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This week year 2 embraced the changing seasons and baked a delicious batch of Autumnal Sausage rolls that were much admired with their pumpkins and leaves decorations.
The children are excited this week to watch the first steps in the creation of our allotment. We are very lucky to have the support of our local Tesco property team, who this week brought a digger to the school and started to level the allotment area. Watch this space for the next step !
Thank You, Tesco! Huge News for our allotment project… Our local Tesco Manager, Ash, and Tesco’s property/maintenance team have generously agreed to not only support us in creating our allotment but to also contribute some of the materials needed as well. We are so grateful to Tesco for investing so much time and effort in our children’s learning and enjoyment. We cannot wait to get started!
'Twinning' day today!
Our Thank You Afternoon Tea for our wonderful volunteers and those who help make our school the special place it is 🥰
The whole school has enjoyed an unbelievable show by World Champion Scooter rider Terry Price. We loved seeing the amazing tricks he could do, finishing with an extraordinary back flip! What a guy! Thank you Terry.
The children from our dance class at Shakespeare Infant School performed at Integr8 Dance's recent Dance Off show on 28 June. The children did brilliantly and were awarded with the prize for ‘Most Magical’ performance on the evening. We were very proud of them and they were excellent ambassadors for their school.
The school has been very lucky to receive some baby frogs for our pond from a very caring grandparent. Thank you so much!
We are beyond excited to announce that thanks to Mrs Callum's hard work we have been invited by Tesco to join their FREE Fruit & Veg for Schools Programme! This will enable our children to enjoy a whole year of baking, creating and munching amazing recipes using Tesco's produce 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍋🟩🥑🍆🍅🫑🥒🥕🍞🥗🥚🍓🍇🥦🍍🍒🍑🍉 Thank you Tesco and Mrs Callum!
All ready for Sports Days! Give me a 'S', Give me a 'H', Give me a 'A' (we could be here a while.....)
Loving the bespoke shades a parent kindly made for Mrs Mills and Ms Lamble!
The voting at Tesco has begun! Please post a blue token to help get our allotment built. We can't wait to grow produce to bake in our learning lab! 🍎🍐🍓🥒🥕🥦🧅🥔
This week Mrs Callum had a wonderful surprise! A child from Ladybird class baked her and Ms Lamble some yummy cupcakes! Mrs Callum just loves to hear about how her sessions have inspired you to bake at home!
Year 2 Skipping Workshop Fun! Lots of skills being learnt and showcased 😊
Photos from our Y1 community week outcome. The children absolutely loved sharing what they have learnt about heroes at home. We all enjoyed sharing our knowledge and taking part in some fun activities with our grownups! It was lovely to see so many children and adults in uniform. Ms Lamble with the future teaching staff of SIS is one of personal favourites! 🥰😍
This week Year One celebrated community heros, so we baked beautiful butter "Thank You" biscuits. The children spoke so gratefully of all the different people we who help us and keep us safe. We shall enjoy eating them at our Celebration Party Friday morning!
A HUGE THANK YOU to all our wonderful volunteers who have helped make our fabulous grounds even more fabulous!
And our winners are............. Many thanks to our judges; Mr Wootton, Mr Chick and Rev'd Gill, it was a tough job as they were all so fantastic!
Thank you to all our families who donated soft drinks for our Easter Gift to Eastleigh Basics Bank!
Some of Friends of Shakespeare Infant School - FOSI amazing Easter Hat entries - WOW!
A HUGE THANK YOU to Mr and Mrs Aslet, Miss Vane and Mr Emery for all their hard work and dedication in pruning the apple trees in our orchard so the children will be able to enjoy the magical experience of picking and eating their own apple! Four consecutive Wednesday evenings of hard graft - thank you all for giving up your time for our children! 🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏
This week Year 2 baked ANZAC biscuits as part of the discover New Zealand project. ANZAC stands for Australian, New Zealand Army Corps and are sold like poppies for veterans in NZ . They raise funds but are also so delicious! 😋
Our 'Wedding Dress Tree' - Spring has now, officially, sprung! 🥰
Sneak peak at Y1 enjoying their Great Fire of London Workshop - hot spotting characters and being transported back in time.
Year 2 having fun learning with Alpha Laboratories! Thank you so much, Alpha Laboratories!
Bling my Ride 2026!
Book Fayre March 2026
Oh my! What chocolatey fun we had this week baking the most scrumdillyupsious chocolate muffins with the winners of the Golden Tickets....the children had such a wonderful afternoon (so did Mrs Callum!)
Just a few from our fantastic World Book Day 2026!
Year R have loved to learn about plants and flowers in class so Ladybirds brought this enthusiasm into the children's kitchen, we made jammy flower puffs. These not only were fun to make but very yummy to munch!
A MASSIVE thank you to the governors, their friend and wife and 2 members of school staff and Mr Day who gave up their time to finish painting Butterfly classroom. We're not quite there yet but so close!
