Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Boys' school football team complete their league fixtures for this season
Fri 07 Mar 2025On Thursday, at Solihull Moors, the boys' school football team completed their league season fixtures with matches against Langley and Monkspath.
Two very good performances by the team weren't necessarily reflected in the final score lines with the opposition schools winning 2-0 and 1-0.
It was a shame for the boys as they deserved better from each game but that's football for you! However, the boys who have represented the school this year have been an absolute pleasure to manage and have been a credit to their peers, their families and the whole school community.
Thank you to the parents who have supported this year too.
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Dates for the Diary
Thu 06 Mar 202510th – 14th March – British Science Week
19th & 20th March – Y1 LEGO Workshops
21st March – Comic Relief – Crazy Hair Day
24th & 28th March – Mother’s Day Gift Shops
25th – 28th March – Y6 Level 3 Bikeability
26th March – PTA Meeting (Spring)
28th March – Y5 Journey to the Stable
31st March – 3rd April – Y6 Practise SATS
31st March - English Schools' Football Week
1st April – Y1 Visit to Warwick Castle
1st & 2nd April – Y2 Production
4th – 6th April – Y4 Residential to Standon Bowers
8th & 9th April – Y5 Performance
11th April – Last Day of Spring Term!
14th – 26th April – EASTER Holidays
28th April – Back to School
5th May – Early May Bank Holiday – SCHOOL CLOSED
9th May – Reception trip to Dudley Zoo
12th – 15th May – Y6 SATS Week
15th May – Nursery PM Sports Day
16th May – Class Photo Day
19th – 23rd May – Walk to School Week
19th May – Greswold Great Big Work Out
20th May – Nursery AM Sports Day
21st May – KS1 & Reception Sports Day
22nd May – KS2 Sports Day
26th – 30th May – HALF TERM
2nd June – Nursery AM Class Photo
2nd – 5th June – Y4 Multiplication Check Week
4th June - PTA Meeting (Summer)
4th & 5th June – Y2 Visits to Brandon Marsh
6th & 9th June – Y3 Visits to Lunt Fort
9th – 13th June – Y1 Phonics Screening Week
9th – 13th June – Carers Week
9th & 13th June – Father’s Day Gift Shops
11th – 13th June – Y6 Residential to Condover Hall
12th June – Y5 Anglo-Saxon Day
16th – 20th June – Y5 Bikeability
17th June – The Great Science Share
18th June – Nursery visit to Attwell Farm
19th June – Y5 & 6 Rounders Tournament
20th June – Open Afternoon & PTA Ice Cream Sale
23rd June – Reception & Nursery Open Evening (Sept 25 intake)
5th July – PTA Summer Fayre
9th July – Volunteer ‘Thank You’ tea
15th July – Y6 Production at Bushell Hall
18th July – Y6 Leavers Assembly
18th July – Final day of Summer Term!
21st July – INSET Day – School Closed to Pupils
22nd July – 29th August – SUMMER HOLIDAYS
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Parent / Carer Forum includes a tour of the school!
Thu 06 Mar 2025Monday's Parent / Carer Forum included an extensive tour of the inside of the whole school. This was to enable parents to become more aware about how Greswold operates on a daily basis as well as seeing the journey of pupils from Nursery all the way up to year 6, e.g. 3 years old to 11.
Parents were able to visit The Nest, Year 5 Sycamores, The Cabin, Year 6 Willows, Year 4 Skylarks, Year 3 Wrens, The Den, the Blue Room, the library, Year 2 Rabbits, Year 1 Hedgehogs, the Studio, the Nursery and Reception Dragonflies.
We hope the tour was enlightening and we look forward to our next Parent / Carer Forum which will also include a short tour of our school but this time focusing on the outside and outdoor learning areas.
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Polish is Language of the Month for March
Thu 06 Mar 2025This month's Language of the Month is Polish.
Other than English, Polish is one of the most common first languages spoken by children here at Greswold. 8 pupils across the school are able to speak Polish. The most common language, other than English, spoken across the school is Urdu with 32 pupils able to speak the language, followed by Cantonese with 23 speakers. Look below for just how lucky we are, as a school and community, to have so many children able to speak so many different languages.
