As part of mental Health awareness week - 7X1 had a look at this puzzle in maths on Friday and tried to find as many words as possible
These are the words they came up with in 10 minutes
America
Paul
Grip
Pink
Apple
Too
Yet
Flicked
Cubes
Circle
Sold
Learn
Hers
Paul was particularly pleased that his name was worth 50p!
We are proud to be working with Vamos Theatre this afternoon here at Smestow! Vamos Theatre is the UK's leading full mask theatre company, taking its funny and fearless brand of wordless theatre across the length and breadth of the country and beyond since 2006.
Vamos Theatre’s trademark style marries full mask with strong visual design and an original soundtrack. The company make accessible, humorous, human, and fearless work which is based on real life stories, and their productions are rooted strongly in social research.
Not only are a group of our Key Stage 3 pupils participating in a workshop with a member of the Vamos cast this afternoon, we are also going to watch the company perform at the Arena Theatre in Wolverhampton this evening! This afternoon's activities will be a true example of all our teaching principles - sharing new ideas and concepts, reviewing what we already know, chunking new content, checking for our understanding of how this then applies to our professional practice!
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The Final Countdown: Weekly Revision Topics
Stay on top of your exam prep!
Each week, we’ll share key revision topics to focus on as we count down to exams. Let’s make every study session count.
We are proud to have partnered with Globalbridge - an online platform that will allow our pupils to track their experiences and achievements, and work towards their long-term career goals.
As part of our growing careers curriculum here at Smestow Academy, we wanted to enable our pupils to record the vast array of experiences that they have both inside and outside of our school, which can then support and shape their future choices. Globalbridge will allow pupils to reflect on their current activities and identify what they want to do next - this could be exploring a new pupil leadership role, taking part in an extra-curricular club or recognising their hard work across their subjects in school.
We have launched Globalbridge in school today and will be giving all pupils the chance to update their profiles across the academic year, but they are welcome to login at anytime to update their platform.
Pupils in year 11 participated in a quick quiz on the Earth's atmosphere using their RAG cards in their planners. This demonstrated the smestow teaching principle of check for understanding and allowed the teacher to address any misconceptions pupils may have before moving on to introducing new content.
Congratulations to T.Cox and T. Jones who have officially been announced as successful representatives of the City of Wolverhampton Youth Council. Here they are pictured with The Mayor of Wolverhampton and Director of Children's Services.
These 2 pupils will work closely with City of Wolverhampton Council’s directors and councillors to promote the voice of young people at Smestow Academy and be committed to ensuring that their ideas, concerns, and aspirations are not only heard, but embedded into decisions that affect their lives.
We are looking forward to see the positive and powerful impact that these 2 pupils have on our community.
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This week to celebrate Childrens’ Mental Health week and to support children develop the Smestow Mental Health Top Tip of “Keep learning” the maths department have been providing puzzles. Puzzles are a fun way to relax and supports mental health by encouraging children to keep learning and build resilience. Problem solving skills support pupils to tackle all kinds of problems in their everyday life and are not only for the maths classroom.
Year 7 pupils have worked on the “St Ives” problem, the “coins in envelopes” problem and the “guitar” problem in their maths lessons this week.
There are some wonderful things going on in reading at Smestow at the moment...we have some new class reads coming to the library for reading lessons for Years 7, 8 and 9Y2...can you 'Spy' what one of them might be?
Very soon your English teachers will be giving out your World Book Day vouchers, to every pupil across the school, what will you put yours towards? Maybe you will want to spend it at our Book Fair which is coming soon.
And we have passed the 15 million words read in Accelerated Reader. This is an amazing achievement. This week we would like to say a massive well done to A. Kauser from 7Y1 for the highest number of words read in their teaching set.
Key Stage 4 French students celebrated Children’s Mental Health Week in their lessons this week with cupcakes baked for them by the MFL Faculty. The green represents the Mental Health logo and pupils were encouraged to enjoy a cake and think about the value of mental health. Year 10 pupils will soon be starting a unit of work for the new French Edexcel GCSE examination, which focuses on the importance of mental health and wellbeing. One of our Smestow Academy values is that we offer a ‘welcome and caring environment’ which is really important for everyone’s mental health and wellbeing. We really hope that everyone enjoyed their cakes!
This week is Children's Mental Health Week. Set up in 2015, this year marks the 11th year of Place2Be raising awareness of mental health in young people.
The theme this year is "Know Yourself, Grow Yourself" and encourages children, young people and adults to embrace self-awareness and explore what it means to them. This will help them to grow and develop resilience to cope with whatever life may throw at them.
Here at Smestow Academy, we promote positive mental health by celebrating our top tips of Be Active, Connect, Give, Keep Learning and Take Notice. Pupils will be exploring these in lessons this week, talk about importance of Children's Mental Health Week in assemblies (led by Heads of House), complete mindful colouring at lunchtime and also be given "time to talk" at lunchtime with members of our Mental Health Team in School.
We will be sharing images of our active citizenship opportunties to raise awareness of Children's Mental Health Week over the next few days but also want to share this sheet from Place2Be for our families too.
If you are concerned about your child and their mental health, please take a look at our mental health support flyer (signposting to support online) or contact your child's Head of House at school.
#SmestowAcademy #SuccessAchievedTogether #CMHW25 #knowyourselfgrowyourself #MentalHealth #tellingschool
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Windmill Crescent
Castlecroft, Wolverhampton
West Midlands
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