Last week, on a glorious Thursday afternoon the sun was shining, spirits were high and competition was fierce. Smith's Wood's own superheroes bounced, ran, pulled, threw, and balanced to the very best of their ability to compete in our prestigious sports day. A fantastic time was had by all with many children taking home well-deserved first place stickers!
For more pictures from the day, please see our gallery
Solihull Council are hosting ‘Bikeability Level 2’ sessions this summer for children
in Year 5 and above. These sessions will take place over 3 consecutive
days and children must attend all sessions to complete the course.
Most children in Solihull schools will be offered this training in Year 5. This
summer course is aimed at providing training for children who have missed
their school session or have not been offered at their school.
Please see the attached flyers for more information
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:
Joy - REB
Saiku - ROT
Autumn-Rose - RAH
Millie - 1RW
Joyce - 1SG
Alicen-Rose - 2CP
Ella - 2ERS
Caiden - 3JC
Savannah - 3RO
Ilya-Rose - 4BB
Lilly - 4KG
Thomas - 5LH
Callum - 5NW
Danny - 5KR
Eli - 6ES
Isabel - 6ST
Attendance Winner - Kyla - REB
Our overall attendance this week was 94.5%
The children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 had a fantastic time during their Sports Day on Monday 10th July. They all took part in 8 different races and showed our school values in abundance. They showed real determination during the tug of war and also worked very hard during the mix circuit which was a difficult race with different obstacles in the way. The children were awarded many stickers, and all enjoyed taking part.
For more pictures from the day, please see our gallery
The children had a fantastic day at Hatton Country World. They looked at life on the farm and also fed and held different animals. The children took a tractor ride all around the farm and learnt new facts about the farm and how crops grow. They looked at life cycles of both animals and plants. Overall, the children have a super day on their trip.
For more pictures from the trip, 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:
Parker - REB
Gracie - ROT
Kyle - RAH
Amber-Rose - 1RW
Eliza - 1SG
Jayda - 2CP
Olly - 2ERS
Jimmy - 3JC
Millie - 4BB
Mahrosh - 4KG
Bella - 5LH
Oscar - 5NW
Dexter - 5KR
Tanai - 6ES
Maycee - 6LB
Emma - 6ST
Book Look Winner - Jack - 1RW
On Wednesday, our Year 6s visited London. During the morning, they went to Buckingham Palace to watch the changing of the guard (even in the rain!), before walking through the horse guards parade and past 10 Downing Street towards Embankment where they saw the London Eye! After a delicious lunch of McDonalds, the children all went to the Lyceum Theatre to watch the matinee performance of 'The Lion King' as they have been studying this in their Literacy lessons. A great day was had by all!
For more pictures from the day, please see our gallery
Our overall attendance this week was 96.3%
This week, members of Smith's Wood's Save the World club had the opportunity showcase all the wonderful things they have done in school which shows their commitment to sustainability and environment conservation. The pupils wrote and performed poems to many Council members, including the Mayor of Solihull, which celebrated their achievements this year!
Smith's Wood Primary are proud to announce that we have joined with Digital Schoolhouse to help bring play-based learning to the community!
Digital Schoolhouse together with Nintendo UK, uses play-based learning to engage the next generation of pupils and teachers with the Computing curriculum. Digital Schoolhouse is delivered by the UK games industry trade body Ukie and is backed by the video games industry and government. Sponsors include PlayStation®, Electronic Arts, SEGA, Ubisoft and Outright Games.
We are excited to be part of this amazing community and look forward to bringing our enthusiasm and expertise to surrounding schools!
For more information on Digital Schoolhouse, please click here
Please find attached a newsletter from the Solihull Parenting Team with details of groups and activities for the coming Autumn term