24 January 2019
Children at Bolton School Nursery were excited to trade their weekly football lessons for a visit from Lofty the Lion! The Bolton Wanderers mascot came to the Nursery to meet children in all age...
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Ambitious students from five local schools joined Bolton School Sixth Formers for an Oxbridge Conference in the Arts Centre. The Year 12 students' thinking was kick started by talks about the...
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Talented young sportsmen at Bolton School Boys' Division were joined by pupils from nearby Gaskell Primary School for a very special lunchtime with two footballing legends. They heard from Ryan Giggs,...
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The Physics Olympics saw 31 teams of Year 9 pupils from 18 different schools visit Bolton School for a day of scientific challenge. The event, which was hosted by Bolton School and organised in...
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Bolton School recently hosted an Anti-Bullying Ambassador Training Day run by The Diana Award. Around 120 pupils and teachers from primary and secondary schools across the north west joined Bolton...
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Eighty delegates from local primary schools and more than twenty exhibitors attended the Bolton School Games' Health & Wellbeing Conference, hosted in Bolton School's Arts Centre. The opening...
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World Book Day was celebrated across the whole of Bolton School this week. The Infants at Beech House were delighted to meet Rob Biddulph, the Official World Book Day 2020 Illustrator, who helped them...
View Article13 March 2020
The Poetry Festival in the Girls' Division this year featured UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, who gave a performance of some of his work and answered audience questions. A group of twenty pupil poets...
View Article20 March 2020
The final of the Young Musician of the Year competition took place in the Boys' Division. The Junior and Senior winners from seven instrumental categories took part and their performances made for a...
View Article27 March 2020
Quite a week at Bolton School and certainly one for the history books! With the pernicious global spread of Covid-19, UK schools closed and teaching went remote. Foundation teaching staff, many of them...
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At the end of March, learning at Bolton School went remote in response to the Covid-19 crisis alongside schools across the nation. Pupils and staff rose to the new challenges and adapted to the 'new...
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The Junior Boys' Fun Run was a very different affair this year. With schools still closed and the UK in lockdown, the Fun Run went virtual and the boys enthusiastically embraced a new challenge: to...
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Global events in June 2020 brought to the forefront of everyone's mind the issue of systemic racism with Black Lives Matter protests taking place around the world. Bolton School's current pupils,...
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Bolton School has been involved in the fight against Covid-19 by helping to provide hospital, NHS and care home staff with vital PPE equipment during the summer term. The Senior Girls' School provided...
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Despite the challenges of the past several months, students at Bolton School nonetheless celebrated their A Level results. Girls' Division students were congratulated over the phone by their teachers,...
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With the traditional Open Morning date on the horizon, at the start of the autumn term Bolton School started to plan how the usual event would take place this year in a virtual format. The Senior...
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As the end of October approached and half term was on the horizon, Bolton School celebrated Harvest with the usual charitable collections. Once again the generous donations from parents and pupils went...
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At the beginning of November, Remembrance services took place at Bolton School, bringing the school community together virtually even though we could not congregate in person. There was a theme of...
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The last few weeks of 2020 have been as busy as ever at Bolton School.Children and parents at Beech House collected a huge haul of Christmas gift boxes to be distributed to families in need across the...
View Article19 March 2021
International Women's Day was celebrated at Bolton School Girls' Division with a special assembly from astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst, who is also an Old Girl. Dr Becky shared her passion for space...
View Article9 April 2021
The Boys' Division has taken part in the Anti-Bullying Alliance's programme to become a gold All Together School. The School has achieved this highest level for proving its commitment to stopping...
View Article30 April 2021
At the beginning of the first lockdown, the managers and owners of a group of Early Years providers, including Bolton School Nursery, came together to support one another through the pandemic. The...
View Article14 May 2021
Recently the Infants helped to boost supplies at Urban Outreach's 'Storehouse' food bank by collecting breakfast cereals at Beech House.Over the last eighteen months, the Junior Girls have benefitted...
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This summer, Bolton School has been shortlisted for a number of awards! In the Independent School Parents’ School of the Year Awards, Bolton School has been shortlisted in no less than three...
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Bolton School students in Years 11 and 13 were delighted to be able to come into school for A Level and GCSE Results Days, which took place in a single bumper week this year. There were scenes of...
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