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

• Dates for the Diary

  Fri 24 Oct 2025

  Academic Year 2025-26

  Monday 27th - Friday 31st October - Half Term (School closed) 

  Monday 3^rd November – Back to School & deadline for Art Competition entries

  Tuesday 4^th and Wednesday 5^th November – Show Racism the Red Card Workshops

  Thursday 6^th November – Girls Football vs Monkspath @ Solihull Moors

  Monday 10^th – Friday 14^th November – Anti Bullying and Kindness Week

  Monday 10^th – Wednesday 12^th November – Y5/6 Sportshall Athletics Roadshow

  Tuesday 11^th November – Girls Football vs Sharman’s Cross @ Old Silhillians

  Wednesday 12^th November – Open Morning (2026 Intake)

  Friday 14^th November – Children in Need

  Monday 17^th November – Parent/Carer Forum (7:00-8:30pm)

  Tuesday 18th November - Flu Immunisation Day

  Thursday 20^th November – Boys Football vs Tidbury Green & Girls Football vs Knowle @ Solihull Moors

  Monday 24^th November - School Photo Day 

  Wednesday 26th November – PTA Christmas Market (6-8pm)

  Friday 28^th November – Y2 Visit to St Alphege (Journey to the Stable)

  Thursday 4^th December – Boys Football vs Monkspath @ Solihull Moors

  Saturday 6th December – PTA Christmas Fayre (12-3pm)

  Tuesday 9^th December – Choir Singing at Solihull Hospital

  Thursday 11^th & Friday 12^th December – EYFS Christmas Performance

  Friday 19^th December - Final day of autumn term 

• No 'obstacle' can stop Greswold children from raising money for charity!

  Thu 23 Oct 2025

  The wet weather at the start of week didn't deter Mrs Foster and members of the School Council who ensured our first sponsored event of the year was a big success.

   

  Originally planned for the field, the event was brought indoors with both halls used to devise challenging but enjoyable obstacle courses for the children in each class to conquer! 

   

  Those pupils and families visiting school for Parent Consultations will have seen the photographs from the event and the final amount raised for Acorns will be revealed soon.  

   

  If you have any sponsor money to be returned, either take it to the school office, or your children can give it to their class teacher. 

   

  A special well done to the School Council for arranging such a purposeful event, an example of how Greswold empowers their children to suggest things to benefit our community. 

  

• 1666 brought to life again!

  Thu 23 Oct 2025

  If you don't already know, year 2 pupils can definitely remind you that the date 1666 is memorable for the historic event of the Great Fire of London, their history topic for this term. 

   

  Courtesy of PTA funding, year 2 pupils applied their learning to the context of an immersive workshop, provided by The Trunk Theatre Group.

   

  There was lots of positive feedback from the group who mentioned just how enthusiastic and knowledgeable the children were.  

   

  A lovely way to finish the half term and a really purposeful way to finish a learning topic.  Thank you to the year 2 staff for organising. 

  

• Another successful week of Greswold Parent Consultations

  Thu 23 Oct 2025

  It was lovely to welcome so many parents and families from our school community for the first of our Parent Consultation evenings this week. 

   

  As always, thank you for visiting the Book Fair in the library as Greswold receives commission on all sales, which we then use to purchase books ourselves.  On this occasion, we aim to use the commission to purchase books for every classroom library which will include year group curriculum topics, stories by authors from different backgrounds and stories from a range of cultures which reflect the demographic of our pupil population. 

  

• 120 WOW badges have been won but still more work to be done to reach Travel Tracker target!

  Wed 22 Oct 2025

  This week, children who earned a WOW badge for September's Travel Tracker, will receive their award. School have received the first four months’ worth of badges for this year's theme of 'Walk with Joy'.  120 badges will be given out by the end of the week. 

   

  However, this amounts to only 22% of the pupil population engaging with the Travel Tracker on a regular basis.  Well done to Y5 Elms who are the role models in logging their journeys.  They achieved an engagement percentage of 81% which is brilliant. This means, they received the monthly prize of winning our new mascot, Little Strider.  

   

  Let's see which class will win Little Strider for October.  Hopefully, we can also push the whole school engagement percentage of 22% up towards 30% too. 

   

  Most KS2 pupils can use classroom based devices to record their journeys, however pupils in EYFS and KS1 will need parental input out of school to log their journeys, details of which can be found by clicking on the link below:

   

  https://www.greswold.solihull.sch.uk/sustainable-travel-at-greswold/

   

   

  

• Greswold pupils supporting our local community

  Wed 22 Oct 2025

  This afternoon, 10 pupils from Y3-6 visited a local school to take part in a special fundraising event organised by the pupils from the Triple Crown centre. 

   

  Pupils from the Triple Crown centre attend Greswold on Monday afternoons to read with year 1 pupils so it was the turn of Greswold to pay back the favour.

   

  Triple Crown were hosting a special coffee afternoon for the MacMillan Trust so 10 children from our Young Carers group, accompanied by Mr Hornsey, Mrs Rochelle and Miss Carpenter, walked down to take part in the lovely event.  Book sales, cake sales, a raffle and different games were on offer for the children to enjoy. 

   

  Thank you to the pupils and staff of Triple Crown for kindly inviting us and well done to the children who attended as their behaviour was impeccable. 

   

   

  

• Values shine through at Y5 Dodgeball festival

  Tue 21 Oct 2025

  On Monday evening, 12 year 5 pupils represented the school at this year's Y5 Dodgeball festival, a 'Develop' event which promotes the School Games values of honesty, teamwork and respect.

   

  The children formed two Greswold teams and played 5 games each with each team scoring the opposition out of 5 for each of the values they demonstrated.  

   

  Greswold's pupils not only demonstrated those School Games values in abundance but always showed our Greswold values throughout too.

   

  Well done children, you were a credit to the whole school. 

  

• Neck and neck at the top of the new House Point Leaderboard!

  Mon 20 Oct 2025

  Both St George's and St Andrew's sit at the top of this academic year's House Point Leaderboard after the results were revealed for the first half term during this morning's assembly.

   

  Y5 Elms were winners of the new monthly Travel Tracker prize, Little Strider, with an impressive engagement percentage of 81% for September.  The whole school average is only 22% so that's a magnificent achievement! 

   

  Y4 Skylarks have achieved the best attendance so far this year with 97.6%, closely followed by Y3 Robins (97.2%) and Y6 Cedars (97%).  

  

• It's sneak peek time before next week's Parent Consultations!

  Fri 17 Oct 2025

  As a prelude to our first series of Parent Consultations next week, here's a sneak peek at what parents will be able to expect.  The children have been busily working hard as usual with the numerous display boards around the corridors of school now ready to showcase their marvellous learning.  Some displays have already been updated.  Here's a sneak peek of what to expect....

  

• Press release from National Highways about Greswold

  Thu 16 Oct 2025

  Following Greswold's successful funding application from National Highways which contrinuted to the regeneration of several areas around school, we have been sent the press release from their media department.  You can view the release in the gallery below.