Spelling focus for the last week of term will be our Year 5 and 6 spelling list.

The following spellings - homophones- will be assessed on Friday 17th October:

1.  aisle

2.  isle

3.  aloud

4.  allowed

5.  affect

6.  effect

7.  heard

8.  herd

9   past

10 passed

Note: make sure you know the meanings of ALL of these words and the difference between the two words that sound the same.

The following spellings ending in 'ible/'able will be assessed on Friday 10th October:

Note: make sure you know the meanings of ALL of these words.

The following spellings will be assessed on Friday 3rd October:

Erupt

tricycle

passport

format

triangle

geologist

aquarium

telescope

spectator

interrupt

Note: make sure you know the meanings of ALL of these words.

The following spellings will be assessed on

Friday 26th September

doubt

island

lamb

solemn

thistle

knight

debt

numb

autumn

whistle

Beginning of Year 5 Spelling Assessment 

The children will be assessed on Friday 19th September

The assessment will be on an assortment of spelling rules. This range includes Year 5 & 6 spelling list - a copy of which you will find below. We will be practising many of the spelling rules in class but you may wish to look at some of them at home. Normal spelling tests will resume next week.

The following variety of spelling patterns will be assessed on Friday:

Suffixes: e.g. -ation, -ly -ous.

Word endings that sound the same but are not spelt the same e.g.

-cious/-tious  -ant/-ance/-ancy/-ent/-ence/-ency -ably/-ibly.

Silent letters (i.e. letters whose presence cannot be predicted from the pronunciation of the word). 

Homophones (Years 3 and 4) ~ other words that are often confused (Years 5 and 6)

The following spellings will be tested on

Friday 12th September 2025

plough

drought

bought

fought

couch

trough

although

enough

through

brought