The Girls' Division at Bolton School has raised an impressive £6,841.70 for the charity, Breakthrough Breast Cancer.  Mrs Ruth Loft, a representative of the charity, attended an assembly at the School and was delighted to receive such a large cheque from Headmistress, Mrs Gill Richards.

Earlier in the year, almost 1,000 pupils and many members of staff from Bolton School Girls' Division Junior and Senior Schools had taken part in a sponsored "Joggle”.   The event ran all day at the school and each entrant was required to jog, run, walk or waddle for 12 minutes.  Many parents turned out to cheer on their daughters. 

The event was a celebration in memory of Mrs Caroline Ward, a Mathematics teacher in the Girls’ Division, who died of breast cancer in August 2006.  The School decided that it would not hold a memorial service but, as a result of Mrs Ward’s love of the great outdoors, it would hold this walking and running event and make a donation to the breast cancer charity.

Mrs Gill Richards, Headmistress, made a short speech about Mrs Ward and unveiled the bench which the school had made in her memory.