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Spellings

Spellings often need to be learnt in different ways.

Use magnetic letters on the fridge.

Use different things to write in- even use a bucket of water and an old paint brush outside.  

If you have tried a different way let us know!

Little and often is the key!

Week beginning Monday 6th July 2020

Week beginning Monday 29th June 2020

Year 1

Year 2

Week beginning Monday 22nd June 2020

Year 1

Geraldine the Giraffe learns /ay/

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Year 2

Monday 15th June 2020

Year 1

This week it is the ph sound.

Geraldine the Giraffe learns /ph/

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Year 2

Monday 1st June 2020

Year 1

This week it is the air sound.

Mr Thorne Does Phonics - Episode AIR

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Monday 18th May 2020

Year 1

This week it is the or sound.

Mr Thorne Does Phonics - Episode OR

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Year 2

This week it is words ending in el.

Monday 11th May 2020

Year 1

This week it is the ou sound.

ou for the /ow/ sound - Mr Thorne Does Phonics

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Geraldine the Giraffe learns /ou/ in pound

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Year 2

This week it is words ending with le.

Monday 4th May 2020

Year 1

This week it is trigraph ear.

The /ear/ - Mr Thorne Does Phonics

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Geraldine the Giraffe learns /ear/ sound

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Year 2

This week is our second week with the suffix ness.  This time with a new spelling rule.

Monday 27th April.

Year 1

This week it is digraph ar.

Mr Thorne Does Phonics - Episode AR

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Geraldine the Giraffe learns the /ar/

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Year 2

This week we are adding the suffix ness to a root word for the first time.

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Monday 20th April

Year 1

This week the sound is split digraph u-e.

u-e split digraph - Mr Thorne Does Phonics

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Geraldine the Giraffe learns /u-e/

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Year 2

This week it is the ee sound spelt ey.

Monday 30th March 2020

Year 1

This week it is the split digraph i-e.

i-e split digraph - Mr Thorne Does Phonics

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Geraldine the Giraffe learns /i-e/

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Year 1 spellings, week beginning 30th March

Year 2 spellings, week beginning 30th March.

Year 1

Last week it was words with the split digraph o-e.

o-e split digraph - Mr Thorne Does Phonics

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Geraldine the Giraffe learns /o-e/

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Year 2 - 

Spelling rule adding er or est.