Year 2 creating their clay animal sculptures:
Year R Gymnastics with Mr Byrom:
A couple of photos from our magical Year 2 Bedtime Stories Event:
Our children asked LOTS of questions about the fascinating process of our new tarmac being laid!
Year 2 enjoying the British weather 😊
Just a few photos from our visit from Spirit of the Wild - Year 2 were captivated by all the wonderful animals they got to meet. Mrs Wilson and Miss Esfandiari were very brave interacting with the spider and snake that they are not the biggest fans of!
Year 1 enjoying todays weather😊
Christmas Dinner 2025 - well done Chef Jackie and Team!
Forest came to make our Year R Nativity that extra bit special 🥰 Thank you Miss Barney and family!
Pixie "enjoying" the Christmas jumper that we bought her!
Otter class where so excited to be baking Christmas tree pizzas.....choosing toppings and were very proud of the spectacular end results!
Pixie - our AMAZING Reading Dog! Pixie gave a Christmas Card to the children who read to her.
Elfridges!
Elf Antics
This week we started feeling festive in the Cookery Club! Year 2 children baked some Christmas tree pizzas. Easy and delicious...give them a try at home!
Chef Jackie came to talk to us about her role in school as part of our school project we are learning about in Year R. She made us little shortbread biscuits to taste.
This week the Cookery club fell on November 5th so we just had to celebrate Bonfire night ! Year R created edible sparklers to munch while watching the fireworks.....go on try making some at home. They could even be magic wands.....
Last Wednesday some of our Children's Voice Representatives attended a special Remembrance Service.
A few of the many photos taken of Year 2's visit to Southampton's Sea City Museum last week. Many thanks to all who helped make this fantastic visit happen, especially our volunteers!
Our Diwali celebration lunch - so colourful and yummy!
Thank you to all our families - Harvest collection for Eastleigh Basics Bank
On 2nd October we celebrated National Poetry Day - here are a few snapshots of the day!
Mrs Callum's Cooking Club: The Diwali festival of light will be celebrated on Monday 20th Oct. A wonderful group of Year R, Year 1 & Year 2 all worked together to make traditional good luck treats! It was lovely to watch the older children support the younger ones.
Mrs Callum's Cooking Club: This week we had children working and supporting each other to celebrate Diwali! We made delicious Coconut treats. Coconut represents joy and good luck on this special festival.
To assist with their Eastleigh Explorers Project, Year 1 have been busy investigating our local neighbourhood. Thank you to our volunteers for enabling the visit to happen.
This week some of Year 1 children picked beautiful big red apples to bake into light and crispy Apple puffs .....very yummy
Year 2 have completed their moving book covers. We added details to our sliders and pivots to make them come alive!
Year 2 are learning how to use pivots and levers to create moving book covers. The split pins are very fiddly!
How amazing are our Year 1 self portraits? Great use of colour, shading and observation.
Our amazing reading dog Pixie!
This week Year 1 harvested some of the apples in our orchard and baked some delicious Apple crumble fairy cakes. It was great to have such fresh and tasty ingredients.
Year 2 have got off to a flying start, and have got stuck straight in to our Fabulous Friends learning. Look how proud we are!
Thank You afternoon tea for all those who help make SIS the amazing, nurturing and caring learning environment it is with our Shakespeare Choir performing to our special guests!
We have enjoyed inviting " the grown ups" to Mrs Callum's Cookery sessions for the last few weeks. It has been wonderful to watch as they worked together with the children to bake the most delicious Banana Muffins! It has been such a success we plan to run more next academic year!
The Children's Voice representatives were treated to an afternoon of pond dipping with Mr Shears as a thank you for all their hard work this academic year in supporting changes for the better around school. Thank you, Mr Shears, for giving up your time.
Woodland Signs
Endball 2025 - Excellent teamwork shown by all. The children played well against older, bigger teams, especially in the final match up.
Shakespeare Infants enjoyed great success at Integr8 Dance Off show last weekend. They were awarded the ‘Best Storytelling’ award and all performed brilliantly and were amazing representatives of the school.
How amazing are our Year 2's Home Learning - 3D invented Mini Beasts!
Look who Mr Shears (one of our Governors) found in our pond yesterday - it shows we have a healthy pond 😃
Shakespeare in bloom
YR enjoying Open Box Theatre's Fairytale Workshop!
Did you know that each half term a year 2 class has a bonus PE club at lunchtime run by Miss Schooling? We have such a great time playing PE games!
YR Community Week 2025
Community Week 2025!
Children's Voice Reps visit to Alpha Laboratories!
Year 2 walked around Eastleigh town centre to kick off Community Week. Look who we met!
