COMPULSORY SCHOOL EVENT THIS