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  • Glory on the Table!

    Published 05/05/23

    After over 100 days or preparation, involving playing on a daily basis, the Titans of Smith's Wood Primary managed to snatch a well-deserved silver medal in the Solihull Table Tennis Championships, only narrowly missing out on a gold medal by 5 team points!

    We are immensely proud of the dedication and sportsmanship shown by our junior athletes, showing a fantastic display of teamwork and perseverance at every opportunity.

    At Smith's Wood, we provide a broad range of opportunities for children to represent the school and table tennis is a classic example of the plethora of activities we have available for all pupils.

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  • D-I-S-C-O

    Published 05/05/23

    Last night, pupils from across the school, came together, to party and celebrate for the Kings coronation!

    They danced (to music from our resident DJ), they ate (copious amounts from the tuck shop) and they drank (cordial).

    Celebrations continued late into the early evening with large amounts of merriment and frivolity!

    Many thanks to everyone who worked hard to make the night a brilliant success!

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  • Weekly Attendance

    Published 05/05/23

    Our overall attendance this week was 93.9%

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  • Pupils of the Week

    Published 28/04/23

    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:

    Sienna - REB

    Luna - ROT

    Zaira - RAH

    Kyra-Lee - 1RW

    Sawyer - 1SG

    Mila - 2CP

    Awa - 2ERS

    Tom - 3JC

    Elijah - 3RO

    Riley - 4BB

    Ethan - 4KG

    Amy - 5LH

    Fern - 5NW

    Lois - 5KR

    Lacie - 6ES

    Luke - 6LB

    Jayden - 6ST

    Attendance Winner - Harrison - 4KG

    Book Look Winner - Alessandra - 6ES
     

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  • Weekly Attendance

    Published 28/04/23

    Our overall attendance this week was 95.4%

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  • Smith's Wood Readathon!

    Published 27/04/23

    Last half term, at Smith’s Wood Primary, our pupils took part in a two week Readathon in order to raise money for books for children at Birmingham Children’s hospital. Pupils were asked to read whatever they enjoy most including magazines, newspapers and audiobooks.

    We would like to celebrate our pupils who raised an incredible £1,670.05 for the hospital and say a huge thank you to all parents, carers, family and friends who sponsored the children. This will make a huge difference to the children in our local hospital and we couldn’t have done it without you all!

    A special mention goes to Jack in Year 4 and Ava-Rose in Reception who raised an incredible £150 and £100 individually. Well done to everyone who got involved!

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  • Pupils of the Week

    Published 21/04/23

    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:

    Coen - REB

    Gabbie - ROT

    Elise - RAH

    Kailen - 1RW

    Cairo-Thierry - 1SG

    Millie - 2CP

    Ella - 2ERS

    Zack - 3JC

    Savannah - 3RO

    Flynn - 4BB

    Demi-Leigh - 4KG

    Lucy - 5LH

    Amiyah - 5NW

    Kye - 5KR

    Alessandra - 6ES

    Tyrell - 6LB

    Darren - 6ST

    Attendance Winner - Evie - 1SG

    Book Look Winner - Oliver - 5LH

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  • Weekly Attendance

    Published 21/04/23

    Our overall attendance this week was 95.2%

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  • Bullseye!

    Published 21/04/23

    A good archer is known not by their arrow, but by their aim! This week, Smith's Woods own junior Robin Hoods split the competition in twain at the North Solihull Archery Championship! Storming the fortified walls of Grace Academy, our noble kinspeople represented Smith's Wood with honour and duty.

    Despite ferocious competition from rival archers, our brave warriors notched arrow after arrow, peppering targets in every direction to secure them a well-deserved first AND second place victory.

    We are immensely proud of our junior athletes for constantly showing our school values in abundance, well done to both teams and everyone who completed!

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  • Pupils of the Term

    Published 31/03/23

    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. 

    ROT – Layla-Anne

    RAH – Raven 

    1SG – Joyce

    1RW – Jack

    2CP – Thomas

    2ERS – Kacie

    3RO – Elliott

    3JC – George

    4BB – Sophie

    4KG – Joey

    5LH – Cody

    5KR – Laila-Rose

    5NW - Harper-Leigh

    6ES – Gracie-Mae

    6LB – Phoebe

    6ST – Megan

    Book Look Winner - Vienna - RAH

    Attendance Hero - Bobbie - 5LH

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  • Beautiful Butterfly Farm Trip

    Published 31/03/23

    Yesterday, Year 1 visited the Butterfly Farm in Stratford-Upon-Avon! We saw a variety of beautifully coloured butterflies, some of which even landed on us. We learned about the amazing life cycle of a butterfly and saw some of the world's largest and most camouflaged caterpillars, giant silk moths and their cocoons. When we visited the casing, we could see a butterfly beginning to hatch from its pupa! We had a fantastic time strolling through the wonderful world of the tropical, rainforest environment, with beautiful flowers, different animals, splashing waterfalls and fish filled pools. The children had a fantastic time exploring, playing and learning about lots of different creatures and minibeasts!

    For more pictures, please see our gallery

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