Here we have provided the KS2 English Spelling syllabus along with example questions. You can also try a demo test to get a better understanding of how BOFA works. The syllabus is taken from the UK National Curriculum.

Test Reference Code	Code Description	Year 3	Year 4	Year 5	Year 6
S39	Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable	Words keeping -e adding -ing	Words ending in -e adding -ful
S39	Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable	Words having lost the -e when adding -ing	Words ending in -e adding -less
S39	Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable	words able to take -ful	regular suffix -ful
S39	Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable	-y words able to lose -y and take -iful	-y words - lost the -y and taken -iful
S39	Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable	Words which usually drop the -e when adding a suffix	vowel suffixes - ic	vowel suffixes -ary
S39	Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable	vowel suffixes -al, -el and -il	vowel suffixes - ist	vowel suffixes - ive
S39	Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable	vowel suffixes -er and -re
S39	Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable	vowel suffixes - est	consonant suffixes -less
S39	Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable	verb suffixes -y	verb suffixes -y to -ier
S39	Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable		verb suffixes -y to -iest
S39	Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable		verb suffixes -y to -iness
S39	Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable		verb suffixes -y to -ying
S39	Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable		verb suffixes -y to -ied
S39	Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable			Words ending -ism
S40	The /i/ sound spelt y other than at the end of words		The -y acts as a vowel.
S41	The /?/ sound spelt ou	The -ou sounds like -u
S42	More prefixes			Antonym prefix -in
S42	More prefixes	Antonym prefix -non -means 'not'		Antonym prefix -im -means 'not'	Antonym prefix -ir-means 'not'
S42	More prefixes	Antonym prefix -un -means 'not' or 'opposite of'		Antonym prefix -mis -means 'wrong'	Antonym prefix -il -means 'not'
S42	More prefixes	Antonym prefix - 're' means 'again'		Antonym prefix -anti -means 'against'
S42	More prefixes			Antonym prefix -de -means 'undo'
S42	More prefixes			Antonym prefix -dis -means 'opposite of'
S42	More prefixes			Antonym prefix - 'bi' means 'two'
S42	More prefixes			Antonym prefix - 'inter' means 'between'
S42	More prefixes			Antonym prefix - 'pre' means 'before'
S42	More prefixes			Antonym prefix - 'sub' means 'under'
S42	More prefixes			Antonym prefix - 'ex' means 'out of'
S42	More prefixes			Antonym prefix - 'contra' means 'against or oppposite'
S42	More prefixes			Antonym prefix - 'pro' means 'ahead'
S42	More prefixes	Prefix - 'ad' means 'towards'	Prefix - 'circ' means ' related to circles'	Prefix - 'ab' means 'away from'
S42	More prefixes	Prefix - 'al' means 'all'	Prefix - 'tele' means 'at a distance'	Prefix - 'auto' means 'self'
S42	More prefixes	Prefix - 'a' means 'in a state of'	Prefix - 'trans' means 'change or across'	Prefix - 'aqua means 'water'
S42	More prefixes	Prefix - 're means 'repeat'	Prefix - 'micro' means 'small'	Prefix - 'aero means 'air'
S42	More prefixes		Prefix - 'prim means 'first'	Prefix - 'audi means 'sound'
S42	More prefixes		Prefix - 'super means 'excellent or beyond.'
S42	More prefixes		Word derived from voix' means 'voice'	Word derived from dictare' means 'to say'	Word derived from annus' means 'year'
S42	More prefixes			Word derived from micro' means 'small'	Word derived from mort' means 'dead'
S42	More prefixes			Word derived from manus' means 'hand'
S42	More prefixes			Word derived from octo' means 'eight'
S42	More prefixes			Word derived from unus' means 'one'
S42	More prefixes			Word derived from presse' means 'press'
S42	More prefixes			Word derived from geo' means 'earth'	Word derived from insula' means 'island'
S43	The suffix –ation		Words ending in -tion
S44	The suffix –ly		consonant suffixes -ly	verb suffixes -y to -ily
S44	The suffix –ly		Words ending in -e adding -ly
S44	The suffix –ly		Words ending in -e adding -fully
S45	Words with endings sounding like / ?? / or / t?? /		Words ending in /t??/ which is spelt -ure
S46	Endings which sound like / ??n /		Endings which sound like /??n/
S47	The suffix –ous			-ous ends
S48	Endings which sound like / ??n /, spelt –tion, –sion, –ssion, –cian		cian – where words end in c they are usually related to people: common for occupations and identity.
S48	Endings which sound like / ??n /, spelt –tion, –sion, –ssion, –cian		sion – where the base word ends in d/de or s/se
S48	Endings which sound like / ??n /, spelt –tion, –sion, –ssion, –cian		ssion – clear soft ‘sh’ sound.
S48	Endings which sound like / ??n /, spelt –tion, –sion, –ssion, –cian		other sion suffixes	ution words are usually longer than three syllables; usion words tend to be shorter.
S48	Endings which sound like / ??n /, spelt –tion, –sion, –ssion, –cian	tion – the most common ending.	ation – long a is usually followed by tion.	etion – the base word usually contains the vowel, clearly pronounced.
S48	Endings which sound like / ??n /, spelt –tion, –sion, –ssion, –cian		otion – the base word usually contains the vowel, clearly pronounced.	ition – the base word usually contains the vowel, clearly pronounced.
S49	Words with the /k/ sound spelt ch		Ch sound is K
S49	Words with the /k/ sound spelt ch	Ch words make a sh sound as well as ch sound.
S51	Words ending with the /g/ sound spelt –gue and the /k/ sound spelt –que		que and gue patterns.
