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

• Greswold and the local community working in partnership

  Thu 30 Jun 2022

  Yesterday, our year 6 pupils were each presented with the transition gift of a book entitled 'Watch Out!, a children's guide to everyday dangers' as they prepare for the next step of their learning career.  The books were sponsored by the Solihull Rotary Club, a nationwide and international fundraising organisation, with our own PTA funding half of them.

   

  Keith and Phil from Solihull Rotary presented the children with their books, and as you can see from the photos, the children were very keen to read, learn and enjoy them. 

   

  Another example of Greswold working in partnership with it's local community for the betterment of our pupils and their families.   

  

• A great effort from Year 5 in the final of King Edward's School Maths Competition

  Fri 24 Jun 2022

  This week, four year 5 children attended the final of the Maths competition hosted by King Edward's School.  There were 12 schools participating in total with the children competing brilliantly, working as a team and showing our values.  The team so narrowly missed out on third place but Mr Hobday, who accompanied them being Maths Subject Leader, was so proud of how well they did in reaching the final and coming 4th out of 12 schools.  Well done children, you're a credit to year 5 and the whole school.  

  

• Greswold's Active Travel Campaign - A review

  Fri 24 Jun 2022

  Yesterday marked the final day that winners of the Active Travel campaign prize draw received their prizes.  School would like to take this opportunity to thank all the pupils, staff and families in making the campaign such a success.  It's also wonderful to hear stories from parents about how their children are now wanting to travel more actively to school each day.  In all honesty, this was the main aim of the campaign itself, to try to engineer a change in behaviour in pupils and their families when travelling to school in the mornings.  The data, compiled by families inputting their travel each day using Travel Tracker, also also reflected this positive changed in behaviour. 

   

  There were over 11,000 journeys logged during the period 19th March to 19th May.

   

  Only 586 of these were deemed non-active! 

   

  49% of the whole school population took part in the campaign by logging their travel using Travel Tracker.

   

  Of all journeys logged, 95% of them were deemed active!

   

  Before the start of the campaign, 37% of pupils walked, cycle and scooted to school each day.  This increased to nearly 60% by the end of the campaign.  6% of families used Park & Stride venues initially which has now risen to 19% promoting school to start sourcing additional venues to host vehicle users looking park away from school.   

   

  In April, Greswold achieved 442nd place nationally for their participation and in May, we attained our highest position of 9th in Solihull.  

   

  Elms came 1st place in the school's competition, followed by Otters and Owls and the following pupils won a bike, scooter or Fit-bit:

   

  KS1 & Early Years' - (1) Hedgehog in Bumblebees, (2) Tree in Bumblebees, (3) Cactus in Otters,

  (4) Balloon in Otters, (5) Mushroom in Owls, (6) Sheep in Badgers, (7) Jigsaw in Nursery.

   

  KS2 - (1) Shell in Sparrows, (2) Giraffe in Elms, (3) Apple in Wrens, (4) Duck in Oaks, (5) Fire in Skylarks, (6) Saturn in Oaks, (7) Whale in Sycamores. 

   

  Over 900 WOW badges were issues to pupils across the school with pupils earning one each month being entered into the prize draw.  The interest in these badges and the success of children using the Travel Tracker has prompted school to introduce the use of the Living Streets Travel Tracker scheme as a whole year initiative starting in September for pupils to take part in if they wish.

   

  Thank you again for working in partnership with Greswold and our local community.  

  

• Another example of our local community offering their support

  Thu 23 Jun 2022

  Recently, a local company called 'Naturally yours by T' donated a number of lovely gifts to school which recognised the efforts of a growing number of 'Young Carer' pupils we currently have. Such a lovely thought by an organisation who recognises the nurturing approach adopted by school and, in particular, our Nest provision who co-ordinated the donation and community link.  The company will also be supporting our Summer Fayre on Saturday 9th July.

  

• And even more sporting success...this time in Tag Rugby!

  Thu 23 Jun 2022

  On Wednesday Year 6 pupils competed in the School Games South Solihull Tag Rugby festival, organised into a Compete team (Team A) and a Develop team (Team B).

   

  Both teams showed resilience, teamwork and determination and won a number of matches. They had the upmost respect for the opposition- shaking their hands and cheering them on whatever the outcome was. Even in the blazing heat, they stayed positive and we're pleased and proud to say that Team A brought home the silver plate trophy meaning they won all matches in the second half!

   

  Both Mrs Clarke Mrs Edmonds were so incredibly proud of them and they represented Greswold fantastically. 

   

  

• A first of many more! Celebrating the diversity of our school and bringing communities together

  Fri 17 Jun 2022

  Tuesday afternoon marked Greswold's first school based workshop for over two years.  It was a wonderful chance to invite parents into school whilst also welcoming families who aren't just new to school but also new to Solihull and the UK.  At Greswold, we're so proud to have so many multi-lingual pupils (Over 30 different languages are spoken by pupils at school) and Mrs Beddow, subject leader of English as a Additional Language, organised a very successful workshop on the theme of 'An introduction to the UK and English school system'. 

   

  We aim for this type of workshop to be the start of many, in bringing different communities together, in order to develop and grow as a whole school and local community going forward.

   

  To access the presentation used by Mrs Beddow, please click on the following link:

   

  https://www.greswold.solihull.sch.uk/multi-lingual-families/ 

   

    

  

• More sporting success....this time in Rounders!

  Fri 17 Jun 2022

  On Tuesday, Greswold's year 6 Rounders team competed in the annual South Solihull School Games' competition and performed incredibly well.  They ended up winning 3 matches and drawing 1 meaning they cam top in their group stage.  However, the team were eventually beaten by Solihull School in the semi-finals.  A marvellous achievement by everyone concerned and another example of Greswold excelling on the sporting stage across South Solihull.

  

• A final farewell from our wonderful year 6 girls' footballers!

  Thu 16 Jun 2022

  On Wednesday, a group of 18 Year 6 girls represented our school in a girls' football cup competition called known as the Football Plate competition.  All matches were short and over very quickly in 8 minutes.

   

  One of our two teams was made up of girls who had never played in a competitive match before, and Mr Wilson warned them that as all the other teams were made up of experienced players, the Greswold team would have to prepare themselves that they may find it very challenging.  However, as the tournament progressed, the girls learned very quickly, getting better and better.  In one match we were just about to celebrate a well earned draw when the ball dribbled over our goal line and the whistle then went.  However, Mr Wilson and Miss Bragg were extremely proud of the way the girls improved match on match and showed excellent teamwork and developing skills.

   

  The other Greswold team was made up of more experienced players.  They did lose a well-contested match 1-0, but drew two other matches 0-0, but then as they grew in confidence, they were delighted to win their final match 3-0.  This is a pretty amazing achievement in 8 minutes.

   

  Mr Wilson has been so proud to see the progress that all the girls have made this year, as well as their positive and enthusiastic attitude every Tuesday during training, and he really hopes that each one of them continues with their football in Year 7.  Good luck girls and we hope to see some of you again as the football stars of the future.

  

• Messy Church returns again for June!

  Mon 13 Jun 2022

  See below for St Helen's Church's latest Messy Church event.