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Disabled parking bays to be used by Blue Badge Holders only
Thu 17 Jul 2025Dear Parents and Carers,
This is a polite reminder for all vehicle users to refrain from using the five disabled parking bays directly outside of school unless you have a Blue Badge clearly shown. This includes before and after school for families attending Greswold Greyhounds or after-school clubs.
The Blue Badge holder should also be present when using the bays.
Thank you
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It's a 10 out of 10 for Y6 and their final Greswold performance!
Thu 17 Jul 2025WOW! What a memorable evening for everyone who attended Year 6's final Greswold performance on Tuesday at Bushell Hall theatre at Solihull School.
The Amazing Adventures of Super Stan was truly amazing and each and every child shone in their respective roles. With their singing, acting, humour and comic timing, the children entertained the captivated audience for the entire performance.
The children were a credit to themselves, their families and to the Greswold community, perfectly demonstrating all of the values we try to instil into our children. Thank you children for such a wonderful evening!
A great deal of thanks and appreciation needs to go to all of the staff involved, but particularly Mr Hobday, Miss Awan and Mrs Foster for how they engineered such a fabulous performance. A wonderful team effort!
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BRICKS winners revealed!
Wed 16 Jul 2025This morning, the whole school community, including Nursery and Greyhounds squeezed into the Upper School hall, to take part in our annual BRICKS celebration assembly.
This is where Mrs Scott reveals which six children from each class have been awarded a special BRICKS certificate and prize for showing a particular value throughout the course of the academic year. Our Greswold values include Belonging, Respect, Independence, Curiosity, Kindness and Success.
Over 120 pupils in total received a certificate and prize nominated by their class teachers. Well done to all the winning children!
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Y3 Robins showcase their impressive drumming skills!
Tue 15 Jul 2025This morning, Year 3 Robins gave their parents a lovely end of year treat with a wonderful singing and drumming performance. All year 3 pupils have been taught by Miss Korman this year as part of their percussive music lessons and it was Robins' turn to perform to their parents.
They put on an excellent display of rhythm and singing, a perfect way for pupils and parents to finish the school year. Well done everyone.
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Even sweltering weather can't stop Greswold pupils raising money for charity!
Mon 14 Jul 2025Well done to Y3/4 pupils, Cash, Reggie and Cayden for raising over £1,000 for cancer research by finishing 3rd at the pretty Muddy 5K Obstacle Course event at the weekend at Cofton park in Birmingham.
Considering how hot it was, the boys have done tremendously well in selflessly raising money for others. Everyone at Greswold is very proud of you boys.
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Greswold parent hosting mayor at special art exhibition this Sunday!
Mon 14 Jul 2025Elmdon Heath Community centre hosted a special art exhibition on Sunday called Artogether by Sayantika's Art Studio.
The event was organised by an artist parent of Greswold, Mrs Banik, who recently visited school to take a workshop with some budding Y6 artists.
The artwork on show was stunning with the Mayor of Solihull, Annette Mackenzie and Councillor Shehsh Sheshabhattar of Chelmsley Wood very impressed.
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Greswold Choir rounds of the year in style!
Fri 11 Jul 2025It's been a privilege to watch our wonderful choir perform at various events and venues this year. To finish the year in style, they got to perform in a joint choirs concert at the Core Theatre as part of the Solihull Music Vocal Fiesta. The performance was led by Sandra Horne and was her last event with our choir. All the children sang very well, and their performance was enjoyed by many of their parents and families in the audience.
For some of the year 6's, it was their last opportunity to perform with Greswold but we hope they continue their love of singing at secondary school.
Well done children, you've truly been an inspiration to everyone this year.
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Final PTA Summer Fayre total revealed!
Fri 11 Jul 2025After a wonderful PTA Summer Fayre on Saturday, we can now reveal how much profit was made. In total £3050 profit was made, a fantastic achievement. As always, the profits will be added to the current PTA fundraising balance which will be used to purchase curriculum enhancements for all children.
Thank you again to all the families who attended and thank you to our selfless PTA for making such memorable experiences for the whole school community.
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Minutes from Parent / Carer Forum on Wednesday 9th July
Fri 11 Jul 2025Parent/Carer Forum minutes
Wednesday 9th July 2025
Attendees:
Mr Hornsey and 5 parents
Agenda
- Home Learning
- Smartphone Free Childhood (Solihull Schools’ campaign) update
- Perceptions of and language associated with Bullying
- AOB
Home Learning
- Greswold’s updated Home Learning overview for 2025-26 was shared. It included information about Reading, Maths, English and a change to topic based homework tasks. There is also a section included about life skills.
- Mr Hornsey explained that the updated plan had been a work in progress for the last few months and that he had sourced feedback from Secondary Schools and even visited ex-pupils at Lode Heath to see how best Greswold can prepare children in the future.
- All weekly Home Learning activities will be based on learning already covered in class to help children become more independent.
- Creative project based homework tasks will be reduced in order to utilise other approaches to promoting the relationship between parents and their children’s learning.
