Newspaper club are proud to present a report from our Christmas Jumper/Dinner day here at Smith's Wood!

"On the 7th December, the whole school rejoiced in celebrating Christmas with a themed Christmas Jumper Day and the schools’ annual Christmas Dinner, which, as many people agree, was worth the wait.

Everyone bought in a pound with their very merry jumpers to donate to the deserving ‘Save the Children’ charity!

From the top to the bottom of Smith’s Wood Primary Academy, festive activities were taking place.

In Years 2 and 3, there was the smell of paint in the air, as the amateur artists took part in decorating their own Christmas cards!

Throughout the classes of Year 6, Christmas cards also came into play, however the leaders of the school designed and made their own from scratch. Their designs were very merry and inventive indeed!

Before settling down to a delectable Christmas Dinner, every class had some crazy cracker time! There were paper crowns and jokes everywhere!" - Samuel, Alessandra and Phoebe - Year 6

For more festive pictures, please see our gallery

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:

Betty – 1RW

Siara - 1SG

Kaylonni - 2CP

Olivia - 2ERS

Bethany - 3JC

Jacob - 3RO

Sophie - 4BB

Amelia - 4KG

Lois - 5KR

Jake - 5LH

Olivia - 5NW

Jakub - 6ES

Tyrell - 6LB

Joeliyn - 6ST

This week, Smith's Wood celebrated Languages day in association with the FIFA World Cup! Children came dressed in costumes linked to their chosen country and experienced a full day exploring their country’s language, history, geography and culture. In Nursery, children explored the United Kingdom, with Reception exploring France and its French cuisine. In Year 1, children explored South Korea and created wonderful landmark sketches. Over in Year 2, children created a football mascot for their chosen country of Belgium. Year 3 explored Portugal of which they created a postcard trip. In Year 4, children learnt key German phrases and went on a shopping trip to buy German foods. Year 5 described the setting of a Brazilian carnival using key phrases, with Year 6 exploring Mexico and created their own portraits of Frida Kahlo.

For more pictures from the day, please see our gallery

Hard work beats talent when talent does not work hard, however when talent works hard Smith’s Wood win gold! Both our Boy’s and Girl’s rowing teams secured a thoroughly deserved gold medal producing a truly dominant performance at the North Solihull Rowing Championship.

The Girl’s team, demonstrating textbook technique and Olympian levels of endurance, obliterated the opposition leaving them trailing in their wake. The Boy’s team, utilised great teamwork, superhuman levels of perseverance and some inspiring PBs, to storm to victory. Finally, a notable mention to our Girl’s ‘B’ team who not only created history (becoming our first ‘B’ team to qualify for the finals) but also placed inside the top 5. A superb accomplishment from a hardworking team dedicated to practice.

We are immensely proud of all our teams who represented our school with such distinction.

For more pictures from the competition, please see our gallery

Last week, children and staff at Smith's Wood Primary had a spotacular week raising money for Children in Need! Children enjoyed buying merchandise, a penalty shoot out with Mr Meers and bought cookies and loom bands to raise money. On Friday, children and staff enjoyed coming to school in our PJ's and putting their orienteering and art skills to the test to unveil the mystery pudsey picture and demonstrate their spectacular teamwork skills, a fantastic time as had by all!

Smith's Wood managed to raise an amazing £1137.23! Thank you to parents and children for all of your contributions. 

For more pictures from the day, please see our gallery

Our overall attendance this week was 94.1%