Friday 5th May 2023
This week’s spellings link to our topic about Carnivals…
Friday 28 April 2023
Next week, we’ll be writing a narrative that will include some sentences using inverted commas – spoken bits.
Practise the following spelling words ready for this piece of writing where we’ll be using synonyms for ‘said’:

Friday 21 April 2023
This week, our spellings are homophones – words that are spelled differently and have different meanings. Your child will need to know the correct word to use when a sentence is dictated…
knew/new
there/their/they’re
were/where/we’re
witch/which
your/you’re
Friday 17th March 2023
This week, the spellings focus on suffixes – the bit added onto the end of words that changes their meaning. Your child needs to know how to spell all variations ready for our weekly quiz on Friday:
Friday 10 March 2023
This week’s spellings focus on suffixes again – adding ly.
accidental – accidentally
complete -completely
famous – famously
natural – naturally
occasional – occasionally
ordinary – ordinarily
happy – happily
basic – basically
sad – sadly
slow – slowly
03 March 2023
This week’s spellings focus on suffixes – the bit at the end of words that can change the meaning of the root word:
Friday 24 February 2023
This week’s spellings link to our computing topic and science learning:
elastic
materials
plastic
properties
disposable
computer
program
sequence
Friday 27 January 2023
This week’s the spellings focus on suffixes – the bit on the end of words that change the meaning of the root word:
accidentally
famously
regularly
variously
completely
possibly
recently
strangely
friend
people
OR
busily
lovely
quickly
slow
friend
people
The correct spellings to practise are detailed on your child’s homework sheet.
Friday 20th January 2023
This week’s spellings focus on prefixes – the bit at the start of a word…
OR this spelling list…
The spellings your child needs to learn ready for our weekly spelling test is clearly shown on their homework sheet given each Friday.
Every week, we complete a weekly spelling test. This is used to monitor your child’s progress, their ability to practise words at home and as a helpful hint to inform our conversations at parents’ evenings and later in the year, school reports.
As always, be sure to chat to us if your child is finding this learning tricky!
Friday 13th January 2023
This week’s spellings to practise:
- why
- light
- night
- try
- fright
OR
- bicycle
- decide
- describe
- exercise
- guide
- height
- surprise
- increase
The right spellings for your child to practice are detailed on their homework sheet.