Please see the attached flyer for details of a free online workshop exploring techniques and strategies to support your child to better manage emotional wellbeing run by Solar.
Today, Smiths Wood Primary Academy participated in the Captain Tom 100 challenge! His simple message of hope – “Tomorrow will be a good day” –inspired millions around the world and brought hope and joy to so many. The whole school, from Nursery to Year 6, took part in completing 100 laps of the school MUGA. We skipped, hopped, ran and walked our way around the MUGA in support of Captain Tom's achievements! Some of us even balanced cones on our heads and passed rugby balls to each other whilst doing so! In a year where our school has been learning apart, the Captain Tom 100 challenge offered a fun way to come together and celebrate his life!
Thank you to all pupils, parents and staff or making the first week back, after the Easter holidays, a very successful one.
Not only has the sun been shining for a lot of the week, but it has been so good to see all our pupils, back in their classrooms, learning with their teachers and friends. The staggered start and finish times continue to be in place and this has meant that there is a swift and controlled way for our pupils to come to school.
Could we please ask that any parents, who are using the parking spaces outside the doctor’s surgery, pay careful attention to pedestrians and pupils, who may be crossing the road to get into school. When reversing out of these spaces, please take care and be mindful of the large volume of people walking to and from school.
Please take a look at our gallery, which gives a snapshot of some of the exciting learning which our pupils have taken part in next week. We have had a fantastic week of learning and look forward to continuing this journey as we move into the rest of the summer term.
Please find attached the school’s Spring 2 newsletter summarising some key points from this half term. We wish you all a Happy Easter holiday; enjoy the break with your families and keep safe.
We have had a fantastic day day at Smith's Wood. All pupils had the opportunity to participate in our decorate an egg eggtravaganza and this year the standard of entry was eggtremely high! We were blown away by the eggcellent creativity demonstrated by pupils. Well done to all who took part. Please enjoy the cracking photos of their work in our gallery.
Please see below for our winners from each class:
Nursery AM Group - Brooke
Nursery PM Group - Jack
REB - Alannah
RHP - Arianna
RPT - Daniel
1SG - Emilia
1RC - Meila-Rae
2HB - Alanna
2CS - Ethan
3LB - Alexandra
3CP - Mia
4JC - Harvey
4PW - Isabelle
5NW - Tiana
5ES - Lewis
5MH - Isaac
6AM - Harvey (Boris Johnson's eggdress to the Nation)
6RO - Ryu
6ST - Charlie (Sir Tom Moore egg)
This week in school we have been raising lots of money for Comic Relief by hosting our own Red Nose Day. Pupils and staff were invited to dress up following the theme of 'My Hero'. We saw an amazing variety of costumes from Spiderman to doctors and even our pupils' own parents and grandparents. We held a variety of activities within our class bubbles including a design a red nose competition and a dance-a-thon. Everybody thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the day's activities and most importantly, we managed to raise lots of money for Comic Relief!
For more pictures from our Red Nose Day Celebrations, please see our gallery
A massive thank you to everyone for taking part, we managed to raise a total of £340.01!
During this half term Smith's Wood Primary Academy, have been taking part in a whole school Geography project. The children worked with their teachers both in school and during remote learning to explore countries from around the world. Each year group picked a country to research and have discovered some new exciting facts. The children have completed some fantastic work such as, 3D maps, artwork, report writing, transport design and have also explored different languages.
For more pictures from each project, please see our gallery
See below for videos of some some of our exciting projects:
Year 4 Video Project
Year 5 Video Project
Dear parents & carers,
Please find details below which summarises some additional support available from Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council during this difficult time.
If you’re asked to self-isolate, it’s really important that you do so for the full ten days.
Solihull Council understands that this can be difficult and has local teams who can arrange help and support.
This could be anything from financial help to shopping vouchers and priority delivery slots to fuel top ups. Even help with dog walking!
If you’re experiencing financial hardship we can help with white goods like fridge replacements too.
We can also provide emotional support and have people on hand for a friendly chat if you’re struggling with self-isolation.
As lockdown eases over the coming months it’s going to be even more important to self-isolate when asked to. It’s not easy, but by self-isolating you’ll be helping everyone to get back to normal as quickly as possible.
So please – if you need help, just call 0121 704 6793 or visit the council website: https://www.solihull.gov.uk/COVID-19/here2help
And if you need help with something we don’t currently provide, please let us know at contacttracing@solihull.gov.uk and we’ll see what we can do to increase our support.
Smith’s Wood welcomes back all pupils this week. It has been wonderful to see so many happy children (and parents) back at school!
This week marks Year 2’s pirate-themed topic day, with all students swashbuckling their way through the curriculum! All students celebrated the occasion by donning their best Pirate costumes and attitudes!
Year 4 began their new art club this week, creative delicious Jackson Pollock themed chocolate masterpieces.
Science has taken over Smith’s Wood this week with all year groups creative innovative ideas to shape the future. With so many different creative ideas it is difficult to pick out any one idea, but below are some examples of innovative ideas from each year group:
As well as thinking up innovative ideas all pupils this week have taken part in various different Science Assemblies completing experiments and learning about Science.
For more pictures, please see our gallery
It has been an action-packed week here at Smith’s Wood! The children enjoyed dressing up in their cosiest pyjamas, onesies, slippers and dressing gowns and they took part in a range of exciting activities for World Book Day. Lessons were themed around books and our love of reading with pupils at home taking part in fun quizzes with a ‘fetch’ twist. All pupils have been given the opportunity to take part in the ‘Masked Reader’ competition where they had to guess the mystery reader… Winners will be announced next week.
Reception have monitored and observed a range of mini-beasts both in and outside of the classroom focusing on ant, worms and butterflies.
Year 4 have once again been a beacon of inspiration with children taking on the role of a Viking crossing a perilous and treacherous sea to find new land.
A big thank you to everyone involved both at home and in school for all of our lockdown learning.
For more pictures from Week 8 and stunning examples of work from pupils learning at home, please see our gallery
Please find attached our March Newsletter from the Solihull School Nursing Service. This newsletter provides parents with lots of useful information and contact numbers.
Please find a letter, from the Local Authority, in preparation for the full opening of schools in Solihull, from March 8th.