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
Our writing, this term will be inspired by the author’s Ted Hughes and Roald Dahl. We will be reading The Iron Man and The Enormous Crocodile. We will be writing a range of different genres from character descriptions, story writing, reports, and shape poetry.
Reading
In AS2, the children are encouraged to begin to take control of their own reading choices. In AS2, the children are expected to read at home 3 times each week.
Spelling
Your child has been set spelling tasks, individualised to their own needs.
Maths
This term, our focus will be place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We will also be concentrating on learning our times tables.
Times tables
In AS2, we aim to support them to know all of the multiplication and related division facts to 12 x 12. We practice times tables regularly and regularly assess their progress.
Please allow your child to access TT Rockstars at least once a week: www.ttrockstars.com
Science
Our Science this term is ‘Magnets and Forces’ and ‘Animals Including Humans’. The children will be investigating the effects of forces and comparing the strength of different magnets. They will also look at the function of the skeleton and how different kinds of animals need different kinds of nutrition.
Urban Pioneers
Focusing on Middlesbrough, we will be reading maps to investigate land use in our local area and taking a step back in time to look at the history of Middlesbrough.
ART/DT
In art this term in art we will be learning how to sketch. We will be sketching landscape images of our local area.
In DT we will be learning how to make levers and pivots in order to make a Christmas decoration using moving parts.
Homework
Homework will be given at the end of each week to enable your child to recap the learning we have done in class. We also encourage your child to visit Seesaw regularly. This is our learning platform where you and your child should be able to access some of their learning.
Please see attached letter for details of how to log access your child’s online learning platform.
PE
Suggested P.E. Kit is as follows:
- Indoor – Plain T shirt and shorts. Plimsoles or trainers.
- Outdoor – during the colder months children may wish to wear jogging pants and a sweatshirt.
- All items of clothing should be marked with the children’s names.
AS2 PE is every 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
Autumn Term: Tuesday 1st September 2026 – Friday 18th December 2026
Half Term: Monday 26th October 2026 – Friday 30th October 2026