Sport
Greenwood Dale won the State School of the Year award at The School Sport Matters Awards 2006. The citation said "Greenwood Dale School, in one of the toughest communities in the country, in Nottingham, is a hotbed for sport in spite of having no grass pitches and limited facilities ... Exceptional."
The standard of sport at the school has been described as "sporting excellence" and the students have won many individual awards.
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)