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

• Sportshall Athletics season starts today for the pupils in upper key stage 2!

  Mon 15 Jan 2024

  Last week, Year 5 and 6 pupils were visited by Zoe and Eddie from Specialising in Sport who delivered their annual Sportshall Athletics Roadshow, an event which acts as a prelude to the children's PE lessons this half term as well as the School Games Sportshall Athletics competition, in which Greswold are current Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire County Champions.  

   

  Each class were introduced to the 6 field events, with their performance being recorded as a way of complementing the PE Curriculum's Personal Best programme.  Children will then retest themselves later on in the term to see if they've improved on their scores in Chest Push, Soft Javelin, Standing Long Jump, Standing Triple Jump, Vertical Jump and Speed Bounce. 

   

  It was also a chance for Mr Hornsey to start choosing children to represent the school at the upcoming Sportshall Athletics qualifying event at Tudor Grange Tennis Centre on Tuesday 23rd January. 

   

  Up to 30 pupils will be chosen altogether with competitors being allowed to take part in up to four events in total (2 track and 2 field events). 

   

  Fortunately, this year's event coincides nicely with the PTA's very generous contribution of funding a brand new Craft athletics kit which the children will wear for the first time on the 23rd. 

   

  Watch this space for more news to come.....

  

• Y6 pupil's story gets published for the whole world to enjoy!

  Tue 09 Jan 2024

  Congratulations to Ahon in year 6 who recently found out that the short story he entered into a national writing competition, organised by the publishing company Junoberry books, was selected as one of the winners! 

   

  This mean's Ahon's entry, a seasonal themed short story called Christmas Miracle was selected to be published in a book of short stories called Seasonal Shorts: Christmas 2023.

   

  What an amazing achievement Ahon, we're all very proud of you and keep on writing! 

  

• Year 5 and 6 lunchtime football club schedule for this term available below

  Tue 09 Jan 2024

  Coach Cameron from the Football Development Scheme will continue his lunchtime football club for years' 5 and 6 boys and girls this term.  Please see the picture gallery below for when your child is able to attend.  

   

  In terms of the school football season, there will be a significant number of matches for both boys and girls over the next few weeks so if your child wishes to be considered, they must attend football club first. 

  

• Happy New Year to our Greswold school community!

  Mon 08 Jan 2024

  Greswold would like to wish everyone associated with our school community a very happy new year.  We hope 2024 brings you peace and prosperity. 

  

• Macbeth Inspires...

  Fri 22 Dec 2023

  Earlier this half term four Year 6 pupils were invited to a writing enrichment workshop centred on the play Macbeth. The children were challenged complete three different genres of writing with just under ten minutes writing time for each. They had to get to grips with an unfamiliar play as well as working with children from other schools. I'm proud to say they rose to the challenge and demonstrated our values throughout. 

   

  Below are their favourite pieces of writing from the morning and this is what they said about it:

   

  It was really good and I really liked the fact we could do the three pieces of writing. I liked working with different partners.

   

  It was good. I liked the three different things and the way they helped us with them. I liked the way they explained the story. I also liked the way we discussed the themes of Shakespeare and it made me think about the themes of other writers.

   

  I liked the chattiness and the biscuits! I also liked swapping partners.

   

  It was fun and there were lots of things for each part. I liked having different partners.

  

• Certificates galore at today's House Point assembly!

  Fri 22 Dec 2023

  Both Star Pupil and House Point certificates were given out to winners in this morning's assembly, along with prizes for winners of the PTA Christmas decoration competition. A jam packed assembly which celebrated the successes of this term also included certificates for Otters and Skylarks who have the most improved attendance this term and Nightingales who have the best overall attendance (over 97%) so far in the school since September. 

   

  While St Andrew's won the most house points this term, St George's retain their 1st place on the leaderboard for this academic year, however the race is getting very close with only 9 points separating 1st and 4th. 

   

  

• Presents galore for the cheeky elf's finale!

  Fri 22 Dec 2023
  

• A message from one of our school charities

  Thu 21 Dec 2023

  Dear Friends,

   

  Thank you for the continued support from you all. We trust that you will all have a very blessed Christmas and a healthy and meaningful 2024. We have made the decision this year not to sponsor any more pupils at schools in Kenya as we feel that it is time to start tapering the charity to a close.

   

  This is a carefully considered plan and will not happen suddenly. We expect it to take a few years as we promise to continue to support existing students while still in education, as long as we have the resources.

   

  All Trustees here in the `UK and our trusted colleagues in Kenya are getting older and do not realistically believe we can carry the Charity forward indefinitely in the way it has been done for the past 30 years We hope you all will continue to support us for the next few years as the doors have not closed yet, and all funds held in account right to the end will be used for appropriate educational projects or to support a university scholarship for a deserving student.

   

  We will continue to help our pupils/students as long as we can and your continued commitment and enthusiasm will be most appreciated. Every good wish for the festive season and we shall continue to keep you updated from our sponsored pupils’ letters and activities.

   

  Yours sincerely

   

  Ian D. Carnell MBE and all our trustees Chairman of the Trustees EducAid Africa info@educaidafrica.org

  

• The cheeky elf may have gone too far this time.....Mr Hornsey's not happy!!!

  Thu 21 Dec 2023

  We feel the cheeky elf has got a lot of making up to do tomorrow for his last visit to Mr Hornsey's office before the end of term because today he may have gone a little too far!  His office was covered in Birmingham City badges, posters and flags!

   

  Check out the photographs below and remember that Mr Hornsey is a lifelong Aston Villa supporter!!!!

  

• The cheeky elf is getting cheekier and cheekier!

  Wed 20 Dec 2023

  We told you last week about the cheeky antics that the mischievous elf is playing on Mr Hornsey and his office at the moment.  Well, the elf's shenanigans are getting even cheekier.  Check out the elf's latest pranks below!