Beech Grove Primary School
Spring Term 2025
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 2024/2025 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 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. I’m positive with your continued support, our excellent teaching and well-planned curriculum and interventions, our children will continue to achieve well and try their very best in all lessons.
I continue to be amazed and am so proud of them all and the way they have started back this Autumn term. The children’s continued resilience and adaptability is absolutely outstanding.
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
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
Spring Term: Monday 6th January 2025 – Friday 11th April 2025
Half Term: Monday 24th February 2025 – Friday 28th February 2025
