This is where you will find the weekly spelling words (and rules) that Year 6 are working on. 

Children will also be asked to write the spelling words in their contact books on Monday morning so they have a copy to learn at home.

Term 1, Week 7 (set 9th October 2026) 

This week's spellings are all pairs of homophones - words that sound the same, but have different spellings and meanings. 

• stairs
• stares
• cereal
• serial
• check
• cheque
• through
• threw
• draft
• draught 

Take care to learn the meaning of each different spelling so you choose the right one!!

Term 1, Week 6, (set 2nd October 2026)

There will be no specific spellings this week. The children will be drawing upon spelling knowledge they already know. Please practise the year 5 and 6 common exception word list.

Term 1, Week 5 (set 24th September 2026)

Our words this week are all plurals.  During the week we will be looking at the rules we can use to help us accurately spell words with -s, -es and -ies endings.

•  inches
• families
• glasses
• copies
• crashes
• supplies
• accidents
• libraries
• carpenters
• merchants

Term 1, Week 4 (set September 18th)

These words are a bit tricky this week as there are no set rules to follow.  We will be going through strategies to help with spellings this week. 

• bruise 
• guarantee 
• immediately 
• vehicle 
• yacht 
• languages 
• nougat 
• pacific 
• cruise 
• celebration

Term 1, Week 3 (set September 11th)

Our words this week all feature -sion. 

• division
• invasion
• confusion
• decision
• collision
• television
• revision
• erosion
• inclusion
• explosion

Term 1 Week 2 (set Friday 4th September)

We are starting the year by learning the 3 key spelling rules for adding -ly to words.  

• Prettily
• Greedily
• Clumsily
• Easily
• Sleepily
• Humbly
• Nobly
• Frantically
• Dramatically
• Accidentally