Please find the Autumn Term Newspaper, which has been produced by our school pupil journalist team, giving you an overview of events which have happened at Smith’s Wood Primary Academy over the term.  

We would like to thank you for all of your support during this term and we hope you enjoy the 2 week holiday with your family and friends. The school office will close at 3.30pm tomorrow (20^th December) and reopen on Monday 8^th January 2024 at 8.00am.

Have a great Christmas and we look forward to seeing you all on Monday 8^th January, when school reopens for all pupils

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:

Amelia - 1RW

Amelia - 2CS

Harlei-Belle - 3MC

Eeqan - 3NW

Freya - 4BB

Harper-Rae- 4JC

Alanna - 5KG

Hollie - 6ES

Darntae- 6LB

Alexander - 6ST

Book Look Winner - Mi'Lan-Rai - 1SG

Attendance Hero Winner - Taylor - 3MC

Last night, 4 of the most daring teams from year 6 faced the fearsome Cube challenge! Our noble contestants demonstrated skill, nerve and determination, completing a series of deceptively simple tasks while confined to The Cube and in the glare of the spotlight. Each team battled bravely to give their house a chance to claim glory. One house in particular made Smith's Wood history by being the first house ever to complete the Cube! Well done to Bat house and all teams that participated!

For more pictures from the competition, please see our gallery

On Tuesday 5^th and Wednesday 6^th December, pupils from Year 4 visited Staffordshire Regiment Museum. Pupils got to explore a trench system, handle real weapons from both wars and wear real uniform. As well as all this, pupils got to see how life existed in WW2 by visiting shelters and learning about rationing. On top of this exciting opportunity, pupils got to see tanks that were used in other wars outside of WW1 and WW2. 

For more pictures from the trip, please see our gallery

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:

Leo - 1RW

Remeh - 1SG

Oscar - 2CS

Noah - 2HS

Azil - 3MC

Adam - 3NW

Iyla-Lilly - 4BB

Demi - 5KG

Jaelen - 5LH

Taha - 6ES

Oscar- 6LB

Harper-Leigh - 6ST

Book Look Winner - Robyn - 3NW