Beech Grove Primary School
Summer Term 2026
Head Teacher Message
Happy sun shine days everyone and welcome to summer term 2026. Let’s hope the wet weather is behind us and that we can start to enjoy the Great British Summer. (He says with his fingers crossed!)
On behalf of the staff, I would like to wish everyone a happy return after the Easter break and hope that summer term 2026 is a good one for our whole school community.
As Head teacher of your school, I continue to be so proud of all of the children and the way they have started back since returning in September 2025. Their resilience, adaptability and hardworking attitudes to learning remain outstanding. It is such a pleasure to see the children care so much and take pride in all of their work and the school environment.
They are certainly living up to the schools “NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOUR QUALITIES” that we have of:
- Respect
- Tolerance
- Kindness
Along with our 5 Golden Rules. The “Next Door Neighbour Qualities” is something that is really important to our school and encourages everyone to be a good citizen within our school and wider community. To see the children demonstrating all of those essential ‘Next Door Neighbour Qualities’ on a daily basis is brilliant to see and brightens up my day.
The children’s corridor manners and the way they conduct themselves around school is wonderful.
I also love it that so many children are eager and keen to show me their work in their books. This sense of family and belonging warms my heart. I couldn’t be any prouder of our Beech Grove Family.
This term we hope to pick up where we left off before Easter with our children achieving good progress within their core subject areas of Reading, Writing and Maths, due to the tremendous hard-working attitude of themselves and the dedicated staff team here at school.
This term we will also be hoping for some lovely summer sunshine so that children can make full use of our Secret Garden in lesson time and maybe plant some wonderful summer flowers for us all to enjoy. Especially when it comes to our summer attendance reward ice-cream and ice lolly parties!!
Our teachers have lots of interesting activities and trips planned for this term and hope that you will enjoy hearing what children have been working on at consultation meetings/phone conversations, and will support them with their homework and reading outside of school.
AS ALWAYS Please, please, please x10000 keep encouraging your child to read at home. Reading is the key to unlocking the world!
We also hope that every effort is made by you for every child to attend school regularly. It is so important for your child’s development. We can’t stress this enough. A massive WELL DONE to all the children who achieved 95% and above attendance for the Spring Term. The children absolutely love it when they know they are coming to “Mr Dixon’s attendance party” for goodies, prizes and dancing etc because of their good attendance levels. Please do all that you can to ensure your child is part of the Summer Term attendance party’s celebrations. 95% and above attendance for the full term will get you that golden ticket to the party.
This term its ice cream treats and ice lollies in the secret garden. Please help your child achieve this reward. Not forgetting also, the BIG attendance prize where we have scooters (all with helmets to go with them), seasonal family hampers, amazon vouchers and lots more to give away in our attendance prize draw.
Here’s to a really positive Summer term!
John Dixon
Our work for this term
English
We are continuing to work hard, following our Read Write Inc scheme for English, with some added interventions to help improve our writing, reading and comprehension.
Maths
Mathematics this term is a revisit and recap of all prior learning to check the pupils have fully understood and to revisit if needed. We are recapping positional language, subitising and fractions.
Topic
This term our topic in AS1 is Senses and this is closely linked to how we understand the world around us through sight, smell, taste, touch and sound. In Science we will be focusing on ‘Plants’ and ‘Animal Habitats’, revisiting our prior learning.
In DT we are designing, planning and creating our own sensory bottles and in Art we are researching the work of famous artists that link to our topic ‘Senses’. For example, this week we are practicing some ‘leaf printing’ in the style of India Flint.
Keeping Safe and Healthy
Our PSHE lessons are focused on a ‘Scented Garden’ where we discuss our families, positive relationships and chat about what is good and not so good for ‘a happy home’.
The children are pleased to have singing sessions every Friday afternoon too.
Dates for your Diary
Summer Term: Monday 20th April 2026 – Tuesday 21st July 2026
Half Term: Monday 25th May 2026 – Friday 29th May 2026
May Day: Monday 4th May 2026