Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Illegal parking outside of school
Thu 03 Jul 2025The Greswold senior leadership team are aware of continuing incidents of illegal parking around school, something which really saddens us. Therefore, we have consulted the following West Midlands Police website for advice and guidance about how incidents can be reported. It is also a possible avenue for school to report offences too, however that's something we can't always prioritise due to lack of time and capacity.
However, the site does clarify what illegal parking actually is, as you can see below:
If the vehicle is parked:
- on zig-zag lines
- dangerously
- in a way that would prevent emergency vehicles from accessing
If the vehicle is parked:
- over a dropped kerb
- on a pedestrian crossing (including the area marked by the zig-zag lines)
- in spaces reserved for Blue Badge holders, residents or motorbikes (unless entitled to do so)
- in marked taxi bays, cycle lanes or red lines
- near a school entrance, bus or tram stop
As a school, we feel that dropping off on Zig Zags and close to school entrances, including double yellow lines, constitutes parking and is therefore still illegal. We have also contacted Parking Services at Solihull Council to see if there any other avenues we can explore to reduce inconsiderate and illegal parking so we await to hear their response.
It is a shame that a website page we use to celebrate successes has to be, on this occasion, used to highlight a problem which wouldn't be a problem if all vehicle users worked in partnership with school's expectations.
It's important to state that our stance on this matter comes from a duty of care to protect our children and their families from any sort of inconsiderate and dangerous driving, so please be aware of others whilst travelling. Thank you to the vast majority of families who already do work in partnership with Greswold.
School will update this page when we receive further guidance from Parking Services. In the meantime, illegal parking can be reported to West Midlands Police using the link provided above.
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Out of this world writing at Greswold
Wed 02 Jul 2025On Thursday we welcomed pupils from other schools for a science fiction boys writing enrichment event and, as you can see from the photo, we had some other visitors as well! Mr Sharrock and Mr Kirk challenged the boys to write something extraordinary and everyone said how much they enjoyed the morning.
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Summer Reading Challenge starts on 12th July!
Wed 02 Jul 2025This morning, pupils in Y1-5 took part in a special assembly promoting this year's Solihull Libraries Summer Reading Challenge. Two representatives from the core library spoke to the children about the theme for this year's challenge called Story Garden.
They also spoke about other activities families could take part in at the core library in Solihull centre.
If you're a family who lives in Birmingham, you can still apply for a Solihull library card and there are several libraries in Solihull you can visit (Hobs Moat, Olton, Solihull centre, Dicken's Heath, Knowle, Shirley, Chelmsley Wood, etc.) with information available in the link below:
https://solihull.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/MSGTRNGEN/WPAC/CHILDRENS?HOMEPRMS=UD_CHILDRENS
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Busy, busy, busy.....as always at Greswold!
Tue 01 Jul 2025Tri-Golf training for year 3, teeth-related scientific experiments in year 4, bringing the beach to The Den, Y6 rehearsing hard for their production and Greswold hosting an art exhibition!
Just a normal day for Greswold and its pupils, and we wouldn't have it any other way!
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Year 6 pupils astound our parents with their art prowess!
Tue 01 Jul 2025Yesterday afternoon and this morning, our Greswold school community were treated to a wonderful exhibition of artwork by year 6 pupils.
The children's task was to explore the style of a number of different recognised artists and to decide which had influenced them the most. They then researched their chosen artist further to create their own piece of artwork inspired by their chosen artist.
As you can see, the pupils really showcased their learning from art during their time at Greswold. Well done children, your work is amazing!
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Namaste - Hindi completes a year of Languages of the Month
Tue 01 Jul 2025The language of the month for July is Hindi. There of over 600 million Hindi speakers in the world making it the third most spoken language. At Greswold we have 12 pupils whose first language is Hindi. The greeting is Namaste.
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Y4 impress at Orienteering event
Wed 25 Jun 2025Recently, a team of year four pupils, accompanied by Mr Isles and Miss Pearson attended the School Games Orienteering 'Engage' event at Lode Heath school.
The team took part in several outdoor activities from orienteering, matching shapes to make a face and following coordinates to move from one place to another.
Our children were an absolute credit to the school; they were polite and well mannered and followed our school values throughout.
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Olympic Day has turned into Olympic Week!
Wed 25 Jun 2025Olympic Day is celebrated every year on 23rd June to commemorate the revival of the modern Olympic games in 1894.
https://www.olympics.com/ioc/olympic-day
This was shared in assembly with the children on Monday and Tuesday and children were challenged to stay active and lunchtimes but to try something new, perfectly combining this half term's value of curiosity.
As you can see, the children fully embraced the Olympic spirit!
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Year 5 score success at annual Chance 2 Shine Cricket festival
Wed 25 Jun 2025After receiving 4 weeks of coaching and several afternoons practising, Year 5 headed to Hampton Cricket club for their Chance to Shine cricket festival.
The children were divided into nine teams and each team played three matches against other local schools, including Olton and St Andrew's. After a busy day of cricket, in which the majority of children demonstrated our values perfectly, our A team were victorious and won the overall compete award - a huge well done to them! We are waiting to hear if and when the final will be held.
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Year 2 - a perfect example of how we implement our curriculum here at Greswold!
Wed 25 Jun 2025This half term, year 2's Science topic has been minibeasts and their approach to delivering learning has been a perfect example of how to implement our curriculum here at Greswold.
Not only did they use an educational visit to Brandon Marsh to speak the pupil's engagement and motivation but they've brought wildlife back into the classroom to immerse the children further. Their butterfly farms are giving the children first hand experience of life cycles with the first butterflies emerging from their chrysalises.
However, the children are continuing to embed their minibeasts knowledge by incorporating the subject into their Design and Technology learning where they have mastered basic sewing techniques to make minibeast finger puppets.
Well done children, we'll all know where to come if we have any questions about minibeasts (or sewing!!!).
