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 15th April

Words spelt with the /s/ sound spelt with 'sc'

science

crescent

discipline

fascinate

scientist

ascent

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

Week 2 - Test on Weds 22nd April

Words spelt with a 'soft c' spelt with 'ce'

century

experience

ceremony

certificate

centre

certain

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

Week 3 - Test on Wed 29th April

Words with a 'soft c' spelt with 'ci'.

medicine

exercise

special

cinema

citizen

accident

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

Week 4 - Test on Wed 6th May

Word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning

microphone

telephone

homophone

reality

realistic

realisation

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

Week 5 - Test on Wed 13th May

Word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning

solution

insoluble

signature

sign

assign

design

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

Week 6 - Test on Wed 20th May

Statutory spellings Challenge words

knowledge

separate

purpose

history

therefore

suppose

(4 mystery spellings during the test)