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  • Music, Glorious Music!

    Published 16/03/23

    On Thursday 15th March, 15 children from Year 4 and 6 attended a More Able singing workshop. The children started by learning some short warm up songs that they then sang in a round, testing their ability to sing together in a group! They then learnt lots of different songs from ‘Oliver!’ the musical which they performed in a big medley. After lots of practice, at the end of the morning they then had the opportunity to perform the songs they had learnt to their parents/carers which was a great hit! Well done to all children involved, they performed extremely well! 

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  • Kingsley - The Smith's Wood Wonder Dog!

    Published 13/03/23

    Please find attached a letter introducing our lovely school pet Kingsley, he really is more than a dog and absolutely wonderful.

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  • Pupils of the Week

    Published 10/03/23

    Each week, during our Friday Achievement assembly, we celebrate our ‘Pupils of the Week’ from each year group. Pupils are recognised for this weekly award for a variety of reasons and are nominated by their class teacher. 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. 
    During the assembly, we also celebrate children who have 100% attendance for the week and have been in school every day on time. A lucky dip, of all children who are eligible takes place, and one pupil walks away with £5 to spend on whatever they want, Standards and presentation of a child’s book, chosen at random, are also reviewed and celebrated with the school and the child, whose book has been chosen, has the chance to win a dip out of the basket of goodies, as long as they have used their best handwriting every day, completed their feed forward marking and taken care in the presentation of their date and learning objective. We are extremely proud of all of the efforts of our pupils and the Friday Achievement assembly recognises this pride. 

    Our weekly winners this week are:

    Harry - RAH

    Amelia - REB

    Macy - ROT

    Oscar - 1RW

    Eeqan - 2ERS

    Taylor - 2CP

    Gabriel - 3RO

    Bradley - 4BB

    Scarlett - 4KG

    Laila-Rose - 5KR

    Gracie - 5LH

    Kaycee - 5NW

    Ruby - 6ES

    Phoebe - 6LB

    Jayden - 6ST

    Attendance Winner - Ollie - RAH

    Book Look Winner - Gracie - 5LH

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  • Solihull Parenting Team Summer Parent Groups

    Published 10/03/23

    Please find attached the timetable for Solihull Parenting groups SUMMER TERM 2023
    Open to all Solihull parents and carers

    Book your place now, or find out more by contacting Solihull Parenting Team at:
    bsmhft.parenting@nhs.net

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  • Weekly Attendance

    Published 10/03/23

    Our overall attendance this week was 90%

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  • Pupil of the Week

    Published 03/03/23

    Each week, during our Friday Achievement assembly, we celebrate our ‘Pupils of the Week’ from each year group. Pupils are recognised for this weekly award for a variety of reasons and are nominated by their class teacher. 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. 
    During the assembly, we also celebrate children who have 100% attendance for the week and have been in school every day on time. A lucky dip, of all children who are eligible takes place, and one pupil walks away with £5 to spend on whatever they want, Standards and presentation of a child’s book, chosen at random, are also reviewed and celebrated with the school and the child, whose book has been chosen, has the chance to win a dip out of the basket of goodies, as long as they have used their best handwriting every day, completed their feed forward marking and taken care in the presentation of their date and learning objective. We are extremely proud of all of the efforts of our pupils and the Friday Achievement assembly recognises this pride. 

    Our weekly winners this week are:

    Kyle - RAH

    Madilyn - REB

    Gabbie - ROT

    Kyra-Lee - 1RW

    Alessio - 1SG

    Harlee-Quinn - 2CP

    Dexter - 2ERS

    Maizie - 3JC

    Willow - 3RO

    Evanna - 4BB

    Riley - 4KG

    Destiny - 5KR

    Oliver - 5LH

    Hollie - 5NW

    Jack - 6ES

    Sophie - 6LB

    Rosie - 6ST

    Attendance Winner - Georgia - 1RW

    Book Look Winner - Jayden - 6ST

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  • Weekly Attendance

    Published 03/03/23

    Our overall attendance this week was 94.4%

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  • World Book Day!

    Published 02/03/23

    World Book Day 2023 was an incredible day at Smith’s Wood Primary Academy! Both pupils and staff impressed with their wonderful costumes, dressing up as their favourite book characters!

    The children took part in World Book Day assemblies, book related quizzes, themed lessons (which got their creative juices flowing), listened to a guest teacher reading and received their World Book Day tokens to spend on a book of their choice. Here are some photos of the children enjoying their day celebrating the world of books …

    For more pictures from the day, please see our gallery

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  • Year 1’s Journey to Space!

    Published 01/03/23

    Year 1 enjoyed a magical space themed day filled with fun activities to bring our fantastic ‘Man on the Moon’ topic to an end. In Maths, the children used shapes and nets to create rockets. We listened to a real-life Astronaut who told us a story from her rocket in space - it was amazing! Then, we wrote instructions to make a rocket in Phonics. In the afternoon, we practically made our rocket from lots of different materials, designed a space suit and completed an obstacle course for the final stage of Space Camp. All Year 1 children impressed staff with their enthusiasm and attitude towards activities, we really did have “The BEST day ever!”

    For more pictures from the day, please see our gallery

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  • Purple Puffins Poetry Phenomenon!

    Published 28/02/23

    Yesterday, 8 of our year 6 children had the opportunity to visit The Core, in Solihull, to listen and meet Joseph Coelho (the current Waterstones Poet Laureate). Whilst there, Joseph Coelho performed some of his famous poems to the group, and they were allowed to ask questions about his poems and the books he has published. At the end of the talk, they were also lucky enough to have their own poetry books autographed. What a brilliant experience for all involved! 

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  • Pupil of the Week

    Published 17/02/23

    Each week, during our Friday Achievement assembly, we celebrate our ‘Pupils of the Week’ from each year group. Pupils are recognised for this weekly award for a variety of reasons and are nominated by their class teacher. 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. 
    During the assembly, we also celebrate children who have 100% attendance for the week and have been in school every day on time. A lucky dip, of all children who are eligible takes place, and one pupil walks away with £5 to spend on whatever they want, Standards and presentation of a child’s book, chosen at random, are also reviewed and celebrated with the school and the child, whose book has been chosen, has the chance to win a dip out of the basket of goodies, as long as they have used their best handwriting every day, completed their feed forward marking and taken care in the presentation of their date and learning objective. We are extremely proud of all of the efforts of our pupils and the Friday Achievement assembly recognises this pride. 

    Our weekly winners this week are:

    Georgie-Rose - 1RW

    Oliver - 1SG

    Elijah-James - 2CP

    Arianna - 2ERS

    Piper - 4BB

    Tayah - 4KG

    Harvey-Lee - 5KR

    Ruby - 5LH

    Lily-Anna - 5NW

    Lauren - 6ES

    Riley - 6LB

    Joeliyn - 6ST

    Attendance Winner - Kaycee - 5NW

    Book Look Winner - Phoebe - 6LB

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  • Weekly Attendance

    Published 17/02/23

    Our overall attendance this week was 95.8%

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