Our overall attendance this week was 95.6%

Last night, the houses of Smith's Wood were green with envy as Hulk house took centre stage for their very own Deal or No Deal competition. The crowd was electric as Lilly-Rose made it to the hot seat for a chance to win 1000 house points!

Despite a rather rocky start, some fantastic teamwork and brilliant advice helped Hulk house bring home a grand total of 100 house points!

Well done to Lilly-Rose and the rest of Hulk house!

For more pictures  from the night, 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:

Riley - 1RW

Feranmi - 1JC

Martha - 2HS

Olivia - 2SG

Lana - 3MC

Amelia - 3NW

Alannah - 4BB

Toby - 4HA

Kaley - 5LH

Elijah - 5KG

Ricardo - 6ES

Millie - 6LB

Kacie - 6ST

Book Look Winner - Maizie - 5LH

Attendance Hero - T'Varni - 6ST

Last night, responsibility for the Spider house fell upon the shoulders of year 5's T’Zyah. Playing for a grand total of 1000 house points, T’Zyah rallied the members of Spider house behind him to compete in the 1st round of the Deal or no Deal House Competition. After a rocky start, great teamwork and fantastic advice spurred on Spider house and renewed their resolve to beat the banker. Spider House's determination shone through as they battled the odds, winning them the first victory in the competition with a staggering 170 house points!

For more pictures, please see our gallery.

Last week, our best sailors took centre stage at the North Solihull rowing championships. For one evening only, this prestigious regatta became home to North Solihull’s finest mariners. After months of hard work and gruelling training, our magnificent athletes put everything on the line in pursuit of silverware! For the 2nd competition in a row, personal bests were blown to smithereens across the board. In true sporting fashion, sadly, heartbreak was not far away as our courageous girls’ team fell narrowly (2M) short of a bronze medal. We are immensely proud of their performance and dedication. Our boys' team utilised superhuman levels of endurance to produce a master-class in technical and powerful rowing, securing them a well-deserved gold medal and will go on to represent the entire borough at the school games in 2025.

We are immensely proud of all our teams who represented our school with such distinction.

Year 2 were race day ready at Silverstone museum on Wednesday. We all had an amazing time – from learning the history of racing and drivers, to trying on race suits, learning information, handling pieces of car, to walking around the exhibition and on a real life race track! Finally finishing with an immersive cinema experience, where we were actually driving cars and racing each other. In the words of our children, “It’s been the best day ever!”

For more pictures from the day, please race over to our gallery.