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 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