Urdu - 32 speakers
Chinese/Cantonese - 23
Tamil - 17
Telugu 17
Hindi - 14
Polish - 8
Chinese - 8
Bengali - 7
Turkish - 6
Panjabi - 5
Albanian - 5
Arabic - 5
Gujarati - 5
Kannada - 5
Spanish - 3
Russian - 3
Marathi - 3
Ukrainian - 3
Farsi/Persian - 3
plus 12 other languages
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High praise for Greswold from local secondary school!
Thu 06 Mar 2025Recently, two teachers from Lode Heath Secondary School spent a day each with year 6 as part of their Early Career Teacher programme. They spent their time here with Year 6 Willows and this week, one of them kindly sent a thank you message to Mrs Foster, the class teacher,
'Once again, thank you so much for letting me into your Year 6 classroom before half term. The children were beyond exceptional, from their manners to their hard work, I was thoroughly impressed with all of them, especially the two students who gave me an excellent tour of the school. During the tour, it was very obvious that they were proud and confident members of Greswold. I really hope I get to teach many of them next year!'
We do pride ourselves as being a school that is very much a hub of the community, forging links with other schools and organisations and helping people to develop their experiences. However, to receive a lovely response like this is wonderful to hear and perfectly demonstrates what we already know about our exceptional Greswold pupils.
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Greswold achieves 2nd place in South Solihull Area Finals for Sportshall Athletics
Wed 05 Mar 2025This morning, 28 year 5 and year 6 pupils took part in the Level 2 School Games Sportshall Athletics competition. Today's event was the South Solihull Area Final which followed the qualifying event which took place in January.
The event brings together all the leading schools from South Solihull with only the best school going through to the Level 3 County Finals.
An enthralling competition culminated in Greswold winning several of the events but just missing out on that all important top spot. However, their 2nd place finish out of the 8 schools who made it to the final, typified the commitment, athleticism and teamwork all the pupils have shown over the course of the competition.
Thank you to the parents who came along to offer their support and well done to the children. You're all a credit to your classes, your families and the whole school community.
Final standings:
1st - Knowle (330 points)
2nd - Greswold (294pts)
3rd - Balsall Common (260pts)
4th - Dorridge - (230 pts)
5th - Oak Cottage (196 pts)
6th - Sharman's Cross (160 pts)
7th - St Patrick's (138pts)
8th - Bentley Heath (136 pts)
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WOW badge art competition winners unveiled
Mon 03 Mar 2025In this morning's KS2 assembly, Mr Hornsey unveiled the 3 winning WOW badge art competition entries. The three winners' designs have already been sent off to Living Streets to hopefully be chosen as a winning design to be turned into an official WOW badge for 2025-26.
There were over 60 entries in total which were whittled down to 15 semi-finalists and then 6 finalists by Mr Hornsey and Miss Summers (Art & Design Subject Leader). The three winning entries were then carefully chosen by our team of Junior Travel Ambassadors.
Well done to Chekah, Emaan and Sophia for having their designs chosen to be entered into the national competition and thank you to all the pupils who entered, Your efforts were really appreciated and wonderfully designed.
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Language Calligrams
Mon 03 Mar 2025Prizes were awarded in assembly for the winners of Primary Calligram Celebration 2025 in conjunction with the Association for Language Learning. Miss Smart, Greswold's MFL leader, had the very difficult task of selecting 3 entries per age group to receive a prize and have the chance of their calligram being included in a published book in the future.
Well done to Jad, Vaankia and Faryl in the 7-9 age category whose language was French.
Well done to Eliza, Dhira and Devaansh in the 9-11 age category whose language was Spanish.
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Project Linus provides two quilts
Mon 03 Mar 2025Project Linus UK is part of a worldwide organisation of volunteers that make homemade quilts for children who are in need or distress. Local co-ordinator, Tina, recently provided two quilts for a family at Greswold. Once a quilt is given to a child it is theirs for keeps! Thank you to Tina and Project Linus.
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Year 5 go back in time to the Victorian era!
Fri 28 Feb 2025As part of their learning on the Victorian times, all year 5 pupils and staff visited Blist Hills on Thursday.
Blist Hills Victorian Town is an open-air museum located in Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire. The museum recreates the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian Shropshire town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
As you can see from the photos, the children truly experienced life in Victorian times for a child, including an actual school lesson!
A wonderfully immersive experience for all the children and something which we're sure will live long in their memories and help them with their future learning.
