Year 5 & 6 Spelling

03 December 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

This week, we have been learning about doubling up for a short vowel sound. Please learn the following spellings for a spelling test on Thursday 23 September.

–          accompany

–          appreciate

–          attached

–          exaggerate

–          immediately

–          opportunity

–          happen/ing/ed

–          stop/(p)ing/ed

–          pass/ing/ed

–          tap/(p)ing/ed

09 July 2021

Here are some words from the Year 5/6 spelling list that the children have learnt throughout the year that are a bit tricky! Re-cap on these spellings and write them in a sentence:

• accommodate
• committee
• competition
• environment
• government
• persuade
• pronunciation
• rhythm
• temperature
• sincerely

02 July 2021

This week, we’ve been learning about words ending in ent/ence and ant/ance. Please learn these spellings ready for a test on Thursday 08 July 2021.