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. 

#SuccessAchievedTogether #MakingADifferenceEveryday #YouthLeadership

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.

This week is Children's Mental Health Week.  Set up in 2015, this year marks the 11^th 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

Our careers programme here at Smestow Academy is underpinned by the Gatsby Benchmarks. As part of our commitment to fulfilling benchmark 7 (supporting our pupils in years 8-11 accessing further education providers), we were delighted to host Georgia from Walsall College and Sam from Dudley College this morning in school.

Both colleagues delivered assemblies to year groups and talked about the variety of opportunities available at both providers, including accessing apprenticeships.

Thanks to Georgia and Sam for their time this morning and for helping our pupils.

Year 7's took part in a stem day workshop which involved them designing a station of the future and constructing a tunnel which will withstand the weight of 1kg of sand. 

It was a brilliant day and all pupils showed fantastic teamwork and leadership skills.

Well done year 7 and a massive congratulations to the winning team

#engineers #stem #successachievedtogether 

Mr Bryan is incredibly proud of how his Year 11 Art  group have been taking full advantage of our teaching principle of "review" this week: 

"This week, we have been taking a holistic approach to whole class feedback. As a teacher I can easily see how my pupils are progressing as a whole. In turn, they can see how well their peers are performing, leading to organic conversations between them as to how results are achieved. Best of all, they can all visibly see how they're doing on a week by week basis and take pride in what they've achieved together"

On Wednesday 29th Janurary, we held auditions for Matilda JR. and were thrilled to see 33 incredibly talented pupils audition for a role in the musical. Over the past week, they’ve been putting in a tremendous amount of effort, learning their scripts and songs. During the auditions, it was truly heartwarming to witness the spirit of collaboration as students supported and rehearsed with one another, perfectly embodying our Smestow value of a 'Welcoming and Caring Environment.' Miss Field and Mr. Stephenson were absolutely blown away by the talent on display, and we’re beyond excited to have such a gifted cast. We can’t wait to showcase their incredible abilities in this unforgettable production!