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St Mary's Bentworth

Church of England Primary School

Love, Respect, Belong

Ash Home Learning

 

 

Recommended Books

Websites

Places to Visit

‘The Lion the Witch and the Wadrobe’ by C.S Lewis

 

‘Matilda' by Roald Dahl

 

‘Alice In Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll. 

 

See Reading Passport list below for more recommendations that are not linked to our topic! 

Spelling

https://st-marys-bentworth-church-england-primary.primarysite.media/playlist/ways-to-practise-your-spellings

Ways to practise your spellings

 

Maths

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Times Tables Rockstars

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd2f7nb/articles/zn2y7nb

Guardians of Mathetica

 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Hit the Button – times tables and number facts

 

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/117/telling-the-time-in-words

Practise telling the time

 

Topic

https://clubs-kids.scholastic.co.uk/authors

A website all about famous children's authors.

Jane Austin's House

This inspiring Hampshire cottage was Jane Austen’s home and the birthplace of her six beloved novels.

 

Local Bookshops

Why not visit a local bookshop and see what events they have on? 

Recommended Books

Websites

Places to Visit

‘Titanic’ by Annna Claybourne

 

‘On Board The Titanic' by Margi McAllister

 

‘The Story Of The Titanic’ by Steve Noon

 

See Reading Passport list below for more recommendations that are not linked to our topic! 

Spelling

https://st-marys-bentworth-church-england-primary.primarysite.media/playlist/ways-to-practise-your-spellings

Ways to practise your spellings

 

Maths

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Times Tables Rockstars

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd2f7nb/articles/zn2y7nb

Guardians of Mathetica

 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Hit the Button – times tables and number facts

 

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/117/telling-the-time-in-words

Practise telling the time

 

Topic

Titanic facts for kids | History | National Geographic Kids (natgeokids.com)

A website all about the Titanic

Seacity Museum

We’ll be visiting for our school trip in May.

 

Southampton Docks

Why not visit the docks in Southampton (near Ikea) to see the cruise ships?

Recommended Books

Websites

Places to Visit

‘My Awesome Japan Adventure’ by Rebecca Otowa

 

‘Once Upon a Time in Japan’ by Roger Pulvers

 

‘Folk Tales From Japan’ by Florence Sakade and Yoshio Hayashi

 

See Reading Passport list below for more recommendations that are not linked to our topic! 

Spelling

https://st-marys-bentworth-church-england-primary.primarysite.media/playlist/ways-to-practise-your-spellings

Ways to practise your spellings

 

Maths

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Times Tables Rockstars

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd2f7nb/articles/zn2y7nb

Guardians of Mathetica

 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Hit the Button – times tables and number facts

 

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/117/telling-the-time-in-words

Practise telling the time

 

Topic

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/geography/countries/article/japan

A website all about Japan

Restaurant (Wagamamas)

Visit a Japanese restaurant and try their cuisine.  

 

Young V&A (Japan:Myths to Manga Exhibition)

Take an exciting and atmospheric trip through Japan – and explore how landscape and folklore have influenced Japanese art, technology and design.

Recommended Books

Websites

Places to Visit

‘Alice in Wonderland by Emma Clark

 

‘Disney: 365 Stories by Walt Disney

 

‘Disney Book of Maps’ by Walt Disney

 

See Reading Passport list below for more recommendations that are not linked to our topic! 

Spelling

https://st-marys-bentworth-church-england-primary.primarysite.media/playlist/ways-to-practise-your-spellings

Ways to practise your spellings

 

Maths

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Times Tables Rockstars

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd2f7nb/articles/zn2y7nb

Guardians of Mathetica

 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Hit the Button – times tables and number facts

 

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/117/telling-the-time-in-words

Practise telling the time

 

Topic

Disney UK | The Official Home for All Things Disney

A website all about Disney

London Show

Take a trip to London and enjoy Lion King or Frozen.

Disney 100 Exhibition London

The exhibition is the largest exhibition the Walt Disney Archives has ever created.

Recommended Books

Websites

Places to Visit

‘Escape from Pompeii’ by Christina Balit

 

‘Romans on the Rampage’ by Jeremy Strong

 

‘Roman Diary’ by Richard Platt

 

See Reading Passport list below for more recommendations that are not linked to our topic! 

