Smith's Wood Primary Academy honours Remembrance Day with Solemn Ceremony In a touching tribute today, students at Smith's Wood Primary Academy gathered to commemorate Remembrance Day, expressing gratitude for the sacrifices of veterans.

Led by dedicated teachers and staff, the ceremony began with a moment of silence, creating a respectful atmosphere for reflection.

In a moving gesture, the Last Post echoed through the school grounds, marking a moment of profound contemplation.

Members of the school's SWAG group, proudly donning their school spirit, took centre stage as they laid poppies at the flagpole, where the Union Jack waved proudly. This symbolic act emphasised the unity and gratitude felt by the Smith's Wood Primary Academy community.

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Our overall attendance this week was 92%

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:

Macy - 1RW

Gabby - 1SG

Kyra-Lee- 2CS

Aden- 2HS

Sidra - 3MC

Kacie - 3NW

Lacey- 4BB

Jacob - 4JC

Mharosh - 5KG

Siennah - 5LH

Thomas - 6ES

Elliot - 6LB

Blesing - 6ST

Attendance Winner - Adrian - 1SG

Book Look Winner - Lilly-Anna - 6LB

Year 2 had an exciting and engaging day learning all about what it means to be a farmer. We used a range of skills to help solve farm problems, taste delicious harvest food and keep the cheeky sheep in their pens. Throughout the day pupils displayed our school values, in particular we found a new respect for farmers as we realised just how determined they have to be to get all their jobs done. We were so impressed with the range of dazzling costumes, thank you for all your support to ensure a fun and purposeful day for all involved.

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The Mental Health in Schools Team have set up a one-off session for Halloween! They have named this session ‘Say Boo to Your Worries with Solar at Halloween’. They will be holding a one-off session focusing on what worries and emotions are and what you can do with difficult emotions or worries. This is aimed at primary school aged children and will be held on Tuesday 31^st October 2023 at 10am-12:30pm at Three Trees Community Centre. For more information, please see the attached leaflet

For more information, please contact: bsmhft.schools@nhs.net

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