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 9th Sept

Words with /aw/ spelt augh and au

caught

naughty

taught

daughter

autumn

clause

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

Week 2 - Test on Wed 16th Sept

Adding the prefix in- (meaning 'not' or ‘into’)

inactive

incorrect

inaccurate

insecure

indefinite

incomplete

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

Week 3 - Test on Wed 23rd Sept

Adding the prefic im- (before a root word starting with ‘m’ or ‘p’)

immature

immeasurable

impossible

immortal

imperfect

impatient

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

Week 4 - Test on Wed 30th Sept

Adding the prefix il- (before a root word starting with ‘i’) and the prefix ir- (before a root word starting with ‘r’)

illegal

illegible

illogical

irregular

irrelevant

irresponsible

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

Week 5 - Test on Wed 7th Oct

Homophones and near homophones

medal

meddle

missed

mist

scene

seen

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

Week 6 - Test on Wed 14th Oct

Words with /shun/ endings spelt with ‘sion’ (if root word ends in ‘se’, ‘de’ or ‘d’)

division

invasion

confusion

decision

collision

television

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

Week 7 - test on 21st Oct

A selection of words from this half term

important

witch

explosion

immeasurable

irresistible

division

(4 mystery spellings during the test)