Monday 8th - Friday 12th June

We will be practising different spelling patterns in preparation for assessments in the next few weeks. As well as this we are focusing this week on the following:

programme

pronunciation

queue

recommend

rhythm

secretary

sincerely

soldier

suggest

thorough

programme, pronunciation, queue, recommend, rhythm, secretary, sincerely, soldier, suggest, thorough

Have a lovely half term! Spellings for your return:

Monday 1st - Friday 5th June 2026

Suffix 'ive'

attractive

creative

addictive

assertive

exhaustive

appreciative

offensive

expressive

corrective

explosive

Please look up any words you do not know the meaning of.

Monday 18th - Friday 22nd May 

ie and ei words:

ceiling

weird

either

height

conceit

science

relief

patient

quiet

medieval

Monday 11th - Friday 15th May

Etymology

dictation

verdict

footpath

pathway

biosphere

biography

audience

auditory

synchronise

chronicle

Monday 4th - Friday 8th May

Year 5 and 6 words

symbol

suggest

develop

according

familiar

curiosity

determined

environment

interfere

temperature

Monday 27th April - Friday 1st May

Homphones

who's

whose

morning

mourning

cereal

serial

guest

guessed

father

farther

Make sure you know the meaning of these words - challenge yourself by putting them in a sentence.

Monday 20th - 24th April

Year 5 and 6 words

awkward

bargain

category

cemetery

committee

communicate

communication

competitive

conscience

conscious

Monday 13th to Friday 17th April 2026

Homophones

by

buy

bye

you're

your

their

there

they're

witch

which

Check you know the meanings of these words - when do you use them? Practise by putting them into a sentence; this will help clarify meaning.

Monday 23rd - Friday 27th March

Words with ‘ei’ and ‘ie’.

pierce

field

mischief

obedient

fierce

vein

neighbour

perceive

receive

deceit

Monday 16th - Friday 20th March

Homophones - make sure you know the meaning and context of each word so that you can put them in a sentence:

Male        mail

great       grate

grown     groan

scene     seen

knot        not

Monday 9th - Friday 13th March

This week we're building on everything we have learnt in Year 5 so far in preparation for our spelling assessment on Friday.

To help at home please practise your year 5 and 6 words plus the following spelling patterns. We will continue to practise throughout the week as usual.

Homophones

Ch/sh sounds

• soft ‘c’ words: science, scissors
• ough words
• year 5 and 6 words
• -ious ending words: ambitious
• prefixes: -mis,
• -tion ending words: direction
• suffixes: -ly, - ance, -ence, -ed, -able
• ei or ie spellings: receive, believe
• ably ibly ible ial able

Monday 2nd - Friday 6th March

Building on root words:

definite

definitely

undefined

finished

unfinished

unattached

definitive

detachable

reattachment

detached 

Tuesday  24th - Friday 27th February

Year 5 & 6 Common exception words

average

sincere

queue

rhyme

disastrous

excellent

opportunity

sufficient

relevant

signature

Monday 9th - Friday 13th February 2026

Cannot

shouldn't

might

occasionally

shan’t

ought

wouldn't 

regularly

usually

intermittently 

Which of these are Modal verbs and which are time adverbials?

Monday 2nd - Friday 6th February 

practise

practice

lead

led

steel

steal

altar

alter 

herd

heard

Make sure you know the meaning of these words.

Spelling for week 26th - 30th January

(words ending in -ibly and -ably)

1. horribly

2. incredibly

3. understandably

4 possibly

5. sensibly

6. terribly

7. adorably

8. comfortably

9. noticeably

10. considerably

(don't forget to look up the meanings of any words you do not know)

Spelling focus for week 19th - 23rd January:

(Hyphens)

1. co-worker

2. co-exist

3. de-emphasise

4. co-author

5. re-educate

6. re-elect

7. re-examine

8. anti-clockwise

9. de-escalate

10. re-sign

What do these words mean? Look them up in a dictionary.

Spelling focus for week 12th - 16th January:

( spellings with rare graphemes and phonemes)

1. yacht

2. guarantee

3. bruise

4. immediately

5. languages

6. cruise

7. celebration

8. necessary

9. shoulder

10. embarrass

What do these words mean - look them up in a dictionary.

Spelling focus for week 5th - 9th January:

1. immediate

2. equipment

3. occur 

4. individual

5. stomach

6. marvellous

7. physical

8. profession

9. restaurant

10. variety

What do these words mean - look them up in a dictionary.

Spelling focus for week 8th - 12th December:

define          refine

defensive    microscope

telescopic   quadruple

replace       refresh

reclaim       thankful

What do these words mean - look them up in a dictionary.

Spelling focus for week 8th - 12th December:

Predict          dictate

dictator          pacific

abbreviation  pact

contradict      brevity

pacify            brief

What do these words mean - look them up in a dictionary.

Spelling focus for week commencing 23rd - 28th November

Spelling focus for week commencing 17th - 21st November 

It's               teacher's

they're         school's

won't           friend's

wouldn't      he's

you're         she'll

In your contact book's can you write two sentences per day using these words - make sure you write them with the appropriate context.

Spelling focus for week commencing 10th - 14th November

Spelling focus for week commencing 3rd November - 7th November:

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