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

• Bringing the successful Hometime Harmony campaign to a close...well, nearly!

  Fri 26 May 2023

  Everyone at Greswold Primary would like to thank our whole school community for their patience , understanding and efforts in working in partnership with school and taking the feelings of our pupils on board to make some really successful changes to school life.

   

  As our Hometime Harmony campaign draws to a close, staff are really appreciative of the changes that parents, in particular, have made to their hometime routines, which have culminated in safer and happier Greswold children at the end of the day. 

   

  However, we have decided to continue promoting two of our aims.  'Keeping to the paths is cool as we love our beautiful school' is still very relevant, especially considering the planting and gardening every Greswold child has taken part in recently to celebrate the coronation of our new king. We want to ensure that these wonderful additions to our school site are protected and maintained throughout next term.

   

  Also, 'Please put away your phone, this is a chat and smile zone' is being retained to continue promoting a sense of community on the playground at the end of the day.  Seeing our parent community taking the time to acknowledge and chat with other parents, staff and children is what makes our school such a hub of the community and a unique place to visit.  We would like to continue this aim. 

   

  We also want to acknowledge our wonderfully diverse community further so thank you to the pupils and parents who have offered translations of the two slogans we are keeping.  Below, you'll see the Urdu translation and we've also received Polish, Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Chinese and Arabic versions too.  These will be used to advertise the two remaining slogans for the rest of the academic year. 

   

  Again, a wonderful demonstration of how our school community comes together for the common good!    

   

   

   

  

• Curiosity value challenge

  Thu 25 May 2023

  As a prelude to the value focus of Curiosity for next half term, Mr Hornsey set all the children in KS1 and KS2 a challenge. 

   

  Inventing something is a perfect example of how curiosity can be positively used, with the inventors of  Iphone and the internet then discussed. 

   

  Mr Hornsey then showed the children a number of different everyday items and asked the children to find out how they are all linked?

   

  Look at the inventions on the slide below.  What do they all have in common?

  

• Achievements galore at today's House Point assemblies

  Thu 25 May 2023

  Having high expectations of yourself was the name of the game at today's House Point assembly. 

   

  With only one half term to go this academic year, Mr Hornsey spoke about the importance of everyone maintaining high expectations of themselves and each other to ensure we do the very best we can and achieve our potentials.

   

  We hard from Lizzie from year 3 who competed in the Knowle Fun Run at the weekend and Ezra in Year 5 who contributed a short story to a competition run by Chelsea Football Club and ended up in the top 50!  This means his story will now be printed in a published book.

   

  Sam from Year 6 spoke to use about his upcoming involvement in a national U12 tennis tournament called the Edgbaston Junior Classic.  The year 6 boys' football team all received certificates for competing admirably in the South Solihull Large Schools' league competition while the impressive Sportshall Athletics team were awarded a trophy for their efforts in winning the Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire County Finals.

   

  Owls, Cedars and Bumblebees were also awarded trophies and badges for attaining the best engagement during Walk to School Week and Oaks and Owls were given certificates for the best attendance for the half term. 

   

  St Patrick's are still ahead in the House Point Competition but only just from St David's.  Roll on next term when the value of Curiosity will be the focus.   

  

• Some Friday photos which perfectly demonstrate how wonderfully unique Greswold is!

  Fri 19 May 2023

  After an immensely busy week, which has included a PTA Non-uniform day, Walk to School campaign, Year 2 SATs and two days of Sports' Days, the teachers and children would surely have been forgiven for choosing to have a quieter, more sedate end to the week.

   

  But we're Greswold and we don't tend to think like that..... 

   

  Instead Friday consisted of a wonderful mixture of activities which perfectly demonstrated our Greswold values.  Not only did each year group complete their Educaid Sponsored Walk, raising money for the charity and its education work in Kenya but, whilst that was happening, Year 5 still had their weekly Chance to Shine Cricket lessons from West Warwickshire cricket coaches, practising for their upcoming cricket festival. 

