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  • Statutory Spellings

    This is the list of statutory words that the Government expect your child to know by the end of their year group. They will be included in your child's spellings each week.

    Please practice them regularly at home to ensure your child feels confident with them.

    Word list – years 3 and 4

    accident(ally)
    actual(ly)
    address
    answer
    appear
    arrive
    believe
    bicycle
    breath
    breathe
    build
    busy/business
    calendar
    caught
    centre
    century
    certain
    circle
    complete
    consider
    continue
    decide
    describe
    different
    difficult
    disappear

    early
    earth
    eight/eighth
    enough
    exercise
    experience
    experiment
    extreme
    famous
    favourite
    February
    forward(s)
    fruit
    grammar
    group
    guard
    guide
    heard
    heart
    height
    history
    imagine
    increase
    important
    interest
    island

    knowledge
    learn
    length
    library
    material
    medicine
    mention
    minute
    natural
    naughty
    notice
    occasion(ally)
    often
    opposite
    ordinary
    particular
    peculiar
    perhaps
    popular
    position
    possess(ion)
    possible
    potatoes
    pressure
    probably
    promise

    purpose
    quarter
    question
    recent
    regular
    reign
    remember
    sentence
    separate
    special
    straight
    strange
    strength
    suppose
    surprise
    therefore
    though/although
    thought
    through
    various
    weight
    woman/women

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