Spelling

https://st-marys-bentworth-church-england-primary.primarysite.media/playlist/ways-to-practise-your-spellings

Ways to practise your spellings

 

Maths

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Times Tables Rockstars

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd2f7nb/articles/zn2y7nb

Guardians of Mathetica

 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Hit the Button – times tables and number facts

 

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/117/telling-the-time-in-words

Practise telling the time

 

Topic

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqtf34j

A website all about Romans

Fishbourne Palace

The largest Roman home in Britain.

 

Horrible Histories

Have a look on BBC iPlayer for episodes about the Romans.

Home Learning (10th July 2023)

Year 3 Maths Easter Home Learning (29th March) Video on Video Resource Centre by Friday

Year 3 Easter Home Learning (Week beginning 27th March 2023)

Year 2 Easter Home Learning (Week beginning 27th March 2023)

Knowledge Organisers (Time)

Year 2 Fluent in 5 (Week beg 7th Nov 2022)

Spellings (week beg 12th September 2022)

 

Spelling RuleSplit digraphs: a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e

 

Year 2 Words-came, made, these, even, cube, like, time, home, alone, June, cube

 

Year 3 Words-escape, amaze, complete, extreme, inside, invite, explode, envelope, prune, computer

 

 

Spellings (Week beginning 11th July)

Spellings (week beg 4th July 2022) PATERNITY READY

 

Spelling Rule- 

/sh/ spelt ch

 

/k/ spelt ch

 

Year 2 Words-

chef, chalet, machine

 

ache, anchor, scheme, chorus, echo, character, school

 

Year 3 Words-

chute, parachute, brochure

 

chaos, chemist, monarch, orchid, stomach, technical

Spellings (week beg 27th June 2022) PATERNITY READY

 

Spelling Rule- 

/zh/ spelt s

 

Year 2 Words-

treasure, usual, causal, measure, Asia

 

Year 3 Words-

usually, casually, decision, pleasure, television

Spellings (week beg 20th June 2022) PATERNITY READY

 

Spelling Rule- 

/ay/ spelt ei

/ay/ spelt eigh

/ay/ spelt ey

 

Year 2 Words-

vein, reins, weigh, weight, eight, they, grey

 

Year 3 Words-

veil, reindeer, sleigh, freight, eighth, reign, neighbour, survey, obey

Spellings (week beg 13th June 2022)

 

Spelling Rule- 

/er/ spelt or after w /or/ spelt ar after w

 

Year 2 Words-

word, work, worm, world, worth war, warm, towards, ward, wart

 

Year 3 Words-

worthless, worst, worthy, worse wartime, dwarf, quarter, reward, wardrobe, swarm

Spellings (week beg 6th June 2022)

 

Spelling Rule- 

/u/ spelt o

 

/u/ spelt ou

 

Year 2 Words-

other, mother, brother, nothing, Monday, love young, touch, double, trouble, country

 

Year 3 Words-

glove, wonderful, shovel, another, month, cover courage, couple, cousin, encourage, flourish, nourish

Spellings (week beg 23rd May 2022)

 

Consolidation Week :)

Spellings (week beg 16th May 2022)

 

Spelling Rule- 

/o/ spelt a – after w and qu

 

/or/ spelt a before l/ll

 

Year 2 Words-

want, watch, wander, water, quantity, squash all, ball, call, walk, talk, always

 

Year 3 Words-

waterfall, quarrel, quality, squash, washing, wandering ballroom, calling, chalk, smallest, falling

Spellings (week beg 9th May 2022)

 

Spelling Rule- 

Y2 tion

Y3 sion and tion

 

Year 2 Words-

station, fiction, motion, national, section, emotion

 

Year 3 Words-

position, question, solution, location, caution division, invasion, confusion, decision, collision, television

Spellings (Week beg 2nd May 2022)

 

Spelling Rule- 

/l/ spelt le, el, al, il at the end of words

 

Year 2 Words-

table, apple, bottle, little, middle camel, tunnel, squirrel, travel, towel, tinsel metal, pedal, capital, hospital, animal pencil, fossil, nostril

 

Year 3 Words-

cycle, whale, eagle, fable, pebble swivel, gravel, parcel, snorkel, spaniel

Spellings (week beg 25th April 2022)

 

Spelling Rule- 

Homophones

 

Year 2 Words-

there/their/they’re, hear/here, quiet/quite, see/sea, bear/bare, one/won, sun/son, too/to/two, be/bee, blue/blew, knight/night

 

Year 3 Words-

break/brake, fair/fare, great/grate, groan/grown, here/ hear, heel/heal/he’ll, not/knot, male/mail, main/main, meat/meet, peace/piece, plain/plane

