Due to changes in the Literacy curriculum in Year 6 children are expected to be secure with all KS2 spellings. There will be no choice in terms of degrees of difficulty. All children, of all abilities, need to learn the following for next week:

question regular remember straight ancient bruise category definite embarrass

foreign

Please encourage not to use capitals unless required for the start of a sentence or a proper noun

Due to the changes in the Literacy curriculum children in Year 6 are expected to be secure with all KS2 spellings. There will be no choice of spellings, in terms of degree of difficulty. All children, of all abilities, need to learn the following for next week:

favourite grammar
knowledge mention
natural occasionally
opposite particular
peculiar possession

To support with understanding definitions for spellings, the ‘Collins children’s cobuild dictionary’ is a very useful tool.

Due to the changes in the Literacy curriculum children in Year 6 are expected to be secure with all KS2 spellings. There will be no choice of spellings, in terms of degree of difficulty. All children, of all abilities, need to learn the following for next week:
medicine possess
special though
weight earth
famous length
surprise ordinary

To support with understanding definitions for spellings, the ‘Collins children’s cobuild dictionary’ is a very useful tool.

My apologies for the error last week – repeat of words. The above words have not been covered.

calendar complete
describe different
women through
strange probably
sentence suppose

There is no need for any capitals so children need to be mindful of this.

calendar complete
describe different
women through
strange probably
sentence suppose

Please ensure there are no capitals when using spelling words. However, please accurately punctuate sentences for spelling words.

Due to the changes in the Literacy curriculum children in Year 6 are expected to be secure with all KS2 spellings. There will be no choice of spellings, in terms of degree of difficulty. All children, of all abilities, need to learn the following for next week:

actually extreme
certain height
history imagine
increase island
important accident

Please support your child to ensure spellings are recorded as accurately as possible in their homework books and they present their homework to a high standard. Also, there are no proper nouns, therefore there is no need for capitals apart from sentence work.

To support with understanding definitions for spellings, the ‘Collins Children’s Cobuild Dictionary’ is a very useful tool. There is an online version available.

Due to the changes in the Literacy curriculum children in Year 6 are expected to be secure with all KS2 spellings. There will be no choice of spellings, in terms of degree of difficulty. All children, of all abilities, need to learn the following for next week:

business certain
enough February
forwards guide
naughty popular
strength various

There is one word that requires a capital but the others MUST have lower case letters!

exercise experience
separate history
disappear possible
notice occasion
often reign

The words this week are the following:

caught
century
busy
decide
difficult
centre
heart
continue
minute
consider

Encourage your children not to use capital letters inappropriately as this will impact on assessments later on in the year. Unless a word requires a capital letter it should always be in lower case.

Many thanks,

Year 6 team