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 30th Apr

Rule 1 - Words with the 's' sound spelt 'sc' (Latin origin)

science

abscess

ascend

descend

scene

scissors

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

Week 2 - Test on Wed 7th Apr

Rule 2 - Words with suffixes 'sion' and 'ssion'

confusion

percussion

exclusion

passion

transfusion

mission

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

Week 3 - Test on Wed 14th Apr

Statutory Word List

position

possess

potatoes

pressure

probably

promise

quarter

question

recent

regular

Week 4 - Test on Wed 21st Apr

Rule 3 - Homophones

weather

whether

who's

whose

medal

meddle

missed

mist

team

teem

Week 5 - Test on Wed 11th Jun

Statutory Word List

reign

remember

sentence

separate

special

straight

strange

strength

suppose

surprise

Week 6 - Test on Wed 18th Jun

Rule 4 - Suffix 'ous'

envious

courageous

spacious

furious

mountainous

poisonous

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

Week 7 - Test on Wed 25th Jun

Rule 5 - Prefixes 'un', 'dis', 'in' and 'sub'

unfinished

discover

inevitable

submarine

unlock

submerge

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

Week 8 - Test on Wed 2nd Jul

Rule 6 - Suffix 'ly'

happily

easily

gently

simply

basically

frantically

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

THIS IS THE LAST SPELLING TEST IN YEAR 4