Spellings (week beg 4th April 2022)

 

Consolidation Week :)

Spellings (week beg 21st March 2022)

 

Spelling Rule- 

/ee/ spelt

ey /i/ spelt y elsewhere than at the end of word

 

Year 2 Words-

key, donkey, monkey, chimney, valley, jockey, cockney myth, gym, Egypt, pyramid, mystery

 

Year 3 Words-

journey, parsley, chutney, chocolatey, attorney, whiskey mystic, dynasty, synagogue, synonym, gymnastics, symbol

Spellings (week beg 28th March 2022)

 

Spelling Rule- 

/igh/ spelt y at the end of words

 

Adding es to verbs ending in y (changing POV - first/third person)

 

Year 2 Words-

cry, fly, reply, try, July, dry, sky flies, tries, copies, carries, marries, applies, studies,

 

Year 3 Words-

apply, multiply, magnify, identify, rely, deny, defy defies, identifies, relies, magnifies, multiplies, replies

Spellings (week beg 14th March 2022)

 

Spelling Rule- Contractions

 

Year 2 Words-

it’s, I’m, he’s, she’s, wasn’t, can’t, don’t, isn’t

 

Year 3 Words-

couldn’t, wouldn’t, shouldn’t, haven’t, aren’t, won’t, didn’t, let’s

Home Learning (10th March)

Home Learning (9th March 2022)

Spellings (week beg 7th March 2022)

 

Spelling Rule- Prefixes: re pre

 

Year 2 Words-

redo, refresh, return, reappear, redecorate prefix, premature

 

Year 3 Words-

review, rebound, revisit, rebuild, replace prehistoric, preheat

18th Feb Home Learning

Spellings (week beg 28th Feb 2022)

 

Spelling Rule- Prefixes: un dis mis (negative meanings)

 

Year 2 Words-

undo, unload, unfair, unhappy, disappoint, disagree, discover, misbehave, mislead, misspell,

 

Year 3 Words-

unlikely, unforeseen, unpopular, unwanted, disrespect, disobey, disadvantage, misplaced, misheard, misunderstanding

Spellings (week beg 14th Feb 2022)

 

Consolidation Week-Test on common exception words

 

Spellings (week beg 7th Feb 2022)

 

Spelling Rule- Suffix ly: if root words end in ic (ally is added rather than just ly)

 

Year 2 Words-

basically, magically, musically, typically

 

Year 3 Words-

fanatically, dramatically, frantically, critically

Tuesday 1st Feb Home Learning

31st Jan Home Learning

Spellings (week beg 31st Jan 2022)

 

Spelling Rule- Suffixes: ed ing er est y to words of one syllable ending in a single consonant letter after a single vowel letter - doubling last consonant (Y3 polysyllabic)

 

Year 2 Words-

patting, patted, humming, hummed, dropping, dropped, sadder, saddest, fatter, fattest, runner, runny, runniest

 

Year 3 Words-

beginning, beginner, forgetting, forgotten, preferred, travelling, traveller, travelled, funnier, funniest, funny

28th Jan Home Learning

Spellings (week beg 24th Jan 2022)

 

Spelling Rule- Suffixes: ment, ness

 

Year 2 Words-

enjoyment, amazement, payment, merriment, sadness, happiness, plainness Exception: argument

 

Year 3 Words-

equipment, achievement, environment, accompaniment, awareness, freshness, richness, crunchiness Exception: argument

Monday 17th Home Learning

Spellings (week beg 17th Jan 2022)

 

Spelling Rule- Suffixes: ful, less

 

Year 2 Words-

careful, playful, plentiful, beautiful, hopeless, useless, penniless

 

Year 3 Words-

wonderful, cheerful, forgetful, delightful, merciful, pitiful, speechless, powerless, merciless

12th Jan Home Learning

10th Jan Home Learning

Spellings (week beg 10th Jan 2022)

 

Spelling Rule- Plurals – adding s/es to nouns ending in y

 

Year 2 Words-

flies, babies, puppies, toys, armies, valleys, ladies, lorries, families, boys, stories

 

Year 3 Words-

batteries, strawberries, pharmacies, raspberries, allergies, difficulties, monkeys, chimneys

Spellings (week beg 3rd Jan 2022)

 

Spelling Rule- Silent letters: kn, gn, wr at the beginning of words

 

Year 2 Words-

knock, know, knee, gnat, gnaw, write, written, wrote, wrong, wrap

 

Year 3 Words-

knockout, knowing, gnarled, knitting, gnawing, gnocchi, wrestle, shipwreck, wrapping

