On Thursday 2nd May, Year 4 pupils had the fantastic opportunity to visit Cadbury World as part of our Ancient Aztec topic. They experienced a 4D ride along with learning about the history of chocolate as well as the history of Cadbury. As well as this, children had a design and technology talk where they learnt how chocolate is marketed and packaged compared to other competitors ,as well as the history of how advertising has developed over time. Following this, children explored how to manipulate chocolate including having their own taste test! 

For more pictures from the trip, please see our gallery

They came, they saw, they conquered! Yesterday afternoon, Smith's Woods' amazing athletes stormed the imperious walls of The Coleshill School sports centre hoping for a shot at the converted gold medals from the prestigious North Solihull Panathlon competition.

Every player competed to the abosulte best of their ability, showing superhuman teamwork and determination as well as a herculean level of friendship and respect.

Competition was fierce, nerves were jangling, palms were sweaty, knees weak, arms were heavy but our wondrous athletes rose to the challenge, competing in event after event.

A calm and collected approach saw our participants through to the end of the competition, managing to score an amazing gold place victory over all other schools competing and ensuring them a slot in the national championships!

We are so proud of the entire team and their amazing achievement. Well done to everyone who competed!

For more pictures from the event, please see our gallery

Our overall attendance this week was 93.3%

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:

M'Kai - REB

Anas - ROT

Riley - RPM

Allayah - 1RW

Raven - 1SG

Jai - 2CS

Tiwa - 2HS

Logan - 3NW

Alfred - 4BB

Evie-Lou - 4JC

Chase - 5KG

Riley - 5LH

Ethan - 6ES

Laicee-Rae - 6LB

Blesing - 6ST

Book Look Winner - Sean - 1RW

Attendance Hero Winner - Dimitri - ROT

In the words of Mr Hobbis "I think the club sold out as quick as a Taylor Swift concert!" what a treat it has been! All of the Year 2 children behaved beautifully and took part in lots of different fun-filled nature activities. It was lovely for Miss Gibbs to spend some time with the previous Year 1's too!

For more pictures from the club, please see our gallery

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:

Finley - REB

Kaiden - ROT

Tony-Junior - RPM

Luna - 1RW

Lexi - 1SG

Amelia-Rose - 2CS

Sawyer - 2HS

Leon - 3MC

Alice-Jane - 3NW

Zac - 4BB

Edward - 4JC

Ethan - 5KG

Aarya - 5LH

Elijah - 6ES

Evie - 6LB

Dexter - 6ST

Book Look Winner - Lucas - 1SG

Attendance Hero Winner - Iyla-Lilly - 4BB