SPELLINGS

TERM 6

Spellings for Checking on Friday 14th July

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Focus: contractions and suffixes _ment and _ness

1. couldn't
2. wouldn't
3. hasn't
4. I'd
5. wasn't
6. we're
7. enjoyment
8. movement
9. brightness
10. darkness

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Miss Clegg's  Phonics Group

1. chef
2. school
3. fridge
4. orange
5. page
6. large

Spellings for Checking on Friday 7th July

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

/sh/ as: sh, ch, ti, ci, ssi

1. shimmering
2. parachute
3. station
4. delicious
5. discussion

Tricky Words:

1. there
2. their
3. they're (they + are)

Miss Clegg's  Phonics Group

/ay/ as a_e   and /ou/

• place
• race
• house
• mouse

Tricky words:

• there
• their  
• they're (they + are)

Spellings for Checking on Friday 30th June

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

/ch/ spelt ch and tch

(Notice that these words include revision of the _ed and _ing suffixes)

• checked
• changing 
• watched
• fetched
• catching

/ch + u/ spelt 'ture'

• adventure
• nature
• furniture

Miss Clegg's  Phonics Group

Tricky words:

1. because
2. any
3. eyes
4. friends
5. laughed

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Spellings for Checking on Friday 24th June

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

/e/ spelt ea

• instead
• ready
• weather
• measure

/zh/ spelt s, si

• television
• measured

Common Exception Words: 

• could  ('oh you lucky duck')
• should
• would

Miss Clegg's  Phonics Group

• caught
• taught
• who
• again
• any
• many

Common Exception Words: 

could  ('oh you lucky duck')

should

would

Spellings for Checking on Friday 16th June

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

/i/spelt i and y

/o/ spelt o and a

1. picked
2. whisked
3. Egypt
4. gym
5. orange
6. watching
7. squashed
8. wandered

Common Exception Words: 

n/a

Miss Clegg's  Phonics Group

/igh/ spelt igh and y

1. night
2. fright
3. light
4. tight
5. sky
6. why
7. my
8. try
9. reply

Spellings for Checking on Friday 9th June

We are doing Phonics assessments this week so there will be no phonic-based spellings.  Instead, we will check the following Common Exception Words for all:

old

cold

gold

told

hold

new 

who

move

improve

Spellings for Checking on Friday 26th May

(Not checked on Friday 19th May so may look familiar!)

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Focus: Possessive apostrophes + suffixes (ed, ing, er)

1. tree's (The tree's leaves are bright green.)
2. children's (The children's laughter was loud.)
3. walked
4. skipped
5. talking
6. running
7. bigger
8. smaller

Common Exception Words: 

1. only
2. both
3. clothes

Miss Clegg's  Phonics Group

Tricky Word Focus

1. who
2. again
3. thought  (ough = only use good hands)
4. through  (ough = only use good hands)

Common Exception Words: 

1. only
2. both
3. clothes

Spellings for Checking on Friday 12th May

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Phonemes: /l/  and /ul/

Graphemes: l, ll, le, il, al, el

1. lorries (inc. revision of 'change the y to an i and add _es')
2. followed 
3. middle
4. April
5. natural
6. tunnel
7. squirrel

Common Exception Words: 

1. because
2. behind

Miss Clegg's MORNING Phonics Group

Phoneme: /or/

Graphemes: our ore

1. four
2. your
3. pour
4. more
5. before

Common Exception Words: 

1. because
2. behind

Spellings for Checking on Friday 5th May

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Phonemes: /k/  and /r/

Graphemes: c, k, ck, ch, r, rr, wr

1. across
2. cried
3. kitchen
4. monarch
5. checked
6. British
7. narrow
8. written

Common Exception Words: 

n/a due to short week

Miss Clegg's MORNING Phonics Group

Phoneme: /air/

Graphemes: are, ear, ere

1. care
2. square
3. pear
4. wear
5. there
6. where

Common Exception Words: 

n/a due to short week

Spellings for Checking on Friday 28th April

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Phonemes: /n/ and /m/

Graphemes: n, nn, kn, gn  /  m, mm, mb

1. January
2. running
3. know
4. gnome
5. March
6. swimming
7. climbing

Common Exception Words: 