Children's Voice Reps escorting Mr Mayor through Eastleigh to meet the Y2 children at the bandstand. They were there to discuss what they liked and disliked about Eastleigh town centre and what ideas they had about their local community.
Our new lunches with Clever Chefs!
We were so lucky to have actor, teacher and Governor Andy Kent join us to perform one of Puck's speeches from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. Andy has performed Shakespeare's plays many times, including at the Globe Theatre in London and in Stratford-upon-Avon. The children really enjoyed his performance and asked many interesting questions. They also enjoyed singing 'Happy birthday' to Shakespeare, using the Shakespearean 'thee'!
Year R have enjoyed learning how to use a skipping rope for lots of different games!
Year 1's visit to Hillier's Arboretum
The Year 2 children have had an amazing morning starting to learn about minibeast habitats around our school grounds as we launch our Invertebrate Investigation!
A HUGE THANK A HUGE THANK YOU to the wonderful volunteers who came in during the Easter Break and started work on improving our Courtyard Area!
Members of our Children's Voice and friends from SJS helped Mrs Wilson clean up the alleyway - we care!
Easter 2025
Here are our Children's Voice Representatives planting trees with Mr Shears on the field. Huge thanks to him for making our school a better place!
We have been baking Anzac Biscuits in Mrs Callums cookery club over last few weeks ,as Year 2 have been discovering New Zealand ! These biscuits taste amazing but also help raise funds for those who serve their country ! Why not give them a try.
Year R have been exploring plants at school!
The school enjoyed taking part in our Eat Them to Defeat Them week. We ate lots of vegetables! Here is us enjoying our carrots!
Some of our Y2 children made up a team to attend the North Eastleigh and Winchester Multi-Skills Festival at Kings' School, Winchester along with Mr Byrom - the children had a great time!
Science is all about exploring and understanding the real world. Science assembly led by Mrs Johnson wanting to prove that oxygen does exist even though you cannot see it. She carefully added washing up liquid to hydrogen peroxide (bleach), added yeast in warm water and we watched ALL the bubbles appear trapping the oxygen inside the washing up liquid. It was awesome!
One of our Y2 children made it into the Daily Echo with his wonderful 'Neil Armstrong' inspired costume. Well done!
Year 2 are practising telling the time on analogue clocks and writing expanded noun sentences about the attractions in the Bay of Plenty region. We absolutely love our learning!
This week we celebrated World Book Day and became Willy Wonker bakers ....we had chocolatey fun creating scrumdidlyumotious cup cakes. It's a shame Mrs Callum gave up chocolate for Lent!
Our wonderful Kitchen Team had their food hygiene inspection today - well done team!
Just some of our AMAZING staff on WBD2025
World Book Day 2025 - Little People BIG DREAMS
Robin class doing PE with their specialist coach
Our amazing Reading Dog, Pixie, enjoying the spring sunshine with our children 😎
Before half term Year R enjoyed a fantastic day dressed up as PIRATES and sent some letters to Captain McGrew!
Year 2 Flight to New Zealand
Children's Voice making cookies as a thank you for their hard work in securing a new catering contractor for SIS. Watch this space.....
Our amazing Pixie!
Year 2 trip to the library
Some of our Children's Voice Representatives helping Mrs Wilson tidy up the alley next to our school - we care!
Annika the vet's visit to Y2 as part of our Spirit of the Wild project.
Yummy Food From Potential Catering Contractors!
Year 2 Science - Accurate Animal Clay Sculptures
A sample of Y2 Titanic Paintings
Mr Wootton - Head of Governors, performing for the children
Elf Antics!
Look who has come to visit us!
Christmas Dinner 2024
Fraser our Tennis Coach and Visitor Pip getting in the Christmas Spirit!
Some of our Children's Voice visiting Crestwood's Christmas Magic
North Eastleigh and Winchester Racket Skills Festival
Equal Access - providing equal access to girl's football at SIS
Firework Competition Winners! - Congratulations to Finley, Marco and Ben!
Firework Competition
Year 2's Fabulous Friends Fiesta!
End of term Summer Celebration!
Danny Butler BMX Extreme!
Break the uniform rules 2024!
Community Week 2024 - we care!
Alpha Laboratories, staff, governors and wonderful volunteers helping to spruce up the grounds - Easter 2024
World Book Day 2024
Throughout the summer holiday, KBM developments fitted the new children's kitchen, generously donated at cost price by Howdens. It will make such a difference to the cooking and food nutrition curriculum that our children, and their families, will be able to access.
We're waiting for the new furniture to arrive and then we will have a grand opening!
The Huff and Puff also had a make over in the summer holidays thanks to two generous donations from Alpha Laboratories. The bottom half has been replaced with a luxurious artificial grass and the children have loved taking their shoes and socks off and feeling the difference! The woodland squirrels have been most amusing as they are also getting used to the increased thickness of the surface as they scamper around, somewhat more slowly during the day.
