Spellings

Spelling
Here are this week's spellings.  This doubles up as a handwriting practise and as a vocabulary builder.  Please make sure that you can use all the words in context as well as being able to spell them.
Spellings
 
Spelling is a priority for us at Yaxham.
 
We have dropped the weekly spelling tests as they weren't impacting on the children's writing.
Instead, the children have a "clued spelling" box - where they work on their own set of spellings with a partner three times a week.
 
In addition to this, a selection of words each half term are sent home from the government's statutory word list.  These can be practised in the handwriting book or, any way that is a preferred method for consistent recall.  It is vitally important that they children know what these words mean and can use them in conversation.
 
There will be a test at the end of each half term on a random selection of the statutory words.
 
 
 
Year 5 and 6 spellings advice and statutory word list