1. people

2. every

Miss Clegg's MORNING Phonics Group

Phoneme: long /oo/  short /oo/

Graphemes: ou  oul

1. you
2. soup
3. would
4. should
5. could
6. shoulder

Common Exception Words: 

1. people

2. every

Spellings for Checking on Friday 21st April

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Phonemes: /t/ and /d/

Graphemes: t, tt, ed, d, dd

1. spluttered
2. kettle
3. stopped (the _ed sounds like /t/)
4. middle
5. hidden
6. suddenly

Common Exception Words: 

1. great
2. again

Miss Clegg's MORNING Phonics Group

Phoneme: /or/

Graphemes: au, aw

1. launch
2. August
3. yawned
4. lawn

Common Exception Words: 

1. great
2. again

Miss Clegg's AFTERNOON Phonics Group

The children have now joined Mrs Kelleher's group.  

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TERM 4

Friday 31st March 2023

There will not be any spellings for checking on Friday 31st March due to our assessment week in Rocket Phonics and lots of Easter activities next week.  If you would like to learn to read/spell any other words, you could have a look at the Common Exception Words for Year 2. Thank you.

Spellings for Checking on Friday 24th March 2023

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Focus: Homophones 

1. great
2. grate
3. hare
4. hair
5. weather
6. whether
7. peace
8. piece

Common Exception Words: 

• last
• past

Miss Clegg's MORNING Phonics Group

Phoneme: /er/

Graphemes: er and ir

• herb
• under
• over
• winter
• first
• girl
• birthday

Tricky Word

• about

Miss Clegg's AFTERNOON Phonics Group

Phoneme: ture

1. mixture
2. adventure
3. picture
4. creature
5. nature
6. capture

Common Exception Words:

1. money
2. people

Spellings for Checking on Friday 17th March 2023

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Phoneme: /j/

Graphemes: j, g, dge, ge

1. juggled
2. journey
3. gymnastics
4. giant
5. edge
6. badge
7. package
8. village

Common Exception Words: 

• floor
• door

Miss Clegg's MORNING Phonics Group

1. ew
2. new
3. few
4. chew
5. grew
6. flew

Tricky Words

1. person
2. move

Miss Clegg's AFTERNOON Phonics Group

Tricky Word Focus:

1. oh
2. their
3. people
4. Mr 
5. Mrs
6. looked (notice past tense _ed suffix)
7. called (notice past tense _ed suffix)

Common Exception Words:

1. any
2. many

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Spellings for Checking on Friday 10th March 2023

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Phoneme: /s/

Graphemes: s, ss, c, se, ce, sc, st

1. gasped
2. missed
3. December
4. century (links to our History topic)
5. house
6. office
7. scientist
8. listening

Common Exception Words: 

• could
• would
• should

Miss Clegg's MORNING Phonics Group

ue

1. true
2. tissue
3. blue

Tricky Words

1. clothes
2. busy
3. half
4. door
5. water

Miss Clegg's AFTERNOON Phonics Group:

Focus: /ul/ as le + _ed as as /t/ and /d/

1. middle
2. table
3. terrible
4. stopped
5. slipped
6. finished
7. mixed

Common Exception Words:

• break
• again

Spellings for Checking on Friday 3rd March 2023

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Phoneme: /air/

Graphemes: air, are, ear, ere

1. hairbrush
2. fairy
3. aware
4. careful
5. pear 
6. bear
7. there
8. somewhere

Common Exception Words: 

• move
• prove
• improve

Miss Clegg's MORNING Phonics Group

ue

1. rescue
2. Tuesday
3. blue
4. glue

Tricky Words

1. because
2. every
3. again
4. most

Miss Clegg's AFTERNOON Phonics Group:

gn, wr, tch

1. sign
2. gnaw
3. write
4. wrong
5. scratch
6. kitchen

Common Exception Words:

great

steak

Spellings for Checking on Friday 24th February 2023

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Phoneme: /eer/

Graphemes: eer, ear, ere

1. appear
2. nearly (notice _ly suffix)
3. engineer
4. cheerful (notice _ful suffix)
5. persevere
6. sphere

