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Thursday, 10 September 2009
Be proud of yourself and be the best that you can be! This
was the message from Janette McCormick, Chief Superintendent of
Trafford Police, to the girls of Bolton School at their Sixth Form
Presentation Evening.
Chief Superintendent McCormick, an Old Girl of the School, gave
an inspirational talk to students as guest speaker at this year's
awards evening. Having left the Girls' Division over 20 years
ago, she recapped her career in the police force and how women have
come to play a much more important role in policing - the force now
recruiting more women than men. She had become an Inspector
aged 26 and is now in charge of 500 staff. Dealing with some
of the most vulnerable people in life, she felt that her Bolton
School education had imbued her with the key qualities to do her
job - resilience and determination.
On leaving Bolton School, she had been told to "make a
difference" in the world and she felt she was doing just
that. Her education at the School had, she said, shaped her
view on the world - although on walking back into the Great Hall
she did admit to feeling like a 14 year old again! In a
presentation that talked about the need to occasionally take
calculated risks in life, she talked about how women continue to
take more and more prestigious jobs as they strive for equality in
the workplace; she finished her talk by telling the girls to seek
their ambitions and to be the best that they can be!
The evening celebrated the achievements of the girls of Bolton
School. Once again they had achieved outstanding exam results
at GCSE and A Level, where they equalled the best ever record of
the school. However, the Bolton School education is a rounded
one and Mrs Gill Richards, Headmistress, commended pupils on
notable sporting achievements at county and national level as well
as outstanding work in music, drama, work in the community and many
other extra-curricular activities. Mrs Richards reminded the
audience that girls do better in single-sex environments and
pointed to six of the top ten independent schools being all-girl
schools.
Chairman of Governors, Mr Michael Griffiths, reflected on a
busy, exciting and productive year at Bolton School, which had
seen the building of a state-of-the-art new Infants' School and
work beginning on a new Junior Girls' School.
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