Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Year 4 students through to final

  Thu 28 Oct 2021

  On Friday 15th October, four students from Year 4 attended King Edwards School to compete in a Maths competition which many schools from across Birmingham and Solihull attend. Their team work was incredible throughout the competition, which was commented on by senior members of staff from other schools. They scored 51/51 on their crossword challenge - something which is a first for Mr Hobday! 

   

  The team came second and are now through to the final. Well done to the four students who should be very proud of themselves, and good luck for the final! 

  

• Hedgehog house

  Fri 22 Oct 2021

  Children from Nightingales wanted to provide a warm and safe home for the hedgehogs we have living on our school ground. The group of children looked around for some suitable materials, including bricks and leaves, then created a fantastic home for the prickly creatures. They were very proud of their creation and they hope it will will give a hedgehog or two somewhere safe to hibernate this winter.

  

• Greswold House Leaderboard & Value of Belonging House Point Assembly

  Thu 21 Oct 2021

  Monday marked the first House Point assembly of the year.  It was a chance to see which children had earned the most house points in each class in Years' 1-6 so far this year, as well as finding out which House was leading the 2021-22 competition at this point. 

   

  The assembly itself was about the value of Belonging with an emphasis on how each and every adult who works at Greswold has the same vision, which is to keep the children safe, help them to learn and to make school life enjoyable for each and very child. 

  

• The PTA Christmas Decoration Competition is back!

  Wed 20 Oct 2021

  Parents and Carers,

   

  It’s time for this year’s PTA Christmas Decoration Competition, an event run throughout the entire school with the aim of decorating the school Christmas trees in time for the PTA Christmas Fayre in December.

    

  Each year group has been allocated a theme to base their entries on.  These are as follows: 

   

  Nursery – Stockings 
  Reception – Snowmen/women     
  Year 1 – Baubles
  Year 2 – Christmas Trees  
  Year 3 – Father Christmas 
  Year 4 – Robins 
  Year 5 – Christmas Puddings   
  Year 6 – Reindeers

   

  As usual, teachers will set the competition as a Home Learning activity with all entries being judged and class winners receiving PTA prizes for creativity and pupil effort.  Please send your child’s entries back into school from Monday 29th November.  They will be judged on Wednesday 1st December and used to dress the trees in time for the Christmas Fayre on Saturday 4th December.

  We look forward to seeing their creations soon! 

   

  Thank you for your continued support

  The Greswold PTA

   

  

• Harvest Festival

  Wed 20 Oct 2021

  Greswold's Harvest Festival was celebrated yesterday with the theme of 'Thanks' organised by Mrs Croft and Mrs Low. Reception performed a song, Y6 recited an acrostic Harvest poem and children from across school narrated the story of 'Eric Says Thanks' with some acting too.We also said thank you for the generous harvest donations which Mrs Rochelle and the PTA sorted and distributed to The Hermitage and Helping Hands. Some children produced reflective pictures or poems afterwards.

  

• Greswold Cross Country Success

  Tue 19 Oct 2021

  It was wonderful to welcome back the first Inter-School Sports' Compeitition after an absence of nearly two years.  The first event was the Y4, 5 & 6 Cross Country event which took place over the course of a few evenings at Old Silhillians.  Our teams performed incredibly well with some notable individual performances including Enzo in finisging 2nd out of 115 pupils in the year 5 boys' race, Sam coming 7th and Jack 8th in the same race.  In fact the results of the Y5 boys' team meant Greswold finished joint first in that team race.  Dylan came 3rd in the Y4 boys' race (out of 70 runners) and Chloe came 7th in the Y4 girls' race (70 runners).  Well done to all of our pupils who represented the school amazingly well.   

  

• Year 3 Poetry visit to KES

  Fri 15 Oct 2021

  On Thursday, 30 pupils from Y3 attended a poetry performance at King Edwards School. Not only did they thoroughly enjoy the experience but also represented Greswold incredibly well. Staff at KES emailed to say that Greswold children were immaculately behaved and represented the school brilliantly.

  Thank you to Mr Hobday, Miss Mobley, Mrs Glover and two parent helpers for attending with the children. . 

• Competition celebration

  Fri 08 Oct 2021

  Well done to Ahon (Year 4 Nightingales) and Ranvitha (Year 5 Elms) for being shortlisted from over 200 entries in a competition. The Primary School Languages competition, run by Warwick University, was to design a poster to celebrate one of the 120 languages spoken in neighbouring Coventry. Well done to everyone at Greswold who entered and thank you to Mrs Jones for organising. 

  

• Data collection sheets

  Fri 01 Oct 2021

  Congratulations to Cedars, Willows, Sycamores, Chaffinches, Nightingales and Owls for being the first classes in Y1-6 to return all of their data collection sheets. Class points were awarded by Mrs Scott and Miss Lindsay in assembly this morning. Overall, the first class was Cedars and Mrs Mills. If you still have the data collection sheets at home, please return as soon as possible.