Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Special recognition at the SEND awards
Fri 05 Dec 2025On Tuesday 2nd December Solihull Council held their annual awards evening for the finalists of the 2025 SEND awards. This year there were over 120 nominations and Greswold had three finalists who attended the ceremony and received their certificate and medal for Special Recognition:
Layannah for Young Carer
Blake for Bravery
Mrs Sullivan for SEND Champion - Primary
We are really proud of their fully-deserved recognition.
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Honours all even on an entertaining night of football
Fri 05 Dec 2025The boys' school football team were back in action last night playing their second and third league matches of the season and what an exciting couple of games they were for the watching spectators.
First up were Monkspath and after falling a goal behind in the first half, the Greswold players never let their heads go down and deservedly scored in the second half to draw level through Lenny. Unfortunately, they couldn't quite manage to get that all important winner despite heavy pressure by the team in the closing stages. Final result: Monkspath 1 Greswold 1.
The second match of the night pitted Greswold against Valley Primary resulting in a rarity for school football with the match ending 0-0. It's difficult to fathom why though as each team had plenty of opportunities to score the winner with Valley's goalkeeper making some excellent saves. However the game was played in the right spirit with positive values on show throughout.
Two positive results in a league which is going to go right down to the wire. Watch this space.....
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Decoration entries help to get everyone into the festive spirit!
Thu 04 Dec 2025The PTA Chrtismas trees were delivered yesterday, just in time to be decorated with the wonderful entries from our PTA decoration compeititon. Well done to all the children to provided a decoration. As always, the creativity was amazing. The winners will be revealed in Mr Hornsey's House Point assembly on the final Monday of this term so fingers crossed......
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Mr Hornsey's 'Elf on the Shelf' returns....
Wed 03 Dec 2025Trouble's definitely back as the cheeky elf has returned to haunt, we mean entertain Mr Hornsey. This time it looks like daily challenges are being set to keep him on his toes!
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Opening the first window on our advent calendar
Wed 03 Dec 2025The Greswold Adevent calendar was unveiled in assembly on Monday with Sycamores having the honour of being the first window.
After our writing event last week, each class have prepared a window to be opened each day and what a lovely start from Sycamores. Well done.
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French is December's Language of the Month
Wed 03 Dec 2025
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An invitation to all our families from St Helen's Church
Tue 02 Dec 2025
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A visit to St Alphege church to make Y2 learning even more memorable
Fri 28 Nov 2025This morning, pupils and staff from year 2 enjoyed a visit to St Alphege Church in Solihull town centre, as part of their RE lessons and a chance to reflect on Christmas themes. They made bookmarks and were invited to go on a 'journey to the stable' and learn more about the Christmas story. On their journey around the church, the children met an inn keeper, a shepherd, a king and the baby Jesus.
The members of the church Alison, Ben and the team made everyone feel very welcome and the children perfectly demonstrated our school values so well throughout the visit and more importantly during the walk to and from the church.
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Unprecedented Platinum Award recognises Greswold's commitment to physical activity
Fri 28 Nov 2025Everyone at Greswold are very proud to announce that the school has been awarded the School Games Sportsmark Platinum Award.
The "Sportsmark Platinum Award" refers to the School Games Mark Platinum Award, a government-led scheme that recognises schools for their consistent commitment to sports and physical activity. To earn this, a school must have consistently achieved the School Games Mark Gold award for several years and successfully submit a detailed case study which demonstrates their ongoing high-level provision for sports, competition, and physical activity.
For the past five years, Greswold has achieved the Gold Sportsmark, allowing us to become eligible to apply for the Platinum Award. A case study was submitted in July and we have now received confirmation that we've been successful.
School sport and activity is something incredibly important to us here at Greswold and something which goes beyond the classroom and the even the curriculum itself. We believe that being active not only has positive physical benefits but also helps to develop pupils socially and personally while maintaining a healthy mental wellbeing and providing memorable experiences of representing the school at inter-school events.
The staff require a huge amount of credit, giving up their personal time in volunteering to supervise and manage children at a whole host of these inter-school events. Our amazing lunchtime team, including Play Leaders, help to instigate so many games and physical activities at lunchtimes and our pupils engage with these opportunities on a regular basis. We monitor the physical wellbeing of all pupils and intervene when necessary, especially at lunchtime and lesson time, to esnure they develop a positive outlook in relation to sport and activity.
This award is the perfect recognition of everyone's hard work and dedication and something we should all be very proud of.
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Greswold's new Eco Council meet for the first time this year
Thu 27 Nov 2025This morning, Miss Pearson met with the new members of this year's Eco Council, a very important role in helping to make Greswold more sustainable.
The Eco Council contains a representative from every class in Years' 3–6, chosen by their classmates. Over the course of the year, we will lead campaigns in the school to avoid waste, encourage recycling, and save resources such as water and electricity. We are excited to work together to make a positive difference and help our school become even more environmentally friendly.
