Memory Lane

13/11/2025

Wonderful to see Santa back at Greenwood!

12/11/2025

Exciting!

16/08/2022

In piecing together some of the history of Castle Vale School for the 50th anniversary, one piece of much talked about footage alluded us so we were very pleased to be sent a link today to ‘Troublemakers’ featuring a number of pupils and of course a lot of footage of the old school building in the 80’s. Enjoy!

Central TV, 1983I'm so thrilled, after searching for years, I've managed to find the film my sister, Jackie Trippas (was Smith), and her school friend, Paula...

09/01/2021

Can you spot the school?

Short Video Showing Castle Vale in Birmingham Under Construction in the 1960s

09/11/2020

Another great video from the Greenwood Academy crew!

Take a look at this video for Children in Need 2020. Pupils from our Year 9 bubble we're proud to take part performing Happiness by McFly! We were featured o...

08/11/2020

Greenwood Academy are looking for ex Castle Vale School/Greenwood pupils who might just inspire current pupils with their stories since leaving school.

- Have you gone on to have an interesting career?
- Been successful against the odds?
- Did you go to university? What did you study and where did it lead?
- Straight into paid work at 15/16? What happened next.

If you’d be willing to share your story we’d welcome an email. Reach us at [email protected]

25/03/2019

Can you help us find a star?? Tag someone who you know should be entering this year!

It couldn’t be simpler to enter Castle Vale’s Got Talent this year. Email your entry to [email protected] or come along to the open auditions this Saturday 30th March at 10am at Greenwood. Tag a friend if you think they should enter! More chances to win this year too - check out the website for details www.greenwoodacademy.org

04/03/2019

Spread the word about the schools next opportunity for any budding performers.

Check out the ALL NEW Audition via Video and win one of our new categories. All the details on this link https://sites.google.com/aetinet.org/greenwood-academy/community-performing-arts/cvgt-2019

12/01/2019

Catch this at 5:25pm on Sunday on CBBC for a last look at the old school building and a look at the new.

See a brand new episode of Our School at 5:25pm on CBBC this Sunday. A last look at the old building and a chance to see how those Year 7’s in 2014 have blossomed!