This year, we are trying to encourage pupils to focus on learning the rule behind spellings rather than learn a set of 10 spellings every week. As a result of this, your child will need to learn 6 spellings that follow a particular rule and then they will receive mystery spellings during their weekly spelling test (every Wednesday).

Week 1 - Test on Wed 4th Nov

Words with a shuhn sound spelt with ‘sion’ 

expansion

extension

comprehension

tension

corrosion

supervision

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

Week 2 - Test on Wed 11th Nov

Words with a /shuhn/ sound,

spelt with ‘ssion’ (if root word ends in ‘ss’ or ‘mit’)

expression

discussion

confession

permission

admission

transmission

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

Week 3 - Test on Wed 18th Nov

Words with a /shuhn/ sound,

spelt with ‘tion’ (if root word ends in ‘te’ or ‘t' / or has no definite root)

invention

injection

action

question

mention

attraction

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

Week 4 - Test on Wed 25th Nov

Words with a /shuhn/ sound,

spelt with ‘cian’ (if root word ends in ‘c’ or ‘cs’

musician

politician

electrician

magician

mathematician

dietician 

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

Week 5 - Test on Wed 2nd Dec

Words with ‘ough’ to make long /o/, /oo/ or /or/ sound

though

although

dough

through

breakthrough

thought

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

Week 6 - Test on Wed 9th Dec

Statutory spellings challenge

interest

experiment

potatoes

favourite

imagine 

material

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

Week 7 - test on 16th Dec

A selection of words from this half term

conclusion

profession

devotion

opposite

thought

technician

(4 mystery spellings during the test)