ELMLEA INFANTS’ SCHOOL
Elmlea Avenue, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol BS9 3UU
Head Teacher: Inge Fey
Telephone: (0117) 377 2352 Fax (0117) 377 2353
January 2017
Dear Parents/Carers,
Happy New Year! Welcome back, we hope you have had a very restful holiday.
Our topic this term is Space. Please see the topic web for detailed information.
We appreciate children bringing in resources related to the topic and encourage
home research.
We will be sending home a design project over February half term to build a
spaceship so it might be worthwhile to start gathering some old recycling!
On Monday 9th January we will have a visit from The Explorer Dome. This is an
amazing experience in a huge silver dome which will be set up in the hall. Each
Year 2 class will hear wonderful Creation stories.
If you know anyone who would be willing to share their experiences and enrich
children’s learning by coming in and talking about their culture, festivals and
celebrations please let us know.
We hope you will be able to find a few extra minutes several times a week to
help your child with their spellings. This term we will be learning the rules for
adding suffixes (endings) to root words. For example
 If a base word ends in a ‘final e’ such as ride we drop the e if the suffix begins
with a vowel – ride/riding

If a base word ends in y we sometimes need to change the y to i before adding
the suffix – cry/cries

If a base word ends with a single consonant letter we double the consonant –
run/running

In many cases the suffix can be added without changing the base word –
play/playful
Please encourage children to write the words (joined script) as well as spelling
them aloud. We will continue with our Friday spelling quizzes, with will consist of
about ten words containing the phoneme for that week.
Any boxes of tissues would be very greatly appreciated!
Thank you for your help and support
Best wishes
Year 2 Teachers
ELMLEA INFANTS’ SCHOOL
Elmlea Avenue, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol BS9 3UU
Head Teacher: Inge Fey
Telephone: (0117) 377 2352 Fax (0117) 377 2353
Spellings for Term 3
Week 1
‘al’ and ‘il’ at the
end of words
Metal, petal, capital, hospital, animal, equal, magical
Pencil, fossil, evil, April, pupil, gerbil
Week 2
‘y’ at the end of
words
Cry, fly, dry, try, July, why, my, fry, reply
Week 3
Adding es to
nouns and verbs
ending in y
The y is changed to i before the suffix ‘es’: cries, flies,
dries, tries, replies, babies, carries
Week 4
Adding ed, ing,
er and est to a
root word ending
in y
Week 5
Adding ing, ed,
er, est and y to
a root word
ending in e
Week 6
Adding a suffix
to words ending
in a single
consonant
The y is changed to i before ed, er and est but not
before ing as this would result in ii. (There are a few
exceptions such as skiing)
Copied, copying, happier, happiest, cried, crying, drying,
replied, replying
The e at the end of a root word is dropped before ing, ed,
er, est, y or any other suffix beginning with a vowel.
(There are some exceptions such as being)
Riding, hiking, hiked, nicer, nicest, shining, shiny, tasting,
tasted, tasty.
When adding the suffix ing, er, ed, est or y, the final
consonant of the root word must be doubled.
Patting, patted, humming, dropping, dropped, sadder,
saddest, running, runner, runny