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 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
Autumn Term: Tuesday 1st September 2026 – Friday 18th December 2026
Half Term: Monday 26th October 2026 – Friday 30th October 2026