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

• Greswold through to Area Final after winning Sportshall Athletics qualifying heat

  Mon 22 Jan 2024

  Today marked the start of the annual School Games Sportshall Athletics competition for Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire schools with Greswold starting very strongly, winning their regional heat. 

   

  The competition involves 12 track and field events for both boys and girls.  These include 1+1 relay, 2+2 relay, 6 Lap Parlauf, 4x1 relay, Obstacle relay and Over and Under relay.  There's also Chest Push, Speed Bounce, Standing Long Jump, Standing Triple Jump, vertical Jump and Soft Javelin in terms of field events. 

   

  Greswold were crowned County Champions in 2023 and this year's team kept up that strong tradition with an excellent performance.  The children were a real credit to Greswold.  In terms of the track events, Greswold won 9 out of 12 events with the girls team winning every single one of their track events. 

   

  The team are now through to the South Solihull Area Final at North Solihull Sports' Centre on Wednesday 6th March, plenty of time for more practise! 

   

  Final result:

  1st - Greswold (722 points)

  2nd - Knowle (708)

  3rd - Dorridge (660)

  4th - Peterbrook (612)

  5th - TG St James' (602)

  6th - Berkswell (568)

  7th - Monkspath (460)  

  

• The new school athletics kit makes a winning start!

  Mon 22 Jan 2024

  The children of Greswold have the school's PTA to be very thankful for after wearing the kit, recently purchased by them, during an event they ended up winning.

   

  The children were very proud to wear the new Craft athletics kit funded by the Greswold PTA which helped spur them on to perform fabulously at the qualifying event for Sportshall Athletics today. The kit will not only be worn for Sportshall Athletics events but for the outdoor Borough athletics event in June and the Y5 and Y6 Cross Country events in September.

   

  The kit comprises of royal blue vests with the school badge on with shorts and skorts.  Thank you to the PTA for helping to make this possible. 

  

• Star Pupils

  Mon 22 Jan 2024

  Our BRICKS value for this half term is Success. Here are some of the reasons pupils were awarded a Star Pupil certificate last week:

  For persevering with Phonics and demonstrating our school value of success.

  For participating fully in whole class discussions and challenging herself to develop new skills during independent learning time.

  For persevering with her English work, even though she can find it challenging.

  For trying your best and persevering when you find something tricky, and taking on challenges with enthusiasm.

  For putting effort into his learning and really thinking about the steps for success. 

  She always comes into school with a fantastic attitude and puts 100% into her learning. She has shown great resilience this week when learning about money and finding different ways to make £1

  For settling into her new school so well and showing a good attitude towards learning.

  For showing excellent resilience even though life can be challenging sometimes. Keep smiling!

  For putting a huge amount of effort into in his learning this week and for immersing himself into our Ancient Egyptian day! His costume was unbelievable and so creative. 

  For persevering in English. He wasn't afraid to start again once checking his work- he set himself a goal and he put so much effort into achieving it.

  For being a highly organised and motivated member of the class, always trying her best with her learning and to support those around her.

  Persevering to always show individual creativity in English; growing resilience to work more independently in Maths. 

  For independence and perseverance in Maths.

  For persevering with his learning tasks, especially when solving mathematical problems.

  For a fantastic effort in maths when we have been doing written methods for division. You showed independence and perseverance, which meant you achieved success! Well done!

• Staggering artwork unveiled courtesy of our budding Greswold artists

  Mon 22 Jan 2024

  Here's a sneak peak of Miss Summer's art competition entries which parents will be able to view at the next round of Parent Consultations soon. 

   

  We're sure families will agree that they are absolutely staggering.  The quality of each piece was immaculate and the creativity of each was also highly impressive. 

   

  Everyone at Greswold are very proud of all of our artists who entered and, no doubt, in future years to come, surely a Greswold ex-pupil will have a piece of work at the National Gallery or Tate Modern! 

   

  Look out for the artwork next time you're in school along the long corridor. 

  

• Helping learning to 'stick'!

  Mon 22 Jan 2024

  A strategy that Greswold employs to help children retain knowledge and store it their long term memories is to demonstrate how all learning is connected and to present using different contexts.   

   

  Within this strategy, school staff use assemblies, classroom, corridor and hall displays, home learning and, most effectively, cross-curricular learning to help give added context and purpose to lessons so that children can visibly see that learning is inter-connected across our entire curriculum. 

   

  Staff are particularly skilled at interweaving common learning threads across a range of subjects so that children can be successful in retaining the breadth of knowledge and understanding set out in the national curriculum. 

   

  In our school halls, you'll see displays which replicate classroom endeavours which highlight the locality of world events as well as where things fit in chronologically. 

   

  Outside the library, the children can choose books which relate to current world events which they encounter in lessons or even at home.  They can then use their curiosity to explore these events and themes even further. 

   

  The wonderful theme days which each year group partakes in (Y6 Stone Age day and Y3 Ancient Egyptian day just last week!) help to immerse the children in their learning and provides a pertinent context to relate further learning to.  

   

  Even simple learning posters and charts at home which children may have up in their bedrooms will help with their ability to retain information and interconnect learning.

   

  Have a look through the picture gallery to see some of these strategies in practice.  Viewing using a laptop will enable you to view the captions.  

  

• Year 6 transported back to the Stone Age!

  Fri 19 Jan 2024

  Year 6 pupils were transported back in time to the Stone Age today as a prelude to their upcoming history curriculum learning.  The immersive day helped the children to visualise what life would have been like to many years ago and will help them with other aspects of their learning such as history, English and Art.  Well done to the staff and to families for making the day even better by donning very authentic costumes!  

  

• Language of the Month for January

  Fri 19 Jan 2024

  Following on from December's sign language of the month is this month's language which is Hungarian.  This is the first time we've had Hungarian as language of the month.  As well as learning some key phrases of Hungarian, could you suggest 5 key facts about Hungary? For starters, what is the capital city of Hungary?   

  

• Impressive 3rd place finish for Greswold's rowing team!

  Fri 19 Jan 2024

  Yesterday evening, Greswold's Y6 Rowing team were involved in South Solihull's annual event at Langley Secondary School. 

   

  After training with Mr Isles (and his personal rowing machine), the children attained really impressive  results finishing 3rd (boys) and 3rd (girls) respectively. 

   

  Thank you to Mr Isles and Mrs Powell who were also in attendance and well done to everyone involved.   

  

• Year 6 visit the Metro bank in Solihull town centre as part of their community partnership work

  Tue 16 Jan 2024

  During the second half of the autumn term, Year 6 had three visits from staff at Metro Bank in Solihull centre.  These visits involved the children learning about savings, what interest is, the difference between debit and credit, what investment is and how to balance an account. 

   

  This week, each class had the opportunity to visit Metro Bank in Solihull and find out what happens inside a real bank. Children got to see how an ATM works, how a bank card is made, how you can take your coins in to be counted and they even got to look inside the bank's vault. They also learned about different roles you could have in a bank.

   

  Pupils really enjoyed the opportunity, behaved impeccably and showed our values throughout.  

  Well done Year 6. We hope the skills you have acquired will be put to good use in the future!

  

• A perfect way to start Year 3's learning on Ancient Egypt

  Mon 15 Jan 2024

  Year 3 pupils took part in an Ancient Egyptian themed day today, helping to immerse them in their new learning for this term.  Well done to the children and their families for taking time to make them look fabulously authentic for their special day.   We're sure such an experience will have fuelled their curiosity so thank you to the year 3 staff for organising such a memorable event.