20 November 2020
This week, the spellings are based on phonemes we have been learning in our phonics lessons.
spoons
blood
start
spark
tenth
sixth
The children will be tested on these words next Friday 27 November. When checking the spellings with your child, it is useful to put the word in a sentence so they understand its meaning. Look at the spelling activities guide on the website and in your child’s homework books for some ideas to practise these words. Making up silly sentences, using the words, would be a great way to practise spellings, handwriting and writing sentences!
13 November 2020
This week, the spellings are based on phonemes we have been learning in our phonics lessons.
brain
steep
flight
bright
toast
float
The children will be tested on these words next Friday 20 November. When learning the spellings with your child, it is useful to put the word in a sentence so they understand its meaning. Look at the spelling activities guide on the website and in your child’s homework books for some ideas to practise these words. Making up silly sentences, using the words, would be a great way to practise spellings, handwriting and writing sentences!
06 November 2020
This week, the spellings are based on phonemes we have been learning in our phonics lessons. This completes our learning of the Phase 3 phonemes. Next week in phonics, we will be starting Phase 4 learning.
down
join
year
hair
sure
summer
The children will be tested on these words next Friday 13 November. When checking the spellings with your child, it is useful to put the word in a sentence so they understand its meaning. Look at the spelling activities guide on the website and in your child’s homework books for some ideas to practise these words. Making up silly sentences, using the words, would be a great way to practise spellings, handwriting and writing sentences!
16 October 2020
This week, our spellings include some of the Phase 3 phonemes we have been learning in our phonics – ar, or, ur and ow.
March
dark
short
torch
down
burn
As there is a training day next Friday, the children will be tested on these words on Thursday 22 October.
When checking the spellings with your child, it is useful to put the word in a sentence so they understand its meaning. Look at the spelling activities guide on the website and in your child’s homework books for some ideas to practise these words. Making up silly sentences, using the words, would be a great way to practise spellings, handwriting and writing sentences!
09 October 2020
This week, the spellings are based on phonemes we have been learning in our phonics lessons.
song
rain
tree
night
coat
tooth
The children will be tested on these words next Friday 16 October. When checking the spellings with your child, it is useful to put the word in a sentence so they understand its meaning. Look at the spelling activities guide on the website and in your child’s homework books for some ideas to practise these words. Making up silly sentences, using the words, would be a great way to practise spellings, handwriting and writing sentences!
02 October 2020
This week, the spellings are based on some of the tricky words from our phonics revision.
I
no
the
to
go
into
The children will be tested on these words next Friday 09 October.
When checking the spellings with your child, it is useful to put the word in a sentence so they understand its meaning.
Look at the spelling activities guide (also in your child’s homework books) for some ideas to practise these words. Making up silly sentences, using the spelling words, would be a great way to practise spellings, handwriting (look out for the ascenders like in the letter h and the descenders like in the letter g) and writing sentences!
25 September 2020
This week, the spellings are based on some of the sounds we have been recapping in phonics.
vet
chin
with
quick
Jack
wish
The children will be tested on these words next Friday 02 October.
When checking the spellings with your child, it is useful to put the word in a sentence so they understand its meaning.
Look at the spelling activities guide for some ideas to practise these words. The guide can also be found in your child’s homework book.
18 September 2020
This week, we have been learning about capital letters – how to write them and when to use them. For this week’s spellings, we would like the children to practise writing the letters of the alphabet as capital letters. The children will be tested on a selection of the capital letters next Friday.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
To support your child with their letter formation, please refer to the letters below. We start these letters at the top.
11 September 2020
Our first week of spellings in Year One focuses on your child’s first name and surname. The children have been practising this in class during the week.
Next Friday, your child will be tested on writing their full name accurately including capital letters.
The children could use the back of their homework book for spelling practice.
06 March 2020
This week’s spellings are tricky words. Tricky words are those words which cannot be sounded out easily.
| little |
| one |
| what |
| when |
| out |
| do |