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'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!
