Last week, Year 6 planned an activity/stall to host in order to raise money for their Year 6 production. This money goes towards our costumes and props for the performance at the end of the year. Throughout the week, our Year 6 children learnt about money management and how important profit margins are. It was a fantastic event where children from Reception to Year 5 all had a go, and we raised just under £200! 

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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:

Lacey - REB

Tiegan - ROT

Frankie - RPM

Martha - 1RW

Olivia - 1SG

Coral - 2CS

Evie - 2HS

Taylor - 3MC

Hargun - 3NW

Ella - 4BB

Alfie - 4JC

Riley - 5KG

Sophie - 5LH

Olivia - 6ES

Logan - 6LB

Lois - 6ST

Book Look Winner - Olly - 5KG

Attendance Hero - Joy - 1SG
 

On Monday 3^rd June, we kickstarted our new term and new topic with an Ancient Greek-themed day! The children dressed up as ancient Greeks and completed lots of different learning. We solved a Greek treasure map in Maths, learnt about Spartan soldiers and what their school might look like and created a Spartan soldier contract. In the afternoon, we made our own Greek clay pots, considering what designs and patterns we wanted to use, and what shape we wanted our pots to be. 

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The best performing primary schools in Solihull have been ranked based on the latest academic attainment data.

We are happy to announce that Smith's Wood Primary Academy has been ranked no 1 amongst all schools in Solihull!

The overall score takes into consideration the average marks and the percentage of pupils achieving at a higher standard and the overall percentage of pupils at the schools achieving their expected standard.

For more details, please see the full article here

This week pupils fully immersed themselves in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter! Children were placed under the sorting hat and sorted into their own Hogwarts Houses! In these Houses they: competed in a Tri-Wizard Tournament and participated in a magical game of Quidditch! They also had the opportunity to make their own Butter Beer and Fudge Flies! A memorable week for all the young Witches and Wizards!

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Yesterday our Year 6s took a spellbinding trip down to Warner Bros Studio Tour London - the making of Harry Potter. We immersed ourselves into all things magical: exploring the real sets, real props and real magic seen in the film series. Year 6 had time to explore the Forbidden Forest, the Hogwarts Express and even Diagon Alley!! Mischief definitely managed!!

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