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

• Y3 Sparrows showcase their drumming skills!

  Tue 18 Mar 2025

  This morning, parents of Y3 Sparrows' pupils were treated to a fantastic display of drumming from the class.

   

  The children have been learning percussion skills through the use of Djembe drums and their specialist teacher, Miss Kormann from Solihull Music Service, put together a lovely performance for our visiting parents.

   

  The standard of percussion was so impressive with several parents commenting on how good the children were. 

   

  Well done to everyone involved. 

  

• Happy Holi

  Sat 15 Mar 2025

  Reception enjoyed learning about Holi, the Hindu Spring Festival of Colour.

  We didn't have any powder to throw, but we did have a very colourful afternoon splattering paint and designing our own Rangoli patterns. 

  We would like to wish all our families celebrating, a Happy Holi. 

  

• Learning from each other - school to school!

  Wed 12 Mar 2025

  Yesterday's staff meeting involved all Greswold class teachers collaborating with other class teachers from three different local primary schools.  Greswold hosted Oak Cottage, Burman Infants and Bentley Heath for a special writing moderation session. 

   

  These sorts of sessions are vital in ensuring staff confidence and accuracy when assessing the quality and standard of a child's writing ability.

• Poster competition for British Science Week

  Tue 11 Mar 2025

  This week is British Science Week which was launched in assembly on Monday with the unveiling of the winners from each class for their brilliant Science project work.

   

  Also mentioned in assembly was a special competition which any pupil can enter.  Simply click on the link below for details. 

   

  https://www.britishscienceweek.org/plan-your-activities/poster-competition/

   

  Entries need to be handed into Mrs Foster by Friday March 28th and then the top 5 posters from the whole of school will be entered into the national competition. 

• World Book Day at Greswold!

  Mon 10 Mar 2025

  To end Community Week, Greswold pupils celebrated World Book Day by coming to school in their pyjamas, ready to cosy up with a good book.

   

  In order to appreciate reading within our school community, one of the activities that children took part in was a class buddy book swap where all pupils had the opportunity to read their favourite books with children from other classes.

   

  Also, throughout the day at different intervals, Mrs Scott rang the bell three times which indicated all children had to stop what they were doing and spend 5 minutes enjoying their book.

   

  There was so much excitement and enthusiasm around school - another very successful World Book Day!

  

• Science projects celebrated in assembly

  Mon 10 Mar 2025

  All children from Years' 1-6 were invited to take part in a Science Project competition over February half term. We were hugely impressed by the number of children who brought projects in; they all showed creativity, curiosity and dedication as well as enthusiasm for scientific discovery and problem solving.

   

  Winners were chosen from every class, who all received a special book prize in this week's assembly, when we launched British Science Week.

   

  A further 6 children were chosen, 1 per year group, who went to Tudor Grange Academy on March 5^th to represent Greswold at a Science Fair, amongst other children from local schools.  These children got to present their projects to members of National Grid, who judged each one on various categories. Each child was absolutely incredible, and showed all of Greswold's values. 

  Arjun in year 6 won overall 'best scientific content' for his project based on melting ice and Saathvik in Year 4 won the LKS2 category with his project about environmentally friendly adaptations. 

  

• Community Week celebrates connections!

  Mon 10 Mar 2025

  Last week's Community Week was full to the brim of exciting opportunities!  

   

  From learning about engineering to trying out different types of dancing; from planting seeds and showing that we care about our environment to singing songs and listening to stories in different languages, we were very lucky to have some fantastic and generous volunteers who joined us in school to show us all a wealth of amazing things that we can do. A heartful thank you to everyone who made the connections created last week possible. 

   

  The fabulous children showed all of our values throughout the week and as always, we were very proud of them. What a wonderful way to celebrate our community here at Greswold!

  

• Bookfair grand total unveiled!

  Fri 07 Mar 2025

  Mrs Mason, librarian, would like to confirm that due to the generosity of our families during parent Consultation Week, Greswold has earnt a remarkable £1326 worth of commission from BookFair sales.  This means, school has that amount of money now to spend on new books for the library. 

   

  It's perfect timing as the library is currently undergoing a bit of a facelift with new furniture, funded by our very own PTA, due to be installed very soon! 

• World Book Day helps to launch Greswold's new 'Buddy' system

  Fri 07 Mar 2025

  As part of the World Book day festivities, staff introduced a new 'Buddy' system in school, a way of children mixing more often with other children from different year groups.  Today, sharing books with buddies was the way to introduce the system to the children.

   

  From now on, Y6 and Y3 and Reception will always be buddies as will Y5 and Y2 along with Y4 and Y1.

   

  For the remainder of this year, the buddy classes will be:

  Cedars and Robins and Dragonflies

  Maples and Sparrows and Bumblebees

  Willows and Wrens and Ladybirds

  Oaks and Rabbits

  Elms and Otters

  Sycamores and Badgers

  Skylarks and Owls

  Chaffinches and Squirrels

  Nightingales and Hedgehogs

   

  Th system will be used for a variety of occasions but today's perfect opportunity couldn't be missed! 

  

• Important Travel Tracker update! Please read.

  Fri 07 Mar 2025

  This week, parents received an app message reminding them to complete the Living Streets Travel Tracker for February if they wanted their children to be awarded a WOW badge. 

   

  However, Mr Hornsey was then informed by a couple of parents that some previous weeks can't be accessed anymore.  Indeed, the Travel Tracker now states you can't log journeys for days more than two weeks in the past.

   

  This is something that has been introduced recently without the knowledge of the school.  Therefore, Mr Hornsey has contacted Living Streets to gain clarification and, unfortunately, this is true. 

   

  From now on, pupils and families are only able to log journeys two weeks in the past. 

   

  Therefore, Mr Hornsey will speak with all the children next week and, if they let him know, he will be able to manually award a badge for February even if pupils or their parents can't access previous days anymore. 

   

  Thank you for your understanding.  School will begin systematically reminding parents to log journeys twice a month from now on.  However, older pupils are able to log their own journeys using an Ipad in their classrooms.