On Friday, 21st March 2025, Smiths Wood Primary School came together for an exciting and heart-warming fundraising event in support of Comic Relief. Staff, students, and parents all contributed to making this day a memorable one, showing their support for a good cause while also having fun. The theme of the day was "Dress as someone iconic from the last 4 decades and “Dress in red”, and it certainly brought a burst of colour and cheer to the school. In addition to the dress-up fun, the day featured a teacher-led bake sale, where delicious treats were sold by SWAG members to raise even more funds for the cause. The school community truly embraced the spirit of giving, making it a day full of joy and generosity.

We are thrilled to announce that, thanks to everyone's generosity, we raised an incredible £730.80 for Comic Relief!

For more pictures from the day, please see our gallery.

On Monday, Smith's Woods finest ventured North to compete in the prestigious EFL Kids Cup. Held in Wigan, this highly converted trophy is represented by the best of the best from around the North of England. Donning the famous blue and white, the Smith's Wood boys took centre stage playing with fierce determination and super-human levels of perseverance against some of the toughest teams they were ever likely to face!

Despite a difficult introduction at the hands of Bolton and Burton, Smith's Wood dug deep to upset our hosts Wigan, to dismantle Hollywood's finest, Wrexham and shatter the dreams of Huddersfield, earning them a rightful place in the quarter-finals. In an intensely competitive battle between 2 highly skilled veteran teams, our boys in blue gave it everything they had and the only way to separate them was a dreaded penalty shoot-out. 

Unfortunately, heartache won out on the day and Smith's Wood lost out by the barest of margins.

We are immensely proud of the team and the players will forever go down in Smith's Wood folk lore as the Wigan 9!

For more pictures from the cup, please see our gallery.

Last night, year 5 Spider house took on the daunting challenge of the cube! 4 of the bravest cuboids weathered the pressure and completed a series of difficult challenges with the goal of walking away with the top prize of 1000 house points. Despite a promising start and some wonderful teamwork, the challenges proved to be more than Spider house could handle, sadly leaving without reaching their goal. Well done to our brave contestants for their immense determination and perseverance.

For more pictures from the night, please see our gallery.

Smith’s Wood Primary Academy has once again proven its sporting excellence, securing victory in the prestigious Netball Skills Event with a record-breaking time. The team, who had spent months in rigorous preparation, overcame a nervous start to deliver a sensational performance in the final, defeating tough competition to claim the title.

The victory marks yet another milestone for Senior Sports Psychologist Mrs Thornton and Director of Sport Mr King, whose dedication and expertise have led to an outstanding year of achievements for the academy. Their guidance has played a pivotal role in shaping the success of young athletes at Smith’s Wood, further cementing the school’s reputation for sporting excellence.

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:

Rohaan - REB

Evie - ROT

Archie - RPM

Mason - 1RW

Meila-Grace - 1JC

Remeh – 2HS

Tesshanna - 2SG

Alessio - 3MC

Coral - 3NW

Harlee-Quinn - 4HA

Caiden - 5LH

Joey - 6LB

Vinny - 6ST

Book Look Winner – Hazel -  6LB

Attendance Hero Winner - Asha - ROT