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Thursday, 18 March 2010
Bolton School has celebrated the 25th anniversary of
Sir Cameron Mackintosh's Les Miserables with its own stunning
performance of the legendary musical. Over 1,000 paying
guests will watch the production in the boys' Great Hall over 4
sold out ev...
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
On finding himself in London, Harry decided to meet up with his
old Bolton School friend from the late '50s, Ian. Nothing
newsworthy about that, until you realise that one gentleman was Sir
Harry Kroto, the UK's only Nobel Prize Winner in Chemist...
Tuesday, 02 March 2010
The Bolton School Joint Jazz band has been chosen to perform at
the world famous Montreux Jazz Festival!
Every year in July, for more than two weeks, Montreux swings
with great sounds in what is one of the most prestigious festivals
in the...
Monday, 08 February 2010
A celebration dinner at Bolton School saw prizes and
certificates handed out to thirty eight Year 5 pupils as the
'SHINE: Serious Fun on Saturdays' programme came to a successful
conclusion. The pupils from state primary schools across
Bolto...
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
The number of pupils studying at Bolton School is set to
increase whilst class sizes will be reduced. The extensive
building programme that has been taking place over recent months
means that both the Girls' Division and the Boys' Division ha...
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Heritage experts have held up Bolton School as an example to the
country on how school buildings should be modernised.
The building was constructed in 1924 although the school's
history goes back almost 500 years, and now it has been cited ...
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Four Year 10 pupils from Bolton School formed part of the Guard
of Honour before the England v New Zealand International Rugby Test
Match at Twickenham.
Two boys, Will Doyleand Andrew Hughes, and two girls,
Natasha Williams and Ruth Brown, were ...
Saturday, 07 November 2009
State primary school pupils have been given a chance to shine at
Bolton School, one of the North's leading independent
schools. The Shine: Serious Fun on Saturdays programme
launched on 7 November and, over the course of eleven weeks, Year 5
chil...
Monday, 19 October 2009
Bolton School's 2009 Open Morning (17 October) was a hugely
successful event. Hundreds of families and their children
flocked to the campus to visit the Nursery, the new Infants' School
(Beech House), the Boys' Division newly refurbished Junior S...
Thursday, 01 October 2009
Four pupils acted as ambassadors for the School and
representatives for the North-West when they flew out to South
Africa to coach in townships and watch the Second Test Match
between The British and Irish Lions and South Africa, the World
Champi...
Thursday, 27 August 2009
Boys' Division: 67% of Entries A* or A.
Once again students of Bolton School Boys' Division have
performed outstandingly well in their GCSEs. Just over 67% of all
grades were either A* or A and an impressive 33.8% of all papers
were graded at A*...
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Bolton School is celebrating outstanding A Level results.
The Girls' Division set new records in terms of the number of
passes at A grade and, overall, students equalled the best
performance ever by the School! 62% of entries were graded A and
8...
Monday, 03 August 2009
Seven boys and eight girls from Bolton School's Year 12 took
part in the Key 103 Challenge. Working in two mixed groups, the
students spent two hours in the morning producing an advertisement
and two hours in the afternoon producing a twenty minu...
Wednesday, 01 July 2009
Seventeen students from Bolton School's Sixth Form have been
celebrating, having received offers to study at Oxford and
Cambridge Universities from Autumn 2009. Nine students from the
Boys' Division and eight students from the Girls' Division hav...
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Bolton School is about so much more than just an education and a
fantastic performance like tonight's brings home what an amazing
place this is! Bolton School is a community and events like this,
involving so many people, show us at our ver...
Wednesday, 03 June 2009
Bolton School Junior Boys and Junior Girls combined their
talents and gave an outstanding athletics performance despite the
thunderstorms, to become Bolton Schools' Athletics Champions for
the second year running.
The annual meeting was held at ...
Monday, 18 May 2009
Actors from the Sixth Forms of the Girls' and Boys' Divisions
have delivered a stunning performance of Hamlet at Bolton School.
Mrs Sowerby, who directed the production, said: "The cast rehearsed
with incredible dedication and audiences were trea...
Friday, 01 May 2009
Primary schools were back at Bolton School this week for a
Science Festival aimed at inspiring young minds. Last week many of
the same pupils had attended a workshop with Sir Harry Kroto, a
Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry and Old Boy of the Schoo...
Monday, 20 April 2009
Whilst many schools are cutting back on their modern foreign
languages teaching, Bolton School is expanding its provision in a
whole variety of ways.
In the next academic year, the School will hold a Languages
Festival, which will be open to loc...
Monday, 08 December 2008
Bolton School is taking part in a Carol Concert on 8 December at
7.00pm at Manchester Cathedral, with all proceeds going to
MacMillan Cancer Support. The evening is being hosted by DJ Andy
Peebles and promises inspired performances from the Boys'...
Monday, 01 December 2008
Bolton School's annual Joint Choral Concert saw some exquisite
renditions of Mozart's Coronation Mass, Handel's Zadok the Priest
and Parry's I Was Glad.
The combined talents of the School's Joint Orchestra, the Senior
Choir Girls' Division, the ...
Monday, 01 September 2008
At a time when many schools are seeing reduced applications due
to the demographic downturn, Bolton School has bucked the trend.
The number of boys registering for the Entrance Exam at age 11 was
the highest it has been in over 10 years.
Boys' D...
Friday, 01 August 2008
A league of independent schools in the North-West, published by
the Manchester Evening News, has ranked Bolton School at the top of
the table. The ranking, which covered Greater Manchester,
Lancashire and Cheshire, has been determined by how ...
Tuesday, 01 July 2008
Boys' Division: Records Tumble
It has been an outstanding year for Bolton School's Boys'
Division at GCSE. Records tumbled as the boys registered superb
results, well above those achieved by previous cohorts. All boys
passed 5A*- C at a record a...
Monday, 02 June 2008
Girls' Division: 56% of all entries are As
It has been an excellent year for the Girls' Division of Bolton
School. 56% of the all entries were graded A and over 80% were
graded at either A or B. The overall pass rate was 99.5%.
Four girls got 5...
Tuesday, 04 March 2008
A cast of 30 pupils from both the Boys' and the Girls' Division
are set to star in the smash-hit Broadway musical Little Shop of
Horrors. Tonight, Tuesday 4 March 2008, is opening night and the
show will run for 5 nights in the School's Arts Cent...
Wednesday, 01 August 2007
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has published
its 2007 secondary school league tables, based on performance in
GCSE and A Level examinations.
Bolton School Girls' Division was top of the table of Bolton
schools with its near pe...
Wednesday, 01 August 2007
The Boys' and Girls' Divisions of Bolton School joined together
to perform a sensational summer concert at the Victoria Hall in
Bolton. A packed audience witnessed a three hour musical
extravaganza which was a celebration of the musical talent of...
Monday, 02 July 2007
Boys' Division: 100% Pass Rate and 9 Pupils Get 10A*
Grades
In the Boys' Division there were some outstanding results as
students opened their GCSE envelopes this morning. No less than 9
candidates achieved a full set of 10 A* and more than a th...
Monday, 02 July 2007
Bolton School Boys' and Girls' Divisions are equal top in the
borough in the government's annual secondary school performance
tables. This year, the Department for Education and Skills has set
a new benchmark and has ranked schools on how many pu...
Friday, 01 June 2007
Girls' Division: 87% of Entries Graded A or B and 97.4% of
Entries Graded A, B or C
Bolton School Girls' Division has recorded its best ever A Level
results. In a year which saw a 100 percent pass rate, 87 percent of
all entries were graded A or...
Monday, 21 August 2006
In common with thousands of others, during the past few weeks I
have been consumed by the thoughts of A-level results, and so it
was with great relief that I learned I had achieved the 5 'A'
grades needed to secure my place at Durham University ...
Sunday, 20 August 2006
Best Ever Year For Boys
School records tumbled today as students at Bolton School Boys'
Division opened their results envelopes. No less than 46 candidates
achieved 3 grade As or better, and 81% of all entries were graded
at A or B. This is the ...
Tuesday, 01 August 2006
Girls' Division: An Increase In Percentage of A* And A
Grades
In the Girls' Division, the percentage of passes at A* or A
grade was 81%, up by 1% from last year; out of the 125 girls
sitting GCSEs, 41% of papers were graded at A*. Eight girls
ac...