The spelling patterns we are learning this week in Class 5 are:

Year 5: Homophones and near homophones e.g. stationary/stationery, wary/weary,who’s/whose

Year 6: Word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning e.g. temper/temperate/temperature/temperament

The spelling patterns we are learning this week in Class 5 are:

Year 5: Creating nouns with -ship suffix, e.g. membership, ownership, partnership

Year 6: More words with a long /e/ sound spelt ‘ie’ or ‘ei’ after c (and exceptions) e.g. receipt, shriek, ceiling, protein

The spelling patterns we are learning this week in Class 5 are:

Year 5: Creating nouns with -ness suffix, e.g. happiness, silliness, tidiness, carelessness

Year 6: Words with a long /e/ sound spelt ‘ie’ or ‘ei’ after c (and exceptions) e.g. achieve, convenience, mischievous, believe

The spelling patterns we are learning this week in Class 5 are:

Year 5: Creating nouns with –ity suffix, e.g. community, curiosity, ability, activity

Year 6: Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in -fer, e.g. referring, referred, referral, reference, referee

The spelling patterns we are learning in Class 5 this week are:

Year 5: Adverbs of possibility and frequency, e.g. certainly, definitely, possibly, perhaps, rarely

Year 6: adjectives ending -ably, .e.g considerably, believably, tolerably, comfortably, reasonably