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

• Walk to School Week is coming!

  Tue 05 May 2026

  The week beginning 18th May, which conveniently coincides with our Sports' Days, is national Walk to School Week. 

   

  This is a really good opportunity to promote all of the benefits, personally, socially and environmentally of walking, scooting or cycling to school. 

   

  Our main ambition, like last year, is to promote the use of the Travel Tracker and rapidly improve on the 19% whole school engagement from March 2026.  Every child in school will have the chance to showcase their art skills and creativity by designing a piece of bunting to promote the week too.  

   

  Surely, we can pass 50% for the week itself if we all work together! 

  

• Greswold assemblies celebrate 100 years of Sir David Attenborough

  Tue 05 May 2026

  This morning in our Key Stage assemblies, Mr Hornsey and Mrs Woodcock used Picture News to celebrate the 100th birthday of Sir David Attenborough.  

   

  The children will learn about the naturalist in their class assemblies this week but were treated to a short clip of a very famous 1978 filiming of Sir David and some gorillas in Rwanda, Africa.

   

  This week's Picture News, as with all previous ones, are saved on our website under Children on our Home Learning page. 

   

  https://www.greswold.solihull.sch.uk/picture-news/

   

  These stories can be used by children who want to learn more about each story from Picture News or when they'd like a few extra Home Learning tasks to complete.  

  

• The weather favours Greswold's fabulous Open Afternoon

  Tue 05 May 2026

  Thank you to all the families who joined us on Friday for another fabulous Open Afternoon.

   

  It was so lovely to see the children sharing their books and learning with their family members literally all over the school, both inside and out. 

   

  We hope all families enjoyed their visit and, just for the occasion, we even ordered good weather too! 

  

• Tamil is May's Language of the Month

  Fri 01 May 2026

  Tamil, a language spoken in India, Sri Lanka and Singapore, amongst other countries, is also spoken by 17 current Greswold pupils.  

  

• History is the theme of the day for Gifted and Talented workshop

  Thu 30 Apr 2026

  This morning, Greswold once again hosted a collection of children from local schools, including some of our year 5 pupils, for our half termly Gifted and Talented workshops.  Today's theme was History and, as you can see below, the children had a wonderful time exploring the artefacts on show and applying their historical enquiry skills. 

  

• Y3 pupil has poem published in national competition

  Thu 30 Apr 2026

  Congratulations to Kiyam in year 3 who has had his entry to a national poetry competition chosen to be published in a special book.

   

  His wonderful poem based around the theme 'I have a dream in 2026' was part of the Young Writer's national showcase competition and a great example of how Greswold pupils explore their academic interests out of school too.

   

  Well done Kiyam, we're all very proud of you.  

   

   

  

• Young Carers come together to share their experiences

  Thu 30 Apr 2026

  Last week, a group of Young Carers spent time together sharing their experiences of tube feeding.  All the children have direct experience of assisting with this process for loved ones.  The children conveyed a lot of care, empathy and understanding of their situations.  The children all spoke about the unsettling feelings they experienced at first but also realised how being Young Carers gives them many incredible skills.  They all agreed that it was a positive experience to be able to share their stories.  

   

  Young Carers groups in UK schools are support initiatives designed to identify and assist pupils under 18 who look after a family member with an illness, disability or other type of need.  At Greswold, this extends to children who help to look after adults too.  This group, led by Mr Jones, provides safe spaces to talk about experiences and peer support.

• Our successful Sponsored Read raises nearly £1,000 for our school and class libraries!

  Thu 30 Apr 2026

  Thank you to all of our Greswold families who took part in the Sponsored Read event last term.  The total raised was an incredible £604.14. This total was then added to with an extra 60% reward from the publisher meaning the total raised for school was £966.60!

   

  Not only will this money, along with the money raised from this year's Book Fairs, fund improvements to our school library but our aim this term is to also enhance every single classroom library too.  This ambition will enable pupils to fuel their curiosity of current learning topics, to become more aware of our school's diversity and to promote their enthusiam for reading even more.  

   

  Winners from each year group, in terms of total minutes read in a week, were as follows:

   

  • Nursery – Arthur 
  • Reception – Freya
  • Year 1 – Roman M
  • Year 2 – Maryam
  • Year 3 - Daniel  
  • Year 4 – Shashvanth 
  • Year 5 – Evelyn 
  • Year 6 – Hamna 

   

  Each winner received a certificate in an assembly and a £10 book voucher.

• A wonderful gesture from Ellie and another example of pupils demonstrating our values!

  Thu 30 Apr 2026

  Yesterday morning, Mr Hornsey found a bag and a message on his chair. 

   

  He'd previously asked Ellie, in year 5, if he could borrow a pair of her goalkeeping gloves for the football festival he was organising.  Although she is a very talented footballer, Ellie knew she couldn't take part in the festival as she had already represented the school team throughout the year and the festival was for children who hadn't already. 

   

  Nevertheless, perfectly demonstrating our value of Belonging, Ellie provided the teams with a bag full of goalkeeping gloves and shinpads for other children to use in case they didn't own any themselves. 

   

  What a wonderful gesture from Ellie and a perfect example of how our values are applied by pupils in many different ways, both in and out of school. 

   

  Thank you Ellie, we're all very proud of you.  

  

• Our hardworking PTA are always raising money!

  Thu 30 Apr 2026

  For the past three months, the Greswold PTA has been one of the charities that shoppers, visiting Becketts Farm farm shop, can donate special tokens to as part of their community funding programme. 

   

  When a shopper buys a carrier bag, they donate a token to one of the charities and as a result, the PTA have been awarded a cheque for £490.56!

   

  This is just one example of how our magnificent PTA exhausts every avenue, both in and out of the school, to raise precious funds for school to buy those extra curriculum enhancements which help us to achieve our ambitions for the pupils. 

   

  Currently, we are still part of the Tesco token scheme which is running in shops in Solihull centre, Hobs Moat and Hermitage Road.

   

  Thank you to the volunteers who selflessly give their time and energy for the benefit of all the pupils here at Greswold.  We're all extremely lucky to have you!  

   

  If any parent would like to be part of the PTA or simply to help out at events, simply click on the link below for more information:

   

  https://www.greswold.solihull.sch.uk/pta/