A fresh approach to spelling at St Laurence in KS2 (Year 3 – 6)

 Good spellers…

• apply knowledge they have been taught when writing independently
• use the resources available
• refer to the learning environment
• use personal strategies to help them work out a solution to words they don’t know
• have curiosity about language and words
• take responsibility for their own learning 

Good spellers are not…

• people who learn ten spellings for a test the following week.

At St Laurence we are now using ‘No Nonsense Spelling’, a programme designed to develop good spellers.

Spelling homework will now be set fortnightly

Tasks will be varied so the children are inspired to engage with the spelling focus on a more exploratory level.

Children may be challenged to:

• find words containing a particular phoneme/grapheme correspondence;
• explore all the derivations they can generate from a given root word;
• record the spelling strategy/ies they have decided to use for some given words in an innovative way;
• use their words in the context of sentences etc.

Alongside the chosen exploratory/creative/critical thinking activity, the child will have five words to learn.