Y3, 4, 5 Nurture | Dinnington Community Primary School

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.

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We start by learning to love ourselves and be proud of who we are.

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We share and say positive things about ourselves, our friends and our teachers.

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We share our smiles with everyone.

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We focus on our positives.

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We believe that we can achieve anything. WE CAN DO IT AND WE WILL TRY IT!

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We respect everyone and everything.

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
continue	guide	possible (im)
different	heard	potatoes
difficult	heart	promise

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

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
The /ɪ/ sound spelt y elsewhere than at the end of words	myth, gym, Egypt, pyramid, mystery
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
Endings which sound like /ʒən/	division, invasion, confusion, decision, collision, television
Words with the /k/ sound spelt ch (Greek in origin)	scheme, chorus, chemist, echo, character
Words with the /ʃ/ sound spelt ch (mostly French in origin)	chef, chalet, machine, brochure
Words ending with the /g/ sound spelt –gue and the /k/ sound spelt –que	league, tongue, antique, unique
Words with the /s/ sound spelt sc (Latin in origin)	science, scene, discipline, fascinate, crescent
Words with the /eɪ/ sound spelt ei, eigh, or ey	vein, weigh, eight, neighbour, they, obey
Possessive apostrophe with plural words	girls’, boys’, babies’, children’s, men’s, mice’s
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

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
The /ɪ/ sound spelt y elsewhere than at the end of words	myth, gym, Egypt, pyramid, mystery
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
Endings which sound like /ʒən/	division, invasion, confusion, decision, collision, television
Words with the /k/ sound spelt ch (Greek in origin)	scheme, chorus, chemist, echo, character
Words with the /ʃ/ sound spelt ch (mostly French in origin)	chef, chalet, machine, brochure
Words ending with the /g/ sound spelt –gue and the /k/ sound spelt –que	league, tongue, antique, unique
Words with the /s/ sound spelt sc (Latin in origin)	science, scene, discipline, fascinate, crescent
Words with the /eɪ/ sound spelt ei, eigh, or ey	vein, weigh, eight, neighbour, they, obey
Possessive apostrophe with plural words	girls’, boys’, babies’, children’s, men’s, mice’s
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

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
Use of the hyphen	co-ordinate, re-enter, co-operate, co-own
Words with the /i:/ sound spelt ei after c	deceive, conceive, receive, perceive, ceiling
Words containing the letter-string ough	ought, bought, thought, nought, brought, fought rough, tough, enough, cough, though, although,
Words with ‘silent’ letters	doubt, island, lamb, solemn, thistle, knight
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:

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.