s spelling words are all tricky words. They are common exception words that don’t follow usual spelling/sound patterns so we learn to read them at sight (without decoding).
Please practise these words for a test on Friday 13th December.
Challenge: What makes each of these words tricky?
again
any
break
climb
every
floor
hour
many
only
prove