We are delighted to announce that we, Smith's Wood Primary Academy, have achieved the School Games Platinum Mark Award for the 2024/25 academic year.

The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.

We are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our competitions possible.

As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas of participation, competition, workforce and clubs, and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.

We look forward to applying once again in 2026!

Our overall attendance this week was 93.5%

Each week, during our Friday Achievement assembly, we celebrate our ‘Pupils of the Week’ from each year group. Pupils are recognised for this weekly award for a variety of reasons and are nominated by their class teacher. They may have excelled in a particular subject through the week; may have shown one, or more, of the school values in abundance, or they may have impressed their teacher, or other staff members with a huge amount of effort. Whatever they are nominated for, they are recognised in the whole school achievement assembly, receive a certificate to take home and get to wear one of our prestigious black and gold t-shirts. 
During the assembly, we also celebrate children who have 100% attendance for the week and have been in school every day on time. A lucky dip, of all children who are eligible takes place, and one pupil walks away with £5 to spend on whatever they want, Standards and presentation of a child’s book, chosen at random, are also reviewed and celebrated with the school and the child, whose book has been chosen, has the chance to win a dip out of the basket of goodies, as long as they have used their best handwriting every day, completed their feed forward marking and taken care in the presentation of their date and learning objective. We are extremely proud of all of the efforts of our pupils and the Friday Achievement assembly recognises this pride. 

Our weekly winners this week are:

Kairo - 1RW

Albert - 1AP

Julia - 2SWS

Aylah - 2HS

Macy - 3JC

Amelia - 3NW

Kailen - 4HA

Siara - 4PW

Daisy - 4BB

Keeley - 5KG

Freddie - 5LH

Iyla - 6ES

Tom - 6LM

Alyssa - 6ST

Book Look Winner – Joyce -  4HA

Attendance Hero Winner - Amelia - 4BB
 

Each week, during our Friday Achievement assembly, we celebrate our ‘Pupils of the Week’ from each year group. Pupils are recognised for this weekly award for a variety of reasons and are nominated by their class teacher. They may have excelled in a particular subject through the week; may have shown one, or more, of the school values in abundance, or they may have impressed their teacher, or other staff members with a huge amount of effort. Whatever they are nominated for, they are recognised in the whole school achievement assembly, receive a certificate to take home and get to wear one of our prestigious black and gold t-shirts. 
During the assembly, we also celebrate children who have 100% attendance for the week and have been in school every day on time. A lucky dip, of all children who are eligible takes place, and one pupil walks away with £5 to spend on whatever they want, Standards and presentation of a child’s book, chosen at random, are also reviewed and celebrated with the school and the child, whose book has been chosen, has the chance to win a dip out of the basket of goodies, as long as they have used their best handwriting every day, completed their feed forward marking and taken care in the presentation of their date and learning objective. We are extremely proud of all of the efforts of our pupils and the Friday Achievement assembly recognises this pride. 

Our weekly winners this week are:

Joshua - 1RW

Alecia - 1AP

Lillia - 2SWS

Sienna - 3JC

Elise - 3NW

Eliza - 4HA

Lucas - 4PW

Riley - 4BB

Jayda - 5KG

Sibtain - 5LH

Caiden - 6ES

Angela - 6LM

Jennifer - 6ST

Book Look Winner – Lexi -  3JC

'We had a roar-some day for African Day and dressed up as African safari animals.

We have been wild learning about Africa today!. We went bananas helping Marcel the monkey sort objects into halves and wholes, we went on a story telling adventure as we sequence the Lion King. Finally, we got creative in the savannah by making our own colourful African-inspired jewellery to finish. What an ape-solutely amazing day!

For more pictures from the day, please see our gallery

Our overall attendance this week was 94.9%