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Five highly successful Bolton School alumni have offered their time and expertise to help develop entrepreneurial flair in a...

These have been difficult times for us all and much praise has, quite rightly, been afforded to those that have helped steer us...

Bolton School’s Nursery has continued to open during the pandemic, delivering excellent  individual, and group, home learning...

Girls in Year 10 began their day with a Zoom call connecting them to Old Girl Hannah Sutcliffe (Class of 2011), a co-founder of...

Keshana Fonseka, a Y10 pupil at Bolton School Boys’ Division, has joined the Lancashire Cricket Academy. He follows in the...

Bolton School Girls’ Division was delighted to welcome back ‘one of its own’ when Sally-Anne Huang (née Blakemore, Class of 1990)...

James Bowie and Ollie Cook, two Y10 pupils at Bolton School Boys’ Division, have so far raised £1,206 for Mind, the mental health...

A virtual visit from author Tom Palmer brought the Year 6 boys’ topic on the Holocaust to a close. Staff combined History and...

Interested in teaching? Ever thought about changing your career? Have a passion for your subject? Then why not come back to...

Virtual ‘Perspectives’ Lecture: ‘Bossy Women’ Reflections on Ambition and Leadership from a Female Perspective Monday 8 February...

Old Girl Viki Edmondson (Class of 1987) spoke to Year 10 pupils via Zoom as part of an ongoing series of ‘World of Work’ talks....

Victoria Wong in Year 12 has become chair of the Student Advisory Group organised by examination board AQA. She was among the...

Bolton School Boys’ Division has received the British Council International School Award at Foundation level. This award...

Milan Kumar in Year 4 has received a Points of Light award and congratulations from Prime Minister Boris Johnson following his...

Financial Advisor and Old Boy Ross Taylor (Class of 2004) connected with Girls’ Division pupils in Year 11 via Zoom to give a...

Congratulation to Year 13 student Anna Phillips who has been given a squad number by the Manchester City Women’s team! She...

On National Poetry Day in October of last year, poet Andrew McMillan, in conjunction with Bolton School Boys’ Division, launched...

Though the Junior Boys’ Christmas Celebration could not take place as usual in the Boys’ Division Great Hall, packed with an...

The Junior Girls’ festive show this year brought audiences a filmed performance of ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’. Working with...

Y8 and Y9 pupils at Bolton School Girls’ Division have been busy creating some wonderful Christmas cakes ahead of the festive...

Each year, enthusiastic pupils at Bolton School take part in the annual Urban Outreach Christmas Hamper Challenge to help others...

There was no lessening of festive cheer and warmth as Bolton School Boys’ Division’s Christmas Festival went virtual this year....

In what has been a difficult and socially-distanced year, the Girls’ Division of Bolton School was determined to provide some...

Children and parents at Beech House, the Infant Department of Bolton School, have spent the past week collecting a huge haul of...

As the end of term approached, all pupils at the Junior Girls’ School were treated to socially distanced and thoroughly enjoyable...

This year staff and pupils from Years 7, 8 and 9 of Bolton School Girls’ Division proved to be both creative and adaptive when...

Sanjana Patel, a Y12 student at Bolton School Girls’ Division, has won first prize in a ‘Beat the Pathologist’ competition...

This year staff and pupils at Bolton School Boys’ Division had to be even more creative than usual when considering their annual...

Christmas Jumper Day saw Sixth Form students and staff bringing festive cheer to the corridors and classrooms at Bolton School...

Mrs Kate Power, a former Head of Science from Our Lady’s Catholic High School, has been appointed to the new position of Science...

Old Boy Simon Turner (Class of 1994) offered his life advice to pupils via Zoom. He studied Law at Magdalen College, Oxford, and...

The staff, children and their families at Bolton School Nursery have been busy collecting a hoard of donations for a local...

Old Girl Professor Sarah Mercer (Class of 1992) connected with Bolton School pupils via Zoom to speak about her experiences...

Harry McDermott, a Y12 student at Bolton School Boys’ Division, has run an impressive 84km in November for the men’s charity,...

Rosalyn Harper in Year 13 last week represented Bolton School in the delayed national final of the Historical Association’s Great...

Following local Youth MP elections and the recent departure of one of Bolton’s Youth MPs, Victoria Wong, a Y12 student at Bolton...

