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
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 has a big focus on place value, creating those foundations that will help us with all future learning. We will be engaging in lots of practical activity this term to really motivate our new learners and show that maths can be fun!
Science
In Science we will be focusing on our body, how it works and the functions of it.
Topic
Our topic areas this term are DT and History. DT will look at fruit, nutrition and the impact on our bodies. History will focus on hospitals, helping people and the work of Florence Nightingale.
This term our topic in AS1 is Superheroes with a focus on who helps us.
Keeping Safe and Healthy
We are then viewing our bodies in a different way in PSHE by learning about our ‘inner selves’, why we are important and what makes us special.
The children will continue to have their weekly P.E sessions and Music lessons every Friday too.
Dates for your Diary
Autumn Term: Tuesday 1st September 2026 – Friday 18th December 2026
Half Term: Monday 26th October 2026 – Friday 30th October 2026