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MCC Hub Girls Win Cricket Final at Lords
A squad of girls who honed their cricketing skills at Bolton School has won the National Hub T20 Competition this summer. In...
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Butterfly Class Graduates
Boys and girls from the Butterfly Class at Bolton School Nursery enjoyed a special end of year graduation ceremony in the...
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Four Gymnastic Golds for Ruby
Ruby Spencer, a Year 6 pupil at Bolton School Junior Girls’ School, has enjoyed a hugely successful trip to the Malta GymStars...
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Congratulations to Girls' Water Polo Teams
It’s been an exciting year for water polo in the Girls’ Division. Teams have continued to grow and thrive under the coaching...
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UNICEF Bake Sale Helps Break Giving Record
A group of Year 12 students in the Girls’ Division held a bake sale in support of UNICEF’s Ukraine appeal. They sold a variety of...
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Ziyad’s Design Wins Leaders Award Project
If you were an engineer, what would you do? This was the question posed to pupils from primary and secondary schools across the...
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Bronwen Wins National Number Heroes Competition
Bronwen Soper, a Year 4 pupil at Hesketh House, the Junior Girls’ School at Bolton School, has won a national School Number...
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Praise from 'Poetry By Heart' Judges
Reading, appreciating and learning poetry off by heart forms part of the Reading Award Scheme in English at Hesketh House. Year 4...
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Made of Iron at Beech House
Pupils and staff at Beech House, the Infant School for children aged 4-7 years at Bolton School, have shown they are made of iron...
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Y7 Choir Close Out the Year at Blackburn Cathedral
During the last week of Term, the Year 7 Choir at Bolton School Boys' Division travelled to Blackburn Cathedral to join schools...
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Y7 and Y8 Girls in End of Year Celebration
Year 7 and Year 8 girls at Bolton School, along with their teachers, enjoyed a celebratory end of academic year in the Girls’...
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Boys Design New KaBo Hockey Sticks
Over 30 pupils in Bolton School Boys’ Division took part in a competition to design a new hockey stick for KaBo Hockey Limited,...
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Outstanding Performance in UK Maths Challenge
Congratulations went out to Ryan Chattopadhyay and Ibrahim Iqbal (gold medals), George Pickett and George Melling (silver medals)...
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Old Boy’s Family Business Sponsors Football Shirts
Regency Estates, a Bolton family-run estates agent based in Horwich are the new sponsors of the football shirts at Bolton School...
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Famous Designer Commends Flourish Pupils’ Work
Year 5 and Year 6 children who attended the Flourish programme at Bolton School had their t-shirt designs commended by Tom Abbiss...
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Boys’ Boost for Bolton Green Umbrella
Pupils from Wigan House in Bolton School Boys’ Division have raised £1,600 for Bolton Green Umbrella, an organisation promoting...
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Year 6 Pupil to Compete in International Gymnastics Event
Ruby Spencer, a Year 6 pupil at Bolton School Junior Girls’ School, has been selected by the Head Coach to represent City of...
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Girls' Concert Celebrates Hesketh House Habits
Junior Girls at Bolton School delivered a spectacular summer concert to families and teachers in the Great Hall of the Girls’...
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Boys’ Illustrations Used for Degree Project
Former student, Luke James, who left Bolton School Boys’ Division in 2019 and who is now in his final year of a BA degree in...
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A Career in Mental Health
Year 12 students at Bolton School Boys’ Division enjoyed a ‘World of Work’ insight into a career as a Mental Health Nurse when...
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A Visit from ZooLab
Children in Bolton School’s Nursery Butterfly Class and the Pre -School Class had a lovely morning learning about animals and...
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Girls Reflect on Collaborative Learning in Science
Earlier in the Term, Year 6 pupils in the Junior Girls’ School at Bolton School, exhibited and reflected upon how their...
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School Receives DofE Commendation
Bolton School was recently delighted to receive a certificate of achievement from the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme,...
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From Park Road to National Athletics Stage
Mark Lintott, a Y10 pupil at Bolton School Boys’ Division who first tested his athletics skills at Park Road, the Junior Boys’...
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Teachers Win National Awards
Three teachers from Bolton School have won prestigious awards in this year’s Pearson’s National Teaching Awards, which were...
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Old Boy Competes in Swimrun World Championship
Peter Taylor (pictured right in the above photo), who left Bolton School in 1998, was a competitor in last year’s Swimrun World...
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Tree Planting Starts School’s Jubilee Celebrations
Celebrations for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee began several weeks ago at Bolton School with the planting of Jubilee trees for the...
