Download English at Belleville 2015-16

Belleville Primary School
Belleville Road London SW11 6PR web www.bellevilleschool.org
Tel 020 7228 6727 Fax 020 7228 8070 e-mail [email protected]
Headteacher
John Grove MA
Deputy Headteachers
Mary-Lyne Latour B.Ed, Dip T
Sarah Atherton BA (Hons)
Jane Ford MA
17th September 2015
Registered Company Number
07768645
Dear Parents/Carers of Year 6 children,
English at Belleville 2015-16
As you may be aware, there is a greater emphasis on spelling and grammar under the new National
Curriculum which now applies to all year groups from Year 1 to 6. We shall be building up the
children’s knowledge and understanding of these important elements of language during a skills
lesson once a week where the lessons will cover skills in spelling, vocabulary, grammar and
punctuation.
There are lists of commonly misspelt words which are now statutory for all children to know, spelling
patterns and rules to know and apply and a much greater emphasis on grammatical knowledge
including the use of technical terminology to describe language.
To support your child with the spelling and grammar, we are providing lists of spellings and rules
which will be covered. Your child will be given words to learn each week which are from these lists
or patterns along with any personal spellings to practise at home in their spelling record books.
Year 6 children will also be revising/ learning the spelling patterns and rules from years 3,4 and 5
where necessary. For your reference, the previous year’s content is included to give a guide as to
what your child is expected to know at the start of the year. Other year group coverage is available
on the school website should you require it.
We hope this will be useful to you in supporting your child. As always do please ask your child’s
teacher or one of the English team if you have any questions.
Yours sincerely,
The English Team
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Jane Ford (Deputy Headteacher)
Catherine Burns (English Leader Early Years/Year 1 and2)
Jessica Avison (English Leader Year 3 and 4)
Siobhan Lindsay (English Leader Year 5 and 6)
Year 6 Words to learn
accompany
achieve
amateur
apparent
apparent
attached
average
bargain
category
committee
community
conscious
controversy
correspond
curiosity
definite
determined
dictionary
embarrass
equip (-ped, -ment)
exaggerate
existence
familiar
foreign
forty
government
harass
identity
individual
leisure
marvellous
muscle
neighbour
occupy
persuade
profession
pronunciation
recognise
relevant
rhyme
rhythm
sacrifice
shoulder
sincere (ly)
stomach
sufficient
suggest
system
thorough
vehicle
Year 6 Spelling Rules and Patterns
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Adding -ing / -ed to words ending -fer, for example: prefer, preferring and preferred
Use of the hyphen, for example: 'co-ordinate', 're-enter'
Words containing ei, after c eg 'ceiling', deceive, receive and exceptions eg protein, seize
Homophones (words which sound the same but are spelled differently) and other words
that are often confused for example: principle/ principal; guessed/guest; advice/advise;
precede/proceed
Year 5 Words to learn
accommodate
criticise (critic + ise)
interfere
rhythm
according
desperate
language
secretary
aggressive
develop
lightning
signature
ancient
disastrous
mischievous
soldier
appreciate
environment
necessary
sufficient
available
especially
nuisance
symbol
awkward
excellent
occur
temperature
bruise
explanation
parliament
twelfth
cemetery
foreign
physical
vegetable
communicate
frequently
privilege
yacht
competition
guarantee
queue
conscious
hindrance
recommend
convenience
immediate (ly)
restaurant
Years 5 Spelling Rules and Patterns
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Words ending -cious and -tious such as 'delicious' and 'superstitious'
Words ending -cial and -tial such as 'special' and 'partial'
Words ending -ant, -ance and -ancy such as 'hesitant', 'hesitance' and 'hesitancy'
Words ending -ent, -ence and -ency such as ‘patient’, ‘patience’ and ‘frequency’
Words ending -able / -ably and -ible / -ibly such as 'comfortable' / 'comfortably' and 'horrible' / 'horribly'
Words containing ough and looking at the different sounds in different words, for example: 'enough',
'through', 'although', 'plough'
Silent letters in words which cannot be detected in pronunciation eg 'doubt', 'thistle' and 'solemn’
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Homophones (words which sound the same but are spelled differently) and other words that are confused for
example: ‘practice’/ ‘practise’; heard/herd; serial/cereal; allowed/aloud
Grammatical terminology for Pupils Y1-6
Year 1
Terminology
for pupils
letter, capital letter
word, singular, plural
sentence
punctuation, full stop, question mark, exclamation mark
Year 2
Terminology
for pupils
noun, noun phrase
statement, question, exclamation, command
compound, suffix
adjective, adverb, verb
tense (past, present)
apostrophe, comma
Year 3
Terminology
for pupils
preposition, conjunction
word family, prefix
clause, subordinate clause
direct speech
consonant, consonant letter vowel, vowel letter
inverted commas (or ‘speech marks’)
Year 4
Terminology
for pupils
determiner
pronoun, possessive pronoun
adverbial
Year 5
Terminology
for pupils
modal verb, relative pronoun
relative clause
parenthesis, bracket, dash
cohesion, ambiguity
Year 6
Terminology
for pupils
subject, object
active, passive, subjunctive
synonym, antonym
ellipsis, hyphen, colon, semi-colon, bullet points,
Please note: A very useful glossary with examples of all these terms is available
online from the Department for Education.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/244216
/English_Glossary.pdf