Last night, Smith's Wood's bravest rowers took centre stage at the North Solihull Rowing Festival of fun!

Our rowing team demonstrated high levels of resilience, endurance and teamwork, battling against an array of skilled mariners. Despite fierce competition, our noble oarsman managed to navigate the choppy, and sometimes murky, waters of Fordbridge Primary School, resulting in a well-deserved bronze medal win!

Well done to the team and everyone involved!

Year 2 were lucky enough to have a visit from GXO. We absolutely loved exploring the HGV they brought, including experiencing what life is like in the driving seat! We were so impressed by the insightful questions and the superb behaviour of all our pupils. This was a brilliant opportunity to bring our topic to life. We would like to thank Luke and his team for such a fantastic afternoon.

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What a great start to anti-bullying week with odd socks! The bright tights and odd socks were out in full force, as our pupils showcased their personality. Our assemblies this week have focussed on anti-bullying and encouraging pupils to shout out against bullying. All pupils have also been invited to attend friendship cafes this week at lunch time.

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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:

River-Blue - 1RW

Logan - 1SG

Oliver - 2CS

Ella - 2HS

Ocean - 3MC

Kez'roi - 3NW

Jimmy - 4BB

Sarah - 4JC

Harrison - 5KG

Vinny - 5LH

Lucy - 6ES

Gracie - 6LB

Alexander - 6ST

Attendance Winner - Bella - 6ST

Book Look Winner - Saiku - 1RW

Last night, Smith's Wood hosted our first Cube house competition. Year 5 bravely stepped up to the plate taking on the arduous set of challenges laid before them. In true Smith's Wood style, all competitors showed super-human levels of determination and friendship. The Cube proved to be a formidable opponent for year 5, but each team kept the spirit and resilience of the game alive through to the very end, with everyone having a fantastic night. Well done to all teams that competed.

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Eco-minded pupils across Key Stage 2 were given the opportunity to go to Solihull School to listen to the remarkable life stories of conservationist Dame Jane Goodall. Jane shared with the children her 'Reasons for Hope' and why she believes that it is up to each one of us to decide what kind of difference we want to make in saving our planet, through our daily actions. Not only was it fantastic to capture Jane's passion and spirit up close, but it was a wonderful opportunity for pupils from across the borough to experience something special together! Jane is a world-leading light in showing us what can be done to protect our planet and I'm sure it was an experience that the children will never forget!

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