Weekly Spelling Focus
Children learn in different ways and not every strategy to learn spellings will suit all.
Please click on the image below for a variety of strategies to try when supporting the learning of spellings.
Continue to scroll down for the weekly spelling Home Learning.
Below is a list of words that your child should be able to spell correctly from their learning in KS1, as well as the Year 3 & 4 spelling words.
Year 3 & 4 Spelling Words
There are some good websites to help with spelling these words that you can try.
Weekly Spelling
Your child will have the name of their spelling group in written in their Contact Book. Your child will also write their spellings into their Contact Book on a Monday.
Week Beginning 5th June
Orangutans | Chimps & Gorillas |
ear | automatic |
dear | autograph |
hear | superman |
near | superstar |
fear | autopilot |
beard | autonomy |
clear | superior |
year | superior |
tear (as in crying) | experience |
spear | exercise |
Week beginning 22nd May
These spellings are for the half term holiday and the first week back. Chimps and Gorillas now have the same spellings as Gorillas are consolidating prior learning.
Orangutans | Chimps & Gorillas |
pure | careful |
cure | carefully |
sure | careless |
picture | carelessly |
the | sadly |
to | thoughtful |
no | thoughtfully |
go | merciful |
I | mercifully |
into | roughly |
Week Beginning 15th May
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
her | decide | height |
term | describe | history |
fern | different | imagine |
verb | difficult | increase |
herd | disappear | naughty |
germ | early | notice |
kerb | earth | occasion |
perch | eight | often |
nerve | eighth | opposite |
serve | enough | weight |
Week Beginning 8th May
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
coin | telescope | heard |
soil | television | breath |
foil | subordinate | enough |
boil | telegraph | woman |
join | telephone | surprise |
point | subway | occasionally |
toil | submarine | special |
noise | submerge | strength |
oil | beautiful | medicine |
joint | wishful | different |
Week Beginning 1st May
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
cow | fatigue | island |
now | catalogue | knowledge |
how | antique | learn |
down | unique | length |
town | complete | library |
brown | consider | material |
frown | continue | medicine |
clown | tidiness | mention |
owl | hateful | minute |
crown | hopeful | natural |
Week Beginning 24th April
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
fur | accident | heel |
burn | accidentally | heal |
turn | actual | he’ll |
hurt | actually | plain |
surf | address | plane |
curl | although | groan |
nurse | answer | grown |
purse | appear | rain |
burst | arrive | rein |
church | believe | reign |
Week Beginning 17th April
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
for | reappear | cousin |
fork | rebuild | enough |
corn | replay | tough |
sort | redo | couple |
torch | return | height |
born | misbehave | history |
short | misapply | imagine |
north | mistake | increase |
storm | misread | important |
port | mishear | interest |
The following spellings are for the Easter Holiday and the first week back.
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
car | address | young |
cart | calendar | trouble |
farm | February | double |
park | breathe | country |
dark | caught | touch |
hard | favourite | rough |
star | fruit | group |
jar | guard | guard |
bar | guide | heard |
sharp | heart | heart |
Week Beginning 20th March
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
roof | hear | fruit |
room | here | grammar |
pool | quiet | group |
boot | quite | guard |
root | sea | guide |
loop | see | heard |
zoom | be | heart |
hoop | bee | height |
coop | blew | history |
foot | blue | imagine |
Week beginning 13th March
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
moon | don’t | gym |
food | can’t | cygnet |
zoo | won’t | myth |
soon | aren’t | pretty |
boo | isn’t | women |
book | haven’t | pyramid |
look | hasn’t | mystery |
good | weren’t | Egypt |
wood | I’m | build |
cook | you’re | completely |
Week beginning 6th March
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
boat | it’s | basically |
goat | I’ll | dramatically |
coat | he’ll | frantically |
road | she’ll | publicly |
soap | we’ll | experiment |
toad | they’ll | extreme |
loaf | should’ve | famous |
soak | could’ve | favourite |
load | would’ve | February |
moat | shouldn’t | forwards |
Week beginning 27th February
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
rain | education | quickly |
pail | affection | nicely |
section | lately | |
snail | application | closely |
tail | connection | happily |
wait | fiction | funnily |
pain | nation | luckily |
sail | motion | gently |
train | caution | simply |
brain | imagination | humbly |
Half Term holiday & Week beginning 20th February
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
see | fort | invention |
tree | corn | completion |
feet | porch | discussion |
sleep | torch | hopping |
green | draw | stopped |
meet | crawl | popped |
week | hawk | napping |
deep | claw | clapped |
keep | haunt | tension |
seed | sort | boxes |
Week beginning 6th February
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
rain | easel | one |
pail | travel | won |
sail | jewel | blew |
tail | tunnel | blue |
parcel | bee | |
train | shovel | be |
pain | windmill | flower |
main | spell | flour |
wait | shell | write |
gain | full | right |
Week beginning 30th January
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
shed | kindly | famous |
shin | quickly | favourite |
bash | wisely | February |
cash | slowly | fruit |
fish | smartly | meet |
wish | yearly | meat |
dish | neatly | knot |
rash | quietly | not |
rush | friendly | here |
mash | bravely | hear |
Week beginning 23rd January
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
quick | entertainment | automatic |
quiz | enjoyment | autograph |
chip | agreement | superman |
chat | achievement | superstar |
chin | amazement | autopilot |
chop | statement | autonomy |
chick | playful | superior |
much | careful | superior |
such | spiteful | experience |
rich | mouthful | exercise |
Week beginning 16th January
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
shop | kindness | careful |
path | fitness | carefully |
chair | dampness | careless |
sheep | wickedness | carelessly |
three | shyness | sadly |
sang | weakness | thoughtful |
ring | fatness | thoughtfully |
king | blindness | merciful |
bang | brightness | mercifully |
rang | sickness | roughly |
Week Beginning 9th January
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
will | fearless | therefore |
quick | tasteless | though |
chin | sunless | thought |
thin | hairless | through |
hang | selfless | various |
pink | joyless | chef |
we | homeless | sure |
the | cloudless | special |
I | loveless | brochure |
push | thoughtless | sugar |
Week Beginning 12th December. *Please note, due to Christmas activities we will be continuing with these words for the first week of January.
