Mrs Julie Sandford
Headteacher
South Park Avenue
Norwich NR4 7AU
The Great Colman Spelling Bee
Dear Parent/Carer,
As part of our work to promote high standards of spelling throughout the school we will be holding our
first ever spelling bee in January. We feel that this will be a motivating and fun way to celebrate the
achievements of all the children.
The Spelling Bee will run as follows:
Round One: Each year group will be given a month to learn a list of thirty words taken from the
National Curriculum word list. Children will have already practised many of these words over the
Autumn term and this will be a useful opportunity to ensure they have remembered these words. Each
class teacher will give their class a written test on these words in the first week after the Christmas
holidays. Children will achieve a point for their house for every word they spell correctly.
Semi- final: The highest scorers from each year group will be invited to take part in a semi-final.
Spelling words will be from their own and higher year groups and will be spelt out loud. Again children
will win points for their house.
Final: The highest scorer in each house, from each year group will take part in a final in front of an
audience of peers, spelling words aloud in the style of a traditional spelling bee.
We believe that this structure gives all children the opportunity to earn points for their house and
take part in what should be a fun event, whilst also reinforcing important work on Spelling.
Please note: children will be able to practise their round one words on Spellodrome by clicking on the
word list entitled ‘Spelling Bee.’
Yours sincerely,
Miss K. Harrison
English Subject Leader
Tel: 01603 508530
www.colmanjunior.norfolk.sch.uk
email: [email protected]
Year 5 Spelling January Spelling Bee: Round One Here is a list of the words that will be used in round one of the Year 5 Spelling Bee. You can also
practise spelling these words on Spellodrome. Just click on the ‘spelling bee’ word list. Learn as
many of them as you can for the first week back after the Christmas holidays. Good luck!
occur
attached
communicate
accompany
available
competition
according
average
conscience
achieve
awkward
conscious
aggressive
bargain
dictionary
forty
bruise
equipped
ancient
category
interfere
apparent
cemetery
convenience
occupy
critic
correspond
desperate
community
criticise