On Tuesday night Mr Webb took 4 YR8 boys to Kings School to compete in the YR8 annual City Volleyball Competition. The lads have not had much experience with volleyball matches but soon picked up the skill and match awareness to defeat 3 of their opponents throughout the tournament. 

They worked excellently as a team and developed their skill fantastically well.

Big shout out to Valerio, Collins, Hayden & Kris who are now the third best volleyball team in the city for their age group! 

Well done lads 🙌🏻🏐

#smestowpe #passionparticipationprogress 

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 at Millennium Point in their state-of-the-art theatre on Thursday 20^th April 2022.  Whether it be singing, dancing, juggling, stand-up comedy or anything and everything in between, we want to see all your wonderful talents.

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 Matrix 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 Wednesday 15^th March.  

We are happy to launch the brand-new Smestow Academy website. We hope this makes communication between school, parents and pupils easier and more effective.  Our website is updated on a weekly basis so please use this to stay up to date with everything going on around school. Our school letters will be uploaded onto the website so you can stay informed along with regular news and event details.

Along with the new website launch, we have also joined some new social media platforms so we can really shout about the successes of everyday life at Smestow Academy, please take a few moments to follow us on the following platforms.

• Twitter – https://twitter.com/SmestowAcademy
• Facebook –  https://www.facebook.com/SmestowAcademy
• Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/smestowacademy/

On Tuesday night the YR10 boys travelled to Kings school to take part in the city Volleyball Competition.

Considering the lads have never played competitive volleyball before, their performance was highly impressive! 

They showed some great skill and teamwork throughout the night beating the likes of Kings, St Peters, St Chads and Moreton.

Team B did exceptionally well where they won 3 of their 4 group games with winning one game by 21-8. 

A fantastic evening of volleyball and big shoutout to Jude, Cody, Maolin, Mario, Nathan, Aryan, Jacob, Tom & Arrai for showing themselves and Smestow in the best light 🙌🏻🏐 

On Thursday 2^nd February, The Happy Puzzle Company visited Smestow Academy. Students from years 7 and 9 took part in workshops that focused on problem solving and team building skills. In groups of 6, pupils took part in a series of fun challenges. Challenge 1 proved the most fun for staff as pupils tried to balance penguins on a wobbly iceberg. Students had to work carefully and strategically to ensure that the penguins didn’t fall off. If a member of staff spotted a fallen penguin, we were given permission to knock the penguins off and students had to start again! 

The pupils worked on a variety of problems including tangrams and jigsaw puzzles. Pupils had to communicate with each and collaborate to succeed. The pupils showed their reasoning skills as well as their resilience as the problems got increasingly more challenging. 

The pupils had a lot of fun engaging in maths away from the classroom and enjoyed working together as teams.  

For the first time at Smestow Academy, Year 7 students had the opportunity to take part in Young Voice 2023 at Resorts World in Birmingham along with over 6000 other students across schools in the West Midlands. The students worked hard learning songs and dance moves for the concert, and what a fantastic job they did! They had the experience of performing with a live band, professional singers and musicians including: 

-Heather Small 

-The Beatbox Collective

-Anna Phoebe

Urban Strides also taught them some brilliant dance moves and even got the parent and carers involved. 

The student’s behaviour was excellent throughout the day and represented the school well. Thank you to all the parents and carers that came along to the performance and supported the children learning the songs, the students for their hard work even when they were tired after rehearsing all afternoon in Birmingham, and to the staff that help support me on the day. 

Well done to all that took part in the day. 

Yesterday, the Sportshall Athletics competitions got underway and it was the turn of year 10 first of all. These 5 boys showed excellent commitment to the school to compete at the highest level possible in a range of events

The boys all completed two field events each, where a shoutout goes to M.Lefter for his shot putt attempt. Moving onto the field event – a big congratulations to N.Malcolm & C.Davies who ran the 2-lap race and 4-lap race, respectively showing great resilience and effort to power through and achieve a fantastic time in their heat

These boys were a credit to the school for the way they conducted themselves