Greet Primary School – an outstanding school in the heart of Sparkhill, Birmingham. Here you will find a dedicated and talented team of staff, hard-working and engaging pupils along with supportive and proud parents. Together we are a team – together we are Greet! Our pupils are at the heart of all that we do. We provide an exciting, broad, and balanced curriculum to inspire and motivate our pupils with opportunities to promote independence, learn life-long skills, and have aspirations for the future.
We have high expectations. Academic achievement is important and our pupils do well – they demonstrate very positive attitudes to learning. Within a caring and nurturing environment, we equip our pupils with the skills to be good citizens, tolerant and respectful of others, and confident to face the ever-changing demands of society and the world at large.
Our Teaching School designation in 2011 enables us to bring together the best practice from our school alongside those in the Teaching School Alliance to share with others beyond our school gates. From September 2016 we converted to academy status and became a founding member of Create Partnership Trust. Together with our family of schools, Conway Primary and Hodge Hill Primary, we strive to be the best we can be with achievement for all.
Greet, Conway and Hodge Hill work closely together - developing policies, sharing good practice, and supporting and challenging each other. We want to see every child receive a broad and balanced education, be happy and safe, and well prepared for moving on to their secondary school.
We are building Create by focusing on trusting relationships as the root of all our work. We have high expectations of everyone and we are never complacent - constantly striving to improve on our previous best. We are creating futures for everyone - our staff, our families and communities, and, of course, our children.
We are also very committed to developing our high-quality staff and leaders who work hard individually and in their teams. The Trust supports their skills development and helps them to identify a career path so that they can be even more effective in ensuring that the children make the best progress personally, academically, and socially.
We have recently revisited our values in the light of our first year as a MAT: excellence, partnership, and perseverance. At pupil level, these are interpreted as:
- Excellence: We give our best at work and play we aim high we believe in ourselves we enjoy learning we love to contribute we are curious we celebrate the success we think about our learning we are successful we achieve well independently we are proud of our work we understand that there are steps on the way to excellence we understand that excellence is achieved through partnership (working with others) and perseverance (what we do as individuals).
- Partnership: We work together we listen to each other we share and take turns we learn from each other we respect each other we are sincere we are good citizens of Birmingham, the United Kingdom, and the world we contribute we are happy we feel safe we look after our school we are part of a team we are part of a family we help each other to achieve well we believe everyone is equal.
- Perseverance: We don’t give up we try our best we are not afraid to make mistakes we learn from our mistakes we can talk about the learning we take responsibility for our learning we are helping to make our futures we can change if we need to we can find solutions we look forward.
The Department for Education states that there is a need “to create and enforce a clear and rigorous expectation on all schools to promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.”