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Children Enjoy Jubilee Garden Party
Children in Bolton School’s Nursery dressed in red, white and blue and had a lovely day celebrating the Platinum Jubilee. Girls...
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A Career as a Data Scientist
Last Term, Y10 girls at Bolton School were the beneficiaries of a virtual presentation by recent leaver Saamin Cheema (Class of...
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Boys’ Fancy Dress Run to Raise Thousands
Over 200 boys aged 7-11 years from Park Road, the Junior Boys’ School at Bolton School, took to the Levels last Friday afternoon...
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School Games Gold Award for Boys’ Division
Bolton School Boys’ Division has, once again, received a Gold Mark Award from School Games. The School has won the award for...
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Children Get Active During Sports Week
Children at Bolton School's Nursery have had a very active Sports Week. Across the age groups they have participated in lots of...
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School Releases Annual Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Report
After the death of George Floyd in May 2020 and the subsequent international awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement, many...
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Children in Safe Hands at After School and Holiday Clubs
Bolton School offers two options for wraparound and holiday care for its pupils and those in local schools. Kidzone, now in its...
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Old Girl Inspires Future Medics
Following the huge success of the inaugural Platt Fisher Lecture, Dr Sheila Fisher returned to Bolton School to meet with Girls’...
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Support for Brain Tumour Research
Year 12 student Carol Habib has this term worked to raise awareness of and support for the charity Brain Tumour Research. She...
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Boys' Water Polo Success Continues
Bolton School Boys’ Division remains undefeated in the Under 18 age group at the ESSA National Water Polo Finals! The school has...
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Leavers’ Celebrations for Year 13
Year 13 students enjoyed a celebratory send-off during their last week in school. For the first time, both Divisions came...
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Student's Summer Space Camp
Year 13 student Sofia Carerra-Knowles has successfully applied for a place at space camp this summer! She will join 23 other...
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Creatives Now to Exhibit in Crompton Place
The town’s Creatives Now youth-led project will open their studio to showcase process and installation work they have been...
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Octagon and School Offer Saturday Theatre Classes
If you are interested in acting, theatre craft, getting creative with scripts and making new friends then the new Saturday...
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Inaugural Lecture on Learning from Living
The Girls’ Division was pleased to begin a new tradition this April with the first ever Platt Fisher Lecture. This annual public...
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Event Encourages Engineers to Teach Physics
The NMAP SCITT (National Maths and Physics School Centred Initial Teacher Training) has been selected to take part in the DfE’s...
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Founders and Benefactors Assemblies
The Girls’ Division for the first time joined the Boys’ Division in holding a Founders and Benefactors Assembly to honour the...
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Outdoor Theatre Comes to Bolton School
Local primary school children and their teachers are invited to Bolton School to enjoy a new magical outdoor theatre production...
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Year 8s Support Ummah Welfare
Girls in 8B ran a sweet sale at breaks and lunchtimes to raise money for Ummah Welfare. This charity helps those who may be...
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NMAP SCITT Granted Accreditation
Bolton School has been a Hub school for the National Mathematics and Physics (NMAP) SCITT (School Centred Initial Teacher...
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Prizes for Aspiring Writers
Earlier in the year, prolific author Anne Fine visited Bolton School Girls’ Division and spoke to the Y7 girls on the same day...
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Old Boy Joins Local Family Firm Of Old Boys, Taylor & Taylor Financial...
Old Boy Lucas Gaynor (Class of 2008) recently joined Bolton firm Taylor & Taylor Financial Planning, led by Old Boys Chris...
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Ballet Brothers to Perform at Euro Disney
Two brothers, Flynn and Patrick Humphreys, who both attend Bolton School, are rehearsing hard ahead of performing with their...
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Connecting with Old Boy in Hong Kong
Old Boy Nat Roohan (Class of 2017) spoke with boys in Year 8 about his degree apprenticeship with JP Morgan. After leaving Bolton...
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BCFA Shortlisted Authors Share Stories
Children involved in the Bolton Children’s Fiction Award (BCFA) have enjoyed hearing from all six shortlisted authors since the...
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Applauding Arts and House Achievements
The Arts Cups and Colours Assembly annually celebrates the achievements of Boys’ Division pupils both in the Arts and within the...
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The Bolton School Football Festival is Back!
Bolton School’s Football Festival for local primary schools returned this year for the first time since 2019 and it proved to be...
