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
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