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

• HeadTEAcher Event

  Fri 27 Sep 2024

  After meeting with the house captains two weeks ago, today it was the turn of the school council to meet with Mrs Scott for a drink and chat. She was very impressed with the initial ideas and their commitment to bringing about positive changes at Greswold. 

• Amazing Attendance

  Wed 25 Sep 2024

  Attendance is a key priority for Greswold and I'm pleased to say since we started back our attendance has improved each week. Last week our attendance was 96.86% which is really close to our target of 97% - thank you for your support with this. Last week's winners for EYFS/KS1 were Squirrels with 99.7% We also had a hat-trick in KS2 with Nightingales, Robins and Sycamores all achieving 98.7%. Well done to all our winners. 

  

• Greswold pupils excel in National Young Authors' Fair UK event!

  Wed 18 Sep 2024

  During the summer, Greswold received notification from the National Young Author's Fair UK that several of our pupils excelled in the recent nationwide event we entered into.

   

  Here are the highlights of our achievements:

   

  • Total Registered Students: 58

  • Total Published Authors: 15

  • Number of Books Published: 16

  • Jury Award Winners: 2

  • Top 50 Best Seller Award Winner: 5

  • Rank in Top 20 Schools: 1

   

  A really remarkable achievement by the pupils who entered which culminated in 1st place in the Top Performing Schools category, 6th and 10th in the Jury awards for 'Captivating Jury Award-Winning Stories Penned by Young Authors' and finally 20th, 31st, 38th, 42nd and 40th in the best selling Author awards for 'Top national Best Selling Young Authors' category. 

   

  Thank you to Miss Nock, a member of our English Subject leadership team who organised our participation and a perfect demonstration of Greswold's commitment to promoting reading and writing inside and outside of school and as a lifelong passion. 

   

  

• 'Meet the Teacher' presentations available to view now!

  Wed 18 Sep 2024

  Thank you to all parents who joined us this week  and last week for 'Meet the Teacher' evenings.  We had an overall turnout of 44% of families (58% of EYFS, 46% of Y1-3 and 29% of Y4-6).

   

  If you were unable to join us or if any parent would like the information shared again, the Senior Leader presentation is now available as a recording in our Video Centre on the website or by clicking on the link below:

   

  https://greswold-primary-school.primarysite.media/media/meet-the-teacher-welcome-presentation-by-senior-le

   

  Individual year group presentations and information will be available on year group pages in the Children section of the website by the end of this week.  EYFS pages to follow shortly.  You can also click below for quicker access:

   

  https://www.greswold.solihull.sch.uk/topic/year-groups

  

• Reading never stops here at Greswold!

  Tue 17 Sep 2024

  Even though Greswold children were away from school for six weeks during the summer, it didn't stop them from continuing their love of reading. 

   

  Dozens of children completed the Solihull Summer Reading Challenge where they successfully read at least six books from Solihull libraries and then recall the stories for the benefit of a a librarian to listen to.

   

  They were then awarded with a certificate and a special medal.  Well done to all the children involved in the reading challenge this summer and congratulations to those children who completed it.  

  

• Our PTA funding goals for this year!

  Fri 13 Sep 2024

  In two weeks' time, the PTA Social event on Friday 27th September marks the start of our Greswold PTA fundraising calendar for this academic year.  All funds raised through these events goes to enhancing every Greswold pupils' education further.  

   

  This year, there are a number of projects that school and the PTA have identified as perfect ways to spend the funds raised throughout the year.

   

  Firstly, there are three outside areas next to year 3 which have received extensive ground work over the summer to allow each to be used functionally by staff and pupils.  Each area looks fabulous, with the one outside Robins even having a canopy fitted so it can be used in all weathers.  The aim now is to use PTA funding to purchase furniture and resources to make the spaces interactive, sensory and flexible.

   

  Outside The Nest in upper Key Stage 2 is another location identified for a revamp with PTA help.  Sensory wall maps and fidget walls have already been identified as possible purchases to help make the area a fully sensory and interactive environment. 

   

  Finally, our school library has always been a favourite amongst pupils, staff and parents alike.  However, we feel that it now deserves a bit of tender loving care to ensure the children have a comfy and cosy place fit for purpose to enjoy their reading, and is another project that the PTA intend to get involved with.

   

  With the help of the parental community, these projects can be funded and up and running at the earliest opportunity during this academic year.  Thank you in advance for your generosity and for working in partnership with school and the PTA. 

   

  See you at the PTA Social on Friday 27th September! 

   

   

  

• Mid Autumn Festival

  Fri 13 Sep 2024

  As highlighted in assembly this morning, Greswold would like to wish all who are celebrating the Mid Autumn festival or Mooncake Festival, a happy celebration with families and friends. Particularly celebrated in Hong Kong, it is a harvest festival and is a time for family reunion. Click here for a video with more information. There is a large festival taking place in Touchwood Shopping Centre on the 14th September. Families are welcome to enjoy a free event involving music, food and arts and crafts. Mrs Scott is hoping to try some mooncake and cha.

  

• Another exciting sporting year to look forward to!

  Fri 13 Sep 2024

  Greswold has always enjoyed a very longstanding tradition of actively participating in a range of inter-school sporting competitions each year.

   

  In 2023-24, we were crowned County Champions in Sportshall Athletics, came runners-up to Solihull School in the Borough Sports' event (Our best result so far) and reached the play-off finals in the boys' football league competition.

   

  2/3 of our year 6 pupils represented the school in at least one inter-school sports' event and our aim is to increase that figure this year. 

   

  Below is a calendar of events Greswold will be participating in during this academic year and we are actively looking to increase our participation in other events, including Netball. If anyone in our parent community is aware of any local Netball coaches who might be able to assist Greswold with specialist training, please feel free to contact Mr Hornsey, Mr Isles or Mrs Reilly. 

   

   

  

• Don't forget, the Travel Tracker password has changed!

  Fri 13 Sep 2024

  Our Living Streets' Travel Tracker is already up and running again for this academic year.  All children have been allocated a symbol for 2024-25.  The Travel Tracker is something we, as a school, uses to promote active ways of travelling to and from school with children able to earn rewards by simply travelling once a week in an active manner to school. 

   

  However, it's worth noting that this year's password has changed to:

   

  email-scoff-party

   

  So far, only 7% of our pupil population have started using the Travel Tracker but we're sure that will change when newer parents become aware of it. Our aim is for a third of our school to be using the Travel Tracker, thus travelling actively to school on a daily and weekly basis, by the end of the academic year. 

   

  Well done to Y5 Oaks and Y6 Maples who have already logged their travel over 50 times each! 

   

  All the information you need to start using the Travel Tracker is located on the Sustainable Travel page in the Parents section of the website or by clicking on the link below:

   

  https://www.greswold.solihull.sch.uk/sustainable-travel-at-greswold/

   

   

  

• Over 30 first languages now spoken at Greswold!

  Tue 10 Sep 2024

  At the start of the new academic year, it's wonderful to celebrate that we now have 34 different first languages spoken by pupils here at Greswold.  As well as English, these languages include:

   

                                                           

  Amharic

  Farsi/Persian (Any Other)

  Katchi

  Malayalam

  Norwegian

  Other Language

  Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian

  Sindhi

  Tagalog/Filipino

  French

  Kurdish

  Persian/Farsi

  Sinhala

  Ukrainian

  Albanian/Shqip

  Arabic

  Chinese (Cantonese)

  Russian

  Spanish

  Gujarati

  Kannada

  Marathi

  Bengali

  Panjabi

  Turkish

  Polish

  Telugu

  Hindi

  Tamil

  Chinese

  Urdu