And last night, Bat house found the answer! For the first time ever, Bat house were invited to the hallowed ground of the Smith's Wood Hall to play a special game of deal or no deal, for the chance to walk away with a record shattering 1000 house points! Taking centre stage as our first-ever contestant was Callum from Year 5. With true grit and determination, Callum weathered the storm of boxes and uncertainty,  cheered on by the rest of Bat house, Callum kept cool under pressure and brought home a fantastic 70 house points! Well done to Bat house for a wonderful night!

For more pictures from the night, please see our gallery

Today we have celebrated our pupils of the term. These children have been nominated by their class teachers to receive an end of term prize. This is a prestigious award, as the pupil of the term nominations are for those children who have impressed their teachers repeatedly over the whole of the Autumn term. We would like to congratulate all of our pupil of the term winners and thank them for showing the school values in abundance this term. 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. 

1SG – Joy

1RW – Bleu

2CS – Betty

2HS – Noah

3NW – Awa

3MC – Toby

4BB – Bethany

4JC – Lily

5LH – Frankie-Lea

5KG – T'Varni

6ES – Destiny

6LB – Louie-Jay

6ST – Amy

Book Look Winner - Scarlett and Aazil - 6LB and 3MC

Attendance Hero - Joy - 1SG

Please find the Autumn Term Newspaper, which has been produced by our school pupil journalist team, giving you an overview of events which have happened at Smith’s Wood Primary Academy over the term.  

We would like to thank you for all of your support during this term and we hope you enjoy the 2 week holiday with your family and friends. The school office will close at 3.30pm tomorrow (20^th December) and reopen on Monday 8^th January 2024 at 8.00am.

Have a great Christmas and we look forward to seeing you all on Monday 8^th January, when school reopens for all pupils

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:

Amelia - 1RW

Amelia - 2CS

Harlei-Belle - 3MC

Eeqan - 3NW

Freya - 4BB

Harper-Rae- 4JC

Alanna - 5KG

Hollie - 6ES

Darntae- 6LB

Alexander - 6ST

Book Look Winner - Mi'Lan-Rai - 1SG

Attendance Hero Winner - Taylor - 3MC

Last night, 4 of the most daring teams from year 6 faced the fearsome Cube challenge! Our noble contestants demonstrated skill, nerve and determination, completing a series of deceptively simple tasks while confined to The Cube and in the glare of the spotlight. Each team battled bravely to give their house a chance to claim glory. One house in particular made Smith's Wood history by being the first house ever to complete the Cube! Well done to Bat house and all teams that participated!

For more pictures from the competition, please see our gallery