This year's Science Fair theme was time- and boy does time fly when you are having fun at the Science fair! Each year group had representatives who talked scientifically to their audiences about their Science project. Various investigations took place including: Why does a boat float? What happens to your heart after exercise? What is adaptation?
Take a look at our gallery to see the superb science learning from our Science Fair.
Today we have celebrated our pupils of the term. These children have been nominated by their class teachers to receive an end of term prize. This is a prestigious award, as the pupil of the term nominations are for those children who have impressed their teachers repeatedly over the whole of the Autumn term. We would like to congratulate all of our pupil of the term winners and thank them for showing the school values in abundance this term. 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.
REB - Tiberius
ROT - Frankie
RPM - Poppy
1SG – Ava-Rose
1RW – Saiku
2CS – Seren
2HS – Jack
3NW – Freddie
3MC – Harlee-Quinn
4JC – Alyssa
5LH – Jaelen
5KG – Isabelle
6ES – Emmanuel
6LB – Laicee-Rae
6ST – Harper
Book Look Winner - Amy - 6ST
Attendance Hero - Riley - RPM
Our overall attendance this week was 95%
Children from EYFS and KS1 took part in an eggciting Easter bonnet parade yesterday as they paraded around the school to a wonderous applause from KS2; children in KS2 also wowed us with their eggtravagently decorated eggs and they were proudly displayed in school for all to see. It was fantastic to see so many creative and eggcellent Easter creations and it looked as though the children enjoyed creating their masterpieces at home, I know it was very hard to pick a winner in each class.
Well done to all our winners from each class:
Harvey - 6ST
Ivory - 6ES
Laicee - 6LB
Lauren - 5KG
Frankie - 5LH
Lilly - 4JC
Ella - 4BB
Keeley - 3MC
Kez'roi - 3NW
Eliza - 2CS
Daisy - 2HS
Vienna - 1RW
Kylah - 1SG
Amelia - ROT
Noah - RPM
Eliana - Nursery
For more pictures from the day, please see our gallery
Last week, children took part in lots of fundraising activities for Comic Relief.
Pupils enjoyed the action-packed penalty shoot-out against Harrison Turner in year 6!
A huge well done to all the children who took part in ‘design a red nose’ competition – there were so many fabulous entries. Congratulation to our lucky winners:
Reception – Tiberius
Year 1 – Elise
Year 2 – Shakil
Year 3 – Alannah
Year 5 – Ricardo
Year 6 – Olivia
Fairy cakes for break time treat went down a storm with the children on Thursday!
Smith’s Wood Primary Academy did something funny for money on Friday with our crazy hair day! There were so many creative hairstyles – just wow!
For more pictures from the week, 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:
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
Smith's Wood Pupils marked the end of comic relief week in style today with a 'Crazy Hair Day' and and afternoon Danceathon! Some fantastic hair designs were on display and some brilliant dance moves!
For more pictures from the day, please see our gallery
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
Our overall attendance this week was 93.8%
On Tuesday 12th 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
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:
Cleo - REB
Mason - ROT
Marla - RPM
Maddie - 1RW
Kylah - 1SG
Seren - 2CS
Sophia - 2HS
Olivia - 3MC
Ella - 3NW
Monica - 4BB
Charlie - 4JC
Willow - 5KG
Oakley - 5LH
Laila-Rose - 6ES
Aamira - 6LB
Thomas - 6ST
Book Look Winner - Millie - 5LH
Attendance Hero Winner - Anas - ROT
Our overall attendance this week was 93.7%