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Wonderful Performances at School's May Serenade
Pupils, parents and teachers were delighted to be back in the Great Hall of Bolton School Girls’ Division to celebrate the...
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Students Enjoy Digital ITN News Careers Event
A select number of boys and girls in Years 11-13 at Bolton School enjoyed an online careers event hosted by ITN News. The session...
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Harriet is Top Scorer and Tournament’s Most Valuable Player
Harriet Dickins, Captain of England and the Bolton School Girls’ Division water polo teams, enjoyed an outstanding international...
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Girls’ Success in Chemistry Olympiad
Earlier this Term several Y13 students in the Girls’ Division at Bolton School participated in the Chemistry Olympiad. The...
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Young People's Chance to Express Themselves
Young people aged up to 18 years who live or attend school or college in Bolton are being offered two opportunities to express...
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Cups and Colours Celebrate Sporting Success
The Cups and Colours Assembly is the annual celebration of sporting achievement at Bolton School Boys’ Division. This event has...
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Gold Award for School Concert Band
During the Easter break, Bolton School’s Joint Senior Concert Band performed at the National Concert Band Festival in the...
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School Celebrates Record Bursary Donation
Bolton School celebrates record donation from John and Sally Roberts that will help level up talent and opportunity through new...
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Duke of Edinburgh Awards Celebration
Pupils, parents and teachers from the Girls’ and Boys’ Divisions of Bolton School gathered to celebrate this year’s crop of...
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Alumni of the Year Awards 2022
In 2022, Bolton School will celebrate the myriad contributions of its Old Boys and Old Girls to society, and inspire the next...
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Easter Fun For Babies and Toddlers
Babies and Toddlers at Bolton School's Nursery had fun this Easter! The Toddlers visited the Nature Area for an egg...
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Bolton School Boys to Present at Prestigious Science Festival
This summer a small team of boys from Bolton School will travel to London to present their science project at the Royal Society’s...
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School Provides Four GB U19 Water Polo Players
Two current Y13 students at Bolton School, Harry Bentham and James Blenkinship, along with two students who left last summer,...
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Butterflies and Caterpillars Celebrate Easter
The children at Bolton School Nursery have been having fun in Easter week with lots of themed activities! Both Caterpillars and...
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Lacrosse Girls Represent Two Countries
Five lacrosse players from Bolton School Girls’ Division have been part of National Academies this year: three girls joined the...
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Netball Team Second in County Tournament
Congratulations to the Girls’ Division Under 15a Netball Squad, who were runners up in a county tournament at the end of March....
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Bolton School Has a New Head of Infants
Mrs Jo Field has been appointed as the new Head of Beech House, the Infant School for girls and boys aged 3 to 7 years at Bolton...
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Maths Meets History in Architecture Workshop
The Junior Girls in Year 5 were excited to take part in a workshop that brought their mathematics and history lessons together....
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Environmental Advisors Share Career Paths
This term, a pair of Environmental Advisors at J Murphy & Sons shared their career experiences with girls in Year 10 and boys...
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Girls Perform As 'Little Women'
Katie Wild in Year 13 reports on the recent Girls’ Division production of ‘Little Women’, which two casts performed in the...
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New Platt Fisher Lecture
Bolton School Old Girl Sheila Fisher née Platt (Class of 1970) will deliver the inaugural Platt Fisher Lecture entitled 'Learning...
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Alumnae Inspire on International Women's Day
A group of eighteen diversely talented speakers returned to Bolton School to help current pupils celebrate International Women’s...
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A Tribute to Cameron
It is with immense sadness that we announce the death of Cameron Milton, a Year 13 pupil in the Boys’ Division of Bolton...
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Girls Are Greater Manchester Badminton Champions
In the last week of the Spring Term, a squad of four U16 badminton players from Bolton School Girls’ Division competed in the...
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Bolton Lions Present Certificate
The President of Bolton Lions Club, Geoff Harper, visited Bolton School at the end of March to present the Girls’ Division with a...
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Girls Raise £2,921 for Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal
The Girls’ Division has raised £2921.00 for the DEC’s Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal through a non-uniform day. This is one of the...
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Learning to be Allies in LGBT+ History Month
During the month of February, Bolton School Boys’ Division celebrated LGBT+ History Month. Pupils learned specifically about what...
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Spring Concert Performed in Stunning Venue
This year’s Bolton School Joint Spring Concert was enjoyed by a large audience in the town’s parish church, next to which the...
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Teachers’ Three Welsh Peaks’ Charity Walk
Four teachers from Bolton School Boys’ Division – Maths Teacher Luke Jones, Geography Teacher Charlotte Dean, Head of Outdoor...
