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

• The PTA Christmas Decoration Competition is back!

  Wed 20 Oct 2021

  Parents and Carers,

   

  It’s time for this year’s PTA Christmas Decoration Competition, an event run throughout the entire school with the aim of decorating the school Christmas trees in time for the PTA Christmas Fayre in December.

    

  Each year group has been allocated a theme to base their entries on.  These are as follows: 

   

  Nursery – Stockings 
  Reception – Snowmen/women     
  Year 1 – Baubles
  Year 2 – Christmas Trees  
  Year 3 – Father Christmas 
  Year 4 – Robins 
  Year 5 – Christmas Puddings   
  Year 6 – Reindeers

   

  As usual, teachers will set the competition as a Home Learning activity with all entries being judged and class winners receiving PTA prizes for creativity and pupil effort.  Please send your child’s entries back into school from Monday 29th November.  They will be judged on Wednesday 1st December and used to dress the trees in time for the Christmas Fayre on Saturday 4th December.

  We look forward to seeing their creations soon! 

   

  Thank you for your continued support

  The Greswold PTA

   

  

• Harvest Festival

  Wed 20 Oct 2021

  Greswold's Harvest Festival was celebrated yesterday with the theme of 'Thanks' organised by Mrs Croft and Mrs Low. Reception performed a song, Y6 recited an acrostic Harvest poem and children from across school narrated the story of 'Eric Says Thanks' with some acting too.We also said thank you for the generous harvest donations which Mrs Rochelle and the PTA sorted and distributed to The Hermitage and Helping Hands. Some children produced reflective pictures or poems afterwards.

  

• Greswold Cross Country Success

  Tue 19 Oct 2021

  It was wonderful to welcome back the first Inter-School Sports' Compeitition after an absence of nearly two years.  The first event was the Y4, 5 & 6 Cross Country event which took place over the course of a few evenings at Old Silhillians.  Our teams performed incredibly well with some notable individual performances including Enzo in finisging 2nd out of 115 pupils in the year 5 boys' race, Sam coming 7th and Jack 8th in the same race.  In fact the results of the Y5 boys' team meant Greswold finished joint first in that team race.  Dylan came 3rd in the Y4 boys' race (out of 70 runners) and Chloe came 7th in the Y4 girls' race (70 runners).  Well done to all of our pupils who represented the school amazingly well.   

  

• Year 3 Poetry visit to KES

  Fri 15 Oct 2021

  On Thursday, 30 pupils from Y3 attended a poetry performance at King Edwards School. Not only did they thoroughly enjoy the experience but also represented Greswold incredibly well. Staff at KES emailed to say that Greswold children were immaculately behaved and represented the school brilliantly.

  Thank you to Mr Hobday, Miss Mobley, Mrs Glover and two parent helpers for attending with the children. . 

• Competition celebration

  Fri 08 Oct 2021

  Well done to Ahon (Year 4 Nightingales) and Ranvitha (Year 5 Elms) for being shortlisted from over 200 entries in a competition. The Primary School Languages competition, run by Warwick University, was to design a poster to celebrate one of the 120 languages spoken in neighbouring Coventry. Well done to everyone at Greswold who entered and thank you to Mrs Jones for organising. 

  

• Data collection sheets

  Fri 01 Oct 2021

  Congratulations to Cedars, Willows, Sycamores, Chaffinches, Nightingales and Owls for being the first classes in Y1-6 to return all of their data collection sheets. Class points were awarded by Mrs Scott and Miss Lindsay in assembly this morning. Overall, the first class was Cedars and Mrs Mills. If you still have the data collection sheets at home, please return as soon as possible. 

• Look what's appeared over the holiday!

  Mon 13 Sep 2021

  We seem to have inherited a new friend here at Greswold.  After tree surgeons removed a dangerous tree from our school grounds over the holiday, a very talented member of that team decided to leave us with a memorable new sculpture.  What a wonderful thought and now, what a wonderful sight! 

  

• Greswold site improvement updates

  Mon 13 Sep 2021

  School and in particular Mr Evans and Mr Hindley, our site team, have been exceedingly busy over the summer holidays upgrading the school's facilities, especially the year 5 and 6 corridor and classrooms.  Each of the eight classrooms has been painted and re-carpeted with new sink areas being installed too.  Prior to the holidays, a number of our governors helped to removed benching around the outside of each class to generate more space, something which has been widely appreciated by everyone.  The corridor now also been painted and re-floored and contains a locker (instead of pegs) for every Upper Key Stage 2 pupil.  The results are amazing and the children have been delighted.  Thank you to everyone who has been involved.  

  

• Mrs Rochelle is at it again....and continues to raise money for good causes!!!

  Mon 13 Sep 2021

  During the holidays, Mrs Rochelle took part in a charity walk to raise money for St Basil's charity by Hiking for the Homeless. 

   

  Details of the hike were published on Coventry Live which you can read by clicking on the following link:

   

  https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/more-700-people-complete-huge-21150670

   

  As always, well done Mrs Rochelle for your endeavours. 

  

• Greswold Achievements

  Tue 20 Jul 2021

  In addition to the Gold School Games Award for participating in virtual schools games events, Greswold is proud to have received validation of it's submission to the Solihull Healthy Schools Programme. The quality assurance group recognised the hard work has has gone on to ensure that health and wellbeing are embedded within all we do at Greswold. Thank you to Miss Bragg for leading on School Games and Mrs Woodcock for leading on Healthy Schools. 

  Mrs Beddow also shared that across years 3-6 this year a total of 122,373,793 words have been read through Accelerated Reader. 

  Over the summer, please keep active, stay safe and healthy and keep reading!