Step 13: Words ending in ’-sion’

expansion, extension, comprehension, tension, suspension, exclusion, provision, explosion, erosion, invasion

Step 14: Words ending in ’-ous’

poisonous, dangerous, mountainous, marvellous, perilous, tremendous, enormous, jealous, precious, disastrous

Step 15: Words ending in ’-ous’ incl. those where ‘ge’ from the base word remains

courageous, outrageous, nervous, famous, adventurous, disadvantageous, ridiculous, carnivorous, rapturous, torturous

Step 16: Words where a suffix is added to words ending in ‘y’

merriment, happiness, plentiful, penniless, happily, prettiest, nastiness, beautiful, pitiful, silliness

Step 17: Words ending in ’-ious’ and ‘eous’

serious, obvious, curious, hideous, spontaneous, courteous, furious, various, victorious, gaseous

Step 18: Challenge Words

extreme, although, breath, caught, different, exercise, medicine, thought, business, possession

During the spring term, we are also focusing on learning how to spell the year 3 and 4 common exception words. These words do not follow any spelling patterns or rules.  

We will work on ten words each week and competence and fluency in spelling these words will be informally tested each week on a Monday as well as assessing to see whether the children can apply their spelling accuracy in their independent writing in lessons.

Please do encourage your children to learn the spellings that are sent home each Monday in preparation for the following week. Thank you in advance for your continued support. 

Spring 1

W/c 06/01/25 - accident, accidentally, actual, actually, address, answer, appear, arrive, believe, bicycle

W/c 13/01/25 - although, breath, breathe, build, busy, business, calendar, caught, centre, century

W/c 20/01/25 - certain, circle, complete, consider, continue, decide, describe, different, difficult, disappear

W/c 27/01/25 - early, earth, eight, eighth, enough, exercise, experience, experiment, extreme, famous

W/c 03/02/25 - favourite, February, forward, forwards, fruit, grammar, group, guard, guide, heard

W/c 10/02/25 - heart, height, history, imagine, increase, important, interest, island, knowledge, learn