Bellfield Junior School
Spelling
Our spelling programme is adapted from ‘CUSP Spelling’ which has a ‘ balanced approach, drawing together knowledge about phonics and vocabulary and pairing this with pattern seeking and reasoning. Spelling lessons are organised into 2-week blocks, with each block covering a particular set of key concepts, including spelling patterns, etymology and morphology and reasoning about spelling. These blocks are made up of three lessons per week: 2 x 15 minute Spelling lessons and 1 x Spelling starter for the final Writing lesson of each week.’ (1)
Children with SEND are part of this learning but also have adaptive learning as required, for example they may focus on practising HFW or common exception words.
There is no weekly spelling test. Children have weekly Home Learning tasks which allow them to identify misspelt words or to practise using new spellings in their own sentences.
An example of our Y5 programme:
Block 1 – Y3 and Y4 Statutory word list: revisited
Block 3 – Prefixes: revisited from Y3 and Y4
Block 4 - Homophones: revisited from Y3 and Y4
1) (1) CUSP - Spelling Programme -www.unity-curriculum.co.uk- 2024
Bellfield Junior School
Spelling
Our spelling programme is adapted from ‘CUSP Spelling’ which has a ‘ balanced approach, drawing together knowledge about phonics and vocabulary and pairing this with pattern seeking and reasoning. Spelling lessons are organised into 2-week blocks, with each block covering a particular set of key concepts, including spelling patterns, etymology and morphology and reasoning about spelling. These blocks are made up of three lessons per week: 2 x 15 minute Spelling lessons and 1 x Spelling starter for the final Writing lesson of each week.’ (1)
Children with SEND are part of this learning but also have adaptive learning as required, for example they may focus on practising HFW or common exception words.
There is no weekly spelling test. Children have weekly Home Learning tasks which allow them to identify misspelt words or to practise using new spellings in their own sentences.
An example of our Y5 programme:
Block 1 – Y3 and Y4 Statutory word list: revisited
Block 3 – Prefixes: revisited from Y3 and Y4
Block 4 - Homophones: revisited from Y3 and Y4
1) (1) CUSP - Spelling Programme -www.unity-curriculum.co.uk- 2024