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  • Smith's Wood Panathletes Bring Home the Medals!

    Published 26/06/24

    Yesterday marked the final of the Panathlon Challenge, with our brave students facing the best of the best from around the country! Every player competed to the best of their ability, with fierce competition from the other 13 regional winners. 

    Despite a very close final round, our brilliant team of athletes managed to earn a well-fought 6th place victory!

    We are immensely proud of everything our students have achieved to reach the finals and were thrilled so see the enormous amounts of determination and resilience on display from our wonderful team.

    For more pictures from the event, please see our gallery.

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  • Smith's Wood Festival

    Published 24/06/24

    Please see the attached poster for details of the upcoming Smith's Wood Festival on Thursday 27th June 2024 (3:10 - 4:45pm) 

    Please ensure you follow the link on the poster, or access parentpay to purchase wristbands!

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  • Making Music!

    Published 24/06/24

    On Friday 21st June, we celebrated World Music Day! Each year group looked at a different music genre, ranging from country to bhangra to medieval music, and learned all about their genre of music through a wide range of interactive activities. There were a range of lessons, such as making their own instrument, learning a new song and creating a water xylophone! Lots of fun was had by all!

    For more pictures from the day, please see our gallery

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  • Pupils of the Week

    Published 21/06/24

    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:

    Ember - ROT

    Aria - RPM

    Hughie - 1RW

    Harry - 1SG

    Charlie - 2CS

    Cairon-Rhys - 2HS

    Sidra - 3MC

    Codi - 3NW

    Isla - 4BB

    Ruby-Rose - 4JC

    Alanna - 5KG

    Sophie - 5LH

    Emmanuel - 6ES

    Oscar - 6LB

    Jamal - 6ST

    Book Look Winner - Amelia - 1RW

    Attendance Hero - Anas - ROT

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  • Weekly Attendance​​​​​​​

    Published 21/06/24

    Our overall attendance this week was 92.8%

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  • Celebrations for the Courageous Court Crusaders!

    Published 19/06/24
    Over the last few weeks, our Year 6 children have attended a netball club and worked hard to learn every position in the team and the rules of the game. We made it through the two group stages by winning and drawing lots of matches against other local schools and ended up in the finals last night! Our first match was against Coleshill, where we battled through injuries to lose by a few goals, and then had to compete in the 3rd/4th play-offs. During that match, we played against St Mary and St Margaret's, where we beat them 7-4 to win the Bronze medal!
     
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  • Conkers Conquered!

    Published 19/06/24

    What an incredible trip Year 3 had!! We arrived at Conkers, and we were led to an area where we could build shelters. We had to use the surrounding nature to try and create a safe, waterproof shelter. The guide spayed us with water to test our dens!  

    The Conkerchoo train was our next stop. This took us to an adventure park. We had lunch outside and got to be great explorers in the park. After, we arrived at the 4D cinema where we were immersed in a world of special effects including lightning and smells!

    Extreme fun was definitely had by all.

    We unanimously voted it was well worth the visit!

    For more pictures from the trip, please see our gallery.

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  • The Wonderful Wanderers in Wales

    Published 17/06/24

    What an adventure it has been for Year 5! Our intrepid explorers started their Wales journey with a trip to Black Rock Sands for lunch, followed by an exciting caving adventure! Themeparks, Rides, Sun and Sand were all on offer as Year 5 bounced, climbed, ran and walked their way around North Wales!

    Great fun and exciting activities made this a trip to remember, with year 5 showing everyone why we are More than a School!

    For many more pictures from the trip, please see our gallery

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  • Back of the Net!

    Published 14/06/24

    Thursday evening saw the debut of the Year 4 girls' football team who competed against local schools.  They demonstrated teamwork and an abundance of perseverance across the 4 games they played.  They made it to the final game and successfully won silver medals!  What a fantastic start to their footballing career at Smith's Wood!

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  • Pupils of the Week

    Published 14/06/24

    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:

    Tiberius - REB

    Dimitri - ROT

    PJ - RPM

    Olivia - 1RW

    Godwin - 1SG

    Alessio - 2CS

    Bobbie-Mae - 2HS

    Reggie - 3MC

    Isla-Grace - 3NW

    Beth - 4BB

    Mysti - 4JC

    Lexi - 5LH

    Lucy - 6ES

    Darntae - 6LB

    Mia - 6ST

    Book Look Winner - Elliott - 6LB

    Attendance Hero - Oscar - 1SG

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  • Weekly Attendance​​​​​​​

    Published 14/06/24

    Our overall attendance this week was 94.8%

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  • Maths Fair

    Published 10/06/24

    Last week, Year 6 planned an activity/stall to host in order to raise money for their Year 6 production. This money goes towards our costumes and props for the performance at the end of the year. Throughout the week, our Year 6 children learnt about money management and how important profit margins are. It was a fantastic event where children from Reception to Year 5 all had a go, and we raised just under £200! 

    For more pictures, please see our gallery

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