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Sixth Form Girls' Latest News

This page is updated regularly to keep you up to date with all the breaking news!  The Girls' Division's Newsletter can be downloaded from the bottom of the page.

Thursday, 15 September 2011

Dont Spit in the Sky and Other Useful Advice for Students

Dr Tyldesley is welcomed to Bolton School

Old Girl Dr Joyce Tyldesley returned to Bolton School with some compelling advice for those students about to go out into the world.  Dr Tyldesley, a renowned Egyptologist, furnished the girls with a number of wise old maxims from Ancient Egypt, incl...
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Thursday, 18 August 2011

School Celebrates A Level Success

Jumping for joy

Students and staff at Bolton School Girls' Division celebrated another year of outstanding A level results.  Ninety five per cent of girls achieved A*-C grades with the overall pass rate being at 99.4%.  An impressive 81% of grades wer...
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Thursday, 30 June 2011

Thorrun Warns of Driving Dangers in ITV Film

Thorrun has produced a mini documentary to help tackle dangerous driving

Former Girls' Division pupil Thorrun Govind is helping to tackle the problem of dangerous drivers by producing a mini-documentary with the support of ITV. Thorrun's documentary Drive Smart, Drive Safe is now complete and will be distributed to drivi...
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Thursday, 16 June 2011

Sixth Formers Learn the Winning Way

Professor Maynard and Sixth Form Girls

Sixth Form students enjoyed a fascinating lecture by eminent Sport Psychologist, Professor Ian Maynard of the Centre for Sport Performance at Sheffield Hallam University.  The talk was part of their Gifted and Talented Programme.  I...
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Tuesday, 14 June 2011

New KPMG Internships for Bolton School

Katie Clinton is back in school

Sixth Form students at Bolton School are being offered the chance of a 4 week paid vacation programme at KPMG in Manchester.  This unique new scheme will see one girl and one boy undertake meaningful employment with the accounting giant, s...
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Friday, 10 June 2011

Sixth Formers 10,000 Hours of Community Work

Sixth Form Community Awards

Year 12 students and their parents enjoyed a celebration evening as they collected certificates and gave presentations about the community work they had undertaken over the past year. In total, over 10,000 hours of work had been undertaken by th...
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Wednesday, 13 April 2011

Young Consumer of the Year Success

The girls and their trophy

A team of four Sixth Form girls has won the regional round of the Trading Standards' Institute's Young Consumer of the Year Competition.  The girls battled it out in a knockout quiz at the Trafford Centre with seven other schools ...
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Monday, 14 March 2011

Emma Secures Place at World Youth Championships

Emma Saunders

Bolton School Swimmer Emma Saunders has secured her place in the World Youth Championships this summer by putting in a strong performance at the British Gas Championships in Manchester over the last week. Emma took on a gruelling schedule for...
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Thursday, 10 February 2011

Enterprise Trophy for Girls' Vision

Spectrum Celebrate

Just eight points separated the four teams that reached the final of the Hi-Life Diners' Club Enterprise Trophy, held at Bolton School.  In what is always a highly competitive event, Spectrum, comprising five Year 12 girls, finally ran out ...
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Thursday, 3 February 2011

Stunning New Sixth Form Centre to Provide Best of Both Worlds (1)

New Sixth Form Centre

Students and staff are celebrating at Bolton School, having had planning permission granted by Bolton Council for the building of a new £7m Sixth Form Centre in the heart of their Chorley New Road campus.   Architecturally, the glass and sandstone e...
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