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Students complete expedition for The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award is a fun programme of activities designed to build confidence and improve essential skills and attributes for life such as resilience, problem solving, teamwork and communication. Our Year 10 students joined students from Spalding Academy and Read more…

Mrs Barber shortlisted for Greater Lincolnshire Careers Champion Award The amazing work our careers team across South Lincolnshire Academies Trust is being officially recognised as Mrs Libby Barber, Careers & Aspirations Lead has be shortlisted for the ‘Greater Lincolnshire Careers Champion 2022/23’. Mrs Barber is one of 21 nominations selected by the Read more…

Early Career Teachers (ECTs) benefit from Trust-Wide Training Session The professional development of our staff is immensely important to us. Across South Lincolnshire Academies Trust, we employ 38 ECTs (which is short for Early Career Teachers who are in their first or second year of teaching) and we work with Read more…

Giles Academy celebrates glowing Ofsted report after inspection (left to right) Miss Katie Belcher, Head of School at Giles Academy and Mrs Lucy Conley, Executive Headteacher/CEO at South Lincolnshire Academies Trust Giles Academy has been on a rapid transformational journey with incredible change since September 2020 when it became part Read more…

Competition for students to write about their biggest inspiration We are always impressed with the writing skills of our students, which is why we have launched a ‘Summer Writing Competition’ to showcase their passion for creative writing and demonstrating original ideas. The theme of the writing competition is ‘My Biggest Inspiration’ and students can Read more…

Artist of the Term inspires and rewards creativity To inspire our students and develop their confidence, the Art Department at Giles Academy run a popular ‘Artist of the Term’ initiative for all Year groups. We are always keen to recognise and rewards the talents of our students and for this Read more…

Year 11 are treated on their last day at school For our Year 11 students, their last day at school was a joyful and emotional time as we made sure everyone had a special send off. After their last ever assembly from Mrs Conley and Miss Belcher, there was an Read more…

Food Pod gives Year 7 easy access to food and drink With an increase in students as Giles once again becomes one of the most popular schools in the Boston area, there has been even more students wanting to use the canteen during morning and break and lunchtimes (as well Read more…

Developing Sports Leaders through the medium of cricket Through the links our PE department have developed with Lincolnshire Cricket, our students are benefiting from a new initiative to create sports leaders. A talented group of Year 9 and Year 10 students have formed the Giles Academy Sports Leadership Group and Read more…

Geography students get creative for natural hazards project Our Year 7 Geography students were able to display their creative side in a Geography homework project over the Easter holidays when they had to create a 2D or 3D representation of either a volcanic eruption, earthquake, tsunami or tropical storm. We Read more…