A snaphot of extra-curricular school life

Siddhant Patel 54 points Gold

Tom Boardman 50 points Gold

Alexander McKie has been appointed as School Captain. He will be assisted by Harry Adams and Veer Patel in their role as Vice-captains and James Bland, Priyesh Fernando and Jayden Luhar as Senior Monitors.

Well done to the following boys, who have achieved the top number of Commendations in their year group:

Year 7: Derek Leong 95

Year 8: Oscar McVerry 96

Year 9: Zain Khan 67

Year 10: Arthur Snape 43

Year 11: Isaac Lucas 36

Year 12: Ben Rimmer 26

Year 13: Barnaby Keogh 14

Very well done to Year 13 who took park in the Chemistry Olympiad, which is a challenging examination aimed at pupils in Year 13, although younger pupils are encouraged to participate. This is used to select a team to represent the UK in the international competition. Congratulations to the boys who gained Gold, Silver or Bronze awards:

Frankie Chen 49 points Gold

Zain Akram 26 points Silver

Veer Patel 26 points Silver

Andy Shen 26 points Silver

Sharull Hossain 25 points Silver

Mark Liu 24 points Silver

Rayyan Patel 24 points Silver

Danny Heywood 23 points Bronze

Ketan Dhokia 19 points Bronze

Daniel Elding-Parry 18 points Bronze

Muhammad Choudhary 17 points Bronze

Akshat Kamath 17 points Bronze

Hamza Mehraj 17 points Bronze

Sam Paton 17 points Bronze

Zain Mehraj 14 points

Well done to Derek Leong (7a), who is the winner of both March and April’s Geography monthly mission for the Boys’ Division. He created a fantastic ‘Geography of Sport’ profile for Usain Bolt and captured a variety of pictures of flora and fauna for April’s nature treasure walk. Fantastic effort!’

Very well done to the following Year 11 boys who are now on Study Leave that have engaged with the HPQ programme and worked hard to produce a HPQ project alongside their GCSE studies:

Adam Berisford, Adam Faulkner, Khushal Gola, Toby Greenwood, Edgar Keogh, William Martin, Amrit Mishra, James Parfrey, Arun Patel, Fraser Sackfield, Suliman Sadiq and Joseph Stead.

As part of the HPQ process, boys attended weekly study skills sessions led by Mrs. Lapinskas and were supported by their supervisors to produce a project on a topic of personal interest outside of the main curriculum of study. Topics ranged from the ethics of using stem cells to treat cancers, the ‘nature versus nurture’ debate, impacts of computer gaming on society and so much more. For the majority of the time, boys worked independently, carried out extensive research, critically analysed sources and learned how to reference and produce an academic report of 2000 words. They also developed their presentation skills when delivering engaging and informative presentations of their findings in the Leverhulme Suite. Congratulations to those boys that have submitted their HPQ for external moderation and awarding of GCSE grades.

The boys have been completing Bronze, Silver and Gold OWL awards for reading. The boys have been quizzed on 5, 10 and over 25 books with quiz success of 80% or above. The boys achieving Gold award have shown outstanding effort in both the number of books read as well as the challenging choices made by those boys. ‘War and Peace’ is certainly not something we would usually see being tackled!

7d Archie Warren Gold

7e Aleks Neklesa-Ford Gold

7f Adam Atcha Gold

8f Tony Chen Gold

Joint Senior Concert Band performed at the National Concert Band Festival during the Easter holidays. The group played a challenging and varied programme of contemporary concert band music to two experienced adjudicators. After receiving feedback on their performance, they received a Gold award.

Very well done to Freddie Audley, James Bland, Harry Brown, William Earnshaw, George Houghton, Antione Jodeau, Ashton

Kay, Jamie Logan, Jake Partington, Arun Patel, Alex Pearce, Nishan Sharma, Neeraj Singh, Ben Turner and Brandon Yuen.

Congratulations to the following boys of their recent music examinations:

James Bland (12c) Grade 7 Oboe Distinction

Billy Burrows (12c) Grade 7 Musical Theatre Distinction

Dhilan Jacobs (9a) Grade 5 Electric Guitar Merit

Daniel Keene (9c) Grade 5 Piano Merit

Alex Pearce (10b) Grade 5 Piano Merit

Evan Weston (12h) Grade 5 Piano Merit

Harry McLoughlin (10b) Grade 5 Electric Guitar Pass

Reuben Rowley (9a) Grade 3 Violin Merit

Suhayb Pal (7e) Grade 1 Musical Theatre Pass

Congratulations to Tanmay Gokul (8g), who won two first prizes on piano at the Blackburn Music Festival, as well as the Rosanne Archibald Memorial Trophy for the most promising pianist.

Very well done to Charlie Simpson (8d), who had a song that he had composed played on BBC Radio Lancashire on Saturday 25th March. The song is called Helix and it is from an EP that Charlie and his friend have just realised with their group Omari.

Our recent Duke of Edinburgh Achievement Evening celebrated those students who, across Divisions, had achieved 96 Silver & 29 Gold Awards this year and we were reminded about the dedication that is required to achieve the award and of all the lifelong benefits that successful completion brings.

Well done to James Vaughan (8g), who was awarded Silver medals in 1500m and 200m Individual Medley at the Swim England North West Regional Championships recently.

A number of our boys represented ISFA Football over Easter. Well done to Oscar Hatton (8a) and Cam Firth (8f), who played at Shrewsbury School in the Under 13 Regional tournament for the North West, while Kieran Holt (9a) and Joe Nicholson (10b) played for the respective Under 14 and Under 15 National sides at Liverpool FC & Leicester City FC. Oscar will also represent the Under 14 National side next season. Congratulations to all.

Bolton School Cricketers have enjoyed a very positive start to the cricket season playing block fixtures against Manchester Grammar School and Lancaster Royal Grammar School. It was particularly pleasing to see so many talented performances against LRGS, most notably, hundreds for both Keshana

Fonseka for the 1st XI and Dylan Yates for the Under 13s. With the ball, Luke Burns took 5 for 19 against a very strong Under 15 MGS side. Diren Dhiraj’s 50 not out to helped win the game. Also, well done to the Under 15s, who advance into the next round of the Lancashire School Cup, beating Bishop Rawstorne on the Bottom Level. Well done to Harrison Prill and Zain Sabir in Year 10, who played against each other recently for Lancashire EPP and Cheshire EPP respectively. Both boys demonstrated their talents with the ball, with Harrison picking up two wickets and Zain picking up three, including that of Harrison! Lancashire won an extremely close game so bragging rights for both.

Bolton School were pleased to host the first ever Bolton Spring Speedcubing Competition 2023 in Great Hall recently. Three Bolton School boys took part – well done to Luke Burns (10a) for achieving 2nd place on the podium for his amazing average speeds. Again, we are really proud of Luke Burns, who broke the National Record (1.34) in the 2x2 cube average at the World Cube Association Wakefield Spring 2023 event.

Congratulations to the following, randomly selected prize winners for their efforts with tasks during Neurodiversity Celebration Week last month:

Year 7 Quiz: Theo Jarabo-Ishaque (7e)

Year 8 & 9 Poster: Wesley Else (8b)

Year 10 & 11 Research task: Jonathan Frank (11a)

Year 12 & 13 Research task: Zayan Azad (12i), with a special mention for the collective efforts from 12e.

Proctors’ Quiz:

1st: Rory Freestone (8b)

2nd: Thomas Morrison (9b)

3rd: Justin Li (7b)

All have received Amazon vouchers.

We are pleased to announce that we raised £215 for charities, which will be split between The British Dyslexia Association and The National Autistic Society.