Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Greswold Prize Collection
Fri 17 May 2024Today, the first child chose an item from the Greswold Prize Collection after collecting a further 100 housepoints after receiving a gold badge. On offer today were Greswold Gold Badges, special Greswold pencils and BRICKS keyrings. Samar from Sycamores chose a BRICKS keyring. Well done, Samar.
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Never a dull moment here at Greswold - KS2 lunchtime arrangements
Fri 17 May 2024After a number of enquiries from parents with regards to outdoor lunchtime arrangements, below are images of how lunchtimes for junior children are structured.
As parents can see, there is a wide choice of activities to choose from each week and a large free play area where pupils can instigate their own games or use additional equipment, purchased for them by the PTA.
Year 5 and Year 6 boys also enjoy a football club ran by the Football Development Scheme on a Wednesday with girls enjoying the same opportunity on a Friday. However, in the final half term, year 4 girls will be invited to the Friday club too.
We have a sizeable compliment of staff, half of which are Lunchtime Supervisors, supplemented by Play Leaders (members of support staff) who help to instigate games.
The library is also available for children to enjoy some quieter time and this opportunity is hosted by Mrs Mason, our school librarian.
We're always looking at ways to improve our lunchtimes and so School Council will be asking for feedback from classes over the next week or so, in preparation for the final half term of the year.
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Y6 SATs: Pupil and staff effort recognised by visitors
Thu 16 May 2024Congratulations to all of our year 6 pupils this week who have demonstrated our Greswold values with perfection during the annual SATs tests.
The week comprised of six different test papers, all undertaken in very strict test conditions and the children were not only a credit to themselves but also to their teachers, the school and their families.
During the test period, Greswold was visited on two separate occasions by visitors checking on our test arrangements and protocols. On Tuesday, a member of Greswold's governing body observed throughout the morning followed by a senior school improvement adviser from Solihull Authority on the Wednesday. Both were very impressed by the attitude of the pupils and the procedures that were put in place. Comments made during the week included:
'I have high confidence in the integrity observed and displayed by all who were involved in this morning's English Reading test'.
'A well-oiled machine, but not robotic'.
Thank you to our year 6 families who have helped to give the children the best preparation for each morning too, a real combined effort! Roll on July 4th when we can celebrate the children's achievements when the results are available!
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Bringing nature into Greswold - our wonderful Forest School area
Wed 15 May 2024Life and school can be so busy that sometimes it's always good to stop, think, look, reflect and be grateful for what we have around us. Our wonderful Forest School area is a perfect example of that.
Set within our own school grounds next to the KS2 field, the area has been completely transformed overtime into a useable environment, perfect for pupils to explore and learn about nature as well as learning vital outdoor skills.
Mr and Mrs Cooper have been pivotal in evolving it into such a vibrant and immersive area where many different groups of children visit and learn in weekly.
Our aim for next year is to enable every child to experience some learning time in the Forest School area so that they can transfer those valuable skills out of school in their own lives while also valuing nature and the outdoors as a whole.
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Lunchtimes now even better thanks to our fabulous PTA and parent community!
Wed 15 May 2024The field is now open so there's now plenty of space for the children to play a variety of games at lunchtime.
Thanks to the Greswold PTA, lunchtimes have become even more exciting with the purchase of new items to help keep the children active and entertained.
Equipment such as basketballs, cricket stumps, foam bricks, mini-football goals, giant pop up targets, croquet sets, tennis balls, Tug O War and a basketball trainer form the basis of an order of nearly £1,000, all funded by the PTA.
Thank you to our whole school community for generously donating to school through various PTA events to enable school enhancements like this to happen.
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Line marking 'wizardry' comes to Greswold!
Wed 15 May 2024Greswold's ground's maintenance partner Fairways arrived on Monday to start painting the all important summer line markings, in readiness for Sports' Days and PE lessons.
However, this year, instead of manually marking the lines out with paint and a roller, a GPS tracking system was used to map out the school field before a robot was used to finish the job!
Pupils and staff alike were fascinated by the robot who expertly marked out a 200m oval track, a 75m track straight and two rounders pitches.
We wonder if the robot can teach too? ;)
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A memorable Reception visit to Conkers
Mon 13 May 2024The children in Reception were treated to a wonderful educational visit to Conkers last week. For a lot of them, it would have been their first educational visit at school and considering how may children fell asleep on the way back, they must have had a thrilling time!
Activities included a sensory nature trail, a barefoot walk, a train ride, indoor play and an adventure playground.
Thank you to the staff for organising such a immersive and engaging learning experience and a special thank you to those parents who volunteered to attend as visits like this can't happen without the extra support.
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Travel Tracker update - Can we get to 30% engagement?
Fri 10 May 2024Pupils using the Living Streets Travel Trackers were awarded their April badges this week with over 166 being given out. There's still time to gain a badge for April if pupils and parents show they have travelled at least once a week actively to school. Simply follow the instructions on the Sustainable Travel page in Parents to find out how to use the Travel Tracker.
Last month's engagement across the school was 23%, the same percentage as the whole school figure from September 2023 to today!
As a school, can we make that figure creep up to 30% by the end of the July? Greswold is sure we can!
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Let's get moving Greswold.......Street Tag has started!
Thu 09 May 2024Dear Parents/Carers,
Previously, we communicated the launch of the Street Tag competition, an initiative set up by Solihull Council to turn our local area into a virtual playground. Using the Street Tag app, users can record distances, steps and points earned from collecting tags at various locations, which in turn helps the school to climb up the leaderboard rankings, as we compete with other schools in Solihull.
Well the competition which lasts for 8 weeks started on Monday and Greswold are currently in 8th place!
If you've already downloaded the app, please start using it as the scores and points gained by individual pupils is averaged out across the number of users who have downloaded the app, meaning if you have already downloaded it but haven't used it then the school's total points score will be reduced.
The instructions on how to download the app are below in the picture gallery or simply click on the link below to access the toolkit:
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Beware the Anglo-Saxons of Year 5!
Wed 08 May 2024As part of our ongoing commitment to enhance the curriculum offer here at Greswold, Year 5 travelled back in time on Friday to Anglo-Saxon times to help immerse themselves in their new history topic.
A regular visitor to school, The History Guy, led the children through a range of entertaining and memorable activities alongside Greswold staff to explore the time period more. Throughout the course of the day the children became archaeologists and inferred across a range of artefacts from both Anglo-Saxon times and other time periods; dressed up in different costumes based on the time period; shield exploration, creating a shield wall to see how effective it would have been during the time period; and exploring ancient runes.
The children thoroughly enjoyed the day and were able to gain lots of fantastic knowledge amid this amazing experience.
Thank you to our fabulous PTA who helped to fund this curriculum enhancement.
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