Do you have a special talent you wish to showcase at our next big live event? You will have the chance to perform on stage in front of a live audience in Birmingham in the state-of-the-art theatre at Millennium Point on Thursday 15th May 2025 at our annual pupil awards evening. Whether it be singing, juggling, stand-up comedy or anything in between, we want to see all your wonderful talents. Dance entries will be accepted this year and will be entered into another competition to perform at our next outdoor trust wide summer event.

How to enter:

• Have one of your performing arts teachers record your performance (or film it yourself and email to your teacher).
• A snippet of your performance can be submitted. Please do not worry about submitting a performance in its entirety.
• Your teacher will be able to submit your performance video to the judging panel.
• Finalists will have the opportunity to perform at our next big trust event and some school events this year.
• Solo entries and group entries are welcome.

Submit your entry by 4pm on Friday 21st February 2025

A look back at last years event where our winning acts will have the opportunity to play can be seen below.

On the last week of Half term, our Year 7 pupils visited the University of Birmingham to take part in Christmas themed lecture. Our pupils were able to learn about a range of Christmas based topics including how Santa is able to use online data to track which presents to give to everyone at Christmas. A campus tour was also included where Year 7 learnt about the importance of the Joseph Chamberlain memorial clock tower and why university students refuse to walk underneath it. Our pupils were engaged throughout and made positive contributions to discussions that were taking place in the lecture halls and were able to  follow our school values whilst representing the school at UoB. 

Well done to our Heads of House, Mr Sidhu and Mr Holmes for another fantastic end of term assembly!  It was full of performances, competitions, awards and sing-a-longs!  A big shout out goes to Mr Webb for his fantastic DJ skills for the event too.  Well done to all pupils who were awarded spirit of their house and those who won Sparx maths challenges.  Wishing everyone a very safe, happy and healthy holidays and looking forward to seeing you all in the new year.

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Staff and pupils have participated in the final house competition of the year today, decorating their doors ahead of the holidays! Well done to everybody for their efforts and for taking part! It was a very difficult decision for Mr Chamberlain and Mr Heywood who judged the competition - who would have been your winner?

This term has seen our staff and pupils fully embrace our personal development programme, in particular our active citizenship programme.  We aim to raise awareness of a variety of events taking place, not just at Smestow, but nationally and globally too.  You will have seen from our posts over the last 4 months, the activities that have taken place in school and we are grateful to our school community for taking part.  We are looking forward to what the Spring term brings!  Thank you to everyone for your contributions.

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Today marked Smestow Academy's Christmas Jumper Day, alongside our second Mince Pies & Carols Event.  Staff and pupils were invited to wear their Christmas jumpers for a £1 donation to Save the Children.   Key stage 3 parents and carers were invited to join us in school for a morning of festivities and refreshments, with performances curated by our Creative Arts department.  We had keyboard soloists, singers, excerpts from "Nativity the musical" and even a pointe solo from one of our Year 9s!  We are very proud of all our performers who have worked incredibly hard over the last few weeks perfecting their performances for today and grateful to those families who were able to join us this morning!

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a peaceful new year.

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On Tuesday pupils in 8X3, 8Y1 and 8Y2 took part in a stem day which involved pupils planning, designing and building prototypes of bridges and testing these to see whether they will withstand the weight. Pupils had team roles such as Project manager, finance manager, designer, structural engineer, community lead and marketing executive. Pupils demonstrated brilliant teamwork, leadership, problem solving, creativity skills and thoroughly enjoyed the day.

Well done to all the pupils who took part an designed some fantastic bridges. 

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