Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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St George's and St Patrick's neck and neck at halfway mark!
Mon 10 Feb 2025This morning's House Point assemblies helped to sum up the schools' hard work around this half term's value of Success.
Helping others to achieve their targets, maintaining a positive attitude, having a go and breaking challenges down into small steps were all themes explored this term in assemblies and Jigsaw lessons.
Mr Hornsey used the story of Miron Muslic, manager of Plymouth Argyle, who beat Liverpool in the FA Cup this weekend, as an inspiration for looking at what success actually means.
Muslic was a refugee at the age of nine, fleeing war torn Bosnia to travel to a new home. The children realised that for Muslic, success wasn't beating Liverpool but was the culmination of years of overcoming challenges to get where he is today, thus emphasising small steps and retaining a positive attitude.
The story is not too dissimilar to a number of pupils and their families we currently have here at Greswold.
On other matters, well done to Y4 Nightingales and Y5 Oaks who achieved the best attendance for this half term and a special well done to Y1 Owls who achieved the most improved attendance this half term.
In terms of this year's House Point Leaderboard, both St George's and St Patrick's have scored 137 points so far, followed by St David's and St Andrew's. However, we are only at the halfway point of the year so still plenty of time for things to change.
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Greswold celebrates Number Day 2025!
Mon 10 Feb 2025Maths subject leaders, Mr Hobday and Miss Mears, helped kick of our NSPCC Maths Day celebrations with a special assembly this morning which highlighted the importance of Maths in our everyday lives.
The children then took part in a variety of Maths related activities throughout the morning, most of which adopted cross-curricular themes, helped to embed the fact that Maths is visible in all areas of our lives.
Well done to pupils, families and staff alike for making a real effort to promote the day with their wonderful Maths related costumes!
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Any excuse to dress up! Greswold staff embrace Number Day
Mon 10 Feb 2025It wasn't just the children who joined in with the fun of Number Day 2025. As you can see, the staff really threw themselves into the occasion!
Now you can see where the children get their creativity from here at Greswold. Well done to all the staff for making the day so enjoyable.
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Parent Pay letter summary
Fri 07 Feb 2025Dear Parents and Carers,
Below is a summary of Greswold's expectations, which were detailed in the Parent Pay letter about parking you received on Friday 7th February.
- Only Year 6 pupils with permission can walk into school by themselves.
- Parking or dropping off on yellow zig-zag lines is illegal.
- Please don't park or drop off on double yellow lines either.
- Park in permitted areas around school, e.g. Ferndown Road, further up Buryfield Road, Park & Stride venues, etc.
- Please display Blue Badges when parking in the spaces provided directly outside school. Drivers who aren't Blue Badge holders should NOT use those spaces.
- Please don't make three-point turns directly outside school as pedestrians are close by and it interrupts the flow of traffic.
- Parents accessing Greswold Greyhounds should NOT use the staff car park before or after school. Please park outside the KS1 pedestrian gates.
- Parents collecting children from Gymnastics, Dance, COL, Tennis and Language clubs as well as choir should NOT use the staff car park. This includes any other extra-curricular club directly following the school day. Please park in allocated spaces off school site. This is to avoid any unnecessary accidents and to allow pupils and families greater safety when leaving the school site.
- Please promote our School values of Belonging and Respect when travelling to and from school.
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Helping others to achieve their goals!
Fri 07 Feb 2025In this morning's Star Pupil and Number Day assembly, the children got a chance to see how achievements outside of school still mirror the same messages and values that we promote in school. Isla, in year 6, shared her cricket trophy with us today which had been awarded to her for being the most improved player at her cricket club, Knowle and Dorridge.
Our theme for this week was helping others to achieve their goals and targets which meant this was a perfect example of how other people, like coaches, family and teammates, had all contributed to Isla's success, as well as her own determination, of course. Well done Isla, we're all very proud of you.
