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

• School Closure Home Learning

  Mon 23 Mar 2020

  Greswold staff have been busily preparing home learning activities for pupils initially for the next two weeks.  You can access these via our website through Children/Year Groups.  All year groups' planning should be available by 9:00am on Tuesday 24th March.  Thank you.  

• School Closure update

  Fri 20 Mar 2020

  Dear Parent / Guardian,

   

  In response to recent government directives, I wish to make the following clear in relation to Greswold:

   

  From Monday 23rd March, Greswold, including Greyhounds, will be closed to the vast majority of pupils.

   

  From Monday 23rd March, Greswold will offer care to:

  
  •    our children who have an EHCP  
  or 
  •    have an attached social worker 
  or 
  where parents are critical workers and cannot provide their own safe care for their children. Please see below for the current definition of a critical worker.

  
  From Monday 23rd March, the care that can be provided for children of critical workers or those with EHCP/social worker will be between 8.30am and 4pm only. Parents will need to provide the children with a full packed lunch including drinks. Children will not be required to wear school uniform.  It is intended to continue this care during the Easter holidays but not including Good Friday or Easter Monday.

   

  In order for us to plan for Monday 23rd March and beyond, it is essential that parents who are identifying as critical workers inform us if they cannot provide their own safe care to their children by email 25office@greswold.solihull.sch.uk or phone 0121 705 4738 by 12pm today. If you notified us yesterday, please do so again so we have one updated list.

   

   

  The current definition of a critical workers includes:

   

  Health and Social Care - This includes but is not limited to doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, social workers, care workers, and other frontline health and social care staff including volunteers; the support and specialist staff required to maintain the UK’s health and social care sector; those working as part of the health and social care supply chain, including producers and distributers of medicines and medical and personal protective equipment.

   

  Education and Childcare - This includes nursery and teaching staff, social workers and those specialist education professionals who must remain active during the COVID-19 response to deliver this approach.

   

  Key public services - This includes those essential to the running of the justice system, religious staff, charities and workers delivering key frontline services, those responsible for the management of the deceased, and journalists and broadcasters who are providing public service broadcasting.

  Local and national government - This only includes those administrative occupations essential to the effective delivery of the COVID-19 response or delivering essential public services such as the payment of benefits, including in government agencies and arms length bodies.

   

  Food and other necessary goods - This includes those involved in food production, processing, distribution, sale and delivery as well as those essential to the provision of other key goods (for example hygienic and veterinary medicines).

   

  Public safety and national security - This includes police and support staff, Ministry of Defence civilians, contractor and armed forces personnel (those critical to the delivery of key defence and national security outputs and essential to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic), fire and rescue service employees (including support staff), National Crime Agency staff, those maintaining border security, prison and probation staff and other national security roles, including those overseas.

  Transport - This includes those who will keep the air, water, road and rail passenger and freight transport modes operating during the COVID-19 response, including those working on transport systems through which supply chains pass.

   

  Utilities, communication and financial services - This includes staff needed for essential financial services provision (including but not limited to workers in banks, building societies and financial market infrastructure), the oil, gas, electricity and water sectors (including sewerage), information technology and data infrastructure sector and primary industry supplies to continue during the COVID-19 response, as well as key staff working in the civil nuclear, chemicals, telecommunications (including but not limited to network operations, field engineering, call centre staff, IT and data infrastructure, 999 and 111 critical services), postal services and delivery, payments providers and waste disposal sectors.

  
  We will continue to communicate with you regarding any updates or necessary changes. Please follow government guidance on social distancing and self-isolation. I know that you appreciate that keeping school open for identified pupils is reliant on our own dedicated staff being able to work. Thank you for your continued support.

   

  Karen Scott
  Headteacher
   

• All Stars Cricket taster sessions

  Thu 05 Mar 2020

  This week children in Reception, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3 are enjoying taster sessions run by All Stars Cricket. Each class will get to try out different cricketing activities including fielding and batting skills. A letter will be send home with each pupil should they like to continue to develop these skills and have fun playing cricket at an All Stars Cricket club.

   

  There is more information about All Stars Cricket on the ECB website.

  

• World Book Day Celebrations

  Wed 04 Mar 2020
  Corridors and Classrooms around Greswold were brimming with colour and character today as the school community celebrated reading, books and World Book Day. Well done to everyone and we hope you enjoyed the celebrations as much as we have.

  

• Year 4 friendly football competition

  Tue 03 Mar 2020

  A team of children from Year 4 took part in a friendly football competition at Olton and West Warwickshire. The mixed team played 4 matches against other local schools. There were lots of goals and the children won some o their matches. Overall, an enjoyable evening. Well done to the team for representating Greswold so well and encouraging each other.

  

• Fantastic Sportshall Athletics Area Final performance

  Mon 02 Mar 2020

  A fantastic performance by the Year 5/6 Sportshall Athletics team resulted in a 2nd place finish at the Area Final at North Solihull Sports' Centre on 28th February.  Roared on by wonderful support, as always, from our travelling families, Greswold performed admirably across 12 track and field events, winning several of them.  Well done children.  Everyone at Greswold is very proud of your achievement. 

  Final standings:

  1st (298 points) Knowle

  2nd (272 points) Greswold

  3rd (252 points) Dorridge

  4th (222 points) St Alphege

  5th (206 points) Shirley Heath

  6th (184 points) Berkswell

  7th (182 points) Sharman's Cross

  8th (152 points) Langley

  

• Sam Oldham visits Greswold

  Thu 27 Feb 2020

  Olympic gymnast Sam Oldham visited Greswold to lead a sponsored fitness circuit with all pupils. Each year group got to join Sam in the hall and complete different exercises, with the aim to inspire our pupils to be more active. At the end of the day, the school came together with for a special assembly in which Sam demonstrated some gymnastic skills and answered questions. 

   

  Each child has also taken home a sponsorship form to help raise money for the event. Money raised from the sponsorship will be used to improve physical activity for our school, while also supporting Team GB athletes. Many thanks to everyone who is able to support the event through sponsorship and to Sam for visiting Greswold.

  

• Year 2 Gymnastics success

  Thu 13 Feb 2020
  We are extremely proud of our Year 2 gymnastics team who represented our school at a competition at Lode Heath on Tuesday. They all performed their routines confidently and with great control. The results were shared with us this afternoon and we are extremely pleased to announce that our two teams came 1st and 3rd out of 19 teams that participated. All the practice definitely paid off! Some of these children will now get the chance to represent South Solihull at the Coventry South Warwickshire County School Games Gymnastics Finals in March. How exciting!

  

• Sportshall Athletics qualifying competition success

  Thu 06 Feb 2020

  It was another impressive start to the 2020 Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire Sportshall Athletics Competition by Greswold, represented by a combination of year 5 and 6 pupils.  After winning 7 out of the 12 track events, Greswold finished heat winners by an impressive 30 points and are now through to the South Solihull Area Final being held at North Solihull Sports' Centre on the 28th February.

  Finals results: 1st - Greswold (249 points), 2nd - Dorridge (219 points), 3rd - St Alphege (194 points), 4th - Dicekn's Heath (140 points), 5th - Haslucks Green (122 points), 6th - Coppice (94 points). 

  

• Year 5 visit to Blists Hill

  Wed 05 Feb 2020
  Pupils from Year 5 stepped back in time to the Victorian era when they visited Blists Hill in Telford. The children got to experience what life would have been like back in the 1800s. After dressing up in suitable clothing, it was off to school where the lessons were rather different to today. There was certainly less technology available to pupils back then!