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

• The Fire Service visits Nursery

  Fri 29 Apr 2022

  The children in Nursery had another exciting community linked day today with the visit of Solihull Fire Service.  The firefighters entertained the children with demonstrations of various pieces of firefighting equipment.  The children especially enjoyed using the water hose.  Thank you to the Nursery staff for organising such a lovely opportunity.  

  

• Outstanding performance in County Finals

  Fri 29 Apr 2022

  Congratulations to the 29 members of the Sportshall Athletics team who on Thursday competed in an incredibly tough County Finals event, representing South Solihull against 8 schools from other regions including North Solihull, Coventry East & West and Warwickshire (Central, North, South and East).

   

  The pupils competed brilliantly, winning several races and events, culminating in a 2nd place finish, an impressive result indeed especially when taking into account how many schools comprise the Solihull, Warwickshire and Coventry regions (Over 300).

   

  Their sportsmanship was impeccable and every child was an absolute credit to themselves, their families and the Greswold school community. 

   

  Final results:

  1st: Grange Farm Primary (Coventry West) 364 points

  2nd: Greswold Primary (South Solihull) 326 pts

  3rd: Telford Juniors (Central Warwickshire) 272 pts

  4th: Park lane Primary (Northern Warwickshire) 232 pts

  5th: Aldermoor Farm Primary (Coventry East) 228 pts

  6th: St Nicholas CE Primary (Southern Warwickshire) 224pts

  7th: Marston Green Juniors (North Solihull) 220pts

  8th: St Michael's CE Primary (Northern Warwickshire) 180pts

  9th: Paddox Primary (Eastern Warwickshire) 150pts 

  

• Art everywhere and anywhere........to brighten up our day!

  Fri 08 Apr 2022

  Since the pupils have retuned to full time education, it has been Greswold's desire to help them recover personally, socially and academically through a curriculum of care, compassion and creativity.  What better way to demonstrate this than showing some impressive communal artwork which popped up on the playground today!  Thank you children, it really lit up everyone's day!  

  

• THE POLICE ARRIVE AT GRESWOLD......for an insightful and enjoyable end to Community Week!

  Fri 08 Apr 2022

  Greswold received a visit today from PC Winter and PCSO Bennett today, who spoke at length with our junior pupils about their important role in our local community.  They also demonstrated how to use some of their items of equipment....on the teachers!!  Nursery pupils also got a chance to explore their police vehicle too! 

  

• Greswold out in the community!

  Fri 08 Apr 2022

  As part of Community Week and our role of being a Sustainable School, Greswold was out in the community picking up litter and improving our local environment.  Part of taking care of our local community is by keeping it clean and ensuring we don't drop litter. Unfortunately, most of the litter we found was directly outside school so we must remind pupils and families take rubbish from after school snacks home. The last photo is a crisp packet we found in the woods with a date of 1997 on! That is proof of how long litter stays in our environment for - even after 24 years the packet has not degraded.
  If any children would like to get involved in litter picking in the local community then they can contact the organisation 'Love Solihull'. https://www.lovesolihull.org/litter-picking
   

  

• The Mayor Visits Greswold

  Thu 07 Apr 2022

  The Worshipful The Mayor Solihull Councillor Ken Meeson visited Greswold this morning as part of Communities Week. He received a tour of the school from three Y6 pupils with highlights including looking at our PTA Easter Competition entries, visits to Bumblebees and Nursery and time in the library.

  The Mayor was able to find out about our educational visits and progression in learning from talking with children about the photo boards and subject boards. Skylarks also shared their Bollywood Dancing from their morning workshop! The Mayor also visited House Point assembly led by Mr Hornsey and congratulated the children on their achievements. 

  A group of Y6 pupils then sat down with the mayor and asked him about his role as mayor and his commitment to Solihull. Thank you to the mayor for sharing so many stories of his life and his involvement in the lives of young people. 

  

• So much to admire and marvel at....

  Wed 06 Apr 2022

  This week, children throughout the school brought their wonderfully creative PTA Easter competition entries into school to be judged.  A variety of creations including bonnets, decorations, scenes and even poems were on display for everyone, including the Mayor of Solihull, to view and be inspired by.  The difficult task of judging a winner from each class was given to Mr Evans and Mr Hindley, the site managers, who found it very hard to pick a winner whilst also finding it thoroughly enjoyable.  Well done to each class winner and to Ezra in year 4 who was the overall school winner with his creation entitled 'The Devilled Eggs'!  Well done to everyone who took part and thank you to families for your support too as well as PTA for providing the prizes.  

  

• What a lovely way to start the week!

  Tue 05 Apr 2022

  It was a lovely surprise to walk into the staff room yesterday and find a basket of goodies from one of our very kind families.  What a wonderful way to start the week! Thank you very much for sharing your Ramadan celebrations with us - Ramadan Kareem to all our families celebrating. 

   

  

• Active Travel campaign update - Week 2

  Tue 05 Apr 2022

  Dear Parents and Carers,

   

  Week 2 of our Active Travel campaign indeed continued the positive start that week 1 provided.  284 Living Streets WOW badges were given out on Monday to pupils who had achieved the target of three or more active journeys in each of the first two weeks.  There are in fact 310 pupils who have now reached the target with the additional children receiving their badges by the end of this week. 

   

  Well done to Sycamores who top the table with the amount of journeys logged.  Out of a possible 300 journeys, these classes have logged the most:

   

  Sycamores - 244

  Cedars - 237

  Nightingales - 202

  Elms - 200

   

  However, Cedars attained the most badges in March with 21 in total and a special well done to Hedgehogs who have managed to make 100% of their recorded journeys active! 

   

  91.3% of all journeys logged throughout Greswold have been active which is fantastic.  Well done to everyone for participating. 

  

• History and creativity combine again at Greswold thanks to Year 1!

  Mon 04 Apr 2022

  School has been taken over by a wonderful assortment of castles thank to year 1.  No mater how big or small, every single one has demonstrated how committed the children and their families have been in making this home learning project successful.  Well done year 1, they are all amazing!