Each week, we celebrate our ‘Pupils of the Week’ from each year group. Pupils can be recognised for this weekly award for a variety of reasons. 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.

Well done to our ‘Pupil of the Week’ winners this week:

Daisy-May – 1RW

Aaden - 1SG

Jackson - 2CP

Luca - 2ERS

Jaxson - 3JC

Harper-Rae - 3RO

Autumn-Rose - 4BB

Lucas - 4KG

Mason - 5KR

Tommy - 5LH

Jamal - 5NW

Harvey - 6ES

Shanay - 6LB

Musab - 6ST

Please find below a link to the Dog, Duck and Cat Trust:

https://www.dogduckandcat.co.uk/parent-carer-guardian

The Dog, Duck and Cat Trust want to help you teach your child, or the children you work with, about some of the things in their world that could potentially cause them some bother. Children have accidents, that’s just a fact of life, but if we can cut down their opportunities to hurt themselves then we can help keep them out of emergency departments, or worse!

We also want to help them to develop their core skills, skills that will be needed by them today and for the rest of their lives. We want them to understand what good friendships and relationships are, to know how they can help themselves, and, know when they should seek help from a trusted adult.

Our overall attendance this term was 94.4%

Please find attached the Autumn Term Newspaper, which has been produced by our school pupil journalist team and which summarises lots of the events which have gone on at Smith’s Wood Primary during the Autumn 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 (16^th December) and reopen on Tuesday 3^rd January 2023 at 8.00am.

Have a great Christmas, we look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday 4^th January 2023, when school reopens to pupils, following the INSET day on Tuesday 3^rd.

Father Hudson’s Care (a local charity based in Coleshill) were recently contacted by the supermarket chain Aldi to ask whether they would be interested in a donation of reading books for school children – needless to say they agreed that they would be!

The idea behind this donation of books was from Marcus Rashford MBE (Manchester United & England footballer) who wanted to get 100,000 school children reading over the summer.  Marcus teamed up with Aldi to set this campaign rolling – he arranged for 100,000 copies of his book ‘The Breakfast Club Adventures – The Beast Beyond The Fence’ to be given to Aldi for them to then share within the local community and as a charity that works closely with Aldi in Coleshill they contacted Father Hudson’s.

Father Hudson’s staff members Andrew Penny (Registered Manager, Domiciliary Care) and Paul Reynolds (New Routes Fostering) contacted local schools to offer them copies of the book – they had already given out over 7000 books to schools in the Coleshill, Water Orton, Kingshurst, Smiths Wood, Castle Bromwich, Bromford and Shard End areas.  In total, Father Hudson’s have distributed over 10,000 copies of the book to various schools and projects.

The books which were donated are ideally for ages 8-11 so they have been distributed to our Key Stage 2 pupils.

Smith’s Wood Primary Academy were keen to receive a supply of the books and we were so grateful to be contacted. The photo shows some of our pupils proudly receiving the books, along with Andrew Penny and Paul Reynolds.

We hope that the children in KS2 enjoy reading their books over the holidays.