Spelling Scheme 

At Nash Mills Primary School we use the spelling patterns and rules set out in the National Curriculum. 

Each year group for year 2 to year 6 have a set of 3 rules or patterns that they will focus on each half term. These will be sent home with the knowledge organisers. Reception and year 1 embed their phonic knowledge first. 

Here is a Year 5 example:

Handy Tips for supporting your child with spelling

• Ask your child to explain the rule and get them to give you example words so that you can build up a word bank that can be referred to frequently.
• When your child is practising writing, use ‘Fred fingers’ to spell (if required)
• Encourage your child to edit their own writing for misspelt words.
• Play homophone games where you give them a word like right/write and they write you both spellings and then make sure they know which one is which!
• Play hold a sentence dictation where you give the child a short sentence with one of their spellings in which will help them to understand the meaning of the word and spell and punctuate correctly