16th December Home Learning

14th December Home Learning

Spellings (week beg 13th December 2021)

 

Consolidation Week. Time for a final practise of those common exception words. cheeky

Friday 10th December Home Learning

Monday 6th December Home Learning 2021

Spellings (week beg 6th December 2021)

 

Spelling Rule- Suffix ly: just add ly, add ly to words ending in y with a consonant letter before it (change y to an i) add ly to words ending in le (change le to ly)

 

Year 2 Words-

badly, sadly, slowly happily, angrily, easily gently, simply, wrinkly

 

Year 3 Words-

completely, usually, finally, comically steadily, necessarily, greedily responsibly, probably, miserably

Home Learning 1st December 2021

Spellings (week beg 29th November 2021)

 

Spelling Rule- Suffixes: ed ing er est y to words of one syllable ending in a single consonant letter after a single vowel letter - doubling last consonant (Y3 polysyllabic)

 

Year 2 Words-

patting, patted, humming, hummed, dropping, dropped, sadder, saddest, fatter, fattest, runner, runny, runniest

Exception: x never doubled – mixing, mixed, boxer

 

Year 3 Words-

beginning, beginner, forgetting, forgotten, preferred, travelling, traveller, travelled, funnier, funniest, funny

Exception: x never doubled – mixing, mixed, boxer

Spellings (week beg 22nd November 2021)

 

Spelling Rule- Suffixes: er, est, ed, ing y (Y3 polysyllabic) to words ending in e with a consonant before it.

 

Year 2 Words-hiking, hiked, hiker, nicer, nicest, shiny, shining, shiner

Exception: being

 

Year 3 Words- liking, liked, riding, rider, taming, tamer, tamest, finest, finer

Exception: being

Spellings (week beg 15th November 2021)

 

Spelling Rule- Suffixes: ed, ing, er, est (Y3 polysyllabic) to words ending in y with a consonant before it (no change to ing words)

 

Year 2 Words-copied, copier, copying, happier, happiest, cried, crier, crying, replied, replying

 

Year 3 Words-marrying, married, worrying, worried, worrier, luckier, luckiest, luckily, messier, messiest

Spellings (week beg 8th November 2021)

 

Spelling Rule- Homophones

 

Year 2 Words-there/their/they’re, hear/here, quiet/quite, see/sea, bear/bare, one/won, sun/son, too/to/two, be/bee, blue/blew, knight/night

 

Year 3 Words-break/brake, fair/fare, great/grate, groan/grown, here/ hear, heel/heal/he’ll, not/knot, male/mail, main/main, meat/meet, peace/piece, plain/plane

Spellings (week beg 1st November 2021)

 

Spelling Rule- silent letters: kn, gn, wr at the beginning of words

 

Year 2 Words-knock, know, knee, gnat, gnaw, write, written, wrote, wrong, wrap

 

Year 3 Words-knockout, knowing, gnarled, knitting, gnawing, gnocchi, wrestle, shipwreck, wrapping

Spellings (week beg 18th October)

 

Consolidation Week-This is a great opportunity to practise those common exception words. :)

Money Knowledge Organisers

Spellings (week beg 11th October)

 

Spelling Rule- 's' sound spelt c before e, i and y.

 

Year 2 Words-race, ice, cell, city, fancy, lace, pace and space. 

 

Year 3 Words-nicest, spacecraft, circle, cinema, circus, mercy and cellmate.

Phonics Screening Words

Spellings (week beg 27th September)

 

Spelling Rule- 'dge' spelt ge, 'dge' before e, i and y

 

Year 2 Words-age, huge, change, charge, bulge, village, badge, edge, bridge, dodge and fudge.

 

Year 3 Words-sledge, budge, lodge, smudge, ledge, range, indulge, engagement and gouge. 

Spellings (week beg 4th October)

 

Spelling Rule- 'j' sound spelt 'j' and 'g'

 

Year 2 Words-gem, giant, magic, giraffe, energy, jacket, jog, jar, join.

 

Year 3 Words-Germany, imagination, allergy, energy, ginger, January, jumper, jobless, joystick and junction. 

Knowledge Organiser (Addition and Subtraction)

Spellings (week beg 20th September)

 

Spelling Rule- ear, air, ure and igh

 

Year 2 Words-hear, fear, chair, fair, sure, pure, high, night

 

Year 3 Words-beard, fearful, pair, hairbrush, secure, cure, nightlight, brightness

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