Eco Day

Our recent Eco-Day involved fundraising for Water Aid, The Big School Tidy Up, litter picking, making artwork from recycled plastic and much more!

Collection4Clothes

As part of Eco-Day, we collecting tens of bags of old clothes and toys to help raise money and awareness for Collection4Clothes!

Harvest - Atherton and Tyldesley Food Bank 

We’re blown away by the generosity of our families in donating 184kg of essentials to the Atherton and Tyldesley food bank!

Every year Gilded Hollins hosts a coffee morning to raise money for MacMillan Cancer Support. Year 6 organise and host this event taking orders for hot drinks, collecting money and selling raffle tickets- all for charity. This year was a great community event raising lots of money for a charity dear to Gilded Hollins.

Goodbye Timber Trail!

Thank you to our amazing parents for helping take our Timber Trail down, ready for the new one!

Madikwe Wildlife Foundation

Derek Beaumont, Neil Jukes, Jack Hughes and rangers from the Madikwe Wildlife Foundation visited us today to help raise awareness for the amazing rhino conservation work that is going on in South Africa! 

Timber Trial Fundraising 

Ben, James and Evie did an amazing job, raising £80 towards our new timber trial. Thank you, also, to everyone who has donated towards our GoFundMe page so far! https://www.gofundme.com/f/gilded-hollins-new-timber-trail

Litter Picking 

A huge well done to our Year 4 and 5 children for helping out in the community! They went on a mass litter pick about Pennington Flash to help keep the local area tidy!

Leigh Centurions

Following our successful competition entry, the children were able to visit a Leigh Centurions game and go onto the pitch before the game and at half time. Thank you to Leigh Centurions, Leigh Community Trust and Leigh’s players for giving our rugby team a memorable experience! We were invited back a second time! This time, our Year 5 and Year 6 children were given the amazing opportunity to walk out onto the pitch with their heroes! 

Leigh Centurions 

The children were paid a visit by Leigh Centurions stars Ryan Brierley and James Bell for a question and answer session after we successfully designed the Centurions' warm-up top for the current Super League season. 

Christmas at Bolton Hospital 

Our COVID-safe baubles have been using to decorate Orthopaedic Out Patients’ Christmas tree!

Harvest

We’ve donated a WHOPPING 184kgs of food to Atherton and Leigh Food Bank! Another great Gilded Hollins team effort for a brilliant cause!

Haydock Hedgehog Helpers

We're selling craft packs from the school office to raise money and awareness for Haydock Hedgehog Helpers!

Macmillan Fundraising

Here are all our Macmillan Marathoners doing their bit! I think you will agree with me that Team GB had better watch out because #GoGilded are coming to get them! We actually ran a phenomenal 1270 laps which equates to 283.86 miles and that it 10.83 marathons! Wow! As a family, we have raised a remarkable £231.50. Thank you for your generosity!

75th Anniversary of VE Day

On Friday 8th May, we celebrated the 75th anniversary of the end of war in Europe. The children worked incredibly hard to produce great work to celebrate the occasion!

Supporting the NHS

In these difficult times, we are eternally grateful for the work that our NHS and other key workers are doing! Our children have been making rainbows to show support for the NHS. Here are some of NHS heroes with our rainbows on the Orthopaedic Outpatients ward at Bolton Hospital, at The Cancer Care Centre in Wigan, at Alder Hey on 4A and at The Clatterbridge Centre, Aintree!

Go Gilded Hats

Wow! We managed to order over 100 'Go Gilded' hats for both children and staff. The money raised goes directly to the Oddballs Foundation, a charity that raises awareness for testicular cancer. Not only do we now look great but we've raised money for a good cause!

Fundraising for Macmillan

Recently, our dear friend and much-loved colleague Janet Collier passed away having been diagnosed with cancer earlier this year. She was only 53. To raise money and awareness for a worthy cause, Macmillan, that supported Mrs Collier through her illness, Mr Taylor decided to shave off his curly hair. All money raised from the 'Mr Taylor's Brave The Shave' would go to Macmillan and Cancer Research. Initially, we hoped to raise around £1,000 in Janet's memory but in true Gilded Hollins fashion, children, parents, staff and friends of the school really got behind the cause. Our target was surpassed within 6 hours and the donations continued to roll in...

On Friday 27th September, at 3.30, the school hall was packed with children, parents, grandparents, staff, governors, ex-pupils and even children who hadn't attended Gilded Hollins for 'Mr Taylor's Brave The Shave'! Mrs Renshaw expertly shaved Mr Taylor's hair with the final total raised being £3,518.88 (£4,332.35 including Gift Aid). This occasion was definitive proof of what an amazing, caring and generous family that anybody associated with Gilded Hollins is a part of!

Fundraising for 'Shoulder to Soldier' 

Our pupils decided that they would like the door collection from our second nativity play to go towards helping people in our local area. We raised over £200 thanks to the generosity of our families at Gilded Hollins. This morning, the whole school were treated to a visit and a special assembly from members of the shoulder to Soldier charity. During the assembly, Ethan (a Y6 pupil) was presented with a special gift. Ethan helped to raise a staggering £690 for the charity last summer completing the National Three Peaks Challenge alongside another former Gilded Hollins pupil. Today we all learned how the money Ethan raised has already helped so many veterans, soldiers and soldiers families. We are all extremely proud of Ethan! A big thank you to everyone who donated and to our all of our caring pupils.