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Supporting Red Nose Day
Junior Girls supported this year's Comic Relief fundraising with a non-uniform day. In exchange for a donation, the girls came...
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U13s Win Bolton Netball Tournament
The Girls’ Division Under 13 netball team played in the Bolton Netball Tournament in March. After five group stage matches,...
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High Achieving Hockey Girls
Angelie Chitre, a Y11 pupil in the Girls’ Division of Bolton School, has been selected for the U17 Lancashire County Hockey team....
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Boys Celebrate International Women’s Day
Whilst International Women’s Day has been celebrated in the Girls’ Division of Bolton School for some time, this was the first...
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Lecture Focuses on Making a Difference for Good
Bolton School Boys’ Division’s prestigious Tillotson Lecture, now in its forty ninth year, saw two former pupils return to talk...
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Bolton School Podcasts Launch
We are excited to announce an exciting new podcast series - Bolton School Extra. In this series we’ll be exploring school life,...
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Beatrix is Country’s Fastest U11 Girl
Beatrix Soper, a Y6 pupil at Bolton School’s Junior Girls’ School, has been ranked as England’s fastest U11 girl! Bea, as she...
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Boys’ Division Achieves Highest Artsmark Award Again
Bolton School Boys' Division has been reaccredited as an Artsmark Platinum school. The award – first afforded to the School in...
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Infants’ Day with Author and Illustrator Steve Weatherill
Children aged 4-7 years at Beech House, Bolton School’s Infant School, enjoyed an interactive and engaging day with acclaimed...
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Young Musician Final: A Showcase for Exceptional Talent
This year’s Final of the Bolton School Boys’ Division’s Young Musician Competition, in its eighteenth year, delivered a showcase...
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Girls Inspired by Former Footballer
The entirety of Hesketh House, the Junior Girls’ School at Bolton School, was transfixed and inspired by motivational speaker...
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Lancashire Lacrosse Selection for Eleven Girls
Eleven pupils from Bolton School Girls’ Division have been selected for the U13 Lancashire Lacrosse squad. Having successfully...
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U13 Girls are Town Football Champions
Bolton School Girls’ Division U13 football team has been declared winners of the Bolton Schools’ Football Tournament, which has...
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Celebrating Reading in the Library
The Senior School Library at Bolton School put on a whole host of activities for Boys’ and Girls’ Division students to enjoy for...
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Sharing Stories for World Book Day
Bolton School’s Primary Division was filled with colourful celebrations of reading for World Book Day as pupils in the Infant,...
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Making Bird Feeders
The children have been making bird feeders in the nature area. They have been practising their fine motor skills by threading...
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Celebrating Books and Beasts
The Nursery combined their celebrations of World Book Day and World Wildlife Day, which this year both took place on 3 March! The...
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How to Make a Difference is Focus of Tillotson Lecture
Bolton School Boys’ Division is opening its doors, both physically and virtually, as it sends out an invitation to attend this...
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From Performing Arts to Chartered Surveying
Y10 girls at Bolton School enjoyed the latest Women of Work (WOW) virtual careers talk with former pupil Emily Hilton née Speak...
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Old Girls Talk Careers in Sport
Earlier this month, five former pupils of the Girls’ Division of Bolton School returned, virtually, to talk about their...
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Parents Donate a Book for Every Child
Children at Beech House, Bolton School’s Infant School for girls and boys aged 3 to 7 years, enjoyed a World Book Day visit from...
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Perspectives on Careers in Sport
Wednesday 2 March, 7.00pm The next Perspectives Lecture will focus on careers in sports. Join our panel of speakers on Zoom to...
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One-Night-Only Reunion for Rival 1970s Bands
This year, on the fiftieth anniversary of their debut gig, Bolton School band The Berlin Airlift will return to Lostock Tennis...
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Junior Girls and Mrs Marsden Lead Church Service
Teacher Mrs Julia Marsden and a group of Y5 and Y6 pupils from Bolton School Junior Girls’ School recently attended Bank Top...
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Focus on Brazil for MFL Day
Each year, the Junior Girls’ School spends a whole day absorbing the culture of another country through activities and their...
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Prestigious Author Talks to Year 7
Anne Fine visited Bolton School Girls’ Division to speak with the whole of Year 7 at the first live author event at Bolton School...
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School's Careers & HE Fair is Open to the Public
Our biennial Careers and HE Fair will take place in the Great Halls and Riley Sixth Form Centre at Bolton School in person on...
