Jersey is the sunniest place in the British Isles — about 2,000 hours of sunshine every year! ☀️The Jersey cow is one of the oldest dairy breeds in the world — dating back over 300 years! 🐄Jersey has its own parliament called the States Assembly — one of the oldest in the world! 🏛️Jersey is closer to France than to England — just 14 miles from the Normandy coast! 🇫🇷Mont Orgueil Castle has been standing for over 800 years — since around 1204! 🏰Jersey has one of the largest tidal ranges in the world — the sea can go back nearly 1.5km at low tide! 🌊Jersey has its own language called Jèrriais — a form of Norman French still spoken by some islanders! 🗣️The Jersey Royal potato has its own Protected Designation of Origin — just like champagne! 🥔Jersey is the sunniest place in the British Isles — about 2,000 hours of sunshine every year! ☀️The Jersey cow is one of the oldest dairy breeds in the world — dating back over 300 years! 🐄Jersey has its own parliament called the States Assembly — one of the oldest in the world! 🏛️Jersey is closer to France than to England — just 14 miles from the Normandy coast! 🇫🇷Mont Orgueil Castle has been standing for over 800 years — since around 1204! 🏰Jersey has one of the largest tidal ranges in the world — the sea can go back nearly 1.5km at low tide! 🌊Jersey has its own language called Jèrriais — a form of Norman French still spoken by some islanders! 🗣️The Jersey Royal potato has its own Protected Designation of Origin — just like champagne! 🥔

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Prefixes and Suffixes

📖 English KS2 — Ages 7–11 ✓ 3 key facts

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1 A prefix is a group of letters added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning (e.g. un- + happy = unhappy).

2 A suffix is added to the end of a word (e.g. play + -ful = playful; care + -less = careless).

3 Knowing common prefixes and suffixes helps you spell new words and work out the meaning of unfamiliar ones.

Discover how adding prefixes and suffixes to root words creates new words and meanings.

Prefixes and suffixes are groups of letters added to root words to create new words with new meanings. A prefix is added to the beginning of a word: un- (unhappy, unkind), re- (rewrite, return), mis- (mistake, mislead), dis- (disagree, disappear), super- (supermarket, superhero). A suffix is added to the end: -ful (careful, hopeful), -less (careless, hopeless), -ness (kindness, darkness), -ing (running, hoping), -tion (action, description). Some suffixes change the class of a word — adding -ness to an adjective makes it a noun (‘sad’ → ‘sadness’); adding -ly to an adjective makes it an adverb (‘quick’ → ‘quickly’). Understanding how prefixes and suffixes work is a brilliant spelling strategy — if you know that ‘un-‘ means ‘not’, you can figure out the meaning of many unfamiliar words without needing to look them up.

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