As we move towards the end of term, we have been looking back at all the events of the year and in particular, the highlights of the current Year 2 cohort, who will be leaving us to move into the Prep School in September. This was brought home to us as we watched the Nursery Assembly this week and saw the new group of children who will one day be leaving us as year 2s. What a wonderful, confident group of children they are, with so much potential!
The Year 2 children are definitely looking forward! They had a playtime this week in their new playground with all their new resources, and they were joined by the Year 3s and 4s. It was a very happy half hour with all the children either reuniting or getting to know new friends.
There are a large number of pupils in this year’s Year 2 who started in Nursery and who we have watched grow throughout the last four years. From playing in the sand and the mud kitchen, to learning their phonics and practising their first letters so that they can write their names, it is a pleasure to see how far they have come and what they are capable of now, both academically and socially.
All of them have grown in confidence, welcomed new friends along the way and become responsible and mature children who the teachers will be sorry to pass on to new challenges and adventures.
As parents, it is sometimes just as difficult to watch the children that we have nurtured and fought for grow into independent human beings, but for you next year will be a time to take one step back and recognise that the children need to learn to fight their own battles to prepare them for the world that lies beyond the walls of Cheam! I say one step, the following year it will be two and then three, until we release them into senior school, armed and ready for the challenges there!
But before we do that – the next week is an adventure all in itself!
Jenifer Hillman | Head of Pre-Prep
