Spring 1 Spellings

St. Patrick’s Catholic Primary School

Half Term Plan for Spelling Y5

Spring Term 1

Week	Spelling Rule	Key Words				Common exception words
1	Apostrophe for possession (revision)	girl’s/girls’ boy’s/boys’ baby’s/babies’ teacher’s/ teachers’	boss’s woman’s man’s children’s	people’s government’s country’s/ countries’		n/a
2	Rare GPC’s	language young blood receive does	bruise guarantee immediately queue eight	vehicle yacht celebration pretty gym		n/a
3	Spellings for everyday etymology	photograph calligraphy paragraph choreograph	geography telegraph autograph	photographic geographically		lightning opportunity parliament existence explanation familiar
4	Words ending ‘ably’, ‘ibly’	horribly terribly possibly sensibly	edibly reversibly adorably remarkably	enjoyably incredibly suitably unavoidably		foreign forty frequently
5	Words ending ‘ably’, ‘ibly’	reliably respectably agreeably uncontrollably	visibly impossibly probably justifiably	reasonably considerably preferably unbelievably		government guarantee harass
4	Words ending ‘ably’, ‘ibly’	uncomfortably understandably miserably agreeably understandably	irritably predictably unmistakably impeccably uncomfortably		hindrance identity immediately individual interfere
6	Homophones	led lead isle aisle	steal steel alter altar aloud allowed	bare bear night knight		interrupt language leisure