Common Exception Words: 

• move
• prove
• improve

Miss Clegg's MORNING Phonics Group

1. cube
2. use
3. computer
4. costume
5. June
6. ruler

Tricky Words

1. Mr
2. Mrs

Miss Clegg's AFTERNOON Phonics Group:

1. table
2. middle
3. kettle
4. walked
5. skipped
6. stopped

Common Exception Words:

1. because
2. money

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TERM 3

Spellings for Checking on Friday 10th February 2023

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Focus: suffixes -er, est, ing, ed

1. happier (change the y to an i and add ed)
2. funnier                        
3. happiest (change the y to an i and add ed)
4. funniest
5. flying (just add ing)
6. replying
7. replied (change the y to an i and add ed)
8. tried 

Common Exception Words: n/a

Miss Clegg's MORNING Phonics Group

1. music
2. human
3. unicorn
4. put
5. pull
6. push
7. people

Tricky Words:

• push
• people

Miss Clegg's AFTERNOON Phonics Group:

1. edge
2. hedge
3. bridge
4. badger
5. fridge

High Frequency Words (inc some revision):

• called
• where
• could

Spellings for Checking on Friday 3rd February 2023

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Focus: Contractions

1. couldn't 
2. shouldn't
3. wouldn't
4. don't
5. can't
6. that's
7. hasn't
8. you're
9. you've
10. they're

Common Exception Words: n/a

Miss Clegg's MORNING Phonics Group

/ee/ phoneme spelt 'y'

/ee/ phoneme spelt 'ey'

1. mummy
2. sleepy
3. key
4. donkey
5. slowly
6. twenty

Tricky Words:

• come
• kind

Miss Clegg's AFTERNOON Phonics Group:

/k/ phoneme spelt 'ch' as in chemist

/sh/ phoneme spelt 'ch' as in chef

1. machine
2. chef
3. chemist
4. character

High Frequency Words:

• could
• where

+ revision of:

• looked 
• asked

Spellings for Checking on Friday 27th January 2023

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Phoneme: /ou/ + /oi/

Graphemes: ou, ow, oi, oy

Note: Lots of these words have the _ing suffix.

1. around
2. mountain
3. counting
4. frowning
5. spoiling
6. joining
7. enjoying
8. annoying

Common Exception Words: n/a

Miss Clegg's MORNING Phonics Group

1. old
2. both
3. won't
4. happy
5. family
6. money

Tricky Words:

what

some

Miss Clegg's AFTERNOON Phonics Group:

1. house
2. nurse
3. dance
4. place
5. prince
6. school

High Frequency Words:

• looked
• asked

Spellings for Checking on Friday 20th January 2023

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Phoneme: /ur/

Graphemes: ur, er, ir, ear, or

1. purple
2. remember
3. thirteen
4. third
5. pearl
6. earth
7. worm
8. worth
9. working 

Common Exception Words: n/a

Miss Clegg's MORNING Phonics Group

Phoneme: /oa/

Graphemes: o_e, ow

1. home
2. alone
3. code
4. window
5. shadow
6. snow

Tricky Words:

• were
• there

Miss Clegg's AFTERNOON Phonics Group:

Phoneme: /s/  /j/

Graphemes: c (makes s sound)   g (makes j sound)

1. parcel
2. icy
3. cinema
4. giant
5. energy

High Frequency Words:

• their
• people
• looked

Spellings for Checking on Friday 13th January 2023

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Phoneme: /or/

Graphemes: our, oor, ore, augh

1. fourteen
2. brought
3. wore
4. shore
5. outdoors
6. floor
7. caught
8. taught

Common Exception Words:

• new
• who

Miss Clegg's MORNING Phonics Group

Phoneme: /igh/

Graphemes: igh, ie

1. night
2. light
3. fright
4. sign
5. pie
6. tried

Tricky Words:

• come
• have

Miss Clegg's AFTERNOON Phonics Group:

Phoneme: /or/

Graphemes: oor, au

1. poor
2. floor
3. door
4. caught
5. taught

High Frequency Words:

• once
• please

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Spellings for Checking on Friday 6th January 2023

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Phoneme: /or/

Graphemes: or, au, aw, ar

1. morning
2. stories (note 'change the y to an i' and + es for the plural of story)
3. Autumn
4. yawning
5. quarter
6. towards

Miss Clegg's MORNING Phonics Group

An informal check will take place this week.

