Last night, year 5 Spider house took on the daunting challenge of the cube! 4 of the bravest cuboids weathered the pressure and completed a series of difficult challenges with the goal of walking away with the top prize of 1000 house points. Despite a promising start and some wonderful teamwork, the challenges proved to be more than Spider house could handle, sadly leaving without reaching their goal. Well done to our brave contestants for their immense determination and perseverance.

For more pictures from the night, please see our gallery.

Smith’s Wood Primary Academy has once again proven its sporting excellence, securing victory in the prestigious Netball Skills Event with a record-breaking time. The team, who had spent months in rigorous preparation, overcame a nervous start to deliver a sensational performance in the final, defeating tough competition to claim the title.

The victory marks yet another milestone for Senior Sports Psychologist Mrs Thornton and Director of Sport Mr King, whose dedication and expertise have led to an outstanding year of achievements for the academy. Their guidance has played a pivotal role in shaping the success of young athletes at Smith’s Wood, further cementing the school’s reputation for sporting excellence.

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:

Rohaan - REB

Evie - ROT

Archie - RPM

Mason - 1RW

Meila-Grace - 1JC

Remeh – 2HS

Tesshanna - 2SG

Alessio - 3MC

Coral - 3NW

Harlee-Quinn - 4HA

Caiden - 5LH

Joey - 6LB

Vinny - 6ST

Book Look Winner – Hazel -  6LB

Attendance Hero Winner - Asha - ROT

Our overall attendance this week was 95.5%

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:

Luella - REB

Aaira - RPM

Damien - 1JC

Amelia - 1RW

Autumn-Rose – 2HS

Layla-Ann - 2SG

Eliza - 3MC

Charlotte - 3NW

Awa – 4BB

Jackson - 4HA

Freya - 5LH

Harrison - 6ES

Louie - 6LB

Scarlett - 6ST

Book Look Winner – Frankie -  1RW

Attendance Hero Winner - Ollie - 2SG

Please see attached for the latest timetable from Elmwood Family Hub