Spellings in Key Stage One are taught using a multi-sensory approach during different lessons. Spellings are taught during the Year 1 Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Phonics lessons daily, during Year 2’s Spelling, punctuation and grammar lessons daily and during english lessons where we further explore spelling patterns and common exception words.

Little Wandle Phonics Lessons

Year 1 have phonics lessons daily, where they explore the grapheme phoneme relationship. They explore digraphs (two letters, one sound) and trigraphs (three letters, one sound) and learn to read them in a variety of words. The phonics programme includes basic spelling patterns, explores alternative graphemes for spelling a wide variety of words and exposes children to many tricky words and teaches them ‘what’s tricky about them’ to support their learning of common words which don’t fit common spelling patterns.  

See below for more information about how we support children’s spelling and reading through phonics:

https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

Spelling, punctuation and grammar Lessons

Spellings are taught daily via a series of sequenced lessons in school. The spelling programme used focuses on the explicit teaching of spelling so that children understand how to apply patterns, strategies and knowledge to the spelling of words.

To help support your child’s spelling at home, you could work on learning the words from the common exception word list. These can be found below for each year group.

Year-1 CEW

Year-2 CEW