   

  At the same time, year 6 were calm yet creative, working hard on their writing whilst year 2 Otters were busy planting a number of coronation donations.  Children also found time to deliver much anticipated class photo orders to classrooms!  It didn't stop there....school also hosted the West Midlands Fire Service who gave a fire safety presentation to year 4. 

   

  It's never a dull moment here at Greswold! 

  

• Let it grow, let it grow!

  Fri 19 May 2023

  As part of our Coronation festivities, parents may have noticed the emergence of all the plant and flower donations, kindly given by families to help commemorate the king's coronation.  Each class has been busily planting a set of donations around school and the results are easy to spot!

   

  Thank you to Mr Wilson and Miss Mears for organising such a purposeful but memorable activity for the children and a wonderful way to get our school community working together to maintain the beauty of our school environment.  

   

  Parents, please remember the Hometime Harmony slogan, 'Sticking to the paths is cool as we love our beautiful school'. 

  

• Sports' Day Success!

  Thu 18 May 2023

  Thank goodness the weather was good this week as outdoor enjoyment was the aim of the game!  Our annual Sports' Days tied in nicely with Walk to School Week and our charity sponsored walk for Educaid, highlighting Greswold's ongoing promotion of active and healthy lifestyles.  As the weather was very pleasant and not too hot (justifying the reason for bringing the date forward) the children excelled in all the games they participated in, avidly watched by hundreds of family members on each afternoon.

   

  On Wednesday, St Patrick's were winners in a closely fought KS1 and Reception Sports' Day.

  (1st) St Patrick's - 171

  (2nd) St Andrew's - 169

  (3rd) St David's - 155

  (4th) St George's - 141

   

  On Thursday, only 15 points separated all four teams in the KS2 Sports' Day with St David's running out eventual winners.

  (1st) St David's - 266

  (2nd) St Patrick's - 260

  (3rd) St George's - 256

  (4th) St Andrew's - 251

   

  Well done to everyone involved and especially to the staff and organisers, Mr Isles and Miss Bragg, for making it such a memorable occasion for the whole school community. 

   

  

• Greswold staff embracing Walk to School Week

  Tue 16 May 2023

  Today marks the start of national Walk to School Week and, even though Greswold advertises Sustainable Travel all year round, several members of staff still took the opportunity to lead the way in actively travelling to school and ditching the car.

   

  Junior Travel Ambassadors will be out in force this week giving out special stickers to children who have been actively travelling to school so look out for them in their hi-viz jackets from Tuesday.

   

  Please check out the photo gallery below and, in particular, the 5-minute walking bubble around the school site along with the map of public footpaths around the area which may help to encourage families to walk whilst also taking in some lovely views of the local area. 

  

• Greswold celebrates International Day of Families through their non-uniform choices!

  Mon 15 May 2023

  Today's PTA non-uniform day not only helped to raise money for your Greswold PTA and all the hard work they do to raise money for school and curriculum enhancements but it was also a chance to celebrate our school's uniqueness through International day of Families. 

   

  The children could choose to wear clothes which represented an aspect of their family, whether it be a tradition, interest or cultural background.  The children all looked fabulous and again helped to demonstrate just how wonderfully diverse and unique our Greswold school community is. 

   

  Over £300 has been raised so far!

  

• Attendance Success

  Mon 15 May 2023

  We are proud to announce that last week our pupils achieved the highest attendance to date of 2023! Our attendance for the whole school was 96.56%! Thank you for your support with this and we hope that this week will be equally successful, if not better.

  

• Monday's Air Pollution assembly....perfect timing at the start of Walk to School Week

  Mon 15 May 2023

  In our KS2 assembly this morning, Greswold welcomed Annabel from Solihull Sustainable Travel team who spoke to the children about ways of reducing air pollution from vehicles outside the school.

   

  She gave a very stark example using a blown up balloon explaining that the air in 100 of these is the same amount of air pollution generated by a car which leaves its engine on when stationary for just a minute! 

   

  If your children remind you to turn your engines off outside school and anywhere else for that matter, Annabel's air pollution assembly and Walk to School Week will be the reasons for their increased awareness.