Last night, Year 6 threw down the gauntlet of the Smith's Wood Olympic challenge for Reception. Rising to the occasion, the arena was filled by propelled javelins, intense bouncing, lightning quick running, stratospheric jumping and pinpoint bean-bag accuracy. A fantastic time was had by all classes and some amazing coaching from the year 6 leaders. Phenomenal displays of all house values were seen throughout the night with both year 6 and reception showing great levels of respect and friendship. ROT class managed to emerge victorious from the night with the largest showing of pupils from the class as well as some super-human levels of Olympic competition. Well done to ROT and the rest of reception as well as a huge thank you for all our Year 6 helpers!

Last night, Smith's Wood hall played host to the annual Maths House Competition. The King Power stadium was filled with the best and brightest, Smith's Wood's intellectual titans. Competition was fierce and school values were on display in abundance. Super-human levels of determination, respect and perseverance were shown by every team. After a well-contested 7 rounds, Hulk house managed to snag a well-deserved victory, well done to Hulk house and everyone involved.

For more pictures of the night, please see our gallery

With the ever-increasing rise in the cost of living, Smith’s Wood Primary Academy is proud to provide our new School Uniform Exchange

The exchange will allow families to swap the uniform they have finished with, for good quality, second hand items, which will hopefully save you money and cut down on the costs of buying or replacing uniform, meaning the savings could go towards food costs, bills or even something nice for the children.

Uniform Exchange aims to not only save money, but also encourage people to recycle and donate old school uniform, rather than put it in the bin.  This is an opportunity to take advantage of a useful project, judgement free and without stigma.

The first exchange opportunity will be on Tuesday 7^th February from 8:30am until 8:50am in the main school hall.  Access to the hall will be from the car park and through the adjoining doors to the car park.  Here you will have the opportunity to access uniform that has already been donated to school and replace your child’s old uniform clothing with uniform donated as part of the exchange project.

We look forward to welcoming you on the 7^th February to take advantage of this project.

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:

Millie - 1RW

Mylah - 1SG

Daniel - 2CP

Phoebe - 2ERS

Angela - 3JC

Ruby-Rose - 3RO

Ricardo - 4BB

Sienna - 4KG

Mia - 5KR

Bobbie - 5LH

Cobee - 5NW

Lacie - 6ES

Kady-Leigh - 6LB

Evie - 6ST

At Smith’s Wood Primary Academy, we are proud of the outstanding nursery provision we offer our youngest pupils. Currently, we offer the universal entitlement of 15 hours free education for all nursery aged children. Recently, we have become aware that there may be the demand for this to be extended to offer 30 hours free for those that are eligible, namely working parents.

The purpose of this message is to explore whether this is something we can offer for September 2023 and if any of our current parents/carers, who have children (born between 01.09.19 – 31.08.20) would consider our nursery if we can provide the free funded 30 hours.

At this stage, this is a consultation to see whether there would be enough eligible applicants to make a 30 hour nursery viable. To be eligible for the 30 hours free nursery education, the household where the child resides must have both parents working or one parent working in lone parent families. Additionally, this is defined as earning the equivalent of 16 hours per week on national minimum wage, but less than £100,000 per year. To check your eligibility and to find out more details please visit Apply for 30 hours free childcare - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

To enable working parents to take up the offer of free funded 30 hours, we would like to propose that the nursery day would be 9am – 3pm. This would include lunch which would either be an additional cost or children attend with a packed lunch.

The consultation period will last for 3 weeks, if you are eligible and interested in having a 30 hour place, please can you email nurseryapplications@smithswoodpri.solihull.sch.uk expressing your interest and to request an application form by 8th February 2023. Equally, we are still accepting application forms for 15 hours if this is something you have not applied for already.

If you have any questions regarding our nursery and this consultation, please do not hesitate to contact myself via the school office.
A Price
Miss Amy Price
Assistant Principal

Last night, The King Power Stadium was transformed into Smith's Wood's own archery range. Our young Robin Hoods loosed arrow after arrow, hitting targets in every direction. Archery skills and sportsmanship were on display in abundance with our junior archers showing fantastic levels of both determination and friendship. Spider house managed to snatch a narrow victory from the tough competition, well done to Spider house and everyone involved.

For more pictures from the competition, please see our gallery