Despite the very wet weather, nine determined school teams gathered for second round of the EFL Kids Utilita Cup, A tournament filled with energy, teamwork, and sportsmanship. The event brought together some of the most talented young footballers in the area, each team eager to show off their skills and fight for the top spot.

Smith's Wood Primary Academy proudly took part in the competition and gave a fantastic performance throughout the day. The matches were tough, with every team proving to be strong, well-prepared, and hard to beat. Despite the fierce competition, our team showed great determination, teamwork, and resilience.

After a series of thrilling matches, Smith's Wood Primary Academy finished in an impressive 4th place out of 9 teams! This is a brilliant achievement considering the high level of play and the determination shown by all the schools involved.

👏 A huge well done to all the players for their hard work and positive attitude. You made your school proud! Special thanks also go to the coaches, staff, and families who supported the team every step of the way.

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:

R'Mayiah - 1RW

Hunter - 1AP

Atlas - 2SWS

Lacey - 2HS

Max - 3JC

Layla-Ann - 3NW

Coral - 4HA

Carson - 4PW

Leonard - 4BB

Millie - 5KG

Jesse-James - 5LH

Jacob - 6ES

Riley - 6LM

Caelan - 6ST

Book Look Winner – Elijah -  6ES

Attendance Hero Winner - Awa - 5LH
 

Yesterday was National Outdoor Classroom Day and in true Smith's Wood style, we celebrated it with an engaging theme day. The children participated in lessons that took place outdoors and had an Autumnal theme. There was everything from leafy collages to planting daffodils!

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

Last half term, our Year 2 students had a fantastic Farm Day — dressing up as farmers and animals, exploring hands-on farm-themed activities, and learning all about life on the farm. What a fun day!

For more pictures, please see our gallery.

We are delighted to announce that we, Smith's Wood Primary Academy, have achieved the School Games Platinum Mark Award for the 2024/25 academic year.

The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.

We are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our competitions possible.

As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas of participation, competition, workforce and clubs, and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.

We look forward to applying once again in 2026!

Our overall attendance this week was 93.5%