- The general consensus amongst parents was that it was fair and they understood the changes.
- From next year, children in Y1-6 will received Home Learning folders to store paper based activities with one parent suggesting that a Phonics Mat would be a good idea to give Reception and Y1 parents, and be stored in the folder.
- School will look into what other helpful materials can be stored in the folder to help children with their Home Learning.
2) Smartphone update
- Nearly 70 primary and secondary schools have signed up to the campaign which was originally instigated by Alderbrook School.
- The Solihull Schools’ campaign is separate to the national campaign called the Smartphone Free Childhood.
- A schools’ and parent liaison has been appointed as part of the Solihull Schools’ initiative to move the agenda forwards and to ensure everyone’s voice is heard.
- There is a Greswold member of staff who has also volunteered to be a school liaison to the schools’ initiative.
- Whatever happens, Greswold’s approach will be in line with fellow schools.
Bullying
- A parent had asked for clarification of feedback given to the school community following our recent parent survey. ‘There is more work to be done in relation to understanding what bullying is and how school deal with incidents. 60 parents out of the 200 reported that their child had been bullied and less that 60% of those thought school had dealt with it effectively’ was the comment that required clarification.
- Admittedly, the question is somewhat generic and part of national parental surveys and didn’t include a time limit. Next time, we will add ‘over the last 12 months’.
- A discussion was then had about the definition of bullying and how, at times, concerned parents have used the term when the incidents in question have not been cases of bullying.
- The Anti-Bullying Policy was explained highlighting the fact that when incidents are investigated, to be a confirmed case of bullying, there has to be an imbalance of power, actions need to be deliberate and incidents have to be deemed as an ongoing issue. Only then can a case be confirmed as bullying.
- The number of confirmed cases of bullying over the last 12 months at Greswold was shared with parents. There were two cases, both resolved quickly with one being an out-of-school case of cyber bullying.
AOB
- Nursery start time is 8:30am in the morning. There isn’t a ten-minute window similar to Reception and KS1 start times due to the need for Nursery aged children to access school confidently while there aren’t many other families arriving. It’s also difficult for staff to keep coming back out to collect late pupils.
- If parents have accessed Nursery after 8:30am, it will have been a one-off so school would encourage all Nursery families to arrive on time to promote an ethos of punctuality and respect. If for some reason this isn’t possible, please sign in at the main school office.
- A concern was shared by a parent about Monkhouse uniform providers now based in Solihull centre. They seem to charge a delivery fee if they haven’t got stock in as opposed to Midland Schoolwear in Acocks Green which will order it quickly without additional charge. This is a chance to remind all parents that Greswold uniform doesn’t have to be branded and there is an order service for ‘Nearly new / second hand’ uniform free of charge available at school.
- Finally, some of the parents who attended shared the fact it was a shame more parents didn’t attend Parent / Carer Forum as they found it extremely useful and reassuring to find out matters relating to Greswold. Mr Hornsey will consider other options to publicise the meetings more.
Mr Hornsey
Deputy Headteacher
If you have any additional feedback on the minutes from Wednesday's meeting, please click on the link below and record them on the Form. Thank you.
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Sporting achievements this year at Greswold
Thu 10 Jul 2025It's been another busy and successful year for inter-school sport here at Greswold.
71% of Y6 pupils represented the school in a sporting event this year, our best ever percentage. Check out our participation below and subsequent results:
- Y5/6 Cross Country - Girls came 5th in each age range
- Y5/6 Boys' Football League - finished 5th
- Y5/6 Girls' Football League - finished 4th
- Y5/6 Basketball League - finished 3rd
- Y5/6 Sportshall Athletics - progressed through qualifying round and finished 2nd in South Solihull Area Final
- Y5/6 - Rowing - Boys finished 3rd in heats while Girls finished 2nd making through to County Finals
- Y5/6 Netball - finished 3rd in group after entering competition for first time in 6 years
- Y6 Rounders - finished 3rd
- Y6 Tag Rugby - finished 4th overall in Compete event and collected Silver in Develop event
- Y5 Dodgeball - Engage event
- Y4 Orienteering - Engage event
- Y3/4 Girls Football - Engage event
- Y3 Personal best - Engage Event
- Y6 Boys' and Girls' Football Friendly Festival - Engage event
- Y6 Borough Sports' - finished 3rd with gold medals won in Girls' Sprint, Girls' Triple Jump, Boys' triple Jump and Boys' Long Jump
- Y4 Chance to Shine cricket event - all pupils attended in Develop event
- Y5 Chance to Shine event - 1st in Compete event with other develop events participated in by all pupils
Most of the events we enter are organised by School Games' officials and their intent is categorised as either Compete, Develop or Engage. This is to ensure the mission and values of inter-school events are accomplished, which include:
- make a positive and meaningful difference to the lives of young people
- put physical activity and sport at the heart of schools
- provide young people with the opportunity to enjoy and learn through competition to achieve their personal best.
Greswold will continue to be very much part of the School Games programme whilst adding our own events which mirror similar values and vision.
