Welcome to Year 3, 4, & 5
Welcome to Year 3, 4, 5 and the team. This is the home to our wonderful young learners as well as Mrs Bennett & Mrs Myers.
We expect to be happy, safe, enjoy, challenge, excel and inspire all who are in our class. We are respectful towards each other and work together as a team, taking into account all of our different personalities and needs as well as varying learning styles. Our ethos is one that promotes a happy learning environment through independence, teamwork, resilience and a can do approach. We pride ourselves on building on and scaffolding the foundations for life-long learning enthusiasm and aspirations.
Educational Values
We promote educational values throughout every lesson. These are values that promote life long learning and compliment personal skills.
Each month we focus on a new value, what it means, what it looks like and how we can show the value to others.
Visit our Class Dojo pages to find out more about what is happening in our amazing classroom.
Maths
Our maths lessons will consist of Maths Interventions and over learning of number bonds & number pairs, times tables, quick recall of addition, subtraction, division and multiplication.
Literacy
When we teach our children Literacy, we always ensure that there is a secure link between reading, writing and phonics. Our children understand that if they can read a word, then they can also write the word too. In our class we are using the Read, Write Inc Scheme of Work for our literacy lessons. This is complimented by daily handwriting sessions and individual reading.
Spelling lists
This is our year groups spelling list that our children will be learning to read and spell (independently in a spelling test and in their writing). It is the list of words that each child should be able to spell by the end of their current class year.
Year 3
address |
disappear |
height |
quarter |
appear (dis/re) |
early |
history |
question |
arrive |
earth |
interest |
regular (ir) |
bicycle |
eight/eighth |
learn |
sentence |
breath |
famous |
length |
strange |
breath |
february |
library |
surprise |
build |
forward (s) |
minute |
therefore |
busy/business |
fruit |
natural |
weight |
certain |
group |
often |
woman/women |
circle |
guard |
perhaps |
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continue |
guide |
possible (im) |
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different |
heard |
potatoes |
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difficult |
heart |
promise |
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Year 4
accident (ally) |
experience |
naughty |
recent |
actual (ly) |
experiment |
notice |
reign |
believe |
extreme |
occasion (ally) |
remember |
calendar |
favourite |
opposite |
separate |
caught |
grammar |
ordinary |
special |
centre |
imagine |
particular |
straight |
centaury |
increase |
peculiar |
strength |
complete (ion) |
important |
popular |
suppose |
consider (ion) |
island |
position |
though/although |
decide (ion) |
knowledge |
possess (ion) |
thought |
describe (ion) |
material |
pressure |
through |
enough |
medicine |
probably |
various |
exercise |
mention |
purpose |
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Year 5
according |
equip (ped, ment) |
opportunity |
achieve |
excellent |
profession |
aggressive |
existence |
programme |
ancient |
explanation |
queue |
apparent |
familiar |
recognised |
attached |
foreign |
recommend |
available |
forty |
sacrifice |
average |
frequently |
shoulder |
awkward |
hindrance |
signature |
bargain |
identity |
solider |
bruise |
immediate (ly) |
stomach |
category |
individual |
suggest |
community |
interfere |
symbol |
competition |
interrupt |
system |
criticise |
lighting |
temperature |
critic |
marvellous |
twelfth |
curiosity |
mischievous |
variety |
determined |
muscle |
vegetable |
develop |
occupy |
vehicle |
dictionary |
occur |
yacht |
Spelling Rules
Each year group has a set of spelling rules.
These are the spelling rules that our children will be learning.
Year 3
Rule |
Example |
N.N |
Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable |
forgetting, forgotten, beginning, beginner, prefer, preferred gardening, gardener, limiting, limited, limitation |
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The /ɪ/ sound spelt y elsewhere than at the end of words |
myth, gym, Egypt, pyramid, mystery |
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The /u/ sound spelt ou |
young, touch, double, trouble, country |
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More prefixes dis, mis, in, re, sub, inter, super, anti, auto, |
disappoint, disagree * misbehave, mislead inactive, incorrect * immature, immortal, impossible, irregular, irrelevant * redo, refresh, return subdivide, subheading interact, intercity supermarket, superman antiseptic, anti-clockwise * autobiography |
dis mis in re sub inter super anti auto |
The suffix –ation The suffix – ly The suffix - ous |
information, adoration, sensation, sadly, completely, usually (usual + ly), finally (final + ly) poisonous, dangerous e.t.c |
ation ly ous |
Endings which sound like /ʃən/, spelt –tion, –sion, –ssion, –cian |
invention, injection, action, hesitation, completion discussion, confession, permission, admission expansion, comprehension, tension musician, magician, politician, mathematician |
tion sion ssion cian |
Words with endings sounding like /ʒə/ or |
measure, treasure, pleasure, enclosure, picture, nature, adventure |
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Endings which sound like /ʒən/ |
division, invasion, confusion, decision, collision, television |
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Words with the /k/ sound spelt ch (Greek in origin) |
scheme, chorus, chemist, echo, character |
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Words with the /ʃ/ sound spelt ch (mostly French in origin) |
chef, chalet, machine, brochure |
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Words ending with the /g/ sound spelt –gue and the /k/ sound spelt –que |
league, tongue, antique, unique |
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Words with the /s/ sound spelt sc (Latin in origin) |
science, scene, discipline, fascinate, crescent |
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Words with the /eɪ/ sound spelt ei, eigh, or ey |
vein, weigh, eight, neighbour, they, obey |
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Possessive apostrophe with plural words |
girls’, boys’, babies’, children’s, men’s, mice’s |
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Homophones and near-homophones |
