Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Home Learning at its best!
Mon 10 Nov 2025Well done to James in year 3 who, like many pupils, have really embraced the updated Home Learning policy.
Not only did he put a great deal of effort into creating super sentences containing his spellings of the week but you can easily see just how committed he is to produce his best handwriting too, fully endorsing our improved approach to teaching handwriting across the school. Well done James.
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Just another 'manic' Monday! Just how we like it at Greswold
Mon 10 Nov 2025To some, Monday's might be a bit of a drag but here at Greswold, we relish them as today typically demonstrated.
The rainy, wet day started off with parents attending Reception assembly to help celebrate birthdays while at the same time Mrs Marshall's coffee morning was taking place with even more parents attending. Not content with that, Miss Jones started her year 1 Phonics' workshops in the upper school hall with even more parents attending.
What a perfect way to start the week and to showcase the positive partnership maintained between school and its families!
The fun carried on in the afternoon with year's 5 and 6 starting their Sportshall Athletics Roadshows with Zoe and Eddie Parsons from Specialising in Sport while in year 2, older pupils from the Triple Crown centre visited school to listen to children reading, something which takes place very Monday and is a vital part of our reading offer.
With Remembrance tomorrow, girls' football tomorrow after school, Open Morning on Wednesday, Kindness Week all week and Children in Need being celebrated on Friday, this will definitely be a week to remember and just how we like it here at Greswold.
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Greswold tests its Y4 Maths talent at annual KES competition!
Mon 10 Nov 2025Held at the prestigious King Edward's School campus in Edgbaston, Greswold once again entered their annual Year 4 Maths competition on Friday, bringing together schools from across the region.
In Friday's heat, Greswold and nine other schools battled it out in two rounds, a crossword style Maths quiz and a relay structured, quickfire reasoning activity.
Greswold excelled in the relay event but couldn't quite finish in the top three positions meaning they didn't progress to the overall final.
Well done to the four pupils who represented year 4, Greswold's Maths talent and the school community in general. We are very proud of you.
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Greswold helps to remember
Mon 10 Nov 2025This weekend marked Remembrance Sunday with services held all over the country including at the war memorial in Solihull town centre.
As always, pupil representatives from Greswold, along with Mrs Scott and Mrs Woodcock laid a wreath on the memorial, on behalf of the school, its pupils and families, and joined in with the service.
As a school we will be holding our own service tomorrow on the 11th and 11am.
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Dates for the Diary
Fri 07 Nov 2025Academic Year 2025-26
Monday 10th – Friday 14th November – Anti Bullying and Kindness Week
Monday 10th – Wednesday 12th November – Y5/6 Sportshall Athletics Roadshow
Tuesday 11th November – Girls Football vs Sharman’s Cross @ Old Silhillians
Wednesday 12th November – Open Morning (2026 Intake)
Friday 14th November – Children in Need
Monday 17th November – Parent/Carer Forum (7:00-8:30pm)
Tuesday 18th November - Flu Immunisation Day
Thursday 20th November – Boys Football vs Tidbury Green & Girls Football vs Knowle @ Solihull Moors
Monday 24th November - School Photo Day
Wednesday 26th November – PTA Christmas Market (6-8pm)
Friday 28th November – Y2 Visit to St Alphege (Journey to the Stable)
Thursday 4th December – Boys Football vs Monkspath @ Solihull Moors
Saturday 6th December – PTA Christmas Fayre (12-3pm)
Tuesday 9th December – Choir Singing at Solihull Hospital
Thursday 11th & Friday 12th December – EYFS Christmas Performance
Friday 19th December - Final day of autumn term
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Board games and playing cards needed for lunchtimes!
Fri 07 Nov 2025Dear Parents and Carers,
Currently, we're in the process of updating our lunchtime equipment/resources with the help of the PTA. However, we are also trying to focus on activities which aren’t necessarily physical such as board games and card games. Buying these sort of items can be expensive when purchased new so we thought it would be a good idea to contact our parent community in case any of these items might be going spare or might looking be looking for a new home.
The sort of board games we’re looking for include Guess Who, Connect Four, Scrabble, Chess, Battleship, Hungry Hippos, Twister, Screwball Scramble, amongst others.
In terms of card games we’re after games such as Dobble, Uno, Top Trumps and traditional playing cards.
If you do have any of these items going spare at home, we can defintely give them a new home and a new purpose!
Thank you in advance.
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Road Safety Week, a perfect opportunity to keep our Greswold community safe!
Fri 07 Nov 2025Road Safety Week is the charity, Brake's biggest road safety campaign. Every year, thousands of schools, organisations and communities get involved to share important road safety messages and join our call for safe roads for everyone.
Road Safety Week is 16th - 22nd November and is a perfect opportunity for Greswold to actively support the campaign while promoting our school values to the parent community when travelling to and from school.
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Language of the Month for November revealed!
Fri 07 Nov 2025This month's language of the Month is Russian.
Here at Greswold, we have nearly 200 pupils whose first language isn't English with over 30 first languages spoken at school. This is one of the reasons why we celebrate Greswold's wonderful diversity with Language of the Month.
Currently, we have 3 pupils who speak Russian as a first language.
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Greswold starts football season with impressive win!
Fri 07 Nov 2025Last night, the girls' football season kicked off at Solihull Moors with a match against Monkspath school as part of the South Solihull Large Schools' girls' league
Under the floodlights, girls from years' 5 and 6 represented the school perfectly with a display which epitomised Greswold's school values.
Even before the match had started, one of Greswold’s players, Jess, who had turned up early, volunteered to play for a different school who hadn’t got enough players, a gesture really appreciated by the parents, in particular, from Our Lady of Compassion school.
Following that, a hard fought contest commenced between Greswold and Monkspath, scrappy at first but full of determination from both teams. Mounting pressure from Greswold resulted in a two goal half time lead, courtesy of Ellie and Hooriyah.
The second half continued in a similar vein with Ellie, adding a brace of goals, giving her an impressive hat-trick and Greswold a deserved 4-0 win.
Hand shakes and three cheers at the end of the match by both teams reflected the really good spirit of the match.
It's now onto Tuesday where the girls have another match against Sharman's Cross at Old Silhillians at 4pm. Why not come along and lend your support.
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Children excel in thought provoking PSD workshops this week
Thu 06 Nov 2025This week, Greswold invited representatives from the charity, Show Racism the Red Card, into school to deliver a range of workshops to both pupils and staff.
Founded in 1996, 'Show Racism the Red Card' are the UK's leading anti-racism education charity, which was established to use education to combat racism and prejudice.
Within the workshops, pupils discussed various aspects relating to the topic, including terms such as anti-racist, racial slurs and allyship. The training class teachers received was very thought provoking and insightful.
We thank Show Racism the Red Card for the way they sensitvely approached discussions with the children and for their absolute professionalism
