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
In English, we will be looking a persuasive text we will also be looking at the development of narrative writing, and extending our understanding of non-fiction writing in different genres. We will be concentrating on using dialogue and the appropriate punctuation.
Reading
Please keep supporting your child in reading and recording their reading three times a week. This really makes a difference in your child’s success in reading and writing in school.
Spelling
Your child has been set spelling tasks, individualised to their own needs.
Maths
This term we are developing our knowledge of decimals, and then moving into money, time, shape and statistics. We will continue to practise our times tables.
Times tables
In AS2, we aim to support children to know all of the multiplication and related division facts to 12 x 12.
In school, we use TT Rockstars to support this.
To support this, it would fantastic of your child could use this at home.
Please allow your child to access TT Rockstars at least twice a week.
www.ttrockstars.com
Please contact your child’s teacher if you need any of your child’s codes reissuing.
Science
We will be developing children’s knowledge of the properties of materials. Children will learn the properties of solids, liquids and gases. We will also be delving into the lives of animals living in some of the harshest habitats on the Earth, and how their environment can cause them problems.
Topic
Misty Mountain Sierra
We will discover how these mountains are formed, as a fold or a block, a dome or a plateau. We will follow the water cycle’s course from peak to valley and meet the exceptional people who live in mountain regions.
Blue Abyss
We will be looking at all things ‘under the sea’! We will be looking at the creatures who live in the marine environment, pollution and how we can help rare creatures survive.
Homework
Some of our homework is now set on our online platforms. We encourage your child to visit Seesaw regularly. This is our home learning platform where you and your child should be able to access all of our homework. Homework sheets will also be sent out.
Seesaw can be downloaded from Apple and Android App Stores, and can be accessed at:
PE
Your child does need to bring PE kit, and they will be outside for most of the time. Please can you ensure that they wear either trainers or sensible shoes on their PE day.
AS2 PE – Monday
Keeping Safe and Healthy (This section will tell you what we are teaching children about lifestyle choices)
We are looking at relationships between friends and how to solve problems if they occur. We will also be looking at how we change as we grow older, and what makes us unique.
Dates for your Diary
Summer Term: Monday 20th April 2026 to Tuesday 21st July 2026
Half Term: Monday 25th May – Friday 29th May 2026
May Day: Monday 4th May 2026