As part of her 8 year old birthday celebrations, Prakruti Padaki, a Y3 pupil at Bolton School Girls’ Division Junior School, has...

For the first time in its long history, the annual Tillotson Lecture went virtual to allow a panel of Old Boys to discuss the...

Congratulations to Girls’ Division pupil Amy Carter in Year 8, who has been selected to join the Lancashire Junior Academy Centre...

Year 11 pupil Lucy Dixon was recently selected for the Swim England National Event Camp 2020, which is aimed at the highest...

The Boys' Division's festive production, a stage adaptation of the Frank Capra favourite, It's a Wonderful Life, will air on...

The Junior Girls wore their own clothes and lots of Pudsey accessories in exchange for bringing in donations for Children in...

In October, a number of Girls’ Division pupils from Year 9 trialled for the Regional Academy Lacrosse Programme. This is a...

Three pupils in the Girls’ Division have been selected to join the Under 13 Manchester Thunder Netball Academy of Excellence....

Pupils and staff at Bolton School Girls’ Division marked Remembrance Day with a socially distanced assembly. The event was...

Boys watched from classrooms, some watched from home, and Old Boys tuned in from around the world as this year’s Remembrance Day...

Remembrance Day at Bolton School brought the whole school community together. Though the events themselves were virtual and...

Earlier this year, Bolton School began working in partnership with The Bursary Foundation, a charity which works to...

Former Bolton School Girls’ Division pupil Dr Becky Smethurst has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ 2020 Mary Somerville...

On the 1st of November, Emily Varley, who left Bolton School in 2012, raced against the clock to beat the Official Guinness World...

The Girls’ Division of Bolton School has donated 60 crates of food to the town’s Urban Outreach campaign. Dave Bagley, its Chief...

Miss Margaret Dickinson, who taught Maths in the Girls’ Division for 34 years before her retirement in 2006, sadly died earlier...

Bolton School Boys’ Division’s Tillotson Lecture will, for the first ever time, be staged virtually, on Monday 23 November...

Sixth Form students Daniel Bentham and Piers Skeels-Caldwell raised £5,000 for charity with an endurance challenge that saw them...

Old Boy Steve Thompson (Class of 1998) has been appointed regional editor for Newsquest Lancashire/Greater Manchester, which...

A portrait by Sixth Form student Emilie Fielding has been named a winner in The Horsfall’s 2020 Art Competition. The competition,...

Dave Bagley of Urban Outreach is a regular visitor to Bolton School as he collects food items, particularly at Harvest and...

Mr Ian Forgrieve, who is Head of Instrumental Studies at Bolton School Boys’ Division, has been appointed to the Music Advisory...

Three Junior Boys at Bolton School earned ‘Black Belts’ in reading during the spring and summer lockdown. Milan Kumar in Year 4...

On National Poetry Day, poet Andrew McMillan, in conjunction with Bolton School Boys’ Division, has launched a poetry workshop...

Year 2 visited the Anderton Centre and had a wonderful time. Although the weather was against them, the children battled through...

In June 2020, in the wake of the global discussion sparked by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, a group of Alumni and other...

Earlier this week, Philip Britton, Headmaster of the Boys’ Division at Bolton School, gave the traditional Leverhulme Birthday...

Earlier this year, two girls from Bolton School Girls’ Division won age group prizes in the Eco Innovators competition, which saw...

Back in September 2019, three Junior Boys in Year 6 embarked upon a project that aimed to produce a film to commemorate the 75th...

After a tumultuous week for exam results, Year 11 boys at Bolton School have this morning been celebrating an excellent set of...

In what has been the strangest of summers for exam results, the girls at Bolton School have performed extremely well in their...

It was not the usual Results Day at Bolton School this year, particularly since the normal celebration of A Level achievements...

Bolton School could not hold Results Day as usual this year due to Covid-19 safety restrictions, and so the normal celebration of...

Historical Association branch meetings have been a regular feature in the Girls’ Division for the past six years. Each year, a...

Two Sixth Formers at Bolton School have made a national shortlist of 20 students in this year’s Political Studies Association...

As Summer Term 2020 drew to a close and parents sent in a plethora of messages congratulating Bolton School on how well it had...