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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, 3 February 2011

Stunning New Sixth Form Centre to Provide Best of Both Worlds

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 campus.   Architecturally, the glass and s...
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Wednesday, 2 February 2011

Amy's Art makes Front Page

Amy with her framed front cover

Year 12 pupil Amy Devine has had her GCSE Art coursework published on the front cover of a national Art Supplies brochure, and several other girls' work is also featured inside! The catalogue is a national publication from Pisces Art Supplies...
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Friday, 17 December 2010

Sixth Form Panto for Bolton Hospice

Sixth Form Panto

Sixth Form Prefects have been raising money for Bolton Hospice with their 'Prefects Panto'! Students wrote the pantomime themselves and took on the roles of their teachers in a show which saw the 'teachers' battling among themselves as to who...
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Monday, 8 November 2010

Success all round in MFL Debate competition

The Sixth formers who took part in the MFL debate competition

Teams of Sixth Formers from Bolton School took part in the Northern Schools Modern Foreign Languages Debating Competition and managed to reach the final of all three language competitions! The girls won the Spanish debate, were runners up in t...
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Friday, 5 November 2010

School Plans for new Sixth Form Centre

Proposed Sixth Form

Bolton School has submitted a request for planning permission to the Council to build an exciting new facility for its Sixth Form pupils within the main school site on Chorley New Road. If plans meet with the Council's approval, the new, shared Sixt...
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Monday, 11 October 2010

Double Commonwealth Medal Joy for Emma

England 4x100m freestyle relay team

Sixth Form pupil Emma Saunders will jet home from the Commonwealth Games in Delhi with two medals after helping England's 4x100m freestyle relay squad claim silver. Emma joined forces with Amy Smith, Jess Sylvester and Fran Halsall to clock 3...
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Thursday, 7 October 2010

Well Done Commonwealth Stars Emma and Dan!

Emma Saunders

Congratulations to Sixth form pupil Emma Saunders who has won her first medal in the Commonwealth Games in New Dehli! Swimmer Emma joined forces with Rebecca Adlington in the 4x200m freestyle relay where the team picked up a bronze medal and a...
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Wednesday, 6 October 2010

Local Schools Learn the Physics of the Northern Lights

Dr Jim Wild and pupils from local schools

Dr Jim Wild of the Physics Department of the University of Lancaster returned to Bolton School to help Year 11 pupils and Sixth Form students from across the borough understand "The Physics of the Northern Lights". The Ogden Trust P...
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Thursday, 16 September 2010

Hannah is Triple Ju-Jitsu Champion

Hannah Furey

Year 12 pupil Hannah Furey has returned from the United Nations Ju-Jitsu competition with six medals including three golds, making her a triple UNJJ champion and arguably one of the best all round Ju-Jitsu competitors in the world. Hannah fle...
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Friday, 10 September 2010

London Fashion Week Here We Come!

Roxanna and Megan

Two Sixth Form students at Bolton School Girls' Division, Roxanna Azimy and Megan Scott, have designed a winning fashion collection in the BBC Blast 'Your Label 2010' Fashion Design Competition, and will now get to showcase their designs at Lond...
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