spelling – Hazeldown Primary School

Foundation – Common Exception Words – 1.4.22

Today we have been learning to spell some of our ‘Common Exception’ words. We Looked at how some of the words rhyme and discussed why they rhyme. We noticed that they all have the same ending. We also know that the exception in these words is that the letter e is making the /ee/ phoneme. Look at our fantastic rainbow word writing. Our Growth Mindset was evident in the progress we made as we worked. We always monitor our work to see where we can improve. We know that mistakes are our friends and if we make a mistake, we just try again. 🙂 We also demonstrated our eagerness to learn by practising other words which we know we need to work on.

We worked on the fine muscles in our fingers by cutting out Common Exception word pictures to take home.

Can you think of any other Common Exception words which rhyme?

As part of our spelling today, Fir class created sentences about Remembrance Day which included words from the year 3/4 spelling list. We reflected on the sacrifices they made during the war and felt empathy for the lives lost and others who were/are impacted by war. We demonstrated our resourcefulness by using our spelling list to create the sentences. We then shared our sentences with the class.

This week in Holly Class, we have been practising our personalised spellings. We used the metacognition cycle to plan how we were going to do this, then we monitored throughout the lesson. Finally, we evaluated at the end to see if our strategy was effective, or if we need to use a different strategy next time. Here are some of the excellent strategies the pupils used.

Today, we had a class competition based on year 3/4 spelling words. We worked collaboratively to choose the correct spelling from multiple choice questions. We needed to be speedy and accurate to hatch our monsters. We loved this so much, we played 4 rounds before going home. We can’t wait to play this again soon!

Year 3 have been exploring homophones today. Our main focus was understanding which ‘to’, ‘two’, ‘too’ and ‘there’, ‘they’re’, ‘their’ to use. We even recapped some of the previous homophones we have looked at. We marched, clapped and tapped our heads to spell the correct homophone for the sentence. We had a lot of fun doing this and we can’t wait to learn more about homophones.

We have been having fun with spelling in Year Three.

Have a look at the table below and the photos of us. Can you find and object and say what the rules for that object is if it becomes plural?

Welcome to our new class – Hobeny (A cominbation of Holly and Ebony).

We have had a very busy week this week. We have started following the new lockdown approach and been working very hard.

In our SPaG session we found a new method for trying to rememeber tricky words. This is called the ‘naughty letters’ method. In this method, you write the word out but make the letters that catch you out look different. In my example, some people find spelling the word ‘necessary’ tricky as it can be hard to recall which letters are doubled.

We also looked at simple mnemonics that can help us. For the same word, we learnt the mnemonic ‘one collar and two sleeves’.

Some of the children have been demonstrating their technology skills in SOLE. One of our MUSTS was to present some information about Charles Darwin. some children chose to create a website, whilst others created short video presentations.

We hope you enjoy our work.

In Holly Class, we have been working really hard on our spellings. At the beginning of the term, we were tested on our year 5/6 spelling words which created our own personalised spelling list. We then used a range of strategies to practise our personal spellings. This week, we have tested on these spellings again. We used metacognition (thinking about thinking) to reflect on and evaluate the strategies that helped us, or didn’t help us, to make progress.

Here are a couple of examples of the progress made:

This week in Ebony, we have been talking about metacognition.

Part of this has been during our spelling sessions. At the start of the term, we were tested on the first half of our Year 6 spelling list. Then, over the course of the term, we used a ranged a strategies to learn those spellings we did not get correct. This week, we were tested on the same words again. We then compared our results to the results from the start of term.

Most of us had improved, but some had not (or only improved a small amount).

This whole process involved metacognition (or thinking about learning).

To start with we identified areas we needed to improve, then we planned our approach by choosing a strategy that we thought would work and finally we evaluated our approach by seeing how much we had improved.

When we work on the second half of the Year 6 spellings, we will need to look back at our approach and consider if we need to change it or keep it the same.

This morning Monkey Puzzle had fun testing each other on the ‘ly’ suffix that we have been focussing on this week. They played a super suffix board game which allowed them to practice the ‘ly’ words and if they made a mistake they had to write them out and miss a go. I think great fun was had by all. Fantastic collaboration skills were shown and the morning flew by…time flies when you’re having fun!

In Phonics today, we were looking at different ai sounds. We focused on ai, ay and the split a-e digraph. In pairs, we acted as sound detectives and circled the ai sounds in a story. Some of us even spotted other alternatives, such as eight, great and grey.

We noticed that ai usually comes in the middle of a word and ay usually comes at the end of a word.

We care about our spellings. Getting them right helps us to communicate. Have a look at some of the ways we can show that we are taking pride in our spellings. What can you do to improve your spellings?

