Week beginning: 24th April

Words that can be nouns and verbs

challenge
protest
broadcast
benefit
charge
function
influence
interest
object
damage

Year 5/6 words

programme
pronunciation
queue
recognise
recommend
relevant

Week beginning: 17th April

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

programme
telegram
hologram
diagram
grammar
grammatical
parallelogram
monogram
programmer
program

Year 5/6 words

parliament

persuade
physical
prejudice
privilege
profession

Week beginning: 27th March

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

signature
assign
design
designate
significant
resignation
resign
insignificant
assignment
signal

Year 5/6 words

necessary
neighbour
nuisance
occupy
occur
opportunity

We will complete a brief assessment of our spellings this term

Week beginning: 20th March

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

accommodate
accompany
access
accuse
accost
accrue
accuracy
accomplish
accumulate
accentuate

Year 5/6 Words

language
leisure
lightning
marvellous
mischievous
muscle

Week beginning: 13th March

Words with a ‘soft c’ spelt /ce/

cemetery
certificate
celebrate
necessary
deceased
December
sacrifice
hindrance
nuisance
prejudice

Year 5/6 words

hindrance
identity
immediate(ly)
individual
interfere
interrupt

Week beginning: 6th March

Words with endings which sound like /shuhl/ after a consonant letter

partial
confidential
essential
substantial
torrential
sequential
potential
spatial
martial
influential

Year 5/6 words

foreign
forty
frequently
government
guarantee
harass

Week beginning: 27th February

Words with endings which sound like /shuhl/ after a vowel letter

official
special
artificial
social
racial
crucial
facial
beneficial
superficial
antisocial

Year 5/6 words

especially
exaggerate
excellent
existence
explanation
familiar

Week beginning: 13th February

Assess pupil’s progress against the objectives that have been covered within this half-term.

Review of all spellings this term.

Year 5/6 Words

develop
dictionary
disastrous

embarrass
environment
equip (–ped, –ment)

Week beginning: 6th February

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

interrupt
interfere
intercept
interject
intertwine
interim
internal
intersperse
interloper
interest

Year 5/6 Words

correspond
criticise (critic + ise)
curiosity
definite
desperate
determined

Week beginning: 30th January

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

commit
committee
transmit
submit
commitment
emit
permit
intermittent
omit
unremitting

Year 5/6 Words

communicate
community
competition
conscience*
conscious*
controversy