Beech Grove Primary School
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
We are really focused on developing our reading and comprehension skills in English to develop a love for reading for enjoyment. Writing is a big focus in Y6, and we have lots of exciting writing opportunities coming our way! We will be writing a factual report about the sinking of the Titanic and a persuasive letter about the effects of plastic pollution. In Autumn 2, we shall also write a suspense narrative and look at the character of Scrooge in ‘A Christmas Carol.’ Along the way, will further develop our grammar skills in using high level punctuation incorporating a variety of sentence types throughout our writing. Practising spelling and understanding how words are built will also be a priority this year.
Maths
This term we will work on our arithmetic skills, for quick recall of facts as well as focusing on the times tables. We will be looking at place value, the four number operations (add, subtraction, multiplication and division), ordering and rounding numbers as well as incorporating negative numbers. We will look in depth at fractions (adding, subtracting multiplying and dividing them), finding equivalence and exploring percentages. In this term will be honing our reasoning skills when applying maths knowledge which will continue throughout the year.
Topic/Science
Our Topics this half term are Frozen Kingdom and Revolutions. Our focus will be on the Polar regions of the Frozen Kingdom, looking at climate change, animals and food chains. Art-wise, we shall be looking at the art works of Steven Brown and learning to stitch to make a collage. During Revolutions, our focus will be looking at Victorian England – Queen Victoria, inventions that changed our lives, crime and punishments along with comparing rich and poor homes in that era. We will also make fruit scones in DT for our own Victorian afternoon tea. Across both topics we will be looking at world maps and understanding the geography of the world and our local area more thoroughly.
Science teaching this term will look at ways of classifying animals and the effects of climate change on our Polar regions and what we can do to reduce our carbon footprint.
Keeping Safe and Healthy (This section will tell you what we are teaching children about lifestyle choices)
This term we will look at building positive relationships and be thinking about out mental well-being. We will carefully address any questions the children may have about hygiene and changes to their body also with regard personal hygiene and exercise. We will also be working with My Sister’s place to develop our understanding of what makes a healthy relationship.
Dates for your Diary
Autumn Term: Tuesday 1st September 2026 – Friday 18th December 2026
Half Term: Monday 26th October 2026 – Friday 30th October 2026