S52	Words with the /s/ sound spelt sc		sc pronounced s.
S53	Words with the / e? / sound spelt ei, eigh, or ey	multiletter vowel and consonant symbols -'ight'	ay sound by eigh, ei or ey
S54	Endings which sound like / ??s / spelt –cious or –tious			-cious ends
S54	Endings which sound like / ??s / spelt –cious or –tious			-tious ends
S54	Endings which sound like / ??s / spelt –cious or –tious			-eous and -ious ends
S55	Endings which sound like / ??l /		ending -cial
S55	Endings which sound like / ??l /		ending -tial
S56	Words ending in –ant, –ance, –ancy, –ent, –ence, –ency		-an words	-ent -ence -ency
S57	Words ending in –able and –ible Words ending in –ably and –ibly		Words losing the -e when adding -ly
S57	Words ending in –able and –ible Words ending in –ably and –ibly	Irregular words ending in -ible	Irregular root words able to add -ible	regular words ending -ible
S57	Words ending in –able and –ible Words ending in –ably and –ibly		-e words able to lose the -e and taking -ible
S57	Words ending in –able and –ible Words ending in –ably and –ibly		-e words losing -e and taking -ible
S57	Words ending in –able and –ible Words ending in –ably and –ibly		-y words able to lose the -y and taking -iable
S57	Words ending in –able and –ible Words ending in –ably and –ibly	words able to take -able	-y words - lost the -y and taking -iable
S57	Words ending in –able and –ible Words ending in –ably and –ibly		words taken -able
S57	Words ending in –able and –ible Words ending in –ably and –ibly		-e words able to lose the -e and taking -able
S57	Words ending in –able and –ible Words ending in –ably and –ibly		-e words losing -e and taking -able
S58	Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in –fer		root words ending in-er
S59	Words with the /i:/ sound spelt ei after c		words containing c followed by -ei
S60	Words containing the letter-string ough	-ough sounds like 'uff'	-ough sounds like 'or'
S60	Words containing the letter-string ough		-ough sounds like 'oh'
S60	Words containing the letter-string ough		-ough sounds like 'off'
S60	Words containing the letter-string ough		-ough sounds like 'ow'
S60	Words containing the letter-string ough		-ough sounds like 'u' in cup
S61	Words with ‘silent’ letters (ie letters whose presence cannot be predicted from the pronunciation of the word)	unstressed vowels
S61	Words with ‘silent’ letters (ie letters whose presence cannot be predicted from the pronunciation of the word)	Doubled letters
S61	Words with ‘silent’ letters (ie letters whose presence cannot be predicted from the pronunciation of the word)	Undoubled letters
S61	Words with ‘silent’ letters (ie letters whose presence cannot be predicted from the pronunciation of the word)	tch & st -silent 't"	ci -silent 'i'
S61	Words with ‘silent’ letters (ie letters whose presence cannot be predicted from the pronunciation of the word)	Words with a soft g or gg	ce-silent 'e'
S61	Words with ‘silent’ letters (ie letters whose presence cannot be predicted from the pronunciation of the word)	dge -silent 'd" mn -silent n	cy-silent 'y'
S61	Words with ‘silent’ letters (ie letters whose presence cannot be predicted from the pronunciation of the word)	New consonant spellings ph, wh and wr
S62	Homophones and near homophones (years 3 and 4). Homophones and other words that are often confused (years 5 and 6)	homophones -"eat"	homophones -"ite"
S62	Homophones and near homophones (years 3 and 4). Homophones and other words that are often confused (years 5 and 6)	homophones
S63	Pluralisation	pluralisation with s	pluralisation with es
S63	Pluralisation	-y endings	pluralisation -Consonant + y words
S63	Pluralisation	pluralisation -Vowel + y words
S63	Pluralisation	-e and -fe endings	pluralisation of -e and -fe endings
S63	Pluralisation	Words which end with vowels other than e	plurals of words which end with vowels other than e which add -es	plurals of words which end with -a, add -e
S63	Pluralisation	plurals of words which end with vowels other than e which add -s	plurals of words which end with vowels other than e which add -a
S63	Pluralisation	Words with irregular plurals
S63	Pluralisation	irregular plurals
S64	Vowel digraphs and trigraphs	Words containing -oa and -oe	multiletter vowel and consonant symbols -'ice'
S64	Vowel digraphs and trigraphs	Long sounding vowels
S64	Vowel digraphs and trigraphs	Words containing -au and -aw
S64	Vowel digraphs and trigraphs	Vowel digraphs and trigraphs ai, ia, oi, oy	Words containing -ie		multiletter vowel and consonant symbols -'ou'
S64	Vowel digraphs and trigraphs	Vowel digraphs and trigraphs ar, ir, or and ur
S64	Vowel digraphs and trigraphs	multiletter vowel and consonant symbols -'ee'	multiletter vowel and consonant symbols -'ea'
S64	Vowel digraphs and trigraphs	Words containing -ew, -oo, -ue and -ui
S64	Vowel digraphs and trigraphs	Words containing -ou and -ow
S65	Common Subject words	History
S65	Common Subject words	ICT
S65	Common Subject words	Library
S65	Common Subject words	Mathematics
S65	Common Subject words	Music
S65	Common Subject words	PE
S65	Common Subject words	RE
S65	Common Subject words	PSHE
S65	Common Subject words		Science
S65	Common Subject words	Geography
S65	Common Subject words	English
S65	Common Subject words	Drama
S65	Common Subject words	DT
S65	Common Subject words	Art