It is now!

Smiths Wood's own band of brothers put everything on the line in their inaugural appearance in the EFL Trophy. Kindly hosted by Birmingham City Football Club, Smiths Wood's most elite footballers excelled in their professional surroundings. Numerous challengers were put to the sword as the goals flowed with no goals conceded! Due to our impenetrable defence, Smith's Wood topped the group with a 100 % record. Sterner tests were faced in the knockout stages of the competition, but Smith's Wood held strong to progress to the final. In a fierce and often ferocious battle, Smith's Wood defences were tested to the absolute limit. Yet again, they held firm as our heroes emerged with the narrowest and most satisfying of victories. Smith's Wood are proud to announce we will be representing Birmingham City Foundation at the regional stage later in the academic year. Thank you to the players who all contributed valiantly to our success. We are immensely proud of them.

For more pictures from the competition, 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:

Denerio - 1RW

Atlas - 1JC

Grace - 2HS

Isla - 2SG

Joyce - 3MC

Brody - 3NW

Ti'Arna - 4BB

Jackson - 4HA

Ella - 5LH

Dragos - 5KG

Holly - 6ES

Lilly-Rose - 6LB

T'Varni - 6ST

Book Look Winner - Tiwa - 3MC

Attendance Hero - Denerio - 1RW

On Thursday afternoon, 5KG had a fantastic time enjoying their attendance reward treat at Hollywood Bowl Resorts World. As pupils had the best attendance for last year's summer term, they enjoyed a tasty meal alongside unlimited bowling as part of their reward.

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:

Olly - 1RW

Ethan - 1JC

Mi'lan - 2HS

Maliea - 2SG

Ramona - 3MC

Alfie-Jay - 3NW

Nathan - 4BB

Mila - 4HA

Sophie - 5LH

Alyssa - 5KG

Sophie - 6ES

Jack - 6ST

Attendance Hero - Tiegan - 1RW

Last night, on the prestigious grounds of Camp Lew stadium, dreams were made, champions were crowned and enjoyment was had by all in the Year 3 House Dodgeball competition.

All participants showed great teamwork and athleticism, competing for the ultimate prize, to be crowned house champions!

The overall winner of the night was dodgeball, but it was Super house that managed to claim first place!

Well done to Super House and all teams that participated. For more pictures from the night, please see our gallery

Today is World Mental Health day, and here at Smith's Wood, we have celebrated by wearing a yellow accessory! Each child who wanted to wear yellow donated £1 to Young Minds; raising a total of £185! Throughout the week, the children have also had assemblies based on understanding what is meant by Mental Health, and also how to look out for your friends in certain situations. During PSHE lessons this week, the children have played Wellbeing Bingo, where they have come up with 16 activities each that they feel helps people with their wellbeing, and used this for a game of Bingo! 

For more pictures from the day, please see our gallery