We have been working collaboratively today as we have started to create word webs. To begin with, we made sure we could use a dictionary correctly by finding chosen words and their definitions. After this, we wrote a word in the middle of our paper, and then we found its definition. Next, we split the word into its prefix and root word and found out what they meant. Our next step will be to find other words containing our chosen prefix and root word.

Year 6 have been working hard on their spelling. We have used a spelling test that we did at the end of half term to focus on learning from our mistakes. There were lots of learning attitudes on show including collaboration, resilience and resourcefulness.

Group 1

Focus: Silent Letters

Handed out on Monday 20^th May; Tested on Monday 3^rd June.

Doubt
Comb
Island
Foreign
Limb
Reign
Gnome
Suggest
Marvellous
Accommodate

Group 2

Focus: Silent Letters

Handed out on Monday 20^th May; Tested on Monday 3^rd June.

Knee
Autumn
Soften
Wrong
Foreign
Lamb
Crumb
Suggest
Marvellous
Accommodate

Group 3

Focus: ‘ly’ suffix

Handed out on Monday 20^th May; Tested on Monday 3^rd June.

Hardly
Fairly
Lonely
Nicely
Slowly
Curly
Likely
Shouted
Car
After

Group 1

Focus: ‘ent/ence’ words

Handed out on Monday 13^th May; Tested on Monday 20^th May.

Obedient
Confidence
Abhorrent
Ambivalent
Transient
Licence
Audience
Obedient
Transparent
Government

Group 2

Focus: ‘ent/ence’ words

Handed out on Monday 13^th May; Tested on Monday 20^th May.

Accident
Sufficient
Fluent
Client
Sentence
Silence
Absence
Obedient
Transparent
Government

Group 3

Focus: ‘less’ suffix

Handed out on Monday 13^th May; Tested on Monday 20^th May.

Spotless
Timeless
Thankless
Endless
Homeless
Useless
Reckless
Small
Did
New

Group 1 Week 3 Focus: ‘c/s’ words

Handed out on Tuesday 7^th May; Tested on Monday 13^th May.

Dessert
Decent
Proceed
Cycle
Criticism
Electrician
Musical
Desert
Bruise
Occurred

Group 2 Week 3 Focus: ‘c/s’ words

Handed out on Tuesday 7^th May; Tested on Monday 13^th May.

Notice
Bounce
Police
Cycle
Pencil
Dice
Acid
Desert
Bruise
Occurred

Group 3 Week 3 Focus: ‘ful’ suffix

Handed out on Tuesday 7^th May; Tested on Monday 13^th May.

Joyful
Useful
Playful
Cheerful
Wishful
Painful
Hopeful
Never
Narrator
How

Group 1 Week 2 Focus: ‘ough’ words

Handed out on Monday 29^th March; Tested on Tuesday 7^th May.

Although
Dough
Enough
Cough
Drought
Thoroughly
Wrought
Develop
Exist
Attached

Group 2 Week 2 Focus: ‘ough’ words

Handed out on Monday 29^th March; Tested on Tuesday 7^th May.

Fought
Plough
Dough
Cough
Ought
Thought
Through
Develop
Exist
Attached

Group 3 Week 2 Focus: ‘ness’ suffix

Handed out on Monday 29^th ; Tested on Tuesday 7^th May.

Darkness
Sadness
Kindness
Sickness
Fitness
Weakness
Sweetness
Long
Over
Tree

Handed out on Monday 18^th March; Tested on Monday 25^th March.

Group 1 – Focus ‘ent’ words

Innocent
Frequent
Independent
Adjacent
Amusement
Fluorescent
Tournament
Neighbour
Aggressive
Communicate

Group 2 – ‘ent’ words

Absent
Accent
Apartment
Complacent
Current
Urgent
Infrequent
Neighbour
Aggressive
Communicate

Group 3 – ‘zh says s’

Treasure
Measure
Vision
Usual
Pleasure
Leisure
Television
Can’t
Good
I’ll

Handed out on Monday 11^th March; Tested on Monday 18^th March. ‘

Group 1 – Focus: ’ly’ words

Frequently
Possibly
Effectively
Absolutely
Ordinarily
Virtually
Monopoly
Lightning
Disastrous

Group 2 – Focus: ’ly’ words

Heavenly
Patiently
Currently
Narrowly
Exactly
Lively
Kindly
Lightning
Disastrous
Vegetable

Group 3 – Focus: ’ment’ words

Enjoyment
Apartment
Department
Payment
Movement
Treatment
Pavement
Live
Say
More

Year Two Spellings, Week 9 Focus: / oa /

Handed out on Monday 5^thNovember; Tested on Monday 12^thNovember

coat
boat
moat
float
wrote
most
throw
father
parent
children

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 1 & 2 word list.

