News - 2nd June

We hope you had a wonderful half term break, and enjoyed the amazing sunshine!

We have started this term in a spiritual way just like Betsy Butterfly, and have been considering 'Ideas about God'. We have looked into what Christians and Hindus think about the concept of God, and thought about our own ideas as well.

News - 19th May

We were very lucky with the weather on Monday morning so we could all take part in sports day!

We loved the racing, cheering on our friends and enjoying an ice pop afterwards! The parents egg and spoon race was especially fun!

News - 12th May

We are thinking about how to make Bug Hotels in our DT lessons. We are trying to work out how to make structures that are strong, stiff and stable. Look at how much fun we've had!

News - 5th May

We hope you enjoyed the long bank holiday weekend! I wonder if you went bug hunting?

This week we have started studying the book Du Iz Tak, by Carson Ellis. This book is great for our comprehension and inference skills and our imagination, as the story is written in a made up language.

We are going to use it as the inspiration for our own bug stories! If you would like to see the book, try this link. Remember your e-safety!

Du Iz Tak read along, by Carson Ellis

News - 28th April

We have learnt so much about Evelyn Cheesman - we all decided that she was definitely a history VIP!

This has linked very nicely into our new project - Invertebrate Investigation! We love bug hunting and looking at some very interesting invertebrates - our indian stick insects!

We have also done a fascinating experiment into which micro-habitats woodlice like the best!

We really are amazing scientists.

News - 22nd April

Wow - Community week was amazing! We presented what we had learnt to a distinguished panel of invited guests including the Mayor, the Mayoress and our local PCSO's. All the Year 2 children were complimented on their clear and confident oracy and presentation skills.

This week we are learning about an extraordinary woman named Evelyn Cheesman. She was a very adventurous entomologist! We have to decide if we think she is a history VIP.... watch this space!

We have also been enjoying the fantastic weather with lots of time outside on the field and doing some planting. We love Spring!

News - 14th April

We hope you enjoyed our New Zealand Destination Presentation before the Easter break, and that you also had a wonderful Easter holiday!

This week we have launched our Community Week 2026 - 'People Who Help Us'.

We started off by going for a walk around Eastleigh to see if we could notice the work of some 'unseen workers', like the refuse collectors, gardeners and road repair workers. These are the people who help make Eastleigh such a nice place to live in!

News - 24th March 

This week we are finding out why Christians celebrate Easter and how sadness and happiness are both important feelings for everybody, no matter what religious beliefs they hold.

We are also looking forward to sharing our New Zealand learning with you at our Destination Presentation on Thursday from 2.15.

At the weekend, many Shakespeare Infant School children joined in with the Eastleigh Fun Run - well done everyone!

News - 17th March

News - 10th March

We are continuing to learn about inspiring Maori people. This week we have learnt about the work of master weaver Matekino Lawless and the extraordinary woven cloaks that she hand makes. We have been inspired to learn how to weave as well!

News - 4th March

We have enjoyed being immersed in our geography learning. We have found out so much about New Zealand and the Bay of Plenty region. We have compared these places to Hampshire; there are some things that are the same and some things that are very, very different!

We are also learning about Maori people and a unique dance they perform at special occasions, called the Haka. We are learning one of these in our PE lessons! Here is the video we are using to help us re-create an accurate and respectful traditional Haka.

Rico Gear performs 'Kamate'

This is a YouTube link, so please remember your eSafety!

News - 24th February 2026

This morning we received a letter from Betsy Butterfly wondering whether she should visit Tauranga in New Zealand. As we don't yet know about this city there was only one thing for it - we had to fly there to investigate!

News - 3rd February 2026

We have had a wonderful creative time creating our lifelike clay animals. Our teachers are absolutely blown away by our sculpting skills!

News - 27th January 2026

We are enjoying sharing the wonderful  book 'Wild' by Emily Hughes in our reading comprehension lessons. This week we explored how the characters are feeling using drama! Can you guess these emotions?

If you'd like to listen to this fantastic book, try this link - ask your grown ups first though!:

Wild by Emily Hughes

We also had a assembly introducing us to the RSPB Great Garden Bird Watch! Did you take part this weekend?

News - 20th January 2026

As part of our Spirit of the Wild project we are going sculpt some animals out of clay. But before we can do that we need to learn about how clay feels, and how we can manipulate it. We had a joyful afternoon experimenting with the different shapes and textures we can make!

News - 13th January 2026

In our English lessons we are busy practicing our diary writing skills, recounting the wonderful day we spent with the animals of Spirit of the Wild. 

But it's not all desk work... in PE we are learning about gymnastics - stands, jumps and balances - look at the wonderful ways we can move!

