Spellings

Spellings Checks in Year 2

Each Friday, we will check spellings linked to that week's Rocket Phonics learning, so the sounds/words should be familiar to the children.  Some weeks, the children will also have Year 2 Common Exception Words (CEWs) to learn, see below.  Thank you.

Term 1

Spellings for Checking on Friday 12th September 2025

Phoneme: /ee/

Graphemes: ee, ea, e_e, ie, y, ey 

1. been
2. beach
3. scene
4. field
5. happy
6. donkey

Common Exception Words:

1. great
2. steak

Spellings for Checking on Friday 19th September

Phoneme: /igh/

Graphemes: igh, i, i_e, ie, y

1. light
2. child
3. shine
4. pie
5. why

Common Exception Words:

1. break
2. again

Spellings for Checking on Friday 26th September

Phoneme: /oa/

Graphemes: oa, o_e, ow, oe, o

1. float
2. globe
3. flow
4. toe
5. focus

Common Exception Words:

1. any
2. many

Spellings for Checking on Friday 3rd October

Focus: Homophones

1. blue
2. blew
3. pair
4. pear
5. here
6. hear

Common Exception Words:

1. money
2. people

Spellings for Checking on Friday 10th October

Focus: Suffixes _s and _es 

(If the word ends in ch, sh, s, x, or z then add _es)

1. friends
2. apples
3. glasses
4. boxes
5. matches
6. splashes

Common Exception Words:

1. every
2. everybody

Spellings for Checking on Friday 17th October

Focus: Suffixes _ed, _ing and _er 

NB. These suffixes will be revisited several times throughout Year 2 and the children will be expected to start using them correctly in their independent writing.  

1. painted
2. painting
3. looked
4. looking
5. colder
6. taller

Common Exception Words:

1. busy
2. because ('big elephants can always understand small elephants')