Over the Christmas holidays, please revisit all of the spellings which you have learnt over the past term. Make sure that you can still accurately spell them all, giving a bit of extra time and practise those you didn’t get correct the first time round! There will be a spelling test based on a random selection of these words on Friday 5^th January.

Group Specific Words			Year 3/4 Words
Snake			accident
Clay			century
obey	remember	beach	experiment
Neighbor	Autumn	extreme	interest
they	eight	table	particular
afraid	delay	nephew	remember
brake	crayon	photo	accidentally
Married	station	fluff	certain
played	plane	triumph	extreme
Stopped	angel	elephant	island
slipped	inside	sphere	particular
worried	invite		sentence
giggled	fright		actual
Whistled	knight		circle
yellow	night		famous
spoke	tonight		knowledge
envelope	July		perhaps
remote	reply		separate
dough	came		actually
Don’t	escape		complete
frozen	apricot		favourite
sneeze	fame		learn
blizzard	round		popular
wise	found		special
noise	mountain		address
hammer	cushion		consider
summit	pudding		February
crumb	soot		length
column	dream		position
remember	steam		straight

Group Specific Words			Year 3/4 Words
choice	argue	coming	accident
voice	threw	wanted	century
noise	grew	watched	experiment
joint	think	looked	interest
point	pick	waited	particular
foil	click	shouted	remember
boil	sock	hopped	accidentally
round	ticket	stayed	certain
sound	sink		extreme
shout	crack		island
brown	unfair		particular
crowd	share		sentence
house	wear		actual
ground	care		circle
bike	chair		famous
like	scared		knowledge
bright	hair		perhaps
night	these		separate
why	happy		actually
silent	week		complete
best	every		favourite
sting	speak		learn
stick	leader		popular
steal	need		special
twist	writing		address
stir	making		consider
flew	taking		February
knew	looking		length
new	shutting		position
blue	talking		straight

Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 7 Focus: homophones

Handed out on Friday 16^th June; Tested on Friday 23^rd June

accept – except
effect – affect
ball – bawl
berry – bury
rain – rein – reign
break – brake
whose – who’s
notice
purpose
thought

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.

Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 4 Focus: word ending – ssion

Handed out on Friday 12^th May; Tested on Friday 19^th May

expression
discussion
confession
permission
admission
compression
omission
breathe
early
heard

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.

Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 3 Focus: word ending – tion

Handed out on Friday 5^th May; Tested on Friday 12^th May

invention
injection
action
hesitation
completion
attraction
correction
natural
probably
though

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.

Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 2 Focus: word ending – sion

Handed out on Friday 28^th April; Tested on Friday 5^th May

division
invasion
confusion
decision
collision
television
version
breath
disappear
guide

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.

Miss McManus’ Spelling Group Focus – KS2 Homophones

Handed out on Friday 21st April: Tested on Monday 24^th April

alter / altar
practise / practice
weather / whether
proceed / precede
bridle / bridal
dissent / descent
stationery / stationary
morning / mourning
principal / principle
through / threw

Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 1 Focus: word ending – ture

Handed out on Friday 21^st April; Tested on Friday 28^th April

creature
furniture
picture
nature
adventure
mixture
future
minute
pressure
therefore

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.

Spelling Revisit and Review – Mr Pattison’s group

Over the Easter holidays, please revisit all of the spellings which you have learnt over the past term. Make sure that you can still accurately spell them all, giving a bit of extra time and practise those you didn’t get correct the first time round! There will be a spelling test based on a random selection of these words on Friday 21^st April.

Group Specific Words			Year 3/4 Words
immature	autobiography	interact	material
immortal	autograph	intercity	possession
impossible	automobile	international	strength
impatient	supermarket	interrelated	appear
imperfect	superman	intercept	decide
immigrate	superstar	interchangeable	fruit
impose	superhuman	interclub	medicine
redo	measure	subdivide	possible
refresh	treasure	subheading	suppose
return	pleasure	submarine	mention
reappear	enclosure	submerge	potatoes
redecorate	leisure	substantial	surprise
regenerate	pressure	subsequent	bicycle
refurbish	reassure	subordinate	difficult
disappoint	illegible		guard
disagree	illegal		arrive
misbehave	irregular		describe
misspell	irrelevant		grammar
mislead	irresponsible		answer
disobey	illogical		forward
dislike	irrational		continue
			library
			possess
			strange

Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 8 Focus: word ending – sure

Handed out on Friday 17^th March; Tested on Friday 24^th March

measure
treasure
pleasure
enclosure
leisure
pressure
reassure
bicycle
difficult
guard

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.

Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 7 Focus: Prefix – super and auto

Handed out on Friday 10^th March; Tested on Friday 17^th March

autobiography
autograph
automobile
supermarket
superman
superstar
superhuman
mention
potatoes
surprise

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.

Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 6 Focus: Prefix –dis and mis

Handed out on Friday 24th February; Tested on Friday 10^th March

disappoint
disagree
misbehave
misspell
mislead
disobey
dislike
medicine
possible
suppose

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.

Year 1 – Spring 1

Spelling Week 6 Focus:

Handed out on Friday 10^th February; Tested on Friday 24^th February.

lean
treat
clean
your
saw

Note: Spellings 1-3 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 4-5 are from the Year 1 High-frequency word list.

Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 5 Focus: Prefix – il and ir

Handed out on Friday 10th February; Tested on Friday 24^th February

illegible
illegal
irregular
irrelevant
irresponsible
illogical
irrational
arrive
describe
grammar

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.

Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 4 Focus: Prefix – im

Handed out on Friday 3^rd February; Tested on Friday 10th February

immature
immortal
impossible
impatient
imperfect
immigrate
impose
material
possession
strength

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.

Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 3 Focus: Prefix – re

Handed out on Friday 27th January; Tested on Friday 3^rd February

redo
refresh
return
reappear
redecorate
regenerate
refurbish
appear
decide
fruit

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.

Spelling Revisit and Review – Mr Pattison’s group

Group Specific Words			Year 3/4 Words
presentation	scheme	grate – great	accident
station	chorus	here – hear	century
information	chemist	missed – mist	experiment
adoration	echo	mail – male	interest
sensation	character	knot – not	particular
preparation	chaos	meat – meet	remember
admiration	stomach	groan – grown	accidentally
division	forgetting	science	certain
invasion	gardening	scissors	extreme
confusion	beginning	scene	island
decision	limitation	discipline	particular
collision	preferred	fascinate	sentence
television	limiting	crescent	actual
tension	beginner	scent	circle
serious	vein	antiseptic	famous
obvious	weigh	anti-clockwise	knowledge
curious	eight	antisocial	perhaps
hideous	neighbour	antibiotic	separate
spontaneous	they	antibody	actually
courteous	obey	antibacterial	complete
generous	sleigh		favourite
musician	Vikings		learn
electrician	runes		popular
magician	longboat		special
politician	history		address
mathematician	dragon		consider
beautician	Norway		February
optician	Sweden		length
route	Denmark		position
anticlimax	great		straight

Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 11 Focus: -cian word ending

Handed out on Friday 25^th November; Tested on Friday 2^nd December

musician
electrician
magician
politician
mathematician
beautician
optician
address
consider
February

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.

Handed out on Friday 4^th November and tested on Friday 11^th November

Category
Committee
Communicate
Competition
Controversy
Convenience
Correspond
Criticise
Curiosity
Definite

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 5 & 6 word list.

Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 8 Focus: Homophones

Handed out on Friday 4^th November; Tested on Friday 11^th November

grate – great
here – hear
missed – mist
mail – male
knot – not
meat – meet
groan – grown
knowledge
perhaps
separate

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.

Miss Bal’s Spelling Group – Week 5 Focus: -ly word ending

Handed out on Friday 14^th October; Tested on Friday 21^st October

Happy – Happily
Funny – Funnily
Dirty – Dirtily
Crazy – Crazily
Amazing – Amazingly
Scary- Scarily
Naughty – Naughtily
Actual
Circle
Famous

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.

Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 5 Focus: -ous word ending

Handed out on Friday 14^th October; Tested on Friday 21^st October

Serious
Obvious
Curious
Hideous
Spontaneous
Courteous
Generous
Actual
Circle
Famous

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.

Miss Bal’s Spelling Group – Week 4 Focus: Suffixes (ing)

Handed out on Friday 7^th October; Tested on Friday 14^th October

Swim – Swimming
Skip – Skipping
Grab – Grabbing
Hop – Hopping
Shop – Shopping
Close – Closing
Hope – Hoping
Island
Peculiar
Sentence

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.

Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 4 Focus: Suffix with a vowel

Handed out on Friday 7^th October; Tested on Friday 14^th October

Forgetting
Gardening
Beginning
Limitation
Preferred
Limiting
Beginner
Island
Peculiar
Sentence

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.

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Miss McManus’s Spelling Group Week 3 Focus – /ai/ graphemes

Handed out on Friday 30^th September; Tested on Friday 7^th October

weigh
veins
portray
maintain
hesitate
remaining
calculate
temperature
sincerely
sufficient

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 5 & 6 word list.

Miss Bal’s Spelling Group – Week 3 Focus: Yr 3/4 Spelling Words

Handed out on Thursday 29th September; Tested on Friday 7^th October

Ordinary
Centre
Enough
Through
Busy
Build
Material
Accidentally
Certain
Extreme

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.

Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 3 Focus: ch as k

Handed out on Thursday 29th September; Tested on Friday 7^th October

Scheme
Chorus
Chemist
Echo
Character
Chaos
Stomach
Accidentally
Certain
Extreme

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.