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.

Spellings for Term 2 Week 1 (set 23rd October)

For the first week of Term 2, we will be focusing on 13 specific words from the Year 5/6 spelling list.  These are the words for the week:

• shoulder
• hindrance
• according
• thorough
• mischievous
• conscience
• familiar
• vehicle
• attached
• neighbour
• embarrass
• suggest
• interfere

Term 1 Week 8 (set October 17th)

We have been impressed with the word choices the children have made when selecting their spellings for the past week so we would like them to continue in a similar way this week.

We would like the children to select 10 spellings from the Year 5/6 word list (copied below) and to really focus on learning these this week.  They may also like to try and use them in their writing (if appropriate).

Term 1 Week 7 (set 10th October 2025)

This week the children have been tasked with setting their own spellings!  They will go through their English book identifying words that have been highlighted as incorrectly spelt over the last term and will choose 10 of them to focus on learning this week.

Alternatively, they can choose to focus on 10 words from the Year 5/6 spelling list that they find particularly tricky.

The statutory spelling lists for Year 5/6 and Year 3/4 are pasted below to help.

Term 1, Week 6 (set Friday 3rd October)

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

Term 1, week 5 (set 26th September)

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.

1. inches
2. families
3. glasses
4. copies
5. crashes
6. supplies
7. accidents
8. libraries
9. carpenters
10. merchants

Term 1, Week 4 (set 19th September)

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

Bruise

Guarantee

Immediately

Vehicle

Yacht

Languages

Nougat

Pacific

Cruise

celebration.

Term 1, Week 3 (Set September 12th)

Our words this week all feature -sion. 

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

Term 1 Week 1 and 2 (set Friday 5th September)

As we are not setting any other homework this week (to allow the children some settling in time) we are asking the children to look at these 2 lists of spelling words.  They will be given week 3's set (of the usual 10 words) from Friday 12th Sept.

Week 1:

• Desperate

• Marvellous

• Equipment

• Communicate

• Competition

• Temperature

• Opportunity

• Nuisance

• Especially

• Awkward

Week 2:

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