Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Greenfields Top 100 Children's Books
Mon 20 Jan 2020We are delighted and excited to launch our 'Greenfields Top 100' Children's Books today!
We have chosen 100 books that we think every child should know and have organised them by Year Groups. So we have 25 essential Nursery and Reception books, 25 for Key Stage One, 25 for Years 3 and 4 and 25 for Years 5 and 6.
At Greenfields, we put a huge emphasis on the importance of teaching the children to read. As soon as the children start with us in Foundation, through to the end of Year 6, we encourage the children to read as much as possible. We know that reading a wide variety of books will help the children in all areas of their learning.
Whilst we teach children the phonic skills they need to build words and to develop their reading, the most important thing is for them to read as many books as possible. Reading stories sparks your child’s imagination, stimulates curiosity and helps learning. Exploring stories also helps children to learn the difference between what is ‘real’ and ‘make-believe’ as well as helping them improve their writing.
There have been many times over the past few years when we have been asked about which books we would recommend for the children to read.
We hope that every child will know all of these books by the time they leave Greenfields.
We are calling them “Star Stories” and have attached a booklet below listing all of these stories.
We have copies of all of the books in school and most of them will be available from the local library. We will make sure in school too that the children have these stories read to them or read them themselves throughout the year.
We hope that you enjoy the list.
So … let’s all get reading!
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Flu Vaccinations
Tue 08 Oct 2019This year, every child in school is being offered a Flu Vaccinations provided by the NHS. This will take place on Wednesday 13th November 2019 in school.
For more information on how to register your child for the vaccination, please follow this link : https://www.greenfields.nottingham.sch.uk/stream/newsletters/full/1/-//
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Greenfields praised by Secretary of State for Education!
Wed 06 Feb 2019We were absolutely delighted to receive a letter this morning from the Rt Hon Damian Hinds, Secretary of State for Education, congratulating the school and the staff and children on the fantastic progress scores in last Summer's KS2 SATs tests. The progress that the children made puts Greenfields in the top 3% of all schools.
It was also great to receive a letter last week from Lilian Greenwood, MP for Nottingham South, congratulating the school on its performance in last years SATs tests.
We were very proud to receive both letters.
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Greenfields wins Music Mark Award and also becomes a Nottingham Music Hub Champion School!
Wed 06 Feb 2019We were absolutely delighted to have been awarded the Music Mark award in recognition of our commitment to providing high quality music education.
And also to have become a Nottingham Music Hub Champion School for our commitment to music too!
For more information on Music Mark, please go to https://www.musicmark.org.uk
And for more information on the Nottingham Music Hub, please go to
http://www.nottinghammusichub.org.uk/
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New Behaviour Policy introduced today!
Mon 11 Sep 2017We are delighted to be launching our new Behaviour Policy in Greenfields this term.
We have changed our previous policy to try and introduce a new, more positive policy. Our school rules remain the same and we expect all of the children to follow these rules at all times throughout the school day. But our rewards and sanctions have changed. We are very keen to reward all of the children for their fantastic behaviour.
There is a copy of the policy attached below for you to read. Please take a few minutes to read through the policy and make yourself familiar with the changes. We are very excited about introducing this to the children.
Please go to "Key Information" and then "Policies" to see the new policy or follow this link :
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Nottingham Charity Song Released Today!
Thu 24 Nov 2016We are very proud that our Choir is singing on a brand new song being released today. The song, titled "If Every Child Could" is available today. It has been released by the Nottingham Music Service.
More than 800 children & young people come together to create Nottingham Music Service's first ever charity song!
300 writers, designers & composers
500 singers
50 instrumentalists
29 Nottingham schools
1 Music Hub
Help us raise funds for life-changing music projects for young people in Nottingham. Give everyone a chance to play, perform and progress!
For more information on how to buy or download the song, and to see the video, please go to :
http://www.nottinghammusichub.org.uk/events/music-service-events/iecc
or watch the children on Notts TV here :
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Greenfields Outdoor Performance Stage Official Opening!
Mon 14 Nov 2016We were absolutely delighted with the turnout for the official opening of our new Outdoor Performance Stage last month. A great crowd was treated to a variety of performances by the children from across the school, the choir, Year 6 Steel Pans, Year 5 Bhangra drums, Year 2 Salsa, as wells enjoying performances from the children of Welbeck Primary School, Nottingham Emmanuel School and the Robin Hood Youth Orchestra.
The stage has been kindly funded by the National Lottery and we are grateful to Beston-Jones for building it for us.
Thanks to everybody who came along - and to the kitchen staff for all their hard work in providing the barbecue. More details are available on the following West Bridgford Wire website :
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Greenfields awarded Food For Life Gold Award!
Tue 13 Sep 2016We are absolutely delighted to have been awarded the Food for Life Gold Award! Greenfields has been involved in the project for the last seven years and it has helped us improve our dinners as well as supporting our Forest Schools, gardening and cooking provision.
Greenfields is now one of only 18 schools in the country to have been awarded Gold and we are really proud of this achievement.
Please read the report from the Nottingham Post below :
For more information on Food For Life, please see :
http://www.foodforlife.org.uk/
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New Greenfields CD Released!
Wed 22 Jun 2016We are delighted to let you know that our new CD, called "Greenfields Live In Harmony" is being released on June 28th.
We will be holding a special concert in school on Tuesday 28th June to launch the CD.
Tickets are avilable from the office.
The CD, called “In Harmony”, features sixteen songs and includes all of the children in school, as well as some instrumental pieces played on clarinets, drums and steel pans.
Copies of the CD will be available at the concert for a bargain of price of £4.00.
If you wish, you could buy both CDs for a special one-off price of £6.00!!
We are really proud of all of the hard work that has gone in to recording the songs and are sure that you will love hearing the children sing and play so well.
We look forward to seeing you at the concert and are sure that you will love the CD.
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Greenfields congratulated by David Laws MP!
Wed 10 Feb 2016We were delighted to receive a letter last month from David Laws, MP and Minister of State for Schools, congratulating us on our KS2 SATs results last year.
Mr Laws was particularly impressed with the improvements made in the KS2 results of 'disadvantaged' pupils.
Only around a hundred schools across the country per year are chosen for this recognition so we are obviously delighted that our hard work and the attainment of the children is recognised by the Government.
Please have a look at the letter below as well as a letter from Pat Fielding, Director of Education for Nottingham, congratulating us on our KS2 SATs success.
