As we have mock SATS next week we have decided not to set any specific spellings to learn. However, the children all have their own lists of the statutory Year 5/6 spelling words so they may like to refamiliarise themselves with these and/or to remind themselves of any spelling rules they find particularly tricky.
This week's spelling words are all words containing the letter string "ough".
As we draw closer to the SATs we are also encouraging the children to keep looking at the list of year 5 and 6 statutory words to ensure they are secure in spelling them. They are familiar with this list as they have been learning the words on it in both years 5 and 6.
This week's spelling words are all adjectives ending with -ant which can be turned into nouns ending with -ance/-ancy.
This week's spelling words are all homophones with the -ce/cy or -se/sy ending. Take care to learn their meanings carefully.
advice |
advise |
device |
devise |
licence |
license |
practice |
practise |
prophecy |
prophesy |
This week's root words all end in -fer so remember to learn the rules for how the ending changes.
Here are your -ably and -ibly words this week. Make sure you learn the rules not just these specific words!
Our spellings this week are all adjectives ending in -ent that can be turned into nouns ending -ence or -ency.
Our spellings this week all end with the "shuss" sound, but be careful with the spelling. These words either end with -cious or -tious. We will be learning the rules relating to choosing the correct spelling during the week.
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
Our spelling focus for this week is all about homophones, or words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have different meanings.
Our spelling focus for this week is all about the use of hyphens, so all of our words are hyphenated!
Our spelling focus for this week is all about the rule "i before e except after c" and, of course, some exceptions to this!
receive
ceiling
receipt
eight
neighbour
weigh
their
either
height
weird
As we have set more pages than usual for our English homework this week there are not specific words for the children to learn this week. Our spelling focus for this week will be the use of apostrophes and this will be covered in class. Of course, we would always encourage children to continue to familiarise themselves with the statutory spelling lists although there will not be a spelling test this week.
Our spelling focus for this week is on prefixes and how they change the root word they are added to.
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.
Our words for this week are all homophones - pairs of words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have different meanings. Take care to learn the correct spelling for each meaning.
As we will be carrying out mock SATs this week (please don't worry, we are building familiarity with the style of SATs as mentioned in this week's newsletter) we would suggest that children spend some time looking at the list of Year 5/6 words and perhaps some words from earlier years as well. The SATs spelling paper consists of 20 questions so we would recommend that children refamiliarise themselves with some of the words they find tricky words as well as reminding themselves of common spelling rules.
Our words for this week are all plurals! We will be looking at the rules for making plurals using -s, -es and -ies.
1. inches
2. families
3. glasses
4. copies
5. crashes
6. supplies
7. accidents
8. libraries
9. carpenters
10. merchants
Our words for this week are all "tricky" words with no specific rules to follow. During the week we will look at some strategies you may like to use to help you remember words that don't follow a particular spelling pattern:
Our words for this week all end in the suffix -sion. During the week we will look at the rules relating to which root words take this ending.
Our spelling focus for this week will be words ending in - ly.
As it is the first week back at school, we are taking it gently and will not be having our usual spelling test on Friday. However, the following words have been set for the children to learn and we will have a quiz on Friday to see how they have got on with them.