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Finlay’s Vaulting Win Makes it a Hazelton Double
Finlay Hazelton was this year’s winner of the Y8 gymnastics vaulting competition, held in the Boys’ Division of Bolton School....
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Nature Hunt for Toddlers
The children in the toddlers’ room had a lovely time in the nature area collecting lots of natural objects on a nature hunt,...
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Standards High at Music Festival
Young musicians at the Junior Girls’ School impressed everyone with their performances on a wide range of instruments at this...
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Developing a Culture of Oracy
Bolton School Boys’ and Girls’ Divisions are now ESU Oracy Affiliate Schools thanks to their involvement in various activities...
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Gym Final is Virtual!
The Y7 Gym Final in the Boys’ Division of Bolton School has been running well over 100 years but it was a first this year as Form...
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Alumnae Offer Creative Industries Perspective
Five former pupils from Bolton School Girls’ Division returned, virtually, to deliver the seventh Perspectives lecture hosted by...
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Girls are Northern School Lacrosse Champions – Again!
The U15s’ lacrosse team at Bolton School Girls’ Division has become the Northern Schools’ Champions having won last weekend’s...
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Fleur into National Dressage Final
Fleur Oxley-Harrison, a Y5 pupil in the Girls’ Junior School at Bolton School, has made it through to the Junior National...
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Experts Join School's Governing Body
Last term, the Bolton School Foundation recruited four experts in their fields to fulfil roles on the School’s Governing Body....
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Girls Join Water Polo Academy
Three pupils in the Girls’ Division have been selected for the National Water Polo Training Academy following trials. Emily...
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Headships Announced for Girls’ and Boys’ Divisions of Bolton School
The Governing Body at Bolton School and the Head of Foundation, Philip Britton MBE, are pleased to announce the appointment of...
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Boys' Calendar Raised £1,231 for Urban Outreach
The Junior Boys at Bolton School put together a charity calendar which went on sale in December to raise money for Urban...
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Jennifer's Fundraiser
Jennifer Irving, a Y3 pupil at Bolton School Junior Girls’ School, has raised £830 for local charity Derian House Children’s...
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Girls Receive Chemquiz Prizes
A group of four Girls’ Division pupils took part in the 2021 Royal Society of Chemistry Manchester and District Chemquiz. Due to...
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Old Girl in Dragons' Den First
Last week’s appearance on the hit BBC business show Dragons’ Den has catapulted Charlotte Morley, who left Bolton School Girls’...
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Alumni Mentor Sixth Form Students in New Scheme
Several Y13 students from across both Divisions of Bolton School have spent an instructive year under the mentorship of five high...
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Whelan Brothers Face-Off in Basketball Final
The Whelan brothers, Patrick and Jordan, are set to play each other competitively at basketball for the very first time – in the...
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A Career in Architecture: Would You Measure Up?
John Wood, who left Bolton School Boys’ Division in 2003 and now works as an architect, returned to deliver an instructive...
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Boys Learn About Hajj
The whole of Year 6 learned all about Hajj, the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, through an engaging presentation. They moved around...
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Boys' Charity Row
Senior rowers from Bolton School Boys’ Division have raised almost £350 after taking part in Race the Thames, a charity indoor...
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£1 Million Raised for Bursaries Despite Covid Pandemic
Bolton School raised over £1m towards bursaries and hardship funding during the last academic year. A delighted and proud Head...
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Old Boy Juggling Life as a Boxer and A&E Doctor
Ike Ogbo, who left Bolton School Boys’ Division in 2011 and is a Doctor working in the Accident and Emergency Department at...
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Bolton Girls Help Lancs Become Northern Lacrosse Champions
A large group of lacrosse players from Bolton School Girls’ Division have helped Lancashire U15s become Champions of the...
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Holiday and Wraparound Facility Celebrates 21st Birthday
2022 sees Kidzone, Bolton School’s wraparound and childcare facility, celebrate its ‘coming of age’ party. Founded in 2001, the...
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Creative Focus for Next Perspectives Lecture
Tuesday 8 February, 7.00pm The next Perspectives Lecture will focus on careers in the creative arts industry. Join our panel of...
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Prefects’ Panto Benefits William’s Gift
With all monies having now been collected in, the Prefects’ Panto at Bolton School Girls’ Division has raised £289.40 for the...
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Pre-School Class Moves to Beech House
Ahead of its 10th year, Bolton School’s Pre-School Class for 3 and 4 year olds has moved into Beech House, the Infant School for...
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