Building for the future
At Bolton School, we have some of the best educational
facilities and resources available within the North of England.
However, it is important to invest constantly in these facilities
to ensure we continue to keep pace with rapid technological changes
and meet the needs of all our pupils.
In recent years many of our former pupils and parents have
kindly donated to the School's Annual Fund. These gifts have
allowed each section of the School to invest in some fantastic new
resources and opportunities including programmable robots for Park
Road and new playground equipment for the Junior and Infant
schools. Thank you to everyone who has donated to the Annual Fund,
your gifts have made a very real and immediate difference to our
pupils.
Over the last two years the School has invested over £12 million
in developing new, state-of-the-art infant and junior school
provision, creating an impressive new facility for our Infants in
Beech House, a refurbished Park Road for our Junior Boys and a
fantastic, standalone building for our Junior Girls, called Hesketh
House. To read more about these remarkable developments please
click here.
A new Sixth Form Centre
We are now looking to develop the School's Sixth Form provision
by constructing an exciting, shared Sixth Form Centre within the
School campus. You can read a news story item
here.
The Centre will provide independence for our Sixth Formers and
will encompass:
- a state of the art ICT suite, with seminar rooms for project
work and tutorial sessions;
- quiet study spaces for individual research and learning;
- a relaxed common room area for the pupils to socialise in and
enjoy during their lunch and study breaks;
- a refectory café area;
- an exhibition room to be used across the Foundation for a
variety of events for parents, pupils, visitors and our alumni;
and
- a main School reception and Sixth Form staff
offices.
Lessons will still be taught in a single sex environment, but
the Centre will be shared by both our Sixth Form girls and boys and
will provide top-quality facilities to match the already excellent
academic teaching.
This will provide an ideal setting in which our pupils can
conduct their A Level work, giving them the best of both worlds - a
first-rate, single-sex education with resources for collaborative
and private study in an independent, sociable, mixed environment,
bridging the gap between their School years and adult lives.
School will be shortly be seeking planning permission to
begin the build in 2012.
Although we are in a solid financial position, School cannot
prudently fund this new venture entirely from our financial
reserves, in addition to funding our recent, significant building
works. Unlike some independent Schools, we do not have a huge
endowment fund to call upon - our endowment essentially comprises
of our iconic main buildings, given to our pupils by Lord
Leverhulme. We are therefore looking to continue this tradition of
philanthropy and finance the Sixth Form Centre through donations.
So far, we have raised around half the amount needed to push ahead
with the development. We are aiming to secure a further £1
million within the next year.
The new Sixth Form Centre is going to be an excellent addition
to the School campus and provide a real benefit to our pupils.
There are several key naming opportunities available within the
development - if you are interested in finding out about these or
about how you can support this venture , please contact Julia Bates
our Head of External Relations on (01204) 434 718 or jbates@boltonschool.org.uk.