This week’s spellings are words which end in ‘le’.

Click here to see this week’s spelling lists: le endings

Click here to learn more about words that end with ‘le’: Le endings.

To minimise the number of items travelling between home and school, we will not be using a spelling book in Darwin class during the first half of the autumn term. This will be reviewed after half-term.

Weekly spellings will be posted on this web page so that pupils can access them and learn them at home. We will also spend time in class learning the week’s spelling pattern, alongside the morphology and etymology of the words.

New spelling words will be shared with children on Monday morning and their knowledge of the spelling patterns will be tested on the following Monday morning. Pupils can bring the marked test home 72 hours after it has been marked.

Please note that pupils are expected to achieve at least half-marks (if the words are very straight-forward this may change to at least 7/10). If pupils achieve a poor score, they spend additional time re-learning the spellings in ‘spelling club’ at lunch time. This is not a punishment but rather a chance to ensure that they become better spellers! I will text you to let you know if your child has achieved a low score.

Our first spelling focus is very much a revision task. This week we are looking at the suffix ‘ing’.

adding ing

If you would like to spend some time learning about suffixes at home please click here: Suffixes.

I will not be posting the weekly spelling list over the next few weeks. Instead, this is an excellent opportunity for you to concentrate on learning all of the statutory spelling words.

The Government two huge ‘statutory spelling’ lists. These are the words that pupils should be able to spell accurately at the end of Years 3 & 4 and at the end of Years 5 & 6.

If you would like to do a weekly spelling list, this would be a good place to begin – learning ten a week.

Years 3 & 4 statutory spelling list

Years 5 & 6 Statutory Word List

This week we are revising words from the Year 3/4 spelling list.

Words ending in  -ous

This week’s words are all related to books!

Book Related Words 

This week’s spellings have the prefixes: ment, ance, ence.

suffixes ment ance ence

These can be printed off to help you to learn your spellings over the week:

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

This week’s spellings are common words with affixes (prefixes/suffixes)

Common words – some with affixes

Prefixes – more information for parents

Suffixes – more information for parents

This week’s spellings have been taken from the statutory spelling lists. I have added affixes (prefixes/suffixes) to some of the words.

Spellings from the statutory list

Want to see what is on the statutory word lists? Click below!

Years 3 & 4 statutory spelling list

Years 5 & 6 Statutory Word List

This week’s spellings are words which can be changed by adding a prefix.

In the test, I will read out each word without the correct prefix; you will need to spell each word correctly, complete with the correct prefix.

This week’s list:       im, dis, un

Find out more about prefixes and suffixes here:

Prefixes and Suffixes

This week’s spellings revise homophones from Years 3 & 4. Remember you need to be able to spell them correctly AND use the appropriate spelling for the given context!

“This work is grate/great!” said Mrs. Evans.

Homophones Revision

Click here to learn more about homophones.