News - 6th January 2026

Welcome back to our blog! We hope you had a wonderful break. Today has been very exciting.  We've kicked off our new project - Spirit of the Wild - in style! We had a visit from a private zoo who taught us all about the different animal classes and showed us an animal from each category. Wow!

As if that wasn't exciting enough, it has been snowing too. We've made sure that our playtimes have been at snowy times so we can really enjoy this pretty rare event!

News - 16th December

Thank you for attending our wonderful events last week! We loved sharing all our hard work at music, writing and art with you!

This week we are having a spiritual time thinking about candlelight. We are wondering about what candle light means to us and to people with different religions. We are especially lucky to also be baking gingerbread biscuits with Mrs Callum  and we will enjoy them at our special year group end of term celebration!

News - 9th December

Lots to talk about this week!

On Thursday we have our Y2 Christmas Recorder Concerts at St Peter's Church in Boyatt Wood:

Otters 1.30-1.55
Robins 2-2.25
Foxes 2.30-2.55

Please come along and support us!

We are also celebrating our Iceberg Ahead! project by inviting all our grown ups into our classrooms to read our writing and admire our artwork. This will be on Friday 12th December from 3.10-3.20pm.

And talking of artwork.... we have had a wonderful time doing detailed paintings of the Titanic with gouache paint. We concentrated so hard and selected the right size brush carefully.

News - 2nd December

We have been inspired by the wonderful JMW Turner painting - The Fighting Temeraire - to experiment with our own mixed media paintings of the Titanic.

We have started by making a colour wash with watercolour showing the dark night and still ocean. We learnt how to make a gradient of colour. Look at this example of our skill! We will be adding the Titanic on top of this dreamy background.

News - 25th November

What a day! We set off excitedly to the cinema and enjoyed our walk. Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control our seats hadn't been booked! We were very, very resilient and positive and made a new plan to watch the film back at our special 'Shakespeare Infant School Cinema'.

We had a great time - the lights were low and the film was fab! We also had bonus allergy appropriate snacks (thank you very much to our wonderful kitchen staff!), which we would not have had in the cinema!

News - 18th November

This week we have really enjoyed learning all of the history behind the fateful maiden voyage of the Titanic - we really are experts now!

We are also excited to be learning about Dance in PE with our coaches. They are so good at showing us how to use our own bodies to express ourselves!

News - 11th November

We have got stuck into learning the history of the RMS Titanic's maiden voyage in our project - Iceberg Ahead! We had a truly wonderful trip to Southampton's SeaCity Museum last week where we learnt so much. We are all really excited about this project!

News - 4th November

Welcome back! It's so good to see you and there is excitement building about our trip tomorrow to the Sea City Museum. We will all need a packed lunch (unless you have ordered one from school), a water bottle and a coat. We won't need book bags.

While we've all been off enjoying the half term break, it's been very busy in school. We have a beautiful, fresh new corridor carpet. We are all trying our best to look after it, by wiping our feet before we come into the building.

Look how proud Mrs Wilson is of it!

News - 21st October

Thank you for coming to our Storytellers Story share event. We loved reading our fabulous journey tales to you!

We have now started a mini-project - Special Books! We started this project with a very unique Reading Together session, where, instead of reading our class books, we brought in our own, very special, books.

News - 14th October

We have started writing our stories this week - we are really looking forward to sharing them with you on Friday at our Story Share event. Please come to the main hall doors in the car park for 2.30 on Friday. We have lots of stories to share with you! we can't wait!

News - 7th October

Robin class have now enjoyed their visit to the library. Once again, a HUGE thank you to our volunteers for accompanying us - we can't do it without you!

In our writing lessons we have been writing Wanted posters to warn all our friends about this very cheeky villain!

News - 1st October

Otter class have enjoyed a very successful trip to the library - we are very grateful to Vicky who works in the library for setting up a fun scavenger hunt for us! We also want to say thank you to all the kind volunteers who came with us. We can't do these wonderful things without you!

News - 23rd September

We have been experimenting with card, scissors, split pins and blu-tack to create pivots and levers. We will use what we have learnt to make some moving book covers for our stories about Mia and the Poctopus.

News - 16th September

We loved having our grown ups in class for our Fabulous Friends outcome event. Thank you for sharing our writing and art with us!

We have launched our new project - Storytellers - with a visit from talented author and illustrator Simon Chadwick. He drew us a hero and a villain using our ideas right before our eyes. Wow! He's also set us a challenge to write a story about our brand new characters. We're on it!

News - 9th September

Welcome into Year 2! It is great to all be together, learning and having fun. We have kicked off our new project - Fabulous Friends. We have also got stuck into our maths and writing lessons. Take a look at how hard we are working!