Grove Vale Primary 50Th Birthday

Thank you to everyone who came along yesterday and helped us to celebrate 50 years of Grove Vale. Its been a brilliant week and our reunion bash was a very fitting end to our celebrations.

Some pictures from our celebrations week

Some pictures from our celebrations week

A really busy day today, tree planting, swimming safety sessions, the enterprise 'schools for the future' competition final and our 'this is your life' assembly with special guests.

Dancing has been great today, each year group had learnt about a different decade from our 50 yrs and performed a song and dance. Yrs 4 & 6 have taken part in a Lord Leivers enterprise competition - Design a school for 50years in the future. The infants have had an afternoon with Q3 sports leaders. Another good day.

Some pictures from our celebrations week

Football match this afternoon Team v ex-pupils and staff.

Q3 young sports leaders have been to work with our juniors this morning. Children took part in special sessions of either; cricket, rounders, football, golf or dance.

Some pictures from our celebrations week

1960s Day has been a huge success, staff and children all dressed in 60s costumes and we had a very special assembly this morning when we welcomed Margaret Wickham to school. Margaret was the first head of the infants school when it opened in 1963. She was thrilled to be back at school and very impressed by the people she met and everything she saw. Margaret answered questions posed by some of the children to give the whole school a flavour of what it was like in 1963 as school opened for the first time. She declared Grove Vale to be 'very' outstanding and wished us all well for the rest of the week.

50 golden balloons released today, by nominated children and some staff, to mark the start of our celebrations.

So we are finally here... Celebrations week begins tomorrow. If you would like to immortalise your name as a Grove Vale pupil, why not donate a book to our school library (it doesn't need to be new) and inscribe your name with dates you attended inside the cover.

Last minute preparations for our celebrations week, staff are showing once again, what makes us Outstanding. Now lets sit back and enjoy the week, we deserve it!

Celebrations week is upon us and we are looking forward to our open days. We are open during set times to current parents on Thursday 11th July and past pupils and staff on Friday 12th July. Please contact the school office or sally.roberts@grovevale.sandwell.sch .uk for details of timeslots. Our reunion bbq will be held on Saturday 13th July from 12pm until 3pm, all welcome.

1967 Mr G Hollyhead, Mrs K Withers, Mr A Bill, Miss G Cooling, Mrs C Green, Mr W Brearley, Miss J Howman, Miss K O'Sullivan, Mr J Machin, Miss H Vincent, Mr Anderson