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
The children will be working hard in their new Read, Write, Inc. groups every morning to improve their reading and writing. The children will bring home a reading book at their level to read to a grown up. Please encourage your child to read and return their books 3 times a week, so they have the chance of winning a home reader prize in assembly. I am sure you will be really impressed with your child’s reading ability and progress.
The children will enjoy listening to and reading a range of different stories this half term based around the theme of Moon Zoom, with our first story being ‘Beegu’ by Alexis Deacon and then ‘The Smeds and the Smoos’ by Julia Donaldson. We will be re-telling the stories and beginning to independently write a sequence of short sentences that flow and make sense using our non-negotiables of capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.
After half term, in our topic Paws, Claws and Whiskers, we will be reading the popular story ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ by Judith Kerr and will continue to focus and build upon writing a sequence of short sentences that flow and make sense, to re-tell the story using learnt key vocabulary. We will also be researching a variety of animals to create an animal fact file.
Maths
In maths this term we will be revisiting and consolidating numbers to 10 and begin to move onto learning numbers to 20. This number work will include solving addition and subtraction using part whole models and bar modelling methods and have lots of practise counting forwards and backwards to 20 using a number line. In Spring 2, we will be increasing your child’s knowledge of number by counting to 50. We will also be focussing on measure using mass and volume. Your child will continue to complete ‘Rapid Recall’ three times a week, to help them become more fluent with these key number skills. Please encourage your child to finish these off at home, to help them reach the next stage.
Topic
Our topics this term will be ‘Moon Zoom’ and ‘Paws, Claws and Whiskers’. In the first half term we will be learning about the Moon Landing in 1969. We will also be learning about a famous important individual called ‘Neil Armstrong’ and what his job as an astronaut involved.
After half term we will be learning about the difference between a wild and domestic animals. We will also be learning about the five distinctive groups of animals; mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds and fish, while making links to an animals diet; omnivore, herbivore or carnivore.
Safeguarding (This section will tell you what we are teaching children about lifestyle choices)
During this term we will be highlighting the importance of feeling safe and happy in a school environment and also why being unique is special. We will also be reminding children of the importance of being safe in our local area and people who help us. We will be talking about dressing appropriately for the weather (please provide warm coats, gloves, hats as the weather begins to cool, as we will be going outdoors to look at seasonal change).
Dates for your Diary
Summer Term: Monday 20th April 2026 – Tuesday 21st July 2026
Half Term: Monday 25th May 2026 – Friday 29th May 2026
May Day: Monday 4th May 2026