Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Y3 Sparrows - the best attendance in Greswold this academic year!
Wed 09 Jul 2025Congratulations to Year 3 Sparrows who've achieved the best attendance of any class at Greswold this academic year.
Their attendance percentage of 96.5% was 1% more than any other class, which is really impressive. Thank you to the parents of those children who've obviously played a big part in this success.
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Year 1 help to say Thank You to our wonderful parent volunteers
Tue 08 Jul 2025Year 1 pupils helped Mrs Scott and Mr Hornsey say a big thank you to those parents who have volunteered at Greswold in some way this academic year.
Our Volunteer Thank You Tea on Monday included parents who had attended educational visits, undertaken 1:1 reading with children, contributed to our fantastic Community Week and, of course, been part of our very hardworking PTA.
The attendees were also treated to a poetry and dance performance by pupils from year 1, led by Miss Jones.
The role of volunteers is so important in helping Greswold to deliver its ambitious curriculum so hopefully even more parents might get involved next year too!
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KS2 entertained by Y6 House Sports'
Tue 08 Jul 2025On Monday, all KS2 pupils were invited to watch the Y6 House Sports' competition. This event involves every single year 6 pupil in Rounders and Football games.
St Andrew's and St David' were joint winners in each event with the points gained going towards Wednesday's final House Point assembly where the whole school finds out which house has won this year's competition.
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Y6 tag Rugby success
Mon 07 Jul 2025Last week, 24 Year 6 children attended the Solihull Games Tag Rugby competition on Thursday. It was a fantastic day and the pupils played their hearts out.
Our competitive (Compete) team won their first round, putting them in 'Gold' group. The competition was then steep and they walked away with 4th position overall.
Our developing (Develop) team, who were focussing more on their teamwork skills, including respect and honesty, gained the Silver position.
Both Heidi and William should be commended for their outstanding skills on the pitch - so much so that Rugby scouts spotted them!
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A PTA Summer Fayre to remember
Mon 07 Jul 2025What a wonderful way to wrap up this year's PTA events' calendar! The Summer Fayre on Saturday was a brilliant success. Thank you to all families who attended and thank you to the lovely feedback you shared too. One new parent to Greswold commented that the event had a 'family orientated feel' which is exactly what we were aiming for.
The PTA member themselves were in at 9am to continue setting up after attending school the night before to start the process. This doesn't take into account the hours dedicated to organising the event at home and out of school beforehand. We're very lucky to have such dedicated members of our PTA but always member, anyone can join!
Once school receives a grand total. we will inform our parent community of how much money was raised. The funding raised at these types of events goes to enhancing the curriculum opportunities and learning experiences of all the children here at Greswold.
Thanks again to everyone involved and don't forget, the September Social is on Friday 26th September, the first event of a new PTA calendar year.
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Solihull Speaking Competition
Fri 04 Jul 2025On Monday last week, Anusha for Y5 represented Greswold at the very first Solihull Schools Public Speaking Competition. She delivered a four minute speech on the topic of how she sees advanced technology making the world a better place. The judges included the past Mayor of Solihull, the Chief Executive of Solihull MBC and a Deputy Lieutenant (who represent His Majesty The King). The certificates and prizes were awarded by the current Mayor.
The competition was officiated and organised by Solihull and District Soroptimists whose Competition Secretary emailed, following the competition, to say:
On behalf of the Education Group of SI Solihull, I would like to thank you for taking part in our Solihull Schools Speaking Competition on Monday.
Despite the heat, we had a wonderful afternoon and heard from eight young people, giving their speeches on topics that really interested them. One of the Judges has written to us and said “All the young people truly represented the very best of what Solihull has to offer, articulate, passionate and confident”. We all felt the same! Please give your student this message and they certainly were a credit to your school.
We are hoping to run the competition next year and hopefully you will be able to support it again.Greswold is so proud of Anusha for showing her self-confidence and personality along with high standards of knowledge, content, expression and presentation. Well done, Anusha.
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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!
