Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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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
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Greswold in the papers!
Thu 06 Nov 2025Greswold appeared in a recent edition of the Solihull Observer in a story which detailed National Highways' involvement in the regeneration of several areas around school.
Outside The Nest, The Burrow and areas outside Sparrows and Wrens were areas regenerated a year ago partly funded by National Highways.
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Over £1,200 raised by BookFair sales to fund improved class libraries!
Thu 06 Nov 2025After another highly successful BookFair sale at last term's Parent Consultations, £1236 of commission has been raised to spend on library books for the school.
Thanks to parents' generosity, it's our plan to use this money to replenish class libraries with new books which match the subject topics being taught in class while also purchasing texts by authors from a range of different cultures to further reflect our diverse school community and to enable pupils to better identify themselves and their backgrounds in our curriculum offer.
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New Home Learning Policy launched
Thu 06 Nov 2025Dear Parents and Carers,
During last term's Parent Consultations, you may have noticed and viewed posters around school publicising the launch of Greswold's newly approved Home Learning Policy. The policy itself details our updated offer from Nursery up to Year 6 including information about website pages allocated to Home Learning.
The offer itself is not dissimilar to our previous policy but does state how much time tasks should take and how parents can help school to develop 'Life Skills' at home. There is information on places to visit which complement our curriculum offer and gives access to Picture News if children desire additional homework activities.
Below is a direct link to the policy itself:
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Dates for the Diary
Fri 24 Oct 2025Academic Year 2025-26
Monday 27th - Friday 31st October - Half Term (School closed)
Monday 3rd November – Back to School & deadline for Art Competition entries
Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th November – Show Racism the Red Card Workshops
Thursday 6th November – Girls Football vs Monkspath @ Solihull Moors
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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No 'obstacle' can stop Greswold children from raising money for charity!
Thu 23 Oct 2025The 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.
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1666 brought to life again!
Thu 23 Oct 2025If 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.
