Spellings

Children all learn differently and there is no ONE perfect method for learning spellings! Some like the Look Say Cover Write Check method and you could give this a try at home.

For checking on Tuesday 3rd June:

This week, we are learning words that contain a short /u/ sound spelt with an 'ou'.

young

touch

double

trouble

country

courage

cousin

enough

rough

tough

For checking on Tuesday 20th May:

This week, we are learning words that contain a short /u/ sound spelt with an 'o'..

 
mother

wonder

month

govern

brother

another

shovel

above

discover

Monday

For checking on Monday 12th May:

This week, we are learning words that end in -ary.

boundary

dictionary

February

library

necessary

ordinary

primary

salary

secondary

summary

For checking on Monday 5th May:

This week, we are learning words with a /sh/ sound spelt 'ch' - many of our spellings originate from France.

• chef
• chalet
• machine
• brochure
• crochet
• ricochet
• parachute
• moustache
• champagne
• chute

For checking on Monday 28th April:

This week, we are learning to spell words ending in /g/ or /k/ sounds spelt 'gue' or 'que'.

• league
• plague
• vague 
• rogue
• fatigue
• technique
• antique
• mosque
• cheque
• unique

For checking on Tuesday 22nd April:

This week, we are learning challenge words from the statutory spelling list. There is no spelling rule or pattern this week.

• address
• breathe
• busy
• business
• complete
• extreme
• forwards
• fruit
• heart
• strange

For checking on Monday 31st March:

This week, we are adding the prefixes bi- (meaning 'two' or 'twice') and re- (meaning 'again' or 'back').

• bicycle
• biplane
• bisect
• bilingual
• biannual
• rebuild
• repay
• reapply
• redecorate
• reappear

For checking on Monday 17th March:

This week, we are looking at homophones again.

• steal
• steel
• waist
• waste
• scent
• sent
• road
• rode
• vain
• vein

For checking on Tuesday 4th March:

This week, we are looking at homophones again.

• grate
• great
• grown
• groan
• plain
• plane
• peace
• piece
• rain
• reign

For checking AFTER HALF TERM on Monday 24th February:

This week, we are adding the prefix mis- or dis- to change verb root words to the opposite, ‘not’ version.

• mislead
• misheard
• misbehave
• mistrust
• misplace
• disappear
• disallow
• disobey
• dislike
• disbelieve

For checking on Monday 10th February:

This week, we adding vowel-beginning suffixes to multi-syllable words, where the last syllable is unstressed (in this instance, you DO NOT double the final consonant) or where the last syllable is stressed (you DO double the final consonant).

• gardening
• limited 
• offered
• focused
• forgotten
• beginning
• preferred
• occurred
• forbidden
• committed

For checking on Monday 3rd February:

This week, we are using the letter string 'ch' to create the short /k/ sound.

• scheme
• chorus
• echo
• character
• ache
• chaos
• stomach
• chemistry
• orchestra
• technology

For a bonus HP, you could practise spelling Zachary's name as his name follows this week's pattern!

For checking on Monday 27th January:

This week, we are using the letter y to create the short /i/ sound.

• myth
• gym
• Egypt
• pyramid
• mystery
• hymn
• system
• symbol
• lyrics
• typical

For checking on Monday 20th January:

This week, our spellings have no common spelling pattern. They are a selection of challenging words from the Year 3/4 Statutory Spelling list. Please practise these lots before Monday's test so that you can do your best in our test!

• appear
• arrive
• believe
• breath
• continue
• describe
• group
• height
• often
• women

For checking on Monday 13th January:

For our first spelling test of 2025, we are looking at root words ending with either -ic or -al.

• basically
• frantically
• dramatically
• magically
• tragically
• comically

• actually
• accidentally
• occasionally
• eventually

For checking on Monday 2nd December:

We are, once again, creating adverbs using the suffix -ly. This week, we removed the -le from the root word before adding the suffix.

• gently
• simply
• humbly
• nobly
• horribly
• terribly
• possibly
• incredibly
• comfortably
• probably

For checking on Monday 25th November:

We are continuing to create adverbs using the suffix -ly. This week, the root word has more than one syllable and already ends with -y. To make the adverb, the -y is replaced with an -i before the suffix -ly is added.

• happily
• angrily
• lazily
• easily
• busily
• greedily
• messily
• wearily
• cheekily
• clumsily

For checking on Monday 18th November:

For the remainder of the term, we will be creating adverbs using the suffix -ly. This week, there is no change to the root word to do so.

• kindly
• quickly
• safely
• rudely
• sweetly
• strongly
• bravely
• firstly
• finally
• usually

For checking after the holidays on Monday 4th November:

We are increasing to 10 spellings after the half term (unless I have discussed with you otherwise). For the next two weeks, we will be learning homophones and near homophones.

• here
• hear
• heel
• heal
• main
• mane
• mail
• male
• knot
• not

For checking on Monday 21st October:

We are learning words with the /ur/ sound spelt with 'ear'.

• earth
• early
• earn
• learn
• search
• heard
• pearl
• rehearse

For checking on Monday 11th November:

This week, we will be learning homophones and near homophones again.

• berry
• bury
• break
• brake
• meet
• meat
• ball
• bawl
• fair
• fare

For checking on Monday 14th October:

We are learning words with the long /a/ sound spelt with 'ai'.

• straight
• contain
• brain
• faint
• waist
• praise
• complaint
• afraid

For checking on Monday 7th October:

We are learning words with the long /a/ sound spelt with 'ey'.

• hey
• they
• obey
• grey
• prey
• whey
• survey
• disobey

For checking on Monday 30th September:

We are learning words with the long /a/ sound spelt with 'ei' or 'eigh'.

• eight
• eighty
• weight
• neighbour
• sleigh
• vein
• veil
• beige

For checking on Monday 23rd September:

We are going to practise some KS1 words that we found tricky before so that we definitely know them for year 3! 

• friend
• beautiful
• children
• again
• once
• they
• sure
• who
• many
• should