Last week 5LH were invited to attend West Midlands Police 50^th Birthday celebrations at Tally Ho training centre in Birmingham.  This linked in with their current Birmingham topic and gave the children a good look at many landmark buildings on the routes. They were lucky enough to enjoy a range of demonstrations from the police force, the fire brigade, the ambulance service and many other departments.

Group demonstrations taught children how to behave in crowds, the role of police canine units and drones, how to perform CPR and even how to test for fingerprints!

A great day out for everyone involved. Thank you to the West Midlands Police force for having us!

For more pictures from the day, 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:

Ousman - 1RW

M'Kai - 1JC

Bleu - 2HS

Matilda - 2SG

Ellis - 3MC

Keeyan - 3NW

Ella - 4BB

Emma - 4HA

Ruby-Rose - 5KG

Summer-Rose - 6ES

Dexter - 6LB

Vinny - 6ST

Book Look Winner - Mila - 4HA

Attendance Hero - Arianna - 4BB
 

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 2024 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!

Oscar - Rocker of the Year award

Harper-Leigh - The Golden Egg Award

Lois - Diamond Personality Award

Alexandra - All Round Excellence Award

Alexander - The Turner Prize for Attendance

Amy - Outstanding Effort Award

Lucy - Outstanding Musician Award

Gracie - Sporting Achievement Award

Evie - Outstanding Academic Award

Blesing - House Point Winner

Our final sports day has finished this morning with a bang!

From Nursery to year 5, pupils and staff from across the school have jumped, ran and thrown their way to victory over several sun filled days! (with some parental help at the tug of war!)

Our school values were on full display as always with super-human levels of determination, perseverance and respect

A big thank you to all the staff, students and parents who managed to make this year’s sports days a roaring success!

For more pictures, please see our gallery.

On Monday a12^th July, 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. We made lots of lovely memories to end the year on - what a fabulous day!

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