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

• All Stars Cricket

  Fri 18 Mar 2022

  Children in Years 1 and Year 2 had a lovely Spring day for an All Stars Cricket taster session. The coach took the children through a number of different activities including throwing, catching, batting and fielding. If you child was inspired and wants to find out more about how to join an All Stars Cricket club, you can visit the ECB website.

  

• Greswold's Active Travel campaign starts next week...

  Mon 14 Mar 2022

  In assembly today, the children from Reception to Year 6 were introduced to Greswold's much anticipated Active Travel campaign due to start next week.  The launch of the campaign coincides with a national challenge called Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel (21st March - 1st April) and and concludes in unison with the Living Streets Walk to School Week from 16th - 20th May 2022. 

   

  Greswold have managed to secure funding through the government's Active Travel Fund meaning the campaign and subsequent active travel challenge will be incentivised in order to engage pupil and families even more.  Every children, including Nursery pupils, can be in a with a chance of winning some wonderful prizes including bicycles, scooters, Smart Activity Tracker watches and WOW badges, if they can actively travel to school on three or more occasions each week. 

   

  Every child will be allocated a symbol to use to log their progress using a specially designed Living Streets website called Travel Tracker.  Those children who achieve the most badges (by actively travelling at least 3 times each week) over seven weeks will be added to a grand draw to win the prizes mentioned above.  Families will be kept up to date with the progress of the campaign and the challenge itself over the duration of the seven week period. 

   

  The following modes of transport will be deemed as being active:

   

  Walking, cycling or scooting all the way to school

  Using a Park & Stride venue (Places are still available at the Hub on Hermitage Road)

  Using the Bus

  Parking outside the 5 minute walking bubble for families who live a distance away from school and walking the rest of the way (Check the Sustainable Travel page in Parents for information about walking bubble). 

   

  For more information on how to actively travel to school, pleaser refer to the Sustainable Travel page in the Parents section of the website.

   

  Look out for other exciting events during the campaign including a visit from Dr Bike, a visit from Strider, the Living Streets mascot and a special Walking Bus event in May.  

   

  Thank you for your anticipated support. 

  

• Nothing short of magnificent...

  Fri 11 Mar 2022

  Once again, the Greswold Sportshall Athletics team treated the audience to another exhilarating and thrilling display of athletic prowess, sportsmanship and teamwork to become the School Games South Solihull Area Winners for 2022.  They were up against 5 other large school finalists all vying for a place in April's County Finals.  However, after winning 5 of 12 track events, the team were able to secure first place with a points tally which was even greater than the previous qualifying event, a very impressive feat indeed.  Thank you to the families who came to support the children from the viewing balcony, you helped to mark a great occasion. 

   

  1st: Greswold - 224 points

  2nd: Dorridge - 208

  3rd: Knowle - 190

  4th: St Alphege - 166

  5th: Shirley Heath - 136

  6th: Monkspath - 104

   

  The Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire County Finals will again take place at North Solihull Sports' Centre on the afternoon of 28th April. 

   

  

• Season ends for the boys' football teams

  Thu 10 Mar 2022

  Thursday marked the final games of the Boys' 'A' & 'B' team league and friendly fixtures for this academic year.  In total, 20 boys represented Greswold really well in the two very hard fought games against Monkspath (league) and Sharman's Cross (friendly).  

   

  The pupils again demonstrated our Greswold values in their teamwork and sportsmanship and were a credit to both the school and their supporting families.  The 'A' team found themselves 3-0 down early in the second half of their league match and managed to pull the game back to 3-2 with a couple of minutes to go, demonstrating their hard work and determination.  They then piled on the pressure to get the equaliser but it was Monkspath who scored the final goal, eventually winning 4-2. 

   

  The 'B' team grafted extremely well in their match and found their confidence in the second half.  Even after falling behind to Sharman's Cross, they never gave up and eventually scored to level the game, the final result being 1-1. 

   

  Well done to all the players who have represented the school teams this year.  You've really given everything you could.  Thank you.  

  

• Science poster competition results

  Tue 01 Mar 2022

  Science is very much a school focus at Greswold this year and in the recent Science poster competition to display our new Science Values, Beatrix in year 6 came 2^nd and Aanya in year 6 came 1st.  They picked a 'Science' book they'd like as a thank you for participating and coming 1^st and 2^nd out of all the entries.  Well done to you both.  The new poster has now been digitised and will be on display on our School website very shortly.