Spelling

In Early Years and Year 1, the children will be learning how to read and spell mainly through learning phonics. From Year 2 upwards, we begin to teach children how to spell using different strategies, through our spelling programme 'No-Nonsense Spelling'.
Our teachers deliver daily spelling lessons and we teach children how to spell using different strategies. We give the children approximately 5 spellings each week to practise during lessons and at home - these are words they have been finding tricky when writing in class. We believe in learning spellings in a practical, specific way, with research indicating that these strategies are much more powerful than traditional methods of learning spellings by rote. 
The learning strategies on the pages below are introduced incrementally throughout our spelling programme and can then be used to support learning spellings at home.

Please look at our No-Nonsense Spelling Pathway for Years 2-6 below.

No Nonsense Spelling Pathway