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

• Lots of parental engagement at this week's Y1 and 2 Maths Workshops

  Tue 31 Jan 2023

  Greswold welcomed over 70 parents of pupils in years' 1 and 2 this week, eager to find out more about how Greswold's approach to teaching Maths could be con9tnued at home.  Mr Hobday organised a really productive and purposeful workshop which enabled parents to become more familiar with Maths Mastery.  For anyone who wasn't able to attend, the following links contain each year group's presentation slides which will still enable parents to be aware of how Maths is delivered in KS1.   

   

  Mastering number at home - Year 1 

   

  Mastering number at home - Year 2 

   

  Look out for future workshop opportunities here at Greswold! 

   

   

   

  

• More Greswold success......this time in Maths!

  Mon 30 Jan 2023

  Congratulations to four of our year 5 pupils who competed as a team in the prestigious King Edwards School Maths Challenge 2023, an annual event held by the leading independent school for primary schools across the region. 

   

  The aim of the team was to get through to the final, which they did with flying covers, achieving 1st place by a considerable margin!  We look forward to hearing about the team's achievements in the final and thank you to Mr Hobday, Maths Subject Leader, for providing the children and the school with such a wonderful opportunity. 

  

• Holocaust Memorial Day

  Fri 27 Jan 2023

  Three pupils from Year 6 accompanied Mrs Scott to the Holocaust Memorial Day Service in the Civic Suite at the Council House in Solihull. The programme for the service was inspiring and reflective. Our pupils showed tremendous maturity and respect throughout. 

   

   

  

• Everything football....

  Fri 27 Jan 2023

  The 6th February marks the start of English Schools' Football Week but football fever has already engulfed Greswold this year!

   

  As well as the boys' school football team having an exceptional season so far (another win last night), year 5/6 girls are training for their first match of the season on Tuesday 14th February.  The match is part of a wider football festival taking place at Lode Heath school between 4:45-5:45pm.  A boys' B and C team will also be competing against comparable teams from Dicken's Heath school, something to really look forward to and celebrate.

   

  Yesterday, the boys' A team continued their impressive season with a 3-0 win against Sharman's Cross, a rearranged game from earlier on in the season.  This means their record so far this season reads 4 wins from 5 games with matches against Monkspath and Valley Primary to come.  Their aim is to reach the season ending tournament with the top four teams in the large schools' league competing against each other in a play-off competition to crown the best large school in South Solihull.

   

  During the ESFA football week (or fortnight, in the case of Greswold), football coaching sessions will be taking place at lunchtimes for other year groups as well, with staff and coaches ensuring fair play, sportsmanship and the schools values are always promoted and demonstrated.

  

• A winning start to this year's Sportshall Athletics campaign!

  Wed 25 Jan 2023

  Yesterday, 30 year 5 and 6 pupils took part in the Level 1 qualifying event for this year's School Games Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire Sportshall Athletics competition.  Against nine other schools and with less time to prepare this year, the children did fabulously well and won their event by a margin of 80 points! 

   

  Sportshall Athletics events are made up of 6 track and 6 field events for both boys and girls with pupils only able to compete in two track and two field events in total so it was a real team effort!  Of the 12 boys and girls races, Greswold won 9 of them! 

   

  They now go straight through to the Level 2 event, the South Solihull Area Final in March, to compete against the strongest other large schools for a place in the County Finals.  Plenty of time to practice!  Well done everyone! 

   

  1st - Greswold (462 points)

  2nd - Dicken's Heath (382)

  3rd - Oak Cottage (302)

  4th - Monkspath (290)

  5th - Shirley Heath (274)

  6th - St Patrick's (266)

  7th - Bentley Heath (268)

  8th - Lady Katherine Leveson (136)

  9th= Yew Tree (134)

  9th= St James' (134) 

  

• Happy Lunar New Year!

  Mon 23 Jan 2023

  This morning in KS2 assembly, we raised awareness of and helped to celebrate the arrival of the Lunar New Year, the year of the rabbit, with our children.  We heard from several of our pupils, including Amber and Oscar, both from east Asia, and found out some amazing and interesting facts about the traditions and festivals.  Happy Lunar New Year to all our families at Greswold. 

  

• Y5 and 6 Sportshall Athletics trials conclude. Now the real hard work begins......

  Thu 19 Jan 2023

  The start of the 2023 School Games Sportshall Athletics competition starts next week and the children in years' 5 and 6 have been demonstrating amazing commitment and desire to be part of the competing Greswold team.  In the end, 29 pupils were chosen to represent the school at the qualifying event next week at Tudor Grange Sports' Centre but the final decision was extremely difficult.  The children really pushed themselves to do the best they could which has in turn enabled the chosen team to really exceed even their own expectations. 

   

  As always, thank you to the support of the PTA who always help to fund the extensive array of Sportshall Athletics equipment, helping the children to practise using Reversaboards, Hi-steppers, Speed Bounce mats, Medicine Balls, Foam Javelins and a whole host of other resources, which are the exact same products used at the events, something which has enormously helped previous teams to achieve some amazing results, as you can see below:

   

  Year	Qualifying event	South Solihull Area Final	Coventry, Solihull & Warwickshire County Final
  2023	?	?	?
  2022	1st	1st (only 1st place school goes through to County Final)	2nd
  2021	No event due to Covid	No event due to Covid	No event due to Covid
  2020	1st	2nd	N/A
  2019	1st	1st	1st (Won by 90 points!)
  2018	1st	5th (only half of team available due to class with educational visit)	N/A
  2017	1st	2nd	N/A
  2016	1st	Joint 1st	5th

   

  A you can see, a real team effort from everyone in the Greswold school community! 

   

  

• Dogs Trust Workshops

  Mon 16 Jan 2023

  We had an exciting start to the week as we welcomed Becky and Rolo from the Dogs Trust to teach pupils about safety around dogs. Some of the children (and staff!) had a shock as they walked into assembly this morning and thought that there was a real dog in school! However, on closer inspection, they realised that Rolo was a lovely labrador cuddly toy. Becky and Rolo taught the children how to behave around dogs and also helped them to understand more about how dogs see the world too. Some children have already had their workshops with Becky and some have got them to look forward to. Please ask your child about any top tips they have learnt. 

  

• Attendance Success Continues

  Mon 16 Jan 2023

  We are pleased to celebrate another week of good attendance with Robins maintaining their 100% record for 2023 and Otters very close behind with 99.1%. A special mention goes to our Nursery children who had some of the highest attendance in the school, resulting in them winning the Weekly Attendance Award for the very first time! 

  

• Unprecedented Greswold Basketball success!

  Fri 13 Jan 2023

  This week saw the return of the School Games 3v3 South Solihull Basketball competition, an event in only its second year after being introduced last year to coincide with the Birmingham Commonwealth Games' event of the same format.   This year's event took place at at Tudor Grange Academy.  First up were the year 6 boys on Tuesday who were competing against 11 other schools in a fiercely competitive event which resulted in Greswold actually winning the whole competition.  A fantastic achievement from the boys and thank you to Mrs Rowe and Miss Bragg for helping them to succeed.

   

  It didn't stop there though!  Thursday saw the girls' competition taking place with a year 6 Greswold team up against 8 other schools from around South Solihull and guess what?  They won the whole competition as well.  What an amazing feat for not just one but both school teams to not only play with fairness and teamwork but with desire, ambition and the will to achieve their potential.  All the children involved will receive a certificate and medal. 

   

  What a wonderful way to start the sporting calendar in 2023! Well done everyone.