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Science Home Learning Project
Fri 07 Feb 2025The children of Greswold are being given a fantastic opportunity to be part of an exciting SCIENCE COMPETITION, run by Enthuse, the Solihull Schools’ Science Collaborative. This is an inter-school competition, the purpose of which is to raise ALL children’s awareness of Science as not just a purposeful and fascinating area of the curriculum but also as great fun while also celebrating upcoming British Science Week.
Pupils will all be invited to participate by investigating and recording their own SCIENCE PROJECT, either by themselves or with help from a family member.
The deadline for entries is Tuesday February 25th.
Their entry could be an experiment to answer a question, a problem and solution, or a research project. We would like their project to link to this year’s Science Week theme of ADAPT AND CHANGE (There will be inspiration and ideas on the website in due course).
The project can be displayed in any way, but please no PowerPoints. If children need a piece of A3 card to present on, they can ask their teacher for this.
Children are expected to bring their completed projects to school on the morning of Tuesday 26th February for judging. The classes will have the opportunity to view the projects during the day. Winners will be chosen from each class and will receive a special prize. Every entry will receive a sticker and house points.
Furthermore, a successful winner from each year group will then have the opportunity to attend a special Science Day at Tudor Grange Academy on Wednesday March 5th, where they will share their projects with other schools and take part in some fun Science themed activities.
We cannot wait to see all the exciting ideas the children come up with.
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New lunchtime football club timetable for Years' 5 and 6 pupils
Fri 07 Feb 2025From next week, there will be a slight adjustment to lunchtime football club for year 5 and year 6 pupils.
Girls' football club will now be on a Thursday, not a Friday. Boys' football club will remain on a Wednesday, but due to high numbers, year 5 and 6 will be alternated. Please see the timetable in the gallery below for dates. The timetable will also be display on the school sports' board for pupils to see.
In terms of clothing, if children have PE on the day of their club, they can simply wear their school PE kit with a change of trainers if it's muddy.
If children don't have PE on the day of their club, they will need trainers and possibly jogging bottoms, depending on what uniform they're wearing on that day, e.g. skirt, dress, etc.
In a few weeks time, we will be celebrating English Schools' Football Week which means additional year groups will get the opportunity to take part as well, so look out for future communications!
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Travel Tracker - Greswold hit the 30% engagement mark for January!
Fri 07 Feb 2025For the first time since introducing the Living Streets Travel Tracker five years ago, 30% of the pupil population are now regularly using it.
Results for January show that 3,952 journeys were logged with 97% of these deemed active. Today, the Junior Travel Ambassadors will be giving out nearly 200 WOW badges to children across the school. However, don't worry if you've forgotten to log your children's journeys as you can still go back and fill in the blank days. Your child will then receive their badge.
Well done Greswold, that's nearly a third of our school dedicating their time to Sustainable Travel. Next stop 50%!
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Important message about pupils' water bottles
Thu 06 Feb 2025Dear Parents and Carers,
Over the past few weeks, an increasing number of pupils are using a make of large water bottle in school which is beginning to pose problems for class teachers and pupils alike.
The Stanley water bottles, or versions of these, can hold up to 1 litre of water, which is great for hydration purposes but not for storage and everyday use in busy classrooms. The size of the bottles is an issue due to not having enough space on desks or in other storage devices currently utilised by class teachers.
However, the bigger problem is that they’re not particularly water tight and when one of these bottles accidentally spills, the amount of water to clear up inevitably interrupts lessons for teachers and pupils alike.
Therefore, Greswold would prefer these large water bottles to remain at home from now on and be replaced with ones which hold around 500ml (1/2litre) of water or less. We would like to reassure parents that all children can fill up their bottles once they’re empty using one of the available water coolers around school. Also, we understand that it might take a few days to replace existing bottles if necessary.
Thank you for your understanding on this matter.
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Language of the Month for February
Wed 05 Feb 2025This month's Language of the Month is Albanian. Language of the Month celebrates our multicultural community here at Greswold and helps to promote our value of Belonging. With over 30 first languages spoken by pupils, other than English, here at Greswold, we are one of the most diverse schools in Solihull.
