🌟 Looking Back on a Wonderful Year in Year 2! 🌟
What a fantastic year it has been in Year 2! As we reach the end of the school year, it’s amazing to look back and see just how much the children have grown – not only in their learning but also in their confidence, independence and kindness towards one another. They’ve worked so hard, shown brilliant curiosity and enthusiasm, and achieved so much to be proud of.
✨ Highlights from Our Learning This Year
It’s been a year full of exciting lessons and hands‑on experiences. Here are just a few of our favourite moments from across the curriculum:
✏️ Incredible writing in English – the children have developed their storytelling voices, planning imaginative plots, describing characters in detail, and editing their own work to make it even better. They have also created lovely poetry, written explanation texts and recounted their own experiences.
🔢 Tackling numbers up to 100 in Maths – we’ve loved seeing their confidence grow as they added, subtracted, and explored halves and quarters of different amounts. We have also learnt how to multiply, divide and find fractions of amounts. We explored geometry, identifying lines of symmetry and naming 2D and 3D shapes.
🔥 Discovering the Great Fire of London in History – this topic truly came to life from our making of Tudor houses to our special visit from a firefighter, who shared how fire safety has changed since 1666.
🎨 Moulding and creating sculptures in Art – from sketching to shaping clay, the children showed such creativity and care in their work.
(And that’s not all – we also mixed and tasted our own dips in DT, explored how things grow in Science by planting cress seeds, and enjoyed so many experiments along the way!)
🌈 Special Events and Trips
Our learning has been enriched by some very memorable experiences this year:
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Our trip to the RAF Museum, where we saw real aircrafts and linked our DT projects to history.
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A magical visit to the Roald Dahl Museum, inspiring us to be even more creative in our writing.
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Celebrating Purple Up Day, showing our support and understanding for military families.
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And of course, our end‑of‑year performance, where the children sang, acted and shone with confidence – what a way to finish the year!
💛 Thank You to Our Parents and Carers
We simply couldn’t have done it without you. Thank you for your ongoing support – from reading at home and helping with projects to encouraging your children every day. Your partnership has made such a difference to their progress and happiness.
🌱 Keeping Learning Alive Over the Holidays
The summer break is a well‑deserved rest, but there are lots of fun ways to keep those curious minds ticking over:
📚 Read together every day – stories, magazines, anything they enjoy!
🌳 Explore outdoors – go on nature walks, look for insects, talk about plants and animals.
🎲 Play games that use numbers and words – board games, word searches or apps can be great fun.
Here’s to all the achievements of this year and to an exciting year ahead. Well done, Year 2 – we are so proud of you all! Have a wonderful summer! ☀️