A huge thank you to Tori from @OASES_NorthEast for our engagement session for our Edible Playground! We’ve planted all kinds, like strawberries, cucumbers and cauliflower to name a few. #TeamGillas #SchoolGarden

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We really are a green fingered bunch at Gillas Lane! Here we are planting in and preparing some of our beds! #SchoolGardening #TeamGillas

What a way to start a Wednesday morning… Gillas Lane has been awarded GOLD for the Active Sunderland Schools Charter Mark for another continuous year!

And we are off! Gardening at Gillas Lane this year has begun! Today, we had a spot of tidying and harvesting to do. Next week… seed sowing! #TeamGillas #GoodToBeGillas #WeWill

Today at Gillas Lane, we held the first of our half-termly OPAL assemblies of the year. We, and our children, understand the importance of rich, high-quality play. #TeamGillas #GoodToBeGillas

Team Gillas at front and centre, all ready for the Houghton Feast Parade!

Our first Family OPAL Afternoon was a success! Thank you to all of the friends and families who were able to join in the OPAL fun!

To launch the national TTRS competition, the teachers have vanished and school has been taken over by ROCKSTARS! This week, the children will have lots of opportunities to take part in Times Table Rock Stars and earn points for themselves and Gillas Lane. Rock on, gang!🎸🤘

We have finally received the Active Sunderland GOLD award in the post today! We are so proud of all the Gillas Lane children who have helped us achieve this. Huge congrats to our PE Leads, Miss Carpenter & Mr Douglass.🌟💙

Legendary 6 with Mr Forster have been working hard on some gorgeous rewriting of the prologue from Ross MacKenzie’s Nowhere Emporium. We’d love a reply Ross if you’re not too busy writing awesome texts! ✍️ #TeamGillas

A huge thank you to our friends at Ogden Trust who have kindly donated all of this fantastic physics equipment which will PHYSICally improve our science teaching and learning at Gilllas Lane. 💡⚡️🔌🔋

Our friends at Family First have shared a free copy of their magazine for parents! Family First was founded in 2017 with a simple mission: to empower parents and schools with the necessary resources to improve the well-being of children and young adults across the UK. 💙💙

Once we’d sent the children home, we were lucky enough to have Tori and Hannah from OASES deliver a gardening training session! As always, we love working with the guys from OASES- they’re so knowledgable! Thank you!💙 #TeamGillas #SchoolGarden #GoodToBeGillas

Spring has definitely arrived in Houghton! The children of Gillas Lane are thoroughly enjoying their fun in the sun! #TeamGillas #HOPToIt #GoodToBeGillas

What a glorious day we’ve had! We’ve been working with the wonderful Philip and Jack, from Wear Rivers Trust, for another brilliant trip to Roker! These are the best guys for the job if you’re learning about rivers! #TeamGillas #GoodToBeGillas

Today, we arrived back to school to a wonderful surprise! We’ve been successful in achieving the Level 4 RHS School Garden Award! Well done to all of our fantastic children who make sure our grounds are always looking gorgeous! 🌷🪴

There has been some outstanding den building at Gillas Lane today! Well done, gang! #HOPToIt

Today, we’ve had Tori visit us from OASES to run a family planting session. We’ve planted lots of fruits, vegetables and flowers! We can’t wait to welcome her back to Gillas Lane in the summer for a family harvesting session! #GoodToBeGillas #TeamGillas #HOPToIt

This week, in Y4/5, we have been reading At My Table, by Nigella Lawson. To conclude the week, we’ve made her red-hot salsa! We all feel so inspired by the way Nigella writes and, of course, cooks! #TeamGillas #GoodToBeGillas