Serious about spelling in Maple Class.
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 20th May; Tested on Monday 3rd June.
- Doubt
- Comb
- Island
- Foreign
- Limb
- Reign
- Gnome
- Suggest
- Marvellous
- Accommodate
Group 2
Focus: Silent Letters
Handed out on Monday 20th May; Tested on Monday 3rd June.
- Knee
- Autumn
- Soften
- Wrong
- Foreign
- Lamb
- Crumb
- Suggest
- Marvellous
- Accommodate
Group 3
Focus: ‘ly’ suffix
Handed out on Monday 20th May; Tested on Monday 3rd June.
- Hardly
- Fairly
- Lonely
- Nicely
- Slowly
- Curly
- Likely
- Shouted
- Car
- After
Group 1
Focus: ‘ent/ence’ words
Handed out on Monday 13th May; Tested on Monday 20th May.
- Obedient
- Confidence
- Abhorrent
- Ambivalent
- Transient
- Licence
- Audience
- Obedient
- Transparent
- Government
Group 2
Focus: ‘ent/ence’ words
Handed out on Monday 13th May; Tested on Monday 20th May.
- Accident
- Sufficient
- Fluent
- Client
- Sentence
- Silence
- Absence
- Obedient
- Transparent
- Government
Group 3
Focus: ‘less’ suffix
Handed out on Monday 13th May; Tested on Monday 20th May.
- Spotless
- Timeless
- Thankless
- Endless
- Homeless
- Useless
- Reckless
- Small
- Did
- New
Group 1 Week 3 Focus: ‘c/s’ words
Handed out on Tuesday 7th May; Tested on Monday 13th May.
- Dessert
- Decent
- Proceed
- Cycle
- Criticism
- Electrician
- Musical
- Desert
- Bruise
- Occurred
Group 2 Week 3 Focus: ‘c/s’ words
Handed out on Tuesday 7th May; Tested on Monday 13th May.
- Notice
- Bounce
- Police
- Cycle
- Pencil
- Dice
- Acid
- Desert
- Bruise
- Occurred
Group 3 Week 3 Focus: ‘ful’ suffix
Handed out on Tuesday 7th May; Tested on Monday 13th May.
- Joyful
- Useful
- Playful
- Cheerful
- Wishful
- Painful
- Hopeful
- Never
- Narrator
- How
Group 1 Week 2 Focus: ‘ough’ words
Handed out on Monday 29th March; Tested on Tuesday 7th May.
- Although
- Dough
- Enough
- Cough
- Drought
- Thoroughly
- Wrought
- Develop
- Exist
- Attached
Group 2 Week 2 Focus: ‘ough’ words
Handed out on Monday 29th March; Tested on Tuesday 7th May.
- Fought
- Plough
- Dough
- Cough
- Ought
- Thought
- Through
- Develop
- Exist
- Attached
Group 3 Week 2 Focus: ‘ness’ suffix
Handed out on Monday 29th ; Tested on Tuesday 7th May.
- Darkness
- Sadness
- Kindness
- Sickness
- Fitness
- Weakness
- Sweetness
- Long
- Over
- Tree
Handed out on Monday 18th March; Tested on Monday 25th 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 11th March; Tested on Monday 18th 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 5thNovember; Tested on Monday 12thNovember
- 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 5th 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 | |
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 5th January.
| 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 16th June; Tested on Friday 23rd 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 12th May; Tested on Friday 19th 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 5th May; Tested on Friday 12th 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 28th April; Tested on Friday 5th 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 24th 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 21st April; Tested on Friday 28th 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 21st 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 17th March; Tested on Friday 24th 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 10th March; Tested on Friday 17th 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 10th 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 10th February; Tested on Friday 24th 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 24th 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 3rd 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 3rd 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
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 6th January.
| 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 25th November; Tested on Friday 2nd 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 4th November and tested on Friday 11th 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 4th November; Tested on Friday 11th 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 14th October; Tested on Friday 21st 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 14th October; Tested on Friday 21st 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 7th October; Tested on Friday 14th 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 7th October; Tested on Friday 14th 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.
Miss McManus’s Spelling Group Week 3 Focus – /ai/ graphemes
Handed out on Friday 30th September; Tested on Friday 7th 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 7th 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 7th 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.
Mr Hardee’s Spelling Group Week 2 (The ‘ous’ sound)
Handed out on Friday 23rd and tested on Friday 30th
- delicious
- obvious
- infectious
- conscious
- disastrous
- marvellous
- mischievous
- achieve
- aggressive
- amateur
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s spelling focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 5 and 6 word list.
Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 2 Focus: -sion word ending
PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF TEST DAY
Handed out on Friday 23rd September; Tested on Thursday 29th September
- Division
- Invasion
- Confusion
- Decision
- Collision
- Television
- Tension
- Interest
- Particular
- Remember
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Mr Hardee’s Spelling Group Week 1 (ed suffix)
Handed out on Friday 16th and tested on Friday 23rd
- determined
- happened
- received
- hopped
- attached
- carried
- opened
- accommodate
- accompany
- according
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s spelling focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 5 and 6 word list.
Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 1 Focus: -ation word ending
Handed out on Friday 16th September; Tested on Friday 23rd September
- Presentation
- Station
- Information
- Adoration
- Sensation
- Preparation
- Admiration
- Accident
- Century
- Experiment
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Today we explored adding the suffix -ing to words.
We loved using the clay.
What words can you find at home end in ‘ing’?
Spelling this morning for Monkey Puzzle was a quick game of suffix match to root words. The competition and dedication amongst the class was fantastic. They were all determined do spell well and beat their partner!
Can you think of suffixes that we can to add to words?
Today 12 children took part in the first Year 3 and 4 Spelling Bee. All the children involved tried really hard, and it was a closely fought contest.
The winner in Year 3 was Harley and the winner in Redwood was Nina.
Well done to all those that took part- you should be very proud of yourselves!
Today 12 children took part in the first Team 3 Spelling Bee. It was a close fought event and year 5 was won by Nathan , whilst 1st place was shared by Phoebe and Adam in year 6.
The children performed extremely well and should be very proud of themselves!
A special mention needs to go to the other competitors: Kiera, Henry, Finlay, Morgan and Luke from year 5. Also Ethan, Zakary, Shana and Isaac from year 6. Well Done!
Miss Cleasby’s spelling group celebrated success in their spelling test with a dance. It was the first time everybody got the three exception words correct. Raffle tickets all round. Keep up the hard work.
This afternoon, Key Stage 2 watched as their teachers attempted to spell some VERY complicated words in the first ever Hazeldown School Spelling Bee! The children will compete in their own Spelling Bee next week!