Year/group: Year 4 – Discoverers
Date set: Week beginning 02.01.17
Date set: Week beginning 09.01.17
Please learn these spellings and practise writing them in readiness for
your spelling test.
These words add the prefix ir- to words beginning with r. This changes
the word to its opposite meaning. There are also some common words to
know.
irrational
irregular
irrelevant
century
extreme
guard
island
regular
answer
circle
Year/group: Year 4 – Discoverers
Date set: Week beginning 09.01.17 Test date: Week beginning 16.01.17
Please learn these spellings and practise writing them in readiness for
your spelling test.
The sound ‘shun’ can be spelt in different ways. When the root word
ends in ‘ss’ just add –ion, and a ‘t’ should be swapped for ‘ss’ to add –
ion.
discussion
depression
expression
admission
submission
permission
obsession
passion
session
mission
Year/group: Year 4 – Discoverers
Date set: Week beginning 16.01.17
Test date: Week beginning 23.01.17
Please learn these spellings and practise writing them in readiness for
your spelling test.
The sound ‘shun’ can be spelt in different ways. When the root word
ends in ‘d’ we swap the ‘d’ for an ‘s’ before adding –ion. When the word
ends in ‘se’ we drop the ‘e’ and add –ion. There are also some common
words to know.
expansion
comprehension
tension
revision
confusion
conclusion
business
knowledge
believe
address
Year/group: Year 4 – Discoverers
Date set: Week beginning 23.01.17
Test date: Week beginning 30.01.17
These are words related to our topic this week. They involve
the Vikings and the Saxon story of Beowulf.
thundered
mischief
caught
buried
sliced
grimace
shamble
victorious
thirty
forty
Year/group: Year 4 – Discoverers
Date set: Week beginning 30.01.17
Test date: Week beginning 06.02.17
These are words related to our topic this week. They involve
Alfred the Great and the Danelaw.
monarch
ambush
invasion
marshes
Wessex
Mercia
Northumbria
Guthrum
convert
fyrd
Year/group: Year 4 – Discoverers