Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Young Carers come together to share their experiences
Thu 30 Apr 2026Last week, a group of Young Carers spent time together sharing their experiences of tube feeding. All the children have direct experience of assisting with this process for loved ones. The children conveyed a lot of care, empathy and understanding of their situations. The children all spoke about the unsettling feelings they experienced at first but also realised how being Young Carers gives them many incredible skills. They all agreed that it was a positive experience to be able to share their stories.
Young Carers groups in UK schools are support initiatives designed to identify and assist pupils under 18 who look after a family member with an illness, disability or other type of need. At Greswold, this extends to children who help to look after adults too. This group, led by Mr Jones, provides safe spaces to talk about experiences and peer support.
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Our successful Sponsored Read raises nearly £1,000 for our school and class libraries!
Thu 30 Apr 2026Thank you to all of our Greswold families who took part in the Sponsored Read event last term. The total raised was an incredible £604.14. This total was then added to with an extra 60% reward from the publisher meaning the total raised for school was £966.60!
Not only will this money, along with the money raised from this year's Book Fairs, fund improvements to our school library but our aim this term is to also enhance every single classroom library too. This ambition will enable pupils to fuel their curiosity of current learning topics, to become more aware of our school's diversity and to promote their enthusiam for reading even more.
Winners from each year group, in terms of total minutes read in a week, were as follows:
- Nursery – Arthur
- Reception – Freya
- Year 1 – Roman M
- Year 2 – Maryam
- Year 3 - Daniel
- Year 4 – Shashvanth
- Year 5 – Evelyn
- Year 6 – Hamna
Each winner received a certificate in an assembly and a £10 book voucher.
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A wonderful gesture from Ellie and another example of pupils demonstrating our values!
Thu 30 Apr 2026Yesterday morning, Mr Hornsey found a bag and a message on his chair.
He'd previously asked Ellie, in year 5, if he could borrow a pair of her goalkeeping gloves for the football festival he was organising. Although she is a very talented footballer, Ellie knew she couldn't take part in the festival as she had already represented the school team throughout the year and the festival was for children who hadn't already.
Nevertheless, perfectly demonstrating our value of Belonging, Ellie provided the teams with a bag full of goalkeeping gloves and shinpads for other children to use in case they didn't own any themselves.
What a wonderful gesture from Ellie and a perfect example of how our values are applied by pupils in many different ways, both in and out of school.
Thank you Ellie, we're all very proud of you.
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Our hardworking PTA are always raising money!
Thu 30 Apr 2026For the past three months, the Greswold PTA has been one of the charities that shoppers, visiting Becketts Farm farm shop, can donate special tokens to as part of their community funding programme.
When a shopper buys a carrier bag, they donate a token to one of the charities and as a result, the PTA have been awarded a cheque for £490.56!
This is just one example of how our magnificent PTA exhausts every avenue, both in and out of the school, to raise precious funds for school to buy those extra curriculum enhancements which help us to achieve our ambitions for the pupils.
Currently, we are still part of the Tesco token scheme which is running in shops in Solihull centre, Hobs Moat and Hermitage Road.
Thank you to the volunteers who selflessly give their time and energy for the benefit of all the pupils here at Greswold. We're all extremely lucky to have you!
If any parent would like to be part of the PTA or simply to help out at events, simply click on the link below for more information:
https://www.greswold.solihull.sch.uk/pta/
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A festival of football fun enjoyed by everyone in attendance!
Thu 30 Apr 2026Yesterday evening, over 70 pupils from Greswold and Dicken's Heath schools came together for a specially arranged football festival for year 5 and 6 pupils.
This annual event, once again hosted by Lode Heath school, was an opportunity for boys and girls, yet to represent their respective school football teams, to have receive the chance to play for the school team. 2 girls' teams and 2 boys' teams from each school played a total of 3 matches each in perfect conditions, especially for their spectating families.
The values on show from Greswold pupils were exemplary, a really positive common theme when the school takes part in inter-school events, and a perfect chance for year 6 pupils to show their determination and enthusiasm for football as they approach their KS3 journeys in September.
Well done to everyone involved.
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Both boys and girls football teams narrowly miss out on play-off finals!
Fri 17 Apr 2026It's been a very busy football season for the boys and girls school football teams this year which culminated in very pleasing league finishes.
However, both teams narrowly missed out in qualifying for the end of season play-offs with the girls' team finishing second in their league and the boys finishing third.
Well done to all the pupils who have represented the school this year at football, you've been a credit to your year groups, families and the school as a whole.
However, the football season hasn't completely ended as year 6 children and some year 5's who haven't yet represented the school team this year will get a chance to take part in a specially arranged football friendly festival against Dicken's Heath on Wednesday 29th April at Lode Heath starting at 4:30pm.
Why not come along and lend your support.
