Spellings term 2.2
Spellings, January 2025
Spellings for term 1.2
Spellings for term 1.1
Spellings – Half Term 6
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- alternative graphemes: tion, sion, ssion, cian
- alternative graphemes: i, ie, y, i-e
- homophones: he’ll, heel, plain, plane, groan, grown, rain, rein, reign
- alternative graphemes: sc
- spelling patterns: que
- alternative graphemes: u spelled ou
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
| he’ll | scenery | bicycle | mosque | enough |
| heel | decide | possession | direction | mission |
| describe | plain | height | surprise | fascinate |
| league | plane | scissors | increase | magician |
| exercise | fatigue | groan | unique | country |
| guide | confusion | grown | rain | science |
| passion | tongue | fraction | rein | rogue |
| picturesque | politician | optician | reign | rough |
Half Term 4
Year 3,4
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- alternative graphemes: ai, ee, ie
- homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
- adding suffixes: ed, ing, er, est, ly, ful, less, ness
- adding suffixes: ful, less
- apostrophes for contraction and possession
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
| favourite | clumsy (er/est/ly) | break | fruit (ful/less) | son |
| grate | straight | brake | shouldn’t | sun |
| great | isn’t | believe | wouldn’t | don’t |
| begin (ing/er) | doubt (ful/less) | build (ing/er) | complete | didn’t |
| describe | heart (less) | haven’t | busy (er/est/ed/ing) | increase |
| thought (ful,less) | bicycle | surprise | increase | thank (ful/less) |
| eight | appear | separate (ly,ed,ing) | weight(less, ness) | one |
| ate | rest (ful/less) | achieve | wait | won |
Year 3 and 4 spellings
Year 3,4
Half-term 1
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- alternative ways for writing the ‘ay’ sound
- alternative ways for writing the ‘ee’ sound
- ‘double up for a short vowel sound’
- ‘drop the e for ing’
- ‘drop the y for an i’
- adding the suffixes ed, ing
- homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below:
famous believe accident breathe answer
library passion notice were possess
century address favourite appear here
their weight complete ordinary wear
straight they’re surprise busy increase
session possible there hear where
suppose mission eighth extreme occasion
fraction different attention learn possession
Friday 30 June 2023
This week’s spellings, focus on the ‘ure’ letter string. Your child will have been given their spellings on their homework sheet:
Friday 23 June 2023
This week, spellings are as followed:
Friday 5th May 2023
This week’s spellings link to our topic about Carnivals…