Miss Clegg's AFTERNOON Phonics Group:

An informal check will take place this week.

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TERM 2 BELOW:

There will not be any spellings for checking on Friday 16th December.  This week in class we will be assessing the children's knowledge of Rocket Phonics for Term 2.

Spellings for Checking on Friday 9th December 2022

Please note: We will only have 2 Phonics sessions this week due to rehearsals, Christmas Performance, etc. so the Spellings for this week will not relate to our daily lessons, being either revision or tricky words. Thank you for your continued support at home.

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Revision of Term 2:

1. where
2. wheel
3. blue
4. rescue
5. few
6. football
7. after
8. dolphin
9. Mum's (including correct use of the apostrophe + s)

Mrs Willis's Phonics Group

Tricky Words:

1. people 
2. friends 
3. here 
4. your 
5. asked 
6. called 

Mrs Fordyce's Phonics Group

Tricky Words:

Spellings for Checking on Friday 2nd December 2022

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Focus in class: Possessive Apostrophes (singular)

This week, we will be learning how to use singular possessive apostrophes, eg. The dog's ball. Through our daily phonics lessons, we will also be revisiting previous graphemes and developing our reading skills.  I have decided not to check the children's understanding of possessive apostrophes; instead, we will focus on spelling some of the Year 2 Common Exception Words.  Thank you.  

NB.  Sometimes, when children learn about possessive apostrophes, they incorrectly use the apostrophe for a plural (eg. The dogs were running) and this is something which I will teach them this week.  

1. most
2. only
3. both
4. lothes
5. old
6. cold
7. gold
8. told
9. hold

Mrs Willis's Phonics Group

Phonemes: or, oa, long & short oo 

Graphemes: au, aw, ou, oul 

1. author 
2. launch 
3. crawl 
4. yawn 
5. soup 
6. shoulder 

Tricky Words:

1. could 
2. would 

Mrs Fordyce's Phonics Group

Phoneme: /ai/

Graphemes: ay, a_e ,a

1. play
2. Sunday
3. cake
4. snake
5. acorn

Spellings for Checking on Friday 25th November 2022

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Phoneme: short oo + ar

Graphemes: oo, u, oul + ar, a, al

1. football
2. pushed
3. shouldn't
4. couldn't
5. started
6. sharpened (note _ed suffix)
7. after
8. calm

Mrs Willis's Phonics Group

Revision of Previously taught sounds:

1. acorn 
2. glow 
3. wild 
4. angry 
5. shield 
6. both 
7. water
8. where 

Mrs Fordyce's Phonics Group

Tricky words:

1. some
2. one
3. said
4. come
5. do
6. so

Spellings for Checking on Friday 18th November 2022

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Phoneme: 'y+oo'

Graphemes: u, u_e, ue, ew

1. unicorn
2. costume
3. avenue
4. few

Common Exception Words:

1. wild
2. child
3. eye
4. climb

Mrs Willis's Phonics Group

Tricky Words:

1. oh
2. their
3. people
4. Mr
5. Mrs
6. looked
7. called
8. asked
9. could

Mrs Fordyce's Phonics Group

Phoneme: ure

1. sure
2. cure
3. picture
4. manure

Tricky Words:

1. like
2. have

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Spellings for Checking on Friday 11th November 2022

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Phonemes: long oo

Graphemes: u_e, ou, ue, ew 

1. afternoon
2. rules
3. group
4. statue
5. rescue
6. knew

Common Exception Words:

1. mind
2. kind

Mrs Willis's Phonics Group

Phoneme: ur

Graphemes: er, ir

1. person
2. expert
3. perch
4. shirt
5. thirsty
6. first

Tricky Words:

