October 2022 Round-up

This month's English vocabulary lists were ‘ble’ as a suffix, Key Stage 3: Science, and 10 Words for … SURPISED. Have you tried our new Monkey Business game?
We added two new blog posts to our Commonly Confused Words series. Do you know the difference between creak and creek? What about which and witch?
Our Word for Wednesday theme for October was Halloween.

The word Halloween likely dates to the seventeenth century but was popularised in the Burns poem ‘Halloween’ which was written in 1785. It is a Scottish abbreviation of ‘Allhallow-even’ which means ‘Eve of the All Saints’. ‘Hallow’ means ‘holy person’ or ‘saint’.

Learn more about the words witch, banshee, zombie, and ghoul.
We also shared useful links for Dyslexia Awareness Week and Black History Month

31 Oct 2022
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