NC Statutory - Whole-School Spelling, Punctuation, Grammar and Key Vocabulary/Terminology

Oct 1, 2026

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Whole-school NC Statutory scheme for spelling, punctuation, grammar, and key vocabulary/terminology across year groups. It sets out progression from Y1 to later stages, including early phonics tasks (hearing and segmenting initial sounds, blending, letter-sound links), sentence writing with capital letters and end punctuation, and spelling rules such as plural -s/-es, un- prefixes, comparisons with -er/-est, and -ly formation. It also covers coordinating/subordinating conjunctions, question and command sentence types, and core grammar terminology like word, sentence, noun, adjective, verb tense, suffix, apostrophe, and comma.

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Whole-school NC Statutory: Spelling

Phonics and initial sounds (Reception/Y1)

Spelling rules: plurals, prefixes, suffixes

Whole-school NC Statutory: Punctuation

Sentence demarcation and end marks

Capital letters, names, and pronoun I

Whole-school NC Statutory: Grammar

Sentence types and word classes

Coordination and subordination

Key Vocabulary and Terminology

| SPELLING
NC Statutory
NB No Nonsense Spelling scheme used from Y2-Y6 | | PUNCTUATION
NC Statutory | GRAMMAR
NC Statutory | KEY VOCABULARY/ TERMINOLOGY | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | RECEPTION | -Hear and say the initial sound in words.

-Segment the sounds in simple words and blend them together
● satpin
-Link sounds to letters, naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet. | Begin to use capital letters and full stops to punctuate a simple sentence.
● Today it is sunny.
Separation of words with spaces
● I am happy. | -Write their own name and other things such as labels, captions.
● Harry
● happy
● sad
-Attempt to write short sentences in meaningful contexts.
● Sam has a dog.
-Uses some clearly identifiable letters to communicate meaning, representing some sounds correctly and in sequence.
● I am happy. I like to play. | ● Sentence
● word
● letter
● capital letter
● full stop | | | KS1 | | | | | Y1 | -Use regular plural noun suffixes –s or –es
● Singular means one-There was one dog playing in the park.
● Plural-more than one-There were lots of dogs playing in the park.
-Add the suffixes to verbs where no change is needed in the spelling of root words.
● A suffix is added to the end of a word to turn it into another word. Suffixes that can be used are ing, ed & er EG: helping, helped, helper
-Understand that when adding the prefix un– to a root word, it changes the meaning of verbs and adjectives.
● A prefix is added to the beginning of a word to turn it into another word. The prefix‘un’ changes the meaning of a root word.
EG: Kind-unkind, Happy – unhappy | -Separation of words with spaces.
● The boy was happy.
-Introduction to the use of capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks to demarcate sentences.
● An exclamation sentence would start with what or how and is used to show surprise EG: What big feet you have!
● A statement sentence states a fact, gives an opinion or idea EG: A rainbow has 7 colours.
● Questions are sentences that ask you something and end with a ? mark EG: What would you like for dinner?
-Capital letters for names and for the personal pronoun ‘I’
● Proper nouns need to be capitalized
● They are known as names of people, specific places, and things. | -Use the coordinating conjunction ‘and’ to join words and sentences together. Coordinating conjunctions join groups of words or main clauses.
EG: The boy went to the park and played with his friends.
-What makes a good sentence? A good sentence must: ● Begin with a capital letter
● Finger spaces
● Sentence ender
● Must make sense
EG: It is a beautiful day. | ● word
● sentence
● letter
● capital letter
● full stop
● Punctuation
● Singular
● plural
● question mark
● exclamation mark | | | -tch
● The sound is usually spelt as tch if it comes straight after a single vowel letter.
E.G. catch, fetch, kitchen Exceptions: rich, which, much, such.
-The /v/ sound at the end of words
● English words hardly ever end with the letter v, so if a word ends with a /v/ sound, the letter e usually needs to be added after the ‘v’. E.G. have, live, give
-words containing each of the 40+ phonemes already taught
-common exception words
-the days of the week
*Also see NC spelling appendix pg40-44 * | ● The personal pronoun is always a capital ‘I’ | | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Y2 | -Compound nouns
● contain two or more words which join together to make a single noun. EG: whiteboard, superman, friendship
-Use of the suffixes-er and-est to form comparisons of adjectives and adverbs
● A suffix is an ‘ending’, used at the end of one word to turn it into another word. Unlike root words, suffixes cannot stand on their own as a complete word.
● We can use suffixes to change nouns and verbs into adjectives, or to change the meaning of an adjective. So

FAQs

Which grammar topics are covered as pupils move into Y2?

Topics include compound nouns, comparisons using -er and -est, forming adverbs with -ly, coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, and grammar terminology such as noun phrase, verb tense, suffix, apostrophe, and comma.

Oct 1, 2026

Uploaded by Damian