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July 2023

  • Year 6 Awards

    Published 25/07/23

    Today has been a wonderful and memorable day for Year 6, on their last day at Smith's Wood we like to celebrate all their achievements to date. We are beyond proud of our Year 6 cohort. The class of 2023 have gone above and beyond in all areas. Their perseverance through all that life has thrown at them in recent years is testament to their upbringing and attitude towards the school they have called home for the past 8 years. We wish them well on the next stage of their journey and look forwards to hearing of their successes in the years to come! 

    From Mr Taylor, Miss Boobyer, Miss Shields, Mrs Winters, Miss Rea, Mrs Thornton and all the staff here at Smith's Wood Primary academy.

    Below are our Year 6 awards winners as well as the spectacular awards they have won!

    Jakub - Rocker of the Year award

    Phoebe - The Golden Egg Award

    Skye - Diamond Personality Award

    Alessandra - All Round Excellence Award

    Tristan - The Turner Prize for Attendance

    Isabel - Outstanding Effort Award

    Gracie - Outstanding Musician Award

    Valery - Sporting Achievement Award

    Samuel - Outstanding Academic Award

    Muneef - House Point Winner

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  • Pupils of the Week!

    Published 21/07/23

    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:

    Grace - REB

    Oscar - ROT

    Jaxon - 1RW

    Felicity - 1SG

    Emma - 2CP

    Kez'Roi - 2ERS

    Lacey - 3JC

    Jacob - 3RO

    Jack - 4BB

    T'Varni - 4KG

    Sabeeka - 5LH

    Blesing - 5NW

    Oscar - 5KR

    Tanai - 6ES

    Riley - 6LB

    Emmie - 6ST

    Attendance Winner - Codi - 2ERS

    Book Look Winner - Daisy - 1RW

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  • Year 1's Terrific Travels to Tamworth Castle!

    Published 21/07/23

    Yesterday, our Year 1's visited Tamworth Castle. We had an amazing fun-filled day, where we got to walk around and experience a real-life castle, meet the Lord and Lady and prepare a feast for them, find the knight's armour, tour the entire surroundings and meet our very new friend - Knight, who even shared lunch with us! The children were an absolute credit to the school and showed impeccable behaviour throughout the day, as well as share knowledge they have learnt over the last half-term; complemented by members of the public and staff. We made lots of lovely memories to end the year on - what a fabulous day!

    For more pictures from the trip, please see our gallery

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  • Year 2 Weston Super Mare

    Published 21/07/23

    Year 2 had an exciting trip to Weston Super Mare as part of our Seaside topic. Pupils had the opportunity to enjoy a traditional day at the seaside including building sandcastles, playing football and enjoying a picnic on the beach. A few cheeky seagulls and drops of rain couldn't spoil our fun! All pupils displayed outstanding behaviour and demonstrated our school value of responsibility; taking care to ensure that we left our beach area clean and tidy. As staff, we felt incredibly proud to take them on this trip. We hope Year 2 made wonderful memories with their friends. 

    For more pictures from the trip, please see our gallery

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  • School Games Platinum!

    Published 21/07/23

    We are delighted to inform you we have now received external verification that we have been awarded the Platinum School Games Award for 2023. Platinum is the highest accolade that can be achieved within the School Games framework. Following, an exhaustive journey through many applications to achieve customary gold awards for the past 5 years, we are overjoyed to be recipients of the Platinum award in our first application window. This award embodies the great school sport and physical activity offer we promote to all pupils here at Smith’s Wood Primary Academy. This latest award also encapsulates the success in unifying the association for physical education distinction award, Character Education Kitemark plus and most recently our Outstanding Ofsted judgement.

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  • Weekly Attendance

    Published 21/07/23

    Our overall attendance this week was 93.5%

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  • Conkers Conquered

    Published 20/07/23

    Year 5 thoroughly enjoyed their time at Conkers! It was pleasing to see children challenging themselves and stepping out of their comfort zones to complete the high ropes challenge and obstacle course.  Although there were a few squeals of disgust on the barefoot walk, most children completed it twice! Our school vales of friendship and determination were shown in full force, with everyone working together and showing encouragement when it was needed. 

    For more pictures from the trip, please see our gallery

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  • Smith's Wood's Own Olympic Games

    Published 17/07/23

    Last week, on a glorious Thursday afternoon the sun was shining, spirits were high and competition was fierce. Smith's Wood's own superheroes bounced, ran, pulled, threw, and balanced to the very best of their ability to compete in our prestigious sports day. A fantastic time was had by all with many children taking home well-deserved first place stickers!

    For more pictures from the day, please see our gallery

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  • Cycle Confidence Training - SMBC

    Published 17/07/23

    Solihull Council are hosting ‘Bikeability Level 2’ sessions this summer for children
    in Year 5 and above. These sessions will take place over 3 consecutive
    days and children must attend all sessions to complete the course.
    Most children in Solihull schools will be offered this training in Year 5. This
    summer course is aimed at providing training for children who have missed
    their school session or have not been offered at their school.

    Please see the attached flyers for more information

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  • Pupils of the Week

    Published 14/07/23

    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:

    Joy - REB

    Saiku - ROT

    Autumn-Rose - RAH

    Millie - 1RW

    Joyce - 1SG

    Alicen-Rose - 2CP

    Ella - 2ERS

    Caiden - 3JC

    Savannah - 3RO

    Ilya-Rose - 4BB

    Lilly - 4KG

    Thomas - 5LH

    Callum - 5NW

    Danny - 5KR

    Eli - 6ES

    Isabel - 6ST

    Attendance Winner - Kyla - REB
     

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  • Weekly Attendance

    Published 14/07/23

    Our overall attendance this week was 94.5%

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  • Sports Day - Reception, Year 1 and Year 2

    Published 13/07/23

    The children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 had a fantastic time during their Sports Day on Monday 10th July. They all took part in 8 different races and showed our school values in abundance. They showed real determination during the tug of war and also worked very hard during the mix circuit which was a difficult race with different obstacles in the way. The children were awarded many stickers, and all enjoyed taking part. 

    For more pictures from the day, please see our gallery

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