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 14th Jan

Rule 1 - The /g/ sound spelt 'gu'

guide

guitar

guard

guest

guardian

quarantee

(4 mystery spellings during the test will follow the same spelling rule)

Week 2 - Test on Wed 22nd Jan

Rule 2 - words ending with 'ture'

mixture

adventure

capture

feature

moisture

nature

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

Week 3 - Test on Wed 29th Jan

Statutory Word List

grammar

group

heard

heart

height

history

imagine

increase

important

interest

Week 4 - Test on Wed 5th Feb

Rule 3 - Homophones

scene

seen

mail

male

ball

bawl

Week 5 - Test on Wed 12th Feb

Statutory Word List

island

knowledge

learn

length

library

material

medicine

mention

minute

natural

Week 6 - Test on Wed 26th Feb

Statutory Word List

naughty

notice

occasion

often

opposite

ordinary

particular

peculiar

perhaps

popular

Week 7 - Test on Wed 5th March

Rule 4 - Prefixes 'inter' and 'anti'

international

intercept

antibiotic

intergalactic

interpersonal

antidote

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

Week 8 - Test on Thurs 13th Mar

Rule 5 - Suffixes 'cian', 'sion', 'ssion', 'tion'

physician

extension

profession

fiction

optician

collision

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

THIS IS THE LAST SPELLING TEST UNTIL AFTER THE EASTER HOLIDAYS