Beech Grove Primary School
Summer Term 2026
Head Teacher’s 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
English
Reading:
We will continue to start the day with Read, Write Inc every morning. It is vitally important that your child is in ON TIME for this crucial part of their school day. The children are regularly tested and put into groups to work at their own level. The progress the children have made since September is AMAZING! Most children can read CVC words with special friends in and some are reading captions and sentences independently. Some of our children will be learning new Set 2 sounds! Please continue to listen to your child read at home, this is such a lovely opportunity for you to see how much they have progressed in their reading. We are so proud of them. Children working below the expected level receive daily targeted support with Mrs Robinson.
Writing:
Children are also supported with writing during the Read, Write Inc lesson. Most children can now write simple CVC words and are working on writing simple captions and sentences. We encourage children to write using their Fred Fingers, counting the sounds on their fingers and pinching them to write the word. They are all doing brilliantly with this. Children are also encouraged to write independently in busy time and the quality of writing they are doing is fantastic! We are so proud of them and we know they will keep working hard in Summer term.
Maths
We will continue with our Mastering Number work, having a sound understanding of numbers to 10 including how numbers are composed, double facts and knowing if a number is odd or even. Some children are confident with numbers to 20 and beyond, this is a target for all children for the end of the term. Please support your child by counting at home with a focus on the teen numbers and the pattern of our number system. We will continue practising finding 1 more and 1 less than a given number to 20 for any children not secure yet.
We talk about the days of the week each day. Please support your child at home with learning the days of the week. Ask if they know what day is it today? Which day was yesterday? What day will it be tomorrow? Which day do you do PE?
Topic
Our topic for Summer 1 is ‘Are We There Yet?’– In this topic, we will find out about various forms of transport including how transport has changed over time. We will talk about different places people visit and will use maps to show places we would like to go. We will look at the different modes of transport used in other countries around the world. We will also explore how things move including and how we can make things move faster or slower.
Our topic for Summer 2 is ‘Why Do Ladybirds have spots?’ – We will be learning about different minibeasts and their habitats. In our classrooms, we will observe the amazing life cycle of a butterfly. We will also explore why ladybirds have spots, why spiders spin webs and why minibeasts hide. We will look closely at the changing of the seasons, how is summer different to Spring? Why do we only see butterflies in the summer? This topic is fantastic opportunity for children to appreciate the natural world and all it has to offer us.
Safeguarding (What we are teaching children to help them keep safe)
As part of our Summer 2 topic, we will learn about the importance of keeping safe on roads and pavements. We will discuss road safety including how to be a safe pedestrian and the use of high visibility clothing. Due to the increasing temperatures, we will be talking about sun safety. Please apply suncream to your child on a morning and send a water bottle in to school. We have sun hats in school that the children can wear but please feel free to send one in, if you would like to.
Jigsaw- We will continue our regular Jigsaw lessons with Jigsaw Jenie. These lessons will provide opportunities for your child to develop the life skills needed to reach their potential as an individual and to stay safe.
Dates for your Diary
Summer Term: Monday 20th April 2026 to Tuesday 21st July 2026
Half Term: Monday 25th May 2026 to Friday 29th May 2026
May Day: Monday 4th May 2026