Tidbury Green School

Happy Jólabókaflóð (the Icelandic Christmas Eve tradition of book gifting and reading) to our lovely Tidbury community! Wishing all of our families, staff and children a Happy Christmas and our very best wishes for 2026. We’re looking forward to sharing our plans soon for how we’ll be joining in with the 2026 National Year of Reading 📚🎄

🎶 Voting is now OPEN 🎶
Our Tidbury Green School choir have been hitting all the high notes throughout the festive season. They have had a long list of performance requests this year including Tesco, Monkspath, the Tidbury Christmas Lights Switch On, Touchwood and a truly magical evening as the service choir at Birmingham Cathedral! With your help, they could receive the local recognition they deserve in the Touchwood Choir Competition which is now open. We would love you to help them by sharing widely with your friends, family and colleagues to help Mrs Ridgers and the Tidbury Choir swap their Santa hats for crowns 👑
The voting link you’ll need is here https://www.eventsattouchwood.co.uk/christmaschoir
Thank you so much for your support.

Congratulations to our Key Stage 2 THINK award winners for December 2025! They have each gone over and above to be their very best in school. They each received a coveted Tidbury Token for our book vending machine as well as huge celebration and praise from us for all of their fantastic learning and progress. ♥

Congratulations to our Early Years and Key Stage 1 THINK award winners for December 2025! They have each gone over and above to be their very best in school. They each received a coveted Tidbury Token for our book vending machine as well as huge celebration and praise from us all for their fantastic learning and progress. ♥

🎄Carols Around the Christmas Tree🎄
Key Stage 2 did us so proud this week at their Christmas Carols concert. They sang beautifully together and gave us all some precious time together to pause and bring us back to the true meaning of Christmas. Thank you to all of our families for coming along to let us treat you to the children's marvellous concert. We wish you all a very merry christmas!🎅🏼

🤩 Tidbury Green PTA News 🤩
Wow! We’ve been creating lots of Christmas magic and fun for the children of Tidbury Green whilst raising such an incredible total for future projects at your child’s school. A special thank you to Santa for coming to see us during his busy schedule for lots and lots of photos! Thank you to our whole community for coming together to make this happen at all of our festive events and raffles so that we can make even more improvements at Tidbury!

Thank you for your donations for Christmas Jumper Day to a cause so close to our hearts. In memory of the wonderful Mrs Neely, together we have raised over £1,000 to support families at their most fragile, through the wonderful work of the Edward’s Trust.

https://www.justgiving.com/page/tidbury-green-school-3?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL

Last week, four of our Tidbury pupils visited the Council House and met our Mayor of Solihull to receive awards amongst their proud families and teachers. We are delighted to see our inspiring young people being celebrated by our local authority. We loved hearing about all that they are achieving both personally and academically as a result of their incredible strength of character. 💙 solihullcouncil Solihull Council

🎄🎄 Christmas Events Rundown 🎄🎄
Don’t forget to support our PTA events this week and get your tickets for …Christmas Film Night and Photo with Santa 🎅🏼

⚡️ Smartphone Free Christmas ⚡️ Every Christmas, lots of children ask for the same big gift: a smartphone.
But many parents are realising that the “extras” that come with it, like late-night scrolling, group-chat stress, and algorithms that never take a break, aren’t what they want for their kids.

Quietly, a shift is happening. Families are choosing a calmer, more grounded childhood instead of devices designed to hook their attention.

And that brings us to the question we hear all the time:
“If not a smartphone, what can my child use?”

Thankfully, safer alternatives have come a long way. Tech companies are finally offering phones that keep kids connected without social media, addictive feeds, or the open internet. The tricky part is simply knowing which one to pick.

So the team at Smartphone Free Childhood have put together a quick guide to help.

✨ Watch their new video covering the best child-friendly phones this Christmas:
https://youtu.be/jF2LHiOPm7M?si=1DbFNubsQx4CDvv2

Hopefully it provides useful information and helps make this Christmas and 2026 a time where we let our children keep their childhood.

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We’re so excited to be singing here tomorrow! The Tidbury Choir, have their biggest performance to date at Birmingham Cathedral! Thank you to pwc_pricewaterhousecoopers for inviting our choir to sing at your annual Christmas service and Mrs Ridgers for her dedication to all of the preparations for this memorable experience for the children and their families 💙 🎶 Solihull Council Solihull Council PwC

Our Year 1 Owls and Eagles had a wonderful time on their trip to St James Church for Journey to the Stable. The children took part in a range of exciting, hands-on activities: they gathered as shepherds around a cosy 'campfire', met the wise men and learnt about early astronomy and explored the Christmas story in an engaging, interactive way.
The children also made their own stars from lolly sticks, which they proudly brought back to school. A highlight of the visit was seeing the story of Jesus’ birth performed for us – with a Mary who looked very familiar to the children! Thank you to Mrs Holmes for being fully immersed in the performance.
It was a magical, festive experience that the children thoroughly enjoyed.