1. with
2. them

Mrs Fordyce's Phonics Group

1. soil
2. fear
3. fairy
4. pure

Tricky Words:

1. some
2. come

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Spellings for Checking on Friday 4th November 2022

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Focus: w,wh + f,ff,ph 

(Notice revision of suffixes _ing + _ed below)

1. walking
2. where
3. whispered
4. from
5. huffed
6. phone

Common Exception Words:

1. behind
2. find

Mrs Willis's Phonics Group

Graphemes: ue, ew

1. glue
2. statue
3. stew
4. new
5. chew
6. grew

Tricky Words:

1. will
2. see

Mrs Fordyce's Phonics Group

1. dart
2. thorn
3. burst
4. gown

5.  

   Tricky Words:

6. so
7. do

TERM 1 - OLD SPELLINGS BELOW:

Spellings for Checking on Friday 21st October 2022

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Focus: Suffixes _ed, _ing and _er 

NB. These important suffixes will be revisited several times throughout Year 2.

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')

Mrs Willis's Phonics Group

Phoneme: y+oo, long oo

Graphemes: u_e, ue, ew

1. costume 
2. rude 
3. rescue 
4. true 
5. few 
6. nephew

Tricky Words:

1. they
2. was

Mrs Fordyce's Phonics Group

1. dear
2. clear
3. pair
4. hair

Tricky Words:

1. all
2. are

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Spellings for Checking on Friday 14th October 2022

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

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

Mrs Willis's Phonics Group

Phoneme: /oa/ 

Graphemes: ow, oe, o

1. snow
2. window
3. goes
4. hoe
5. cold
6. gold

1. Tricky Words:
2. my
3. all

Mrs Fordyce's Phonics Group

1. crown
2. owl
3. coin
4. boil

Tricky Words:

1. was
2. they

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Spellings for Checking on Friday 7th October 2022

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Focus: Homophones

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

Common Exception Words:

1. money
2. people

Mrs Willis's Phonics Group

Phonemes: /ee/ and /ie/

Graphemes: y, ey,  ie and i

1. sticky
2. crazy
3. chimney
4. alley
5. dried
6. find

Tricky Words:

1. are
2. her

Mrs Fordyce's Phonics Group

Phonemes: /ar/   /or/

1. card
2. shark
3. corn
4. torn

Tricky Words:

1. we
2. she

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Spellings for Checking on Friday 30th September 2022

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

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

Mrs Willis's Phonics Group

Phoneme: /oa/

Graphemes: oa, o_e, oe

1. boat
2. float
3. phone
4. toe

Tricky Words:

1. be
2. you

Mrs Fordyce's Phonics Group

Phoneme: /oa/

Graphemes: oa, o_e

1. boat
2. coat
3. hope
4. home

Tricky Words:

1. be
2. you

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Spellings for Checking on Thursday 22nd September 2022

(It's Languages Day on Friday 23rd so we'll be checking on Thursday next week.)

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

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

Mrs Willis's Phonics Group

Phoneme: /igh/

Graphemes: igh, i_e, y

1. light
2. night
3. time
4. line
5. fly

Tricky Words:

1. we
2. me

Mrs Fordyce's Phonics Group

Phoneme: /igh/

Graphemes: igh, y

1. light
2. night
3. fly
4. cry

Tricky Words:

1. we
2. me

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Spellings for Checking on Friday 16th September 2022

Mrs Kelleher's Phonics Group

Phoneme: /ee/

Graphemes: ee, ea, e_e, ie, y, ey, e

1. been
2. peach
3. scene
4. field
5. happy
6. donkey
7. secret

Common Exception Words:

1. great
2. steak

Mrs Willis's Phonics Group

Phoneme: /ee/

Graphemes: ee, ea, y, ey

1. been
2. seen
3. peach
4. reach
5. happy
6. key

Tricky Words:

1. he
2. she

Mrs Fordyce's Phonics Group

Phoneme: /ee/

Graphemes: ee, ea

1. been
2. seen
3. peach
4. reach

Tricky Words:

1. he
2. she