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

• Y4 impress at Orienteering event

  Wed 25 Jun 2025

  Recently, a team of year four pupils, accompanied by Mr Isles and Miss Pearson attended the School Games Orienteering 'Engage' event at Lode Heath school. 

   

  The team took part in several outdoor activities from orienteering, matching shapes to make a face and following coordinates to move from one place to another.

   

  Our children were an absolute credit to the school; they were polite and well mannered and followed our school values throughout.

  

• Olympic Day has turned into Olympic Week!

  Wed 25 Jun 2025

  Olympic Day is celebrated every year on 23rd June to commemorate the revival of the modern Olympic games in 1894.

   

  https://www.olympics.com/ioc/olympic-day

   

  This was shared in assembly with the children on Monday and Tuesday and children were challenged to stay active and lunchtimes but to try something new, perfectly combining this half term's value of curiosity.   

   

  As you can see, the children fully embraced the Olympic spirit! 

  

• Year 5 score success at annual Chance 2 Shine Cricket festival

  Wed 25 Jun 2025

  After receiving 4 weeks of coaching and several afternoons practising, Year 5 headed to Hampton Cricket club for their Chance to Shine cricket festival.

   

  The children were divided into nine teams and each team played three matches against other local schools, including Olton and St Andrew's.  After a busy day of cricket, in which the majority of children demonstrated our values perfectly, our A team were victorious and won the overall compete award - a huge well done to them! We are waiting to hear if and when the final will be held. 

  

• Year 2 - a perfect example of how we implement our curriculum here at Greswold!

  Wed 25 Jun 2025

  This half term, year 2's Science topic has been minibeasts and their approach to delivering learning has been a perfect example of how to implement our curriculum here at Greswold. 

   

  Not only did they use an educational visit to Brandon Marsh to speak the pupil's engagement and motivation but they've brought wildlife back into the classroom to immerse the children further.  Their butterfly farms are giving the children first hand experience of life cycles with the first butterflies emerging from their chrysalises.

   

  However, the children are continuing to embed their minibeasts knowledge by incorporating the subject into their Design and Technology learning where they have mastered basic sewing techniques to make minibeast finger puppets.  

   

  Well done children, we'll all know where to come if we have any questions about minibeasts (or sewing!!!). 

  

• Greswold finish 3rd at Borough Sports'

  Mon 23 Jun 2025

  It's been another momentous year for athletics here at Greswold.  After impressive performances at the Cross Country event in October and Sportshall Athletics Area Final (2nd place) in March, Greswold were at it again at today's Borough Sports' at Tudor Grange track.

   

  Borough Sports' is an outdoor athletics event which brings together all the primary schools from South Solihull. Each of the chosen 24 pupils (12 boys and 12 girls) have to do a 75m sprint or a 600m run, a Standing Triple Jump or a traditional Long Jump and a soft javelin or shot put throw.  Four additional pupils then take part in boys and girls baton relays.

   

  Our notable successes included:

   

  Gold (Esme) and Silver (Heidi) in the girls' 75m sprint

  Gold (Heidi) and Bronze (Gabrille) in the girls' Standing Triple Jump

  Bronze (Esme) in the girls' Long Jump

  Bronze (Paola) in the girls' Javelin

  Silver (Esme, Heidi, Nikita and Zahra) in the girls' baton relay

  Bronze (James, Billy, James, Isaac) in the boys' baton relay

  Gold (Isaac) in the boys' Standing Triple Jump

  Gold (Billy) in the boys' Long Jump

   

  Overall, Greswold finished the day in a very respectful 3rd place behind Solihull School and Dorridge.  Well done to the all the pupils who represented school so well and special thanks to Mrs Foster and Mrs Bagnall for attending the event. 

   

  Large Schools' Final results:

  (1st) Dorridge - 405 points

  (2nd) Solihull School - 376 

  (3rd) Greswold - 314 

  (4th) Balsall Common - 312

  (5th) Sharman's Cross - 244

  (6th) Monkspath - 162

  (7th) Shirley Heath - 158

  (8th) Olton Primary - 129

   

  St James' won the small school competition and Knowle won the medium schools' competition. 

  

• Y5 excel in Bikeability this week

  Fri 20 Jun 2025

  This week, our Year 5 children have been working with the Bikeability team from Solihull Council on their Level 1 and 2 Bikeability training. They started on Monday by completing Level 1 at school before going on the road for the rest of the week. The children have acted as fantastic ambassadors for Greswold and were able to showcase our BRICKS values, particularly curiosity and independence as they applied the learning from the instructors to become more proficient cyclists.

   

  We are really proud of them all and look forward to seeing who will be completing Level 3 in Year 6.

   

  

• A day of discovery for Y2 pupils!

  Fri 20 Jun 2025

  Year 2 had an exciting educational visit to Brandon Marsh recently, where the children explored nature and discovered the fascinating world of minibeasts.

   

  They enjoyed searching for tiny creatures like beetles, worms, and spiders in their natural habitats and went pond dipping where they found water boatman, dragonfly larvae and even water snails.

   

  The day was filled with fun, hands-on activities that helped the children learn how to care for wildlife and protect animal habitats. From building hedgehog shelters to creating bird seed balls for birds to eat, everyone played a part in supporting the environment. It was a wonderful adventure that sparked curiosity and a love for nature in every child.

• Overcoming fears at Condover Hall!

  Fri 20 Jun 2025

  During the Year 6 residential to Condover Hall, the children tried new things, overcame personal challenges and showed resilience throughout. Whilst some children were a little hesitant to begin with,  with encouragement from staff, they gave it a go and succeeded - what an achievement!

   

  Although they got a little wet on the Thursday, it didn't dampen any spirits - they still managed to make smores at the campfire!

   

  The children were a credit to our school throughout the visit - well done Year 6. Thank you also to the staff who gave up their free time to make the residential such a success.

  

• Y3 become Romans for the day at Lunt Fort!

  Fri 20 Jun 2025

  Year 3 had a fantastic time visiting Lunt Fort last week where they were able to become Roman soldiers for the day: practising battle drills; learning about the life of Roman soldiers; and getting their hands on a range of real Roman artefacts.

   

  They all demonstrated our values extremely well and showed copious amounts of this half term's value of curiosity. 

  

• Nursery visit Attwell Farm to help reinforce their learning

  Fri 20 Jun 2025

  Nursery pupils enjoyed a truly wonderful day at Attwell farm for their annual educational visit.  As part of their ongoing learning about farm animals, the visit provided a valuable opportunity to reinforce and extend the children’s understanding in a real-world setting.

   

  The children were really excited to see a wide variety of animals and thoroughly enjoyed learning interesting facts about each one. In addition to exploring the animals, they also engaged in a range of other enjoyable activities. We are very grateful to our fantastic parent volunteers for their help and support on the day.  A real team effort!