Odd Socks Day at Smith’s Wood Primary Academy was a wonderful celebration of individuality and kindness! Pupils and staff proudly wore their odd socks to show that it’s okay to be different. Throughout the day, children took part in themed assemblies and engaging lessons that explored the importance of respect and inclusion. A big thank you to everyone across the school who entered our Design an Odd Sock competition — we were amazed by the creativity and we will be making a beautiful display with all of the entries! Winners will be announced next week during assembly time.

Our overall attendance this week was 94%

Some of our school’s Eco-Warriors recently attended a local sustainability event where they deepened their understanding of climate change and explored ways to protect our planet. Inspired by the performance and discussions, the students created a heartfelt poem celebrating Mother Nature and the importance of caring for our environment. Their creativity and passion remind us that small actions can make a big difference in building a greener future for all. 🌎💚

For more pictures from the event, 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:

Corey - 1RW

Aris - 1AP

Kylan - 2SWS

Connor - 2HS

Mi'lan-Rai - 3JC

Abdul - 3NW

Noah - 4HA

Kingsley - 4PW

Ellis - 4BB

Ella-Mae - 5KG

Alannah - 5LH

Lacey - 6ES

Jaxson - 6LM

Amelia - 6ST

Attendance Hero Winner - Presley - 4BB

Last week saw the end of our Deal or No Deal House competition season. Bat house and Hulk house both took centre stage with the final 2 competitions, a brilliant performance and some spectacular teamwork fom both houses resulted in a fanastic end to our first round of house competitions, well done to all houses that competed!

To watch the video from the Bat house competition, please use the following link:

https://youtu.be/GVJvGL9qyk4

To watch the video from the Hulk house competition, please use the following link:

https://youtu.be/y45zM0floA4

To celebrate the amazing amount of reading completed at home this half term, all year groups had a Reading Raffle winner announced this morning! For every 3 (in KS1) and 5 (in KS2) reads completed at home, that child receives a reading raffle ticket. This half term, a winner was picked from each year group, and that winner was able to select a book to take home as their prize. 

These lucky children were: 

• Darcie-Mai (Reception)
• Cameron (Year 1)
• Ainain (Year 2)
• Lucas (Year 3)
• Seren (Year 4)
• Phoebe (Year 5)
• Meila-Rae (Year 6)

To continue encouraging this huge amount of reading, next half term there will be a winner per class! Please continue to read with your child at home so that they can receive as many raffle tickets as possible!