Please find attached the latest edition of the Solihull School Nursing team newsletter.
The newsletter has also been added to the Health for Kids site, which is packed with national and local advice and information about health and wellbeing. The link to access the newsletter on this site is:
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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
Our overall attendance this week was 95.4%
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!
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
Our overall attendance this week was 95.2%
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!
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
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
The children really enjoyed the pantomime performance. Children in Nursery, Reception and Year one were searching for the Easter Bunny, and after meeting many other animals along the way, finally found him! There were lots of songs that they recognised and were able to join in with. There were a variety of costume changes and we even had our very own star guest ‘Mr. Wright!’ as a horse!
Our overall attendance this week was 93.8%
Children from EYFS and KS1 took part in an eggciting Easter bonnet parade today as they paraded around the school to a wondrous applause from KS2; children in KS2 also wowed us with their eggtravagently decorated eggs and they were proudly displayed in school for all to see. It was fantastic to see so many creative and eggcellent Easter creations and it looked as though the children enjoyed creating their masterpieces at home, I know it was very hard to pick a winner in each class.
Well done to all of our Easter competition winners!
Nursery - Aurora
RAH - Elise
REB - Grace
ROT - Max
1RW - Liam
1SG - Joyce
2CP - Jackson
2ERS - Iyla Grace
3JC - Fraya
3RO - Emmie
4BB - Evanna
4KG - Millie Mae
5KR - Mia
5LH - Maxx
5NW - Callum
6ES - Alessandra
6LB - Phoebe
6ST - Evie
For More picture from the day, please see our gallery