Our weekly spelling test is on a Wednesday.

The children will get new spellings every week in their planners that they must practice at home ready for the spelling test the following week.

Spelling Frame offer a range of online spelling games to help children practice spelling rules at home.

Hanks Spellings

Autumn 1

Rule 1 - The j sound spelt as dge

1. badge

2. wedge

3. dodge

4. edge

5. fridge

6. fudge

Rule 2 - The s sound spelt as c before i, e and y

1. fancy

2. city

3. price

4. dice

5. race

6. space

Rule 3 - The n sound spelt and kn or gn

1.knee

2. know

3. knit

4. knock

5. gnaw

6. gnome

Rule 4 - The r sound spelt as wr

1. write

2. wrong

3. wrap

4. wrestle

5. wrinkle

6. wrist

Rule 5 - The l sound spelt as le

1. table

2. apple

3. topple

4. bottle

5. middle

6. double

Rule 6 - The l sound spelt as el

1. camel

2. tunnel

3. towel

4. tinsel

5. travel

6.squirrel

Autumn 2

Rule 7 - The l sound spelt as al

1. hospital

2. metal

3. legal

4. pedal

5. animal

6. capital

Rule 8 - the I sound spelt as y

1. why

2.supply

3. fly

4. dry

5. July

6. reply

Rule 9 - adding es to words that end in y

1. cries

2. fries

3. lies

4. replies

5. supplies

6. tries

Rule 10 - Suffixes ending in ed or ing

1. flying

2. fried

3. cried

4. crying

5. trying

6. tried

7. replied

8. replying

Rule 11 - Adding suffixes to root words ending in y

1. lay

2. laying

3. laid

4. happy

5. happier

6. happiest

7. dry

8. dried

Rule 12 The /ɔ:/ sound  spelt a before l or ll

1. all               

2. stall

3. small          

4. always

5. talk             

6. walk

7. almost       

8. also

Spring 

Week 1 - Spelling Rule: The u sound  spelt as o

1. other           

2. brother

3. mother       

4. another

5. smother     

6. Monday

Week 2 - Spelling Rule: The ee sound spelt as ey

1. donkey

2. monkey

3. chimney

4. trolley

5. valley

6. key

Week 3 - Spelling Rule: The o sound spelt as 'a' after w and qu

1. wallet

2. wander

3. wander

4. wash

5. watch

6. swallow

7. squabble

8. quality

9. quarter

10. squash

Week 4 - Spelling Rule: The er sound spelt as or after w

               Spelling Rule: The or sound spelt as ar after w

1. worm

2. work

3. word

4. world

5. worth

6. war

7. warm

8. towards

Week 5 - Spelling Rule: The /ʒ/ sound spelt s

1. television

2. vision

3. decision

4. treasure

5. pleasure

6. measure

7. usual

8. usually

9. unusual

Week 6 - Spelling Rule: Suffixes -ment, -ness, -ful, - less, -ly

1. enjoyment

2. sadness

3. careful

4. hopeful

5. cheerful

6. playful

7. hopeless

8. sadly

9. gladly

10. payment

Spring 2

Week 1- Contractions

aren't

can't

couldn't

didn't

don't

hasn't

hadn't

haven't

he's

they've

you've

Week 2 - Possessive apostrophe

Lucy's

Tom's

girl's

boy's

woman's

child's

man's

dog's

cat's

Week 3 - Words ending in -tion

station

motion

fiction

national

section

infection

emotion

action

education

celebration

Week 4 - Homophones 1

there

their

they're

here

hear

quite

quiet

see

sea

bear

bare

Week 5 - Homophones 2

one

won

sun

son

to

too

two

be

bee

blue

blew

Week 6 onwards - Common exception words 

set 1

door

floor

poor

because

find

kind

mind

behind

children

wild

money

set 2

climb

most

only

both

old

cold

gold

hold

told

every

set 3

everybody

even

great

break

steak

pretty

beautiful

after

father

sugar

set 4

eye

could

plant

hour

move

prove

improve

sure

should

would

Christmas

set 5

who

whole

any

many

clothes

busy

people

water

again

half

parents

set 6

path

bath

past

pass

last

grass

fast

class

child

From Spring 2 week 6 onwards children will practise common exception words and revise previous spellings. These are broken into sets to make learning more manageable but it is a year 2 expectation that children can spell all of these.