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

• 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

  

• Free family courses for parents of children in Early Years and KS1

  Tue 10 Sep 2024

  This flyer has been shared with us by Solihull College and University centre and is aimed at families of children between 3-7 years of age.  Feel free to apply. 

  

• Translating, 翻譯, ترجمہ, மொழிபெயர்ப்பது, అనువదించడం, tłumaczenie, अनुवाद करना, çeviri

  Mon 09 Sep 2024

  Within our Communication at Greswold page in the Parents section of our school website, instructions on how to translate information has been made clearer.  Currently, families are able to translate school App messages from TheSchoolApp and information from our school website.  Instructions about how to do this are at the end of the page and can be accessed quickly by simply clicking on the link below:

   

  https://www.greswold.solihull.sch.uk/communication-at-greswold/

   

    

  

• Guidance from the Solihull Sustainable Travel team for families of new school starters

  Mon 09 Sep 2024

  Greswold has received information from the Solihull Sustainable Travel team to help families with children starting school for the first time or for children starting a new year at school. 

   

  The link below contains information entitled 'Starting school with small steps' and contains support, ideas and helpful hints on how to make travelling to school a positive experience.

   

  https://www.solihull.gov.uk/Roads-pavements-and-streetcare/small-steps

   

  On the subject of sustainable travel, for information on the initiatives Greswold adopt to promote active journeys to school and to help alleviate traffic congestion, please click on the link below: 

   

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

   

   

  

• A thank you from the Mayor of Solihull

  Fri 06 Sep 2024

  Greswold today received a very thoughtful thank you card from the Mayor of Solihull, Councillor Shahin Ashraf MBE.  We were very fortunate to host Councillor Ashraf at our year 6 leavers' assembly back in July where she gave a short speech afterwards, and it seems she very much enjoyed the pupils' performance. 

  

• A positive start to a new school year, helped by coffee and biscuits!

  Thu 05 Sep 2024

  It's been a really positive start to the new academic year here at Greswold.  The children look very smart and the atmosphere around school has been lovely.  

   

  For parents of Reception children, the start of their school journey can be a very anxious one to begin with, for both pupils and parents, and is the reason why a special coffee morning was arranged this morning for parents to attend after drop-off. 

   

  This enabled parents to meet with other parents of Reception children as well as Greswold senior leaders.  The feedback from parents was very positive and Greswold will be looking into arranging further coffee mornings, for other year groups too, in the future. 

  

• Training and welcoming new staff mark the start of a new academic year

  Mon 02 Sep 2024

  Today marked the start of the new academic year and the whole staff team including lunchtime supervisors undertook a range of training activities in readiness to welcoming the children back on Wednesday.

   

  Safeguarding along with Anaphylaxis training were the main subjects of the day as well as welcoming new members of staff.  Tuesday involved training on EDI (Equity, Diversity & Inclusion) covering Breaking down bias in Capitalising on Culture. 

   

  A warm welcome to Miss Ballard (Y4), Miss Smart (Y3), Miss Pearson (PPA cover), Mrs Murphy (SENDCo) and Miss Javaid (Y1) who joined the staff team today.