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