Beech Grove Primary School
Autumn Term 2026
Head Teacher Message
Welcome back to our new Autumn term. On behalf of the staff, we would like to welcome you to a new school year and hope that 2026/2027 is just as brilliant as last year. It was wonderful to see our whole school community trying their very best for our children to try and reach their maximum potential. I am positive this year will be exactly the same.
Once again, I cannot thankyou enough for the tremendous efforts you went to during last year to support your children and the school. We should, as a school community be really proud of the way we continue to stick together and support one another.
I hope that you have all had the chance to relax and recharge your batteries during the summer holidays (wasn’t the weather just fabulous!) and are ready once more to attack the new school year with vigour and enthusiasm.
It is so important that our children attend regularly in order to continue to make the brilliant progress that they made last academic year. Our school attendance needs to be better! It is not acceptable to keep your child off for anything other than genuine illness and bereavement. Our school attendance will only get better with YOUR fantastic support.
I’m positive with your continued efforts, our excellent teaching and well-planned curriculum and interventions, our children will continue to achieve well and try their very best in all lessons.
After all my years at Beech Grove. I continue to be amazed by our children. I am so proud of them all and the way they have started back this Autumn term. The children’s continued resilience and adaptability is outstanding.
Our Next-Door Neighbour Qualities of Respect, Tolerance and Kindness shine through in their everyday school life. It is wonderful to see.
As always, our teachers have lots of interesting activities planned for this term and hope that you will enjoy hearing what children have been working on at consultation meetings, and will support them with their homework and reading outside of school. READING is the key to EVERYTHING and unlocking the children’s true potential! Please, please, please x10000000 encourage them as much as you can with their reading at home. It really is greatly appreciated by all staff.
John Dixon
Our work for this term
English
In English we will be working in our new Read, Write Inc. groups every morning. Back in our classes, we will be learning about common nouns, proper nouns, being verbs and action verbs. We will learn about the subject and verb of a sentence and how to write and punctuate single clause sentences. We will also learn how to use adjectives. We will be writing a Non-Chronological report based on the theme of pirates. In the second half term we will be writing recounts. We will be using, ‘Talk Through Stories’ to develop our oral language and to deepen our vocabulary.
Maths
In maths will be doing lots of work on place value and number this term. We will start by learning to recognise the place value of each digit in a 2 digit number. We will be using words such as tens, ones, value and represent. We will then move onto solving addition and subtraction calculations +- 2 digit and 1 digit numbers ( e.g. 39 +5) and +- tens to a 2 digit number (46 + 30) . We will be practising number bonds to 10 , 20 and 100. In Autumn 2 we will be learning to name and describe the properties of 2D and 3D shapes and to measure lengths and heights using standard units.
Throughout the term we will be counting on and back in 1s, 2s, 5s ,10s and 3s. We will continue to do Rapid Recall each week. Please try to help us by listening to us count and helping us with our rapid recall. Alongside our maths lessons, we will also be using the NCETM Mastering Number programme to develop and demonstrate good number sense.
Topic
Our topics this term will be ‘Land Ahoy’ and ‘Street Detectives’.
In our ‘Land Ahoy’ topic we will be learning about the continents and oceans of the world and will be studying maps and then labelling our own world map. In our History lessons we will be learning about the life of the explorer Captain Cook. During this topic, we will be creating some amazing Aboriginal art.
In Street Detectives we will be learning about our local area, looking at aerial photographs of our streets and discussing the physical and human features of our local area. In History we will be learning about how toys have changed over the last 80 years.
In science this term we will be learning about materials, their properties and uses. We will be looking at the different way materials can be changed e.g. bending , twisting and stretching.
Keeping Safe and Healthy (This section will tell you what we are teaching children about lifestyle choices)
During this term we will be highlighting the importance of keeping safe when using the internet, both at school and at home. We will also be reminding children of the importance of being safe in our local area. As part of our relationship lessons, we will be following the Jigsaw topic ‘Being Me in My World’.
Dates for your Diary
Autumn Term: Tuesday 1st September 2026 – Friday 18th December 2026
Half Term: Monday 26th October 2026 – Friday 30th October 2026