They came, they saw, they conquered! Yesterday afternoon, Smith's Woods' amazing athletes stormed the imperious walls of The Coleshill School sports centre hoping for a shot at the converted gold medals from the prestigious North Solihull Panathlon competition.

Every player competed to the absolute best of their ability, showing superhuman teamwork and determination as well as a herculean level of friendship and respect.

Competition was fierce, nerves were jangling, palms were sweaty, knees weak, arms were heavy but our wondrous athletes rose to the challenge, competing in event after event.

A calm and collected approach saw our participants through to the end of the competition, managing to score an amazing gold place victory over all other schools competing and ensuring them a slot in the national championships!

We are so proud of the entire team and their amazing achievement. Well done to everyone who competed!

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

What an amazing trip Year 4 had at Red Ridge.  Every child pushed themselves to new limits and supported those who found some of the challenges tricky.  Children experienced what it was like in a real caving system, crawling and scrambling through small spaces.  In addition, they also excelled in the rock climbing and abseiling over 30ft of rock. It has definitely been an experience they will never forget, creating life long memories and achieving great things.

Fore more pictures from the trip, please see our gallery.

Please see attached May timetable for Elmwood Family Hub. Also attached are some posters for new sessions starting.

West Midlands Police will also be holding an open-door community drop-in surgery, on Thursday 8^th May from 12:00pm -13:00pm. They can offer help, advice and talk to people about local issues of concern.

Thank you to all parents and carers who supported our Easter fundraising efforts.  We were blown away with your generosity and we are pleased to share that we raised an outstanding £487!!! 

The highly anticipated raffle was drawn this morning during assembly, the delighted winners are:

Luxury Hamper Winner – Isla – 2SG

Easter Egg & Nail Voucher – Dimitri – 1RW

Chocolate Hamper – Thea – 1JC

Easter Egg & PT Voucher – Joey – ROT

Chocolate Hamper – Siennah – 6ES

Fore pictures of our wonderful winners, please see our gallery.

Our overall attendance this week was 96%

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:

Kairo - REB

Ava - ROT

Oakley - RPM

Willow - 1RW

Alarna-Jayde - 1JC

Oscar - 2SG

Tiwa - 3MC

Aaden - 3NW

Kez'Roi - 4BB

Taylor - 4HA

Iyla-Lilly - 5LH

Riley - 5KG

Riccardo - 6ES

Riley - 6LB

Kacie-Leigh - 6ST

Book Look Winner – Phoebe -  4BB

Attendance Hero Winner - Ella-Mae - 4HA