Our overall attendance this week was 94.9%

This half term, the Year 6s have been learning all about the Victorians, covering everything from Queen Victoria herself, to inventions of that time, including the award-winning Custard Cream. The first Custard Cream was made here in Birmingham during the Victorian era, so over the last 2 weeks, our Year 6 children have had a DT project whereby they have researched existing Custard Creams on the market, tasting them and looking at their packaging, before designing their own biscuit and eventually baking them! All of the children got involved with making the biscuit dough, and stencilling their own design onto the biscuit before baking them. The overall opinion was that they were even tastier than the shop-bought ones! 

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We had a roar-some day for African Day and dressed up as African safari animals.

In maths, we were demonstrating our understanding of halves and wholes with some tasty tiger treats. In literacy, we watched clips of the Lion King and wrote some super sentences retelling the story. In topic, we designed, made and evaluated some beautiful African jewellery. A day to remember for year 1! 

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Last night a gaggle of year 4 gladiators descended on the hallowed turf of Smith's Wood Primary's Camp Lew stadium for the hotly-contested House Dodgeball competition.

House values were on display in abundance as dodgeballs blotted out the sun and our noble warriors dodged in the shade. Each team showed great determination, perseverance and friendship as they battled valiantly to become undisputed champions. As the dust settled and the dodgeballs cleared, Super house stood victorious!

Well done to all who participated and a fantastic victory for Super house!

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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:

Anas - 1RW

Julia - 1JC

Joy - 2HS

Zaira - 2SG

Oliver - 3MC

Jai - 3NW

Phoebe - 4BB

Eli - 4HA

Jaxson - 5LH

Amelia - 5KG

Frankie-Lea - 6ES

Riley - 6LB

Tayah - 6ST

Book Look Winner - Keeley - 4HA

Attendance Hero - Jackson - 4HA

Dodge was deep in the mind of contenders! While dodging the night away!

There was no Earth and Wind, but the halls were certainly on Fire last night with the heat from year 5s 50-strong spartan battalion and their electrifying house dodgeball competition. A hail of dodgeballs rained down on the Camp Lew stadium as Year 5 ducked, dodged and dived their way to victory. During the competition, all teams showed super-human levels of determination, perseverance, friendship and honesty. Each house battled valiantly throughout the night but after the dust settled Super house remained standing, taking home the coveted house competition trophy! Well done to Super house and everyone that participated.

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