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Happy Puthandu to our Tamil families
Tue 14 Apr 2026Happy New Year to our Tamil families. Currently, at Greswold, we have a number of pupils whose families are from a Tamil background, originating from Southern India or regions of Sri Lanka.
Puthandu or Tamil New Year is celebrated on the first day of the Tamil month Chithirai, typically falling on April 14th. It marks the beginning of the Tamil solar calendar and is a day of new beginnings and joy.
Thank you to Tanvikaa for designing a wonderfully colourful and informative poster to celebrate the occasion.
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April's Language of the Month is Norwegian
Tue 14 Apr 2026
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Dates for the Diary
Fri 27 Mar 2026Dates for the Diary
30th March – 10th April – Easter Holidays
13th April – First day of Summer Term
13th April – Y2 & 3 Cricket Taster Sessions
13th – 16th April – Y6 Practise SATS
14th April – Y3 Tri Golf sessions
22nd April – Y2 Africa Day
24th April – Class Photos Day
24th – 26th April – Y4 trip to Standon Bowers
27th April – KS2 SEND Archery at Lode Heath
28th April – Y3 Tri Golf sessions
29th April – Football Friendly Festival at Lode Heath
1st May – Open Afternoon
1st May – Y4 Class Photos
4th May – May Day Bank Holiday (School Closed)
6th May – KS2 SEND Panathlon at Langley
6th May – Nursery visit to Attwell Farm
7th May – INSET Day – School closed for Elections
11th – 14th May – Y6 SATS
12th May – Y3 Tri Golf sessions
15th May – Y6 WW2 Day
18th – 20th May – Y3 visits to Lunt Fort
19th May – Nursery AM Sports Day
20th May – Reception & KS1 Sports Day / PTA Tuck Shop
21st May – Y4 OOA Festival at Lode Heath
21st May – Nursery PM Sports Day
22nd May – KS2 Sports Day / PTA Tuck Shop
22nd May – Break up for Half term break
25th – 29th May – Half term break
1st – 5th June – Y4 Multiplication Check period
2nd June – Y2 visit to Brandon Marsh (1 class)
4th June – Y5 Anglo-Saxon Day
8th – 12th June – Y1 Phonics Screening Week
9th June – Y2 visit to Brandon Marsh (2 classes)
10th – 12th June – Y6 Trip to Condover Hall
15th – 19th June – Y5 Bikeability
15th June – PTA Fathers Day gift shop
16th June – Reception visit to Dudley Zoo
19th June – PTA Fathers Day gift shop
22nd June – Y6 Borough Sports at Tudor Grange
22nd June – New Reception and Nursery Open Evening
2nd – 3rd July – Transition Days
7th – 8th July – Y6 Production at Langley
17th July – Last day of Summer Term
20th July – INSET Day
21st July - 31st August – Summer Holidays
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Parent / Carer Forum responses
Thu 26 Mar 2026Dear Parents and Carers,
Although this week’s Parent/Carer Forum was cancelled, there were several enquiries from parents we would still like to respond to. These are as follows:
Phonics enquiry about spelling ‘Alien’ words – Aliens words (pseudo-words) are made-up, nonsense words used in phonics to test if children can accurately decode (blend) sounds rather than on relying on memory. Examples include steck, quemp, jeb, vop, chirt, and flop.
Be assured that these words don’t form spelling lists for the children to learn. Children are not expected to spell these words, simply to decode them.
EYFS/KS1 Universal meals – At Greswold, unless there’s extenuating/medical circumstances, every child in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 are expected to have Universal Free School Meals. This has been the case for at least 10 years now and helps to reassure families and school staff that children are getting a balanced diet whilst at school. Our school meals are provided by Solihull Catering so any enquiries about the menu should be directed to them using the following contact address:
In respect of children being able to access the school menu, especially younger children, each class has a visual presentation of the menu on their whiteboard screen first thing in the morning to help the children make their choice. This is done during registration.
Extra-Curricular clubs and ‘lettings’ – Extra-Curricular clubs are activities which take place directly after the school day finishes led by external providers or school staff. To book a child onto a club, parents can do this through the provider, the school office or the member of staff.
Evening ‘lettings’ are organisations that sub-let our facilities to run an evening club. These usually take place after school clubs and are run by organisers, separate to the school, who provide us with their DBS checks as, on occasion, their club may coincide with a school event, e.g. Parent Consultations.
Holiday club dates – Greswold Greyhounds’ offer non-term time holiday clubs based at school. The dates of these are released to parents in advance and usually take place when the children aren’t in school. However, holiday clubs don’t take place on the final two weeks of the summer holidays, on bank holidays or at other times when there isn’t enough uptake to warrant running a club. It is a business after all. Therefore, this can affect whether certain weeks can take place at all and will be a reason why changes might be made on short notice.
