Curriculum Update
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
Our writing this term is going to build on Year Three, allowing us to explore stories and how to develop our skills as a writer. We will be spending time developing our skills in writing paragraphs.
Reading
In year 4, the children are encouraged to make their own reading choices. They will be choosing their own books from the book corner and will bring them home. In Y4, the children are expected to bring their book back to school three times with their reading record.
Spelling
Every child has access to our online spelling scheme of work. Your child has been set spelling tasks, individualised to their own needs.
Please allow your child to access Spelling Shed at least once a week.
Mathematics
This term, our focus will be place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We need to focus on our multiplication tables as we will have a national test in June.
Times tables
In Year 4, every child takes a times table test. We aim to support them to know all of the multiplication and related division facts to 12 x 12 by the end of Y4. To support this, it would fantastic of your child could use this at home.
Please allow your child to access TT Rockstars at least once a week.
www.ttrockstars.com
Please contact your child’s teacher if you need any of the codes for your child reissuing.
Your child will come home with their log ins this week.
Science
This term we will be looking at sound, and how we hear. We will also be looking at the digestive system, and how it works!
Topic
I Am Warrior!
We are looking at how the Romans came to invade in Britain, and how they have had an impact on our lives today. We will be looking at significant people of that era, and how change happened.
Homework
Much 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 and talk with their teachers regularly.
Homework will also be sent home weekly if you cannot access it online.
Seesaw can be downloaded from Apple and Android App Stores, and can be accessed at:
PSHE
In PSHE, we will be looking at what it is like being part of a class team, and being a citizen. In the second half of term, we will be looking at how we can celebrate people’s differences, and what makes us all so special.
PE
Please could your child bring a change of clothes – shorts, tops and trainers / plimsolls for PE on the day. Please ensure they leave jewellery at home for their safety.
4D: Monday
4H: Tuesday
Dates for your Diary
Autumn Term: Tuesday 1st September 2026 – Friday 18th December 2026
Half Term: Monday 26th October 2026 – Friday 30th October 2026