End-of-Year Poetry Ideas KS2 🎓 | Fun & Reflective Classroom Activities for Summer Term
🌞 End-of-Year Poetry Ideas KS2
As the school year winds down, children are full of stories, laughter and memories.
Writing end-of-year poems helps pupils reflect on the year they’ve had — the friends they’ve made, the lessons they’ve learned, and the moments they’ll never forget.
Through end-of-year poetry, pupils can:
🌟 Celebrate learning and friendships
🎭 Develop performance and presentation skills
📝 Reflect on their own achievements
🎨 Create colourful classroom displays or leavers’ books
👉 In my Poetry Days across the UK, I often end the summer term with laughter, reflection and performance.
I visit over 100 schools every year — helping pupils turn their school memories into poetry they’ll treasure.
📅 You can book me for:
In-person Poetry Days across the UK
Online Poetry Workshops (affordable and flexible)
➡ Secure your date here: Poets in Schools – Ian Bland
💡 Why Write End-of-Year Poems?
The final weeks of term are perfect for creative reflection. Poetry lets children laugh, look back and look forward — combining English, PSHE and performance in one joyful activity.
🔗 Related: Leavers Poetry – Creative Ways to Say Goodbye | Poems About School Memories KS2 | Funny School Poems KS2
✍️ Poem Idea 1 – Class Reflection Poems
Ask pupils to think back over the year:
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What did they enjoy learning?
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What made them laugh?
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What challenged them most?
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What are they proud of?
Create a repeating-line structure such as:
This Year We…
This year we learned to be brave,
This year we made a volcano erupt,
This year we lost three footballs on the roof,
This year we grew taller than Mr Hugh!
💡 Activities
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Brainstorm Board: Make a “Class Highlights” list on the whiteboard.
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Rhyme & Rhythm: Build couplets from funny or proud moments.
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Performance: Perform as a class, each pupil reading one line.
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Display: Mount the finished poem on coloured paper with photos from the year.
🔗 Related: Performance Poetry KS2
💭 Poem Idea 2 – Goodbye & Hello Poems
Encourage pupils to write two halves of a poem — one saying goodbye to the year, the other welcoming what’s next.
Goodbye and Hello
Goodbye to early-morning maths,
Goodbye to forgotten homework pangs,
Hello to new teachers and new friends,
Hello to whatever next year sends!
💡 Activities
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Contrast Workshop: List everything they’ll miss vs. everything they’re excited for.
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Grammar Link: Focus on past and future tense verbs.
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PSHE Connection: Discuss change, resilience and optimism.
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Display: Present as folded “door poems” — open one side for Goodbye, the other for Hello.
🔗 Related: Growth Mindset Poems KS2
😂 Poem Idea 3 – Funny School Awards
Turn your class’s inside jokes into a comic poem:
The Class Awards!
Most likely to lose a pen: Ben!
Fastest runner in the den: Jen!
Loudest laugh in every hall: Paul!
Best excuse for missing PE: me!
💡 Activities
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Nomination Game: Pupils invent funny awards — “Most Creative Hair,” “Best Snack Sharer.”
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Rhyme Workshop: Write couplets or quatrains for each award.
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Performance: Present the awards as a mini assembly or video montage.
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Display: Print the awards with cartoon portraits or caricatures.
🔗 Related: Funny Teacher Poems KS2
❤️ Poem Idea 4 – Thank You Poems
A lovely end-of-year tradition — poems written to teachers, classmates or parents.
Dear Miss Green,
Thanks for helping when I felt small,
For making me believe I could do it all.
You said “keep going,” “never quit,”
You made me laugh when I needed it.
💡 Activities
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Emotion Map: Pupils think about times someone helped them.
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Simile Challenge: Use kind comparisons — “like a sunny day,” “like a coach on the sidelines.”
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Art Link: Decorate with borders, calligraphy or hand-drawn hearts.
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Assembly Performance: Read aloud to staff or parents.
🔗 Related: Poems About Feelings KS2
🧠 Teacher Pedagogy Notes
Curriculum Links:
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English: structure, rhyme, rhythm, vocabulary, editing
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PSHE: reflection, gratitude, transition, confidence
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Art & Design: illustration and presentation
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Drama: choral speaking and performance skills
Differentiation:
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Support: short acrostics or list poems about favourite memories.
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Challenge: extended narrative or rhyming couplets exploring change.
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Extension: compile a class anthology “The Year We’ll Never Forget.”
Engagement Tip:
Use these during the final two weeks of term — they combine celebration and calm reflection, creating a positive close to the year.
🌟 Final Thoughts
End-of-year poetry is a joyful way to say “thank you,” “goodbye,” and “let’s go!” all at once.
It helps children appreciate how far they’ve come — and gives teachers a heart-warming keepsake of the year.
📚 Because every class deserves to end the year with laughter and rhyme!
📣 Bring Poetry to Life in Your School!
Book a Poetry Day or Online Poetry Workshop and let me help your pupils celebrate their school year through rhythm, laughter and performance.
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