Weekly Attendance
Our overall attendance this week was 95%

Our overall attendance this week was 95%
Today has been a wonderful and memorable day for Year 6, on their last day at Smith's Wood we like to celebrate all their achievements to date. We are beyond proud of our Year 6 cohort. The class of 2024 have gone above and beyond in all areas. Their perseverance through all that life has thrown at them in recent years is testament to their upbringing and attitude towards the school they have called home for the past 8 years. We wish them well on the next stage of their journey and look forwards to hearing of their successes in the years to come!
From Mr Taylor, Miss Boobyer, Miss Shields, Mrs Winters, Miss Rea, Mrs Thornton and all the staff here at Smith's Wood Primary academy.
Below are our Year 6 awards winners as well as the spectacular awards they have won!
Oscar - Rocker of the Year award
Harper-Leigh - The Golden Egg Award
Lois - Diamond Personality Award
Alexandra - All Round Excellence Award
Alexander - The Turner Prize for Attendance
Amy - Outstanding Effort Award
Lucy - Outstanding Musician Award
Gracie - Sporting Achievement Award
Evie - Outstanding Academic Award
Blesing - House Point Winner
Reception had a fantastic time at Hatton Country World. The children completed lots of different fun activities throughout the day. These included; tractor ride, feeding animals, holding animals and adventure playground. We all had a great day!
For more pictures from the day, please see our gallery
Our final sports day has finished this morning with a bang!
From Nursery to year 5, pupils and staff from across the school have jumped, ran and thrown their way to victory over several sun filled days! (with some parental help at the tug of war!)
Our school values were on full display as always with super-human levels of determination, perseverance and respect
A big thank you to all the staff, students and parents who managed to make this year’s sports days a roaring success!
For more pictures, please see our gallery.
Please see the attached letter from Tim Browne, Assistant Director of Education, relating to changes to penalty notices, which are coming into effect from the middle of August.
If you have any questions or want more information, please contact
Education Inclusion Service inclusion@solihull.gov.uk.
On Monday a12th July, our Year 1's visited Tamworth Castle! We had an amazing fun-filled day, where we got to walk around and experience a real-life castle, meet the Lord and Lady and prepare a feast for them, find the knight's armour, tour the entire surroundings and meet our very new friend - Knight, who even shared lunch with us! The children were an absolute credit to the school and showed impeccable behaviour throughout the day, as well as share knowledge they have learnt over the last half-term. We made lots of lovely memories to end the year on - what a fabulous day!
For more pictures from the day, 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:
Anas - ROT
Jack - 2CS
Ellis - 2HS
Mohammed - 3MC
Jesse James - 3NW
Meila-Rae - 4JC
Poppy - 5KG
Autumn - 5LH
Hollie - 6ES
Louie-Jay - 6LB
Book Look Winner - Matthias - RPM
Attendance Hero - Summer - 5KG
Our overall attendance this week was 93.4%
Year 2 children attended Kingswood Staffordshire for a 2 day residential and definitely made the most of their experience! Children were able to show off their fantastic teamwork and bravery when taking part in activities such as: underground caving, crate stack with high ropes, climbing wall ,archery and nightline. Children pushed themselves out of their comfort zone whilst also encouraging their friends to complete challenges. Children impressed us all with their growing independence and behaviour whilst on the residential. Children also enjoyed singing around the campfire on the evening and cooling down with a water fight during the day! What more could a residential need?!
For more pictures from the residential, please see our gallery.
Last week, Smith's Wood held their very own festival to rival Glastonbury (without the mud)! Children enjoyed rocking out on the school field to the tunes provided by DJ Wright whilst taking part in a thrilling bungee run! Not only that, children embraced their inner rockstar by belting out their singing skills on the karaoke machine on the outdoor stage! To get children into the festival spirit, children could also choose to have their faces painted, nails painted. hair decorated and have glitter tattoos applied! Every good festival needs refreshments and the hotdogs and ice creams did not disappoint. Children also enjoyed the delights of Mr Taylor's expert balloon modelling and creating different, fun looks in the photobooth. We are so proud of all the children that attended and made our first festival a resounding success!
For more pictures from the festival, 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:
Dream - REB
Jake - ROT
Josiah - 1RW
Grayson - 1SG
Aaden - 2HS
Jaxon - 3NW
Logan - 4BB
Willow - 4JC
Millie-Mae - 5KG
Flynn - 5LH
Lucy - 6ES
Danny - 6LB
Blesing - 6ST
Book Look Winner - Essa - 1RW
Attendance Hero - Ruby - 6LB
Our overall attendance this week was 93.8%