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:

Scarlett - REB

Thea - ROT

Aurora - RPM

Zaira - 1RW

Elise - 1SG

Oliver - 2CS

Kayden - 2HS

Ella-Mae - 3MC

Harriet - 3NW

Gabriel - 4JC

Lauren - 5KG

Lucy - 5LH

Callum - 6ES

Maxx - 6LB

Alexander - 6ST

Book Look Winner - Kaycee - 6ES

Attendance Hero Winner - Charlie - 4JC

Last night, 16 of the best spellers from Year 3 took part in a Spelling Bee House Competition! From word challenges, to our 'Spotlight Spell', the children were challenged with a range of spellings from Year 3 and Year 4! Congratulations to Bat House who took the 100 house points for the win! 🙂 

For more pictures from the competition, please see our gallery

On Tuesday 12^th March, 3NW took part in a ‘Bestival’ competition where they had to compete in a variety of tasks to beat their personal best, along with other schools in the area.

The children arrived at Coleshill Comprehensive school ready for a morning of fun. Pupils got into teams and took the challenges on like true Smith’s Wood pupils. They were encouraging each other and showing all our school values. Three children even received medals for good sportsmanship and determination.

“I thought hockey was the best and I enjoyed trying new things” said JJ.

“I loved it! I really enjoyed competing in sports because P.E is my favourite” Alice.

For more pictures from the festival, please see our gallery

Our overall attendance this week was 93.7%

On Monday, some Year 6 pupils had the amazing opportunity to visit Westminster in London to discover the Houses of Parliament. Each child was selected as they are one of our 'young leaders' (this means they are either a House Captain, Peer Listener, Wellbeing Warrior or SWAG representative). These 12 children have also been attending a club each week in the lead up to this visit to learn more about politics. 

The day started with going to Birmingham International and taking the train to Euston Station. Once we arrived, we had to get the underground tube from Euston to Embankment, where we walked along the River Thames towards the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben. Our morning was spent being given a tour of the Houses of Parliament from Gill, who showed us the House of Commons and the House of Lords, which was an incredible experience. After the tour, we were able to have lunch with our local MP - Saqib Bhatti - who asked us all about the debates we've been having in our parliament club. 

Not only did we get to tour the Houses of Parliament, but we also had the chance to go onto Downing Street and have our photos outside number 10, where we even saw the famous 10 Downing Street cat named Larry! Throughout the day, we were able to talk to many different people who worked in politics and for our government.

During the visit to London, we also got to walk to Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square and see the London Eye! Everyone had an incredible time  and were thankful for the once in a lifetime opportunity. 

For more pictures from the trip, please see our gallery

Our overall attendance this week was 93.9%