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Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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A lovely prelude to next week's Harvest Festival
Mon 26 Sep 2022Greswold was thrilled to host Reverend Susan and Linda Hicks, Director of the children's and families' ministry at St Helen's Church, who took both the KS1 and KS2 assemblies. Both assemblies acted as an introduction to next week's Harvest Festival assemblies taking place at St Helen's Church for years' 1-6. Food donations are already arriving at school and once collated and collected will be shared amongst local food banks, charities and The Hermitage, the housing community on Lode Lane.
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European and International Day of Languages at Greswold
Mon 26 Sep 2022Today marks the International Day of Languages. Here at Greswold, we're extremely lucky and proud to have so many pupils who are multi-lingual, with over 30 languages other than English fluently spoken, including:
Arabic Russian Hindi Urdu Kannada Polish Tamil Spanish Tamil Telugu Chinese Bengali Gujarati French Malayalam Turkish Croatian Hungarian Persian Esan Cantonese Pashto/Pakhto Greek Turkish Sindhi Norwegian Kurdish Albanian Marathi Ukrainian With this in mind, it was so important to celebrate today's event. As well as this wonderful display near the main entrance, there is a language focus in school each term as well as an updated Modern Foreign Languages scheme being implemented this year. Finally, after school on a Friday, we have an outside provider (Madame Lamarti) who provides a languages club.
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A really inspiring sight...
Tue 20 Sep 2022In March, Greswold launched a very successful Active Travel campaign enlisting the help of Living Streets' Travel Tracker to encourage pupils and families to travel actively to school. Although Greswold are yet to launch this year's Travel Tracker yet, it's really encouraging to see just how many families are maintaining the good work achieved during last year's campaign. The photos below demonstrate just how many children are scooting and cycling to school. In total, over 120 scooters and bicycles were counted which is a wonderful sight. Let's keep it going Greswold.
A healthy school is a happy school!
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Learning environments already up and running and supporting pupils every step of the way!
Thu 15 Sep 2022This week, members of the Senior Leadership Team enjoyed a chance to undertake a Learning Walk, an opportunity to to take in classroom learning environments and to offer advice and guidance where possible.
As I'm sure you'll agree by viewing the photos below, every class teacher had already been incredibly busy and innovative over the summer generating ways of making their classrooms as supportive, purposeful and inspiring as possible.
Each classroom emphasized our Greswold school values at every opportunity possible as well as capitalising on any opportunity to promote our learning philosophy of encouraging independence and 'Learning over teaching'. Thank you to all school staff for everything you do to support the children of Greswold.
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School Council returns with big plans!
Wed 14 Sep 2022Yesterday marked the return of Greswold's school council, an initiative geared to empower pupils to make decisions for the benefit of the school and the pupils as well as putting their energy and enthusiasm to good use for their local community and further afield.
First on their agenda was to reignite the school's fundraising passion and devising ways of raising money for our partnership charity, Educaid.
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Weekly Attendance Trophy
Wed 14 Sep 2022Congratulations to our first Weekly Attendance Winners of the new school year! In KS2, it was Chaffinches and Maples with 100% attendance for the first week back and in EYFS and KS1 it was Squirrels with 99.5%. What a great start to the year. We wonder which classes we'll be celebrating next...
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Greswold reflects...
Fri 09 Sep 2022Pupils from Y1-6 joined a special virtual assembly this morning to mark the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. At this time at Greswold, we call on our values to help us, especially belonging, kindness and respect. The children have show great respect today towards the Queen, our new monarch King Charles III and also our school community. We are very proud of them.
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No time to rest for our new year 6 pupils!
Thu 08 Sep 2022Pupils are already settling into life in their new year groups and classes this year and, as always, staff are ensuring the children start the year as actively as possible. As you can see from the photos, year 6 pupils as well other year groups are already undertaking the 'Daily Mile' or the 'Daily Dash', a successful initiative employed at school for several years now, aiming to maintain an active lifestyle and stimulate the children's minds and brains to help meet the demands of the rest of the day! Keep it up children, fabulous work!
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A new academic year spells new site additions to school!
Thu 08 Sep 2022The site team have been very busy over the course of the summer. Mr Hindley has securely and safely covered the drainage trenches around KS1, meaning they still drain rainwater away but without the constant influx of stones onto the playground, thus making the whole area safer.
New interactive 'Activall' boards have been installed on the KS2 playground helping to make lunchtimes even more active and enjoyable for the children.
Finally, the lower school hall floor has been repaired and updated to ensure a fresh look and safer environment for all who use that particular space.
Thank you to everyone involved in improvement works over the summer, helping to ensure Greswold is a safe, stimulating and modern environment to visit and learn in.
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Greswold and its community at its best!
Mon 15 Aug 2022Though the school term has finished, there are still plenty of signs that Greswold is still very much at the heart of our region's community.
The Commonwealth Games was a huge success as we're sure you'll agree, and provided a spectacular platform for which our region could be very proud of itself. While teachers and pupils bumped into it each other at several of the sporting events, it was also apparent that members of our wider school community were very much involved in the games too. A parent, Mr Kailey, who for so long now has been a great source of energy and help during several events at school over the years, especially Community Week, was pictured on the official Commonwealth Games Birmingham 2022 website, contributing to one of the many citywide community events taking places during the games. Well done Mr Kailey!
On a visit to Victoria Park in Leamington Spa recently, a staff member noticed a brand new outdoor gym centre for the general public to use, funded by the Rotary Club, the same organisation that school have recently started working in partnership with to help year 6 transition amongst other schemes.
Finally, it has come to our attention through the media that Buryfield Road will soon be a 20mph speed limit zone, something we feel all families will appreciate, especially those who travel to school by walking, cycling or scooting. For more details, click on the link below for the article:
