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/ English groups every morning. In these sessions, we will teach the necessary reading skills, so that they can accurately read books matched to their individual reading level. We will explore voice choice and re-read the texts 3 times to help build fluency and comprehension. Your child will bring home reading books to read to you. Please encourage your child to read and return these books at least 3 times a week. They will also bring home a book of their choice for you to read/ share with them
In writing, we will be looking at the different sentence types: statements, questions and commands. We will also focus on using capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks. In the first half term, the children will write stories based on the traditional tale – The Three Billy Goats Gruff. After half – term, the children will be reading, following and then writing recipes linked to our Healthy Living topic. During both half – terms we will be looking at extending our sentences using the conjunctions and, but , because, when, if, or. We will learn to spell words containing: er/est, il, ing/ed, er/or, less, ly, ful, over/under, super,le, al/all. We will continue to focus on forming letters correctly and of relative size.
Maths
In the first half term, the children will be revisiting and consolidating work on place value, working with numbers up to and beyond 100. They will represent numbers in various ways including part whole models and place value charts. The children will also be revisiting addition and subtraction to secure their understanding of adding/subtracting 1 digit and 2 digit numbers and learning how to make and count amounts of money, using coins and notes. It would be useful for your child to have some experience using coins in a real-life situation e.g. counting money in a piggy bank, counting money when out shopping.
After half term, the children will have a big focus on multiplication and division. In year 2 the children are expected to learn their 2, 3, 5 and 10 times tables. Throughout the term the children will be practising their times tables regularly. Please help your child to practise saying their tables and to answer quick fire questions about these tables. To help them practise their times tables, they can access Seesaw and join in with BBC super movers.
Topic
Our 2 topics this term are ‘Messy Mixtures’ and ‘Healthy living’. In the first half term, we will be learning all about drawing, colour mixing and applique. We will study the art work of Carl Warner.
During the second half of the term the children will be learning what an animal needs to survive and how adults keep healthy. We will be learning about the need for a balanced diet, the importance of exercise and the different ways in which we should keep our bodies clean. We will be following healthy recipes and creating our own healthy smoothie. We will be finding out what happens to our bodies if we eat too much sugar.
Keeping Safe and Healthy (This section will tell you what we are teaching children about lifestyle choices)
We will be looking at ways to stay healthy, including healthy meals and exercise. The children will also be learning about the role of medicines in everyday life and staying safe around dangerous liquids.
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