Spelling
This week's spelling list
Main spellings for Group 1
In class, we are learning to spell words ending in Y with a suffix added. The children will have one week to learn their spellings and will be tested in school on Friday 15th March.
We will also be helping the children to learn these words in school daily.
merriment | plentiful | happily | nastiness | pitiful |
happiness | penniless | prettiest | beautiful | silliness |
Alternative Spellings for Group 2
In class, we are learning to spell tricky spelling pattern words. The children will have one week to learn their spellings and will be tested in school on Friday 15th March.
We will also be helping the children to learn these words in school daily.
able | active | absorb | acid | autumn |
atlas | angle | advise | affect |
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This list is from the National Curriculum and the expectation is that all children will be able to read, understand and spell these words, using them correctly in their written work. Some of these words are decodable and others will be 'tricky' words which cannot be sounded out and just need to be learnt.
Year 3 & 4 Statutory word list:
accident | century | experiment | interest | particular | remember |
accidentally | certain | extreme | island | peculiar | sentence |
actual | circle | famous | knowledge | perhaps | separate |
actually | complete | favourite | learn | popular | special |
address | consider | February | length | position | straight |
answer | continue | forward(s) | library | possess | strange |
appear | decide | fruit | material | possession | strength |
arrive | describe | grammar | medicine | possible | suppose |
believe | different | group | mention | potatoes | surprise |
bicycle | difficult | guard | minute | pressure | therefore |
breath | disappear | guide | natural | probably | though |
breathe | early | heard | naughty | promise | although |
build | earth | heart | notice | purpose | thought |
busy | eight | height | occasion | quarter | through |
business | eighth | history | occasionally | question | various |
calendar | enough | imagine | often | recent | weight |
caught | exercise | increase | opposite | regular | woman |
centre | experience | important | ordinary | reign | women |
Additionally, each cycle will include words that contain specific phonemes, prefixes and suffixes. Lists will be sent home in pupil's' Spelling books, with a view to learning them well before they are tested on the Friday. Spellings can also be practised on Spelling Shed, using the student's login.