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

• Outdoor adventure for Y4 at Standon Bowers

  Thu 10 Apr 2025

  Last 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. 

  

• Look out for Greswold sculpture as part of the Solihull Fairtrade Trail

  Thu 10 Apr 2025

  Fairtrade 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. 

  

• Certificates galore at this morning's House Point assemblies!

  Wed 09 Apr 2025

  There 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. 

  

• Greswold achieve fully deserved Nurture award

  Wed 09 Apr 2025

  Today, 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. 

   

   

• 160 WOW badges given out this week!

  Wed 09 Apr 2025

  The 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. 

   

   

  

• Year 5 inform and entertain us all through their Victorian performance

  Wed 09 Apr 2025

  This 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. 

  

• An early Easter present from the Renewal Church

  Tue 08 Apr 2025

  Yesterday, Dean and Beth from the Christian Renewal Church visited Greswold to take a Y1-6 assembly about the Christian festival of Easter.  Not only that, but they brought a present with them too! 

   

  Through donations from their church, they were able to provide a chocolate Easter Egg to every single pupil in school, that's nearly 700 eggs!  What a generous donation from our local community.  Thank you for working in partnership with our school. 

   

   

  

• Language of the month for April

  Tue 08 Apr 2025

  This month's language of the month is Urdu. We have over 30 pupils in school who can speak Urdu and, after English, is Greswold's most popular first language.  Thank you to our Language Leaders who have designed such an attractive and informative poster.

  

• Greswold in action - English Schools' Football Week

  Fri 04 Apr 2025

  As part of English Schools' Football Week last week, families were invited to share photos of Greswold pupils playing football out of school hours.  

   

  Here at Greswold, we always like to celebrate the interests and achievements of our pupils in and out of school so it's a pleasure to present our wonderful children doing what they like to do best! 

   

  We also held a writing competition to see who could create a Greswold chant.  This is Bryar's marvellous attempt:

   

  Greswold, Greswold, hear us cheer,

  We're the school that has no fear!

  Kick it, pass it up the field,

  We're the champions, never yield!

   

  Greswold, Greswold, watch us go,

  We're the best and we will show!

  Blue and white, we're full of might,

  Victory's ours, we'll fight, fight, fight! 

   

• Year 1 step back in time by visiting Warwick Castle!

  Fri 04 Apr 2025

  On Tuesday, Year 1 visited Warwick Castle as part of their History, English and D&T learning, and what a fabulous day they had too!

   

  They visited the Conquerors' Fortress, the Kingmaker exhibition, the tower and its ramparts, the Great Hall and even watch an impressive falconry show. 

   

  They also got the chance to explore Zogland (linked to their English lessons) and the Horrible Histories Maze. 

   

  Thank you to the staff for organising such a memorable and relevant experience and thank you to the parent volunteers who also attended.  Without this additional help, it would have been near impossible to arrange such a fabulous visit, so thank you again.