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
sprig | reddest | displease |
spree | fittest | disown |
spring | glummest | disappear |
strap | dimmest | dishonest |
strong | maddest | disallow |
street | gladdest | disorder |
scrub | slimmest | dislike |
screen | grimmest | exercise |
our | clothes | experiment |
by | busy | extreme |
Week Beginning 5th December
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
crust | swimmer | decide |
slept | robber | describe |
crunch | runner | different |
drench | trotter | difficult |
French | saddest | disappear |
sprint | fattest | early |
spree | thinnest | earth |
me | behind | eight |
go | both | eighth |
you | break | enough |
Week Beginning 28th November
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
swish | snappy | telescope |
sweep | funny | television |
plump | blurry | subordinate |
stomp | grubby | telegraph |
clamp | sloppy | telephone |
shrink | sadder | subway |
blank | thinner | submarine |
my | behind | submerge |
me | both | beautiful |
one | break | wishful |
Week Beginning 21st November
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
sleep | humming | fatigue |
flight | wrapping | catalogue |
plain | stepping | antique |
spoon | sitting | unique |
smart | gripping | complete |
swish | dropping | consider |
sweet | clapping | continue |
once | any | tidiness |
my | bath | hateful |
put | beautiful | hopeful |
Week Beginning 14th November
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
stop | running | gym |
clap | yapping | cygnet |
crown | upsetting | myth |
droop | hugging | pyramid |
brown | wrapped | mystery |
fresh | ripped | Egypt |
growl | chopped | unhappy |
where | any | dislike |
ask | clothes | disappear |
your | grass | enjoyed |
Week Beginning 7th November
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
frog | climb | accident |
grip | gold | actual |
plum | move | actually |
flag | cutest | arrive |
clap | largest | believe |
track | latest | retake |
crab | wisest | misremember |
today | closest | miscalculate |
they | safest | rewrite |
says | tamest | retry |
Week Beginning 17th October
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
champ | after | arrive |
paint | child | bicycle |
thank | many | continue |
chimp | baking | eighth |
lunch | scoring | unhappy |
bench | caring | unlucky |
toast | joking | dislike |
she | arguing | can’t |
ask | rescuing | don’t |
school | juicy | I’ll |
Week Beginning 10th October
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
pull | because | prey |
they | father | pray |
said | water | ate |
camp | luckiest | eight |
sink | noisiest | waist |
bank | baked | waste |
tilt | scored | rain |
belt | cared | reign |
rest | joked | important |
desk | argued | although |
Week Beginning 3rd October
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
put | happier | reins |
my | angrier | vein |
by | cheekiest | veil |
sand | craziest | reign |
pond | furriest | neigh |
sent | scariest | weigh |
bent | foggiest | sleigh |
camp | everybody | eight |
jump | would | freight |
pump | could | weight |
Week Beginning 29th September
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
you | buried | appear |
your | copied | believe |
they | cheekier | caught |
hail | crazier | decide |
rain | hungrier | early |
card | heavier | favourite |
park | sillier | group |
fork | thirstier | imagine |
corn | noisier | knowledge |
town | tinier | learn |
Week Beginning 22nd September
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
is | partying | searched |
his | drying | hoped |
has | praying | walking |
sat | flying | running |
map | dirtied | skipping |
pig | emptied | reaching |
dog | studied | unhappy |
sack | replied | unlucky |
rip | cried | distrust |
puff | hurried | disallow |
Week Beginning 15th September
Orangutans | Chimpanzees | Gorillas |
the | cities | searches |
today | spies | smiles |
of | babies | waved |
do | bunnies | floated |
to | fries | clapping |
said | stories | planning |
says | puppies | baking |
are | pennies | singing |
were | flies | runner |
was | studies | walker |