accept/except, affect/effect, ball/bawl, berry/bury, brake/break, fair/fare, grate/great, groan/grown, here/hear, heel/heal/he’ll, knot/not, mail/male, main/mane, meat/meet, medal/meddle, missed/mist, peace/piece, plain/plane, rain/rein/reign, scene/seen, weather/whether, whose/who’s |
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Year 4
Rule |
Example |
N.N |
Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable |
forgetting, forgotten, beginning, beginner, prefer, preferred gardening, gardener, limiting, limited, limitation |
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The /ɪ/ sound spelt y elsewhere than at the end of words |
myth, gym, Egypt, pyramid, mystery |
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The /u/ sound spelt ou |
young, touch, double, trouble, country |
|
More prefixes dis, mis, in, re, sub, inter, super, anti, auto, |
disappoint, disagree * misbehave, mislead inactive, incorrect * immature, immortal, impossible, irregular, irrelevant * redo, refresh, return subdivide, subheading interact, intercity supermarket, superman antiseptic, anti-clockwise * autobiography |
dis mis in re sub inter super anti auto |
The suffix –ation The suffix – ly The suffix - ous |
information, adoration, sensation, sadly, completely, usually (usual + ly), finally (final + ly) poisonous, dangerous e.t.c |
ation ly ous |
Endings which sound like /ʃən/, spelt –tion, –sion, –ssion, –cian |
invention, injection, action, hesitation, completion discussion, confession, permission, admission expansion, comprehension, tension musician, magician, politician, mathematician |
tion sion ssion cian |
Words with endings sounding like /ʒə/ or |
measure, treasure, pleasure, enclosure, picture, nature, adventure |
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Endings which sound like /ʒən/ |
division, invasion, confusion, decision, collision, television |
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Words with the /k/ sound spelt ch (Greek in origin) |
scheme, chorus, chemist, echo, character |
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Words with the /ʃ/ sound spelt ch (mostly French in origin) |
chef, chalet, machine, brochure |
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Words ending with the /g/ sound spelt –gue and the /k/ sound spelt –que |
league, tongue, antique, unique |
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Words with the /s/ sound spelt sc (Latin in origin) |
science, scene, discipline, fascinate, crescent |
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Words with the /eɪ/ sound spelt ei, eigh, or ey |
vein, weigh, eight, neighbour, they, obey |
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Possessive apostrophe with plural words |
girls’, boys’, babies’, children’s, men’s, mice’s |
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Homophones and near-homophones |
accept/except, affect/effect, ball/bawl, berry/bury, brake/break, fair/fare, grate/great, groan/grown, here/hear, heel/heal/he’ll, knot/not, mail/male, main/mane, meat/meet, medal/meddle, missed/mist, peace/piece, plain/plane, rain/rein/reign, scene/seen, weather/whether, whose/who’s |
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Year 5
Endings which sound like /ʃəs/ spelt –cious or –tious
Endings which sound like /ʃəl/ (cial) |
vicious, precious, conscious, delicious, malicious, suspicious ambitious, cautious, fictitious, infectious, nutritious official, special, artificial, partial, confidential, essential |
cious
tious
cial |
Words ending in –ant, –ance/–ancy, –ent, –ence/–ency |
observation), expectant (expectation), hesitant, hesitancy (hesitation), tolerant, tolerance (toleration), substance (substantial) innocent, innocence, decent, decency, frequent, frequency, confident, confidence (confidential) assistant, assistance, obedient, obedience, independent, independence |
ant ance/ancy ent ence/ ency |
Words ending in –able and –ible Words ending in –ably and –ibly |
adorable/adorably (adoration), tolerable/tolerably (toleration) changeable, noticeable, forcible, legible dependable, comfortable, understandable, reasonable, enjoyable, reliable possible/possibly, horrible/horribly, |
able/ible
ably/ibly |
Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in –fer |
referring, referred, referral, preferring, preferred, transferring, transferred reference, referee, preference, transference |
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Use of the hyphen |
co-ordinate, re-enter, co-operate, co-own |
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Words with the /i:/ sound spelt ei after c |
deceive, conceive, receive, perceive, ceiling |
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Words containing the letter-string ough |
ought, bought, thought, nought, brought, fought rough, tough, enough, cough, though, although,
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Words with ‘silent’ letters |
doubt, island, lamb, solemn, thistle, knight |
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Homophones and other words that are often confused |
advice/advise device/devise licence/license
practice/practise prophecy/prophesy
farther/ father guessed/guest
heard/herd led/lead (as heavy as lead)
morning/mourning past/passed,
precede/proceed principal/principle,
profit/prophet stationary/stationery,
steal/steel wary/weary who’s/whose: |
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Spellings
Every morning the children will have the opportunity to practise their spelling words. These are taken from the RWI Spelling programme. We also practice our year group spellings and learning different ways to remember them.
Phonics
We encourage the children to use Phonics Play at home to enrich their phonics learning. www.phonicsplay.co.uk
If you would like to access this resource at home please see the team for the school's login details.
Reading
We subscribe to the Bug club which is an online reading resource. This exciting website has books, games and rewards for the children. The children all have their own individual log on so that we can make sure that the things on their site are just right for them. The children all have books at the correct level for them to read and there are questions for them to answer about the books. Correct answers will earn coins and jewels to spend in the site on rewards! If you would like to ask any questions about how to use it or if the children have forgotten their username or passwords, please feel free to see us either before or after school.
Grammar and Spelling Bug Club
The children can also play games on the Grammar and Spelling Bug Club section. This compliments the learning that we undertake in school.
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