Year 5 & 6 Spelling

14 January 2022

Posted on Friday 14 January 2022 by Mr Mills

This week’s spellings are all focussed on the ending –a/ent and –e/ance. Remember that some are abstract nouns and some are verbs.

Please learn them for a test on Thursday 20 January

  • confident
  • confidence
  • silent
  • silence
  • assistant
  • assistance
  • tolerant
  • tolerance
  • hesitant
  • hesitance

07 January 2022

Posted on Friday 07 January 2022 by Mr Mills

This week’s spelling are all homophones but are quite advanced and use different strings of letters. Learn them using the  strategies we have practised in class for a test on Thursday 13 January.

desert
dessert
stationary
stationery
complement
compliment
principle
principal
prophet
profit

10 December 2021

Posted on Friday 10 December 2021 by Mr Mills

This week we have been studying homophones. Learn the following words for a test on Thursday 17th December.

  • isle
  • aisle
  • aloud
  • allowed
  • herd
  • heard
  • affect
  • effect
  • past
  • passed

03 December 2021

Posted on Friday 03 December 2021 by Mr Mills

This week we have been learning about apostrophes for possession. Please learn the following words for a test on Thursday 09 December

  • cemetery’s
  • community’s
  • dictionary’s
  • environment’s
  • individual’s
  • neighbour’s
  • parliament’s
  • soldier’s
  • vehicle’s

26 November 2021

Posted on Friday 26 November 2021 by Mr Mills

This week our spellings are based on the suffix -ible. Please learn the following words for tea test on Thursday 2nd December.

  • horrible 
  • terrible 
  • possible
  • forgivable 
  • disposable 
  • enjoyable 
  • enviable 
  • incredible 
  • sensible 

19 Nov 2021

Posted on Friday 19 November 2021 by Mr Mills

This week we would like you to learn these spellings that use the suffixes:

-ful, -ness, -less and -ly. We will be having a test on Thursday 25 November.

thoughtful              

meaningless   

successful             

thankless

careful                    

aggressively

consciousness     

hungrily

loneliness               

happily

 

Spellings

Posted on Friday 15 October 2021 by Alice Needham

This week, we have been learning about adding prefixes.

Please learn these spellings for a spelling test on Friday 22nd October.

 

il/legal

il/logical

dis/appear

un/avoidable

im/mature

ir/responsible

ir/rational

im/possible

in/accurate

in/active

Spellings

Posted on Thursday 07 October 2021 by Alice Needham

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

Posted on Saturday 02 October 2021 by Alice Needham

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

24 September 2021

Posted on Friday 24 September 2021 by Jen Wilson

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
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