Junior Girls' Latest News

Tuesday, 09 March 2010

World Book Day Celebrations for Junior Girls

Bolton School Junior Girls celebrated World Book Day with two days of literature based activities including a Book Aid International cover design competition, book quizzes, and dressing up as their favourite story characters. The Junior Sc...

Wednesday, 03 March 2010

Junior Girls Raise Over £1000 For Haiti

Bolton School Junior Girls have been busy raising over £1000 for the Haiti disaster fund, with a variety of fundraising events. The girls held a breakfast bar, a cake sale, a Hair for Haiti day and a sponsored walk, over three separate fund...

Friday, 12 February 2010

Hair for Haiti Day

Bolton School Junior Girls have raised £550 for the Haiti disaster fund. Over the course of two days, the girls held three events; a breakfast bar, a cake sale and today a Hair for Haiti day. Girls were allowed to wear their hair how they wa...

Thursday, 11 February 2010

Junior Girls Musical Showcase

Bolton School Junior Girls put their musical talents on display by performing in a Music Festival. An audience of parents was treated to short individual performances from the girls on a variety of instruments including piano, guitar, saxo...

Saturday, 06 February 2010

Chess Success for Junior Girls

Congratulations to the chess team of five girls from Year 9 whoattended the EPSCA qualifying competition at Bridgewater School on Saturday6 February and won through to the next round. They move intothe semi-final, which will be held at Po...

Wednesday, 20 January 2010

Hesketh House is Lord Leverhulme Tribute

The great granddaughter of Lord Leverhulme, the Honourable Mrs Heber-Percy, was the guest of honour at a Bolton School foundation stone laying ceremony, which was held to celebrate the construction of a new Junior Girls' School on the campus....

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Success for Hannah in Keoghs Calendar Competition

Bolton School Junior Girls' Division Year 3 pupil, Hannah Rayner, has had her drawing published in the 2010 Keoghs calendar, after it was chosen as one of the winning entries in a competition. Primary school pupils from Bolton and Coventry...

Thursday, 03 December 2009

Junior Girls Rock the Nativity Story

Bolton School Junior Girls got into the spirit of Christmas as they performed a rocking musical version of the nativity story 'Hosanna Rock' to a packed audience of parents. The girls produced a lively adaptation of the 'Hosanna Rock' musi...

Friday, 20 November 2009

"Silver Line-ing" for Girls' Netball Court

The netball court at Bolton School Junior Girls' School literally had a "silver line-ing" as pupils laid down silver coins (5p, 20p and 50p pieces) in an attempt to cover one line of the court during their morning break. They did this with ea...

Friday, 13 November 2009

Junior Girls’ British Schools Biathlon Qualifying Success

Bolton School Junior Girls from Years 5 and 6 represented the Girls' Division at the regional qualifying event of theBritish Schools' Biathlon competition, held in Liverpool on Sunday 8th November. The Girls each completed a 500m run and 5...

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

Junior Girls’ Shoebox Collection for Disadvantaged Children

Bolton School Junior Girls' have been busy collecting gifts, educational supplies, and hygiene items to send to underprivileged children in Serbia. The collection was part of Operation Christmas Child, the World's largest children's Christ...

Monday, 06 July 2009

Mrs Critchley's Amazing Career

Mrs Kathryn Critchley said a sad goodbye to Bolton School after 35 years of service to the Girls' Division. A ceremony was held to celebrate the much loved teacher's time at the School and pupils performed songs and readings dedicated to M...

Friday, 03 July 2009

Sweet Sale Raises Hundreds for Charity

The Junior School of Bolton School Girls' Division has raised several hundred pounds for charity with a non uniform day and an afternoon of sweet treats! The day was called a 'Purple People Day'; and combined various fundraising activities wi...

Wednesday, 01 July 2009

Combined Juniors are Athletic Champions

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 he...

Wednesday, 03 June 2009

Year 6 Girls Shake up Shakespeare

Year 6 girls at Bolton School have been working hard to re-enact and reinterpret eight short scenes from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Mrs Worsley, English Coordinator for Junior Girls, said: "The benefits of drama in the curriculum are far...

Monday, 01 June 2009

A Brand New School for Junior Girls

Bolton School is delighted to announce the building of a new school for Junior Girls, aged 7 to 11 years. The School's Governing Body has officially given the go ahead for the project, which it is expected will cost in the region of £5 millio...

Friday, 13 March 2009

Hundreds Raised on Red Nose Day

The Junior Department of Bolton School Girls' Division raised £631 for Comic Relief through wearing silly socks, selling red noses, baking cakes and holding raffles - and had plenty of fun to boot!

Friday, 13 March 2009

Junior Girls' School hosts AJIS Netball Tournament

Once again the Junior Department of Bolton School Girls' Division has played host to the annual Association of Junior Independent Schools' (AJIS) Netball Tournament. The competition, run at the School's netball pitches at Leverhulme Pavili...

Thursday, 05 March 2009

Girls Celebrate World Book Day

Year 6 girls helped everyone in the Junior School to celebrate World Book Day 2009 with their drama performances in the Girls' Division Theatre. Eight short scripted plays were performed. Colourful costumes and imaginative props helped evoke ...

Monday, 01 December 2008

Jujitsu proves a hit with Junior Girls

One option open to Bolton Junior Girls is that of taking up the martial art of jujitsu. Theclub is very popular and is lead by Sensei Andy. The girls enjoy it as they are able to increase their self-confidence, to think faster and to build up...

Wednesday, 02 July 2008

Hundreds Raised in Charity Afternoon

The Junior School of Bolton School Girls' Division has raised several hundred pounds for charity. The girls, aged 7-11, have been busy working hard in an end of term charity afternoon - a total of 15 cakes and sweets stalls were run and the m...

Wednesday, 02 July 2008

Junior School Appoints New Head

Bolton School has appointed Miss Sarah Sergeant as the new Head of the Girls' Junior School. She is joining this leading independent school from the City of London School for Girls where she has been since 2001. Initially appointed as a Junio...

Wednesday, 02 July 2008

Town Athletics Champions

Bolton School Junior Girls and Junior Boys' Schools combined their athletic talents and have won this year's Bolton Primary Schools' Athletic Championships. It was an outstanding performance by the two schools to become champions. Bolton S...

Thursday, 01 May 2008

Swim Teams Win Through to National Final

Two teams from Bolton School Girls Division Junior Department have won their way through to the 14th Team Championships for Primary Schools at Ponds Forge Sheffield on 21 June. Twenty three teams from the North-West took part in the prelim...

Friday, 14 March 2008

Netball Team Wins AJIS Tournament Plate

Bolton School hosted this year's annual AJIS Netball Tournament at the Leverhulme Pavilion and came away as the Plate winners. Twenty three teams entered the competition from twenty one schools and some outstanding netball was played. The ...

Thursday, 13 March 2008

Girls' Walk for Sports Relief

The Girls' Division Junior School entered into the spirit of Sport Relief as they walked around the Girls' Division building three times in an effort to raise money for the charity. They donned Sports Relief socks and proudly displayed them...