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:

Kyra-Lee - RHP

Kylo - RPM

Daniel - 1ERS

Dexter – 1SG

Sofia - 2CP

Willow – 2CS

Sophia - 3JC

Olly - 3LB

Alexandra – 4BB

Amy – 4MH

Morgan – 5ES

Megan - 5NW

Tyler - 6AM

Courtney - 6RO

Jessica – 6ST

Over the course of the last two Thursday's pupils in Year 6 have taken part in a Table Tennis Tournament, representing their house, in an effort to contribute to their house overall total.  Table Tennis at Smith's Wood Primary Academy has really taken off this year, the addition of new outdoor tables has ignited significant interest and the standard is representative of pupils who are committed to practice.  Through after school provision, lunchtime opportunities and curriculum time physical education pupils have excelled in this sport and the competition reflected such superb enthusiasm.  During the two-week tournament, standards improved and all pupils represented their house displaying our school values in abundance.  Congratulations go to the Spider house who occupied the first two positions, followed by Hulk and finally Bat house in fourth place.

Our overall attendance this week was 94.4%

On Tuesday 1^st March, Mrs Evans (Outdoor Education Lead) and Mr Hobbis escorted four green fingered enthusiasts to Chelmsley Wood Shopping Centre to participate in a tree planting celebration to mark the Queen's Jubilee year.  Pupils at Smiths' Wood Primary Academy participate in outdoor education regularly at school with outstanding enthusiasm, and this day was no different.  Planting a variety of trees which will aid the landscape in North Solihull pupils took part in the whole process including the spade work!  Congratulations to all pupils for making a valid contribution to the climate but also the local community and as always representing school so well.

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Today, the children and adults of Smith's Wood Primary celebrated World Book Day by dressing as Mr Men or Little Miss characters, to celebrate 50 years of Roger Hargreaves' first book! Throughout the day, all year groups had lessons linked to the Mr Men or Little Miss stories, from correcting Mr Wrong's mistakes in Maths, to creating their own characters and stories in Literacy, all children had a morning filled with Mr Men fun!

During the afternoon, all lessons were linked to the books too, including Year 1's Science experiment from Little Miss Inventor, Year 2 creating medicines for Mr Bump's bruises and Year 3 exploring the rainforest with Mr Adventure. In addition to this, all year groups took part in a Mr Men treasure hunt linked to their orienteering skills, and had to find certain characters and answer questions based on the books! Children were all dressed up and an award for 'Best Dressed' was given to someone from each year group, with the prize of the brand-new Mr Men book! It has been an amazing day for all involved! 

For more pictures from our fantastic day, please see our gallery

Our overall attendance this week was 94.7%