School Open 31st January 2024
We can confirm that Shirley Schools will be open to all staff and pupils from 31st January 2024. Thank you for your understanding as we ensured the safety of our school site after the power outages.
We can confirm that Shirley Schools will be open to all staff and pupils from 31st January 2024. Thank you for your understanding as we ensured the safety of our school site after the power outages.
Southampton City Council have informed us of a critical weather warning from tonight.
In preparation for this, Shirley Infant School will be closing to all from 3:30pm today. This will allow all staff to return home safely in the daylight and the site team to prepare the safety of the building.
All afterschool clubs are cancelled today Wednesday 1st November 2023.
Please collect your children from the school site by 3:30pm at the latest today.
Shirley Infant School will also be closed to all on Thursday 2nd November 2023. Children will bring home homework sheets in their book bags today for Thursday.
We anticipate the school will re-open on Friday 3rd November 2023 unless we inform you otherwise.
We would also like to inform you that the PTFA/FOSIS Firework event planned for Friday 3rd November 2023 will now be postponed. Further information will follow.
A group of our children were invited to spend the day at The University of Southampton exploring many scientific experiments. The children who attend show such Curiosity when we are exploring Science in school, and it was an amazing opportunity for them to take one of our learning behaviours further with such amazing opportunities. They had the best day!
Thank you so much for the opportunity.
We are working with all the schools across the west side of Southampton to support transition from your early years settings into Year R. As a cluster of early years providers we have worked together and agreed on set rhymes and stories we will all sing and read to support your child's transition to a new setting. Have a go at singing along with your little ones and Mrs Clark. We will also be sign these at our induction activities.
We hope you enjoy listening to some stories read by some familiar faces.
This year the theme was ‘Our favourite Bedtime Stories’. The children came into school dressed in their pyjamas with a teddy, ready for an eventful day. We enjoyed seeing pictures of the children enjoying their bedtime stories from home.
The day started with an ‘all star’ production of ‘Once upon a dream’ acted by our wonderful team at Shirley. This was about a boy who had a dream about his bedtime story and got transported to a world of book characters. The children loved seeing their teachers dressed up as different book characters and were inspired to act out scenes in their classrooms.
Back in the classroom, the children continued their acting skills and they acted out scenes from the popular children’s book ‘Where the wild things are. They created pieces of artwork from the story and wrote their very own versions.
The children took part in a Story Spoon competition where they decorated wooden spoons inspired by their favourite book characters. Congratulations to the winners below:
Rabbits: Norman
Moles: Catlyn
Owls: Lucy
Year group winner: Areesha from Rabbits
Woodpeckers: Connie
Foxes: Mysha
Badgers: Rosa
Year group winner: Evie from Foxes
Hedgehogs: Alfie
Otters: Maggie
Squirrels: Annabelle
Year group winner: Dylan from Otters
Admission in September 2023
Last week Mr Hack (Network Technician) and Mrs Watts ran a live webinar to show parents around the website and give you an overview of Google Classroom. This was recorded and can be watched below.
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School Council have been working hard on planning our new PE warm up circuit this year. We talked with the school council at the beginning of the year about what they felt needed to be improved in the school. They felt the playground needed to help them improve their independence, perseverance and co-operation skills more. We have been looking at how to keep ourselves safe but perseverance with new risks too.
School council were instrumental in planning the apparatus we chose for our Circuit on our playground. They thought carefully about what they would do on the apparatus and what skills they would help or challenge their friends.
School Council are very proud of our new apparatus and belive it has made a big difference to playtimes, PE sessions and encouraging more physical activity throughout the school day.