Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Mesmerizing Year 5 RE learning
Wed 30 Apr 2025Please take some time to view the marvellous Hunger Cloth designs by some of our year 5 pupils, produced during the lead up to the Christian festival of Easter last term.
The pupils had to incorporate all of their learning about the traditions and beliefs of Christians during Lent, Holy Week and Easter to design an image for a blanket, something similar to Hunger Cloths from the middle ages. Hunger Cloths were used as ways to tell the stories contained within the Bible to people who couldn't read.
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Lunchtime football club timetable for summer term released
Wed 30 Apr 2025Year 4 pupils will be invited to take part in lunchtime football club this term. Y4 girls can start straight away on Thursdays while Y4 boys will start their sessions in June.
As the weather is now sunnier and dry (hopefully), children can simply wear their school uniform when participating but will need a pair of trainers. Girls wearing dresses on their day can choose to change or simply wear jogging bottoms over the top if they find it's more comfortable.
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Mr Carnell returns to Greswold!
Tue 29 Apr 2025Today, the children and staff were treated to a visit from an ex-headteacher of Greswold, Mr Carnell.
Originally, Mr Carnell was a class teacher here at Greswold from 1968-1973 and then returned as headteacher from 1988-2006. Today's visit with Linda Maxfield was to inform the children of the important work done by Educaid Africa, a charity in Kenya that supports children in being able to go to school. They showed a video of the school that we will be sponsoring and where all fundraising money will go. It is a charity very close to Greswold's heart.
Letters and sponsorship forms have gone out via Paypal today so please support your child in asking for sponsorship for such an amazing cause.
The Sponsored Great Big Dance Workout will be held on 19th May.
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Greswold designers showcase their work
Fri 11 Apr 2025Year 4 and Year 5 pupils have been focusing on Design and Technology this week, designing and producing products which include pneumatics and cams.
Check out some of the wonderful work below!
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Outdoor adventure for Y4 at Standon Bowers
Thu 10 Apr 2025Last weekend, year 4 pupils and staff spent the weekend at Standon Bowers in Staffordshire, a purpose built location which caters for outdoor and adventurous activities.
Children enjoyed a range of fun activities including archery, low ropes, building shelters, blindfold trail, bridge building and bouldering.
As always, the children were impeccably behaved and demonstrated our Greswold values throughout.
Thank you to everyone involved in organising such a fantastic experience for the children.
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Look out for Greswold sculpture as part of the Solihull Fairtrade Trail
Thu 10 Apr 2025Fairtrade chocolate Easter Egg superheroes created by primary school children will be located in High Street shop windows and The Core in Solihull town centre, to increase awareness of buying Fairtrade chocolate eggs this Easter.
The Solihull Fairtrade Trail opens on Saturday 12 April until Monday 21 April, taking place over the Easter holidays the trail is an ideal activity for children and families.
Greswold's Captain Ego is situated in the Core Theatre cafe.
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Certificates galore at this morning's House Point assemblies!
Wed 09 Apr 2025There were so many successes to celebrate in House Point assembly this morning that we nearly ran out of time!
House Point certificates, attendance certificates, BEAM certificates, Running Club certificates and Maths competition certificates were all given out to worthy recipients.
Well done to Y2 Badgers for having the most improved attendance this half term with an impressive 7.5% increase. However, Y3 Sparrows currently have the best attendance in the school so far this year with 96.5%%.
The House Point challenge was very close this half term with St Andrew's accumulating the most points, helping them to creep closer to the other teams on the leaderboard. St George's have managed to edge back into the lead going into the final term of the school year, but still plenty of points to play for.
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Greswold achieve fully deserved Nurture award
Wed 09 Apr 2025Today, we have been notified that Greswold has achieved the National Nurturing Schools Award (NSSA). This was an award that a number of staff members have been working on for a considerable amount of time and on Friday, teachers, senior leaders and parents were all involved in a virtual assessment which lasted most of the day.
Nurture helps pupils to develop vital social skills, confidence and self-esteem, and become ready to learn. Our inclusive and empathetic approach to everything we do here at Greswold helped us to decide that this type of award was something worth pursuing.
The feedback we received of our presentation and documentation gave the judging panel a really good understanding of our school. They have thanked us for all our hard work.
Well done to everyone involved and to Mrs Sullivan, Mrs Woodcock and Mr Jones for leading the work carried out.
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160 WOW badges given out this week!
Wed 09 Apr 2025The Junior Travel Ambassadors have been very busy this week giving out Travel Tracker WOW badges to 160 pupils who have earnt one for travelling actively in March.
Overall, there were 3546 active journeys logged with only 89 non-active journeys being logged. It's really important for families to still log non-active journeys as it helps school to track our current targets for Sustainable Travel so thank you for your honesty. 98% of all journeys logged were active which is great.
A particular well done to Y6 Willows, Y5 Oaks and Y5 Sycamores where two-thirds of each class are engaging with the Travel Tracker.
Our school aim is for one third of our school community to interact with the Travel Tracker and March's figure was 25%, below the previous two or three months.
Hopefully, the good weather and the initiatives mapped out on our Sustainable Travel page, located in Parents on the website, will help families to ditch the car and push that engagement figure up further.
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Year 5 inform and entertain us all through their Victorian performance
Wed 09 Apr 2025This week, all year 5 pupils have been involved in performing their curriculum production, all about the Victorian Era, to the parent community. These two very impressive performances were preceded by undertaking dress rehearsals for the rest of the school and spending weeks learning the songs and their lines.........and what a performance it was!
Lots of character and personality were on show throughout, with staff working very creatively to adapt some of the scenes for a modern audience and to accommodate current events.
The singing, acting, dancing and teamwork on show was immense and every pupil represented their class, year group, school and family so well. Well done to everyone involved.
