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:

Kyle - RAH

Madilyn - REB

Gabbie - ROT

Kyra-Lee - 1RW

Alessio - 1SG

Harlee-Quinn - 2CP

Dexter - 2ERS

Maizie - 3JC

Willow - 3RO

Evanna - 4BB

Riley - 4KG

Destiny - 5KR

Oliver - 5LH

Hollie - 5NW

Jack - 6ES

Sophie - 6LB

Rosie - 6ST

Attendance Winner - Georgia - 1RW

Book Look Winner - Jayden - 6ST

World Book Day 2023 was an incredible day at Smith’s Wood Primary Academy! Both pupils and staff impressed with their wonderful costumes, dressing up as their favourite book characters!

The children took part in World Book Day assemblies, book related quizzes, themed lessons (which got their creative juices flowing), listened to a guest teacher reading and received their World Book Day tokens to spend on a book of their choice. Here are some photos of the children enjoying their day celebrating the world of books …

For more pictures from the day, please see our gallery

Yesterday, 8 of our year 6 children had the opportunity to visit The Core, in Solihull, to listen and meet Joseph Coelho (the current Waterstones Poet Laureate). Whilst there, Joseph Coelho performed some of his famous poems to the group, and they were allowed to ask questions about his poems and the books he has published. At the end of the talk, they were also lucky enough to have their own poetry books autographed. What a brilliant experience for all involved! 

Our overall attendance this week was 95.8%

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:

Alfie-Jay - 1RW

Lana - 1SG

Ella-Mae - 2CP

Ella - 2ERS

Bethany - 3JC

Edward - 3RO

Callum - 4BB

Ava - 4KG

Jasmine - 5LH

Taha - 5NW

Alessandra - 6ES

Isabelle - 6LB

Valery - 6ST

Attendance Winner - Joeliyn - 6ST

Book Look Winner - Skye - 6ES

Last night, Smith's Wood pupils faced the complex challenge of the Taskmaster house competition. Using their wit and ingenuity, year 6 pupils were asked to complete a plethora of tasks and challenges for a chance to emerge victorious as the grand Taskmaster champions. School values were on display in abundance with all teams showing fantastic friendship and determination. Despite a difficult and well-fought competition, Hulk house managed to emerge the victors! Well done to Hulk house and everyone involved. 

For more pictures from the competition, please see our gallery