We have had such a beautiful start to our Year 2 journey together over the past two days! It has been wonderful getting to know each and every one of your delightful children and I can’t wait to get to know them more as the year unfolds. The children have fit seamlessly into their new classroom; it somehow feels like they’ve always been here.

HELLO and a big big welcome to Year 2! September is just around the corner and before we know it, Tuesday and the beginning of the new school year will be here! I CANNOT wait to see all of those smiling faces back in the classroom and to have us all back as a class and whole school community!

I can’t quite believe that I am writing the final blog of the year … and what a year it’s been! So many challenges have been thrown our way and so many obstacles have been overcome, but through it all, the children have been truly AMAZING! They have taken everything in their stride, have continued to smile, and my goodness, the progress they have continued to make has been astounding.

I can’t quite believe I’m writing this, but we’ve just enjoyed our penultimate week together! It’s been a week filled with smiles, laughter and love as we’ve thrown everything into every moment of learning as a Year 2 class team. On Tuesday the children were very excited to discover that we had a visitor in the class … their new Year 3 teacher

This week has just flown by! The children have continued to amaze me with their superb learning and they have been thinking carefully about what choices they can make in order to make our final weeks together as enjoyable and fun as possible!

WOW - what an amazing week we have had here in Year 2! The focus and learning has been UNBELIEVABLE! The children are certainly showing that they are ready for the juniors!

This week has been wonderful! The sun was shining for our sports afternoon on Tuesday, where the children competed with such enthusiasm and determination. The sportsmanship seen from the children was amazing! They graciously celebrated their wins and clapped for other teams in defeat, which was an absolute joy to witness.

What a wonderful week we have had back at school! It was lovely to hear that the children had such brilliant half term holidays recharging their batteries but were as enthusiastic as ever to be back at school ready for their final six weeks in Year 2!

Well Year 2, we’ve all made it to the end of the first summer term! I always love this term in Year 2. It’s the term where so much independence can be seen and the children begin to show just how ready for the juniors they are. It’s also the term where learning from the year seems to come together.

The children have grown their brains in so many different ways this week! From working co-operatively in outdoor PE to completing some super creative writing in English - it has certainly been a jam packed week! Playtimes have been filled with such kindness and compassion, which has been lovely to see. The class are really thinking carefully about the strategies they can use in order to solve problems independently and are treating each other with great respect. Thank you Year 2 - it has been a delight to be on the playground with you this week!

Having only four days of learning certainly didn’t stop the children from working hard this week! Every lesson has been jam packed filled with problem solving and deep thinking, and it has been lovely to see such a mix of Cooperative Roger Robins working so well with each other as well as amazing independent learners.

Each day of the week has been jam packed once again with super learning here in Year 2! We have been celebrating lots of star readers as more and more of the class are getting 100% on their quizzes. The children have now come to realise that taking their time whilst reading really helps with their understanding. It’s been so lovely to see so many proud faces as their quiz scores have popped up on the screen. Children who get three 100% quizzes in a row then become our star readers and are able to read in our class tent during whole class reading time … I think we’re going to need a bigger tent!

Another week has whizzed by here in Year 2! Our classroom has been filled with so many Focused Cooper Crabs each day and the learning taking place has been amazing. I have even likened the children to juniors this week! The enthusiasm and determination they have shown has been unbelievable and I couldn’t be prouder.

WOW! What an amazing start to the new term we have had in Year 2! The children returned to school after the Easter holidays very refreshed and ready for the term ahead. Not only did they seem at least an inch taller (so many have certainly grown!), but they seem to have developed so much in maturity and kindness too. The class have been so focused this week and we seem to have got through lots and lots of super learning!

We’ve come to the end of yet another term in Year 2, and my, what a bit of a strange term it’s been! It seems such a long time ago now, but we started this term continuing with remote learning. We then received the fantastic news that we would all be able to come back together as our class team, and a team is certainly what we are!

What an amazing week it has been here in Year 2! It has been lovely to see so much love and compassion amongst our class team this week, with the children making super choices and spreading so many smiles. We continued our 'how to treat others’ learning in RHE, where we watched several scenarios and decided whether the actions of the children made them a good friend or not.

What a wonderful week it has been here in Year 2! I think we are all now fully back into the swing of the school routine and the learning taking place is amazing! We have been busy persuading people to come to our zoos in English, with marvelous meerkats to terrifying tigers - I wish I could visit them all!

It has been truly wonderful to have all of our class team back together! We have been busy getting used to our school routines again and most importantly, have been enjoying spending time with each other. The excitement on the children’s faces as they walked through the doors on Monday morning was delightful to see; I was definitely just as excited to see them!

I am so so excited to have all of the children back in the classroom on Monday morning; I can’t wait to hear all of their home learning stories and to see how much they’ve grown! Next week will be centered around welcoming the children back, settling them back into the school routine and helping them to feel safe and secure. Our two focus virtues when the children return are love and compassion.