Albert Einstein once said: Creativity is intelligence having fun. Last night intelligence and fun spread through the main hall like wildfire for our first-ever curriculum related House Competition! 

Some of Smith's Woods greatest minds from years 2, 4 and 6 were awarded the prestigious honour of representing their houses by competing in a series of science themed experiments. These intellectual titans designed and created a capsule to ensure a safe return for their eggy astronauts from the dizzying heights of the stairway to heaven. The sky wasn't the limit for our young aeronautical engineers as they manufactured their very own paper airplanes to see who could propel their plane the furthest. The third and final experiment saw our brightest students putting their artistic and culinary skills to the test as they demonstrated their vast knowledge of scientific principles to create artwork within the skin of a banana.

School values and scientific principles were on display in abundance with all houses showing Herculean levels of determination and friendship. Special thanks to Mrs Hobbis for organising the event and a well-done for our junior scientist winners, bat house!

For more pictures from the competition, please see our gallery

Year 5 visited ThinkTank in Birmingham to immerse themselves in science!  They explored the various exhibits as well as taking part in an electricity workshop where they learned about: static electricity, what makes a good conductor and making a real-life human circuit.  Their favourite part was exploring the science garden where they could use pulleys and levers to investigate the effect of forces. 

For more pictures from the trip, please see our gallery

Please find attached a letter introducing our lovely school pet Kingsley, he really is more than a dog and absolutely wonderful.

Please find attached the timetable for Solihull Parenting groups SUMMER TERM 2023
Open to all Solihull parents and carers

Book your place now, or find out more by contacting Solihull Parenting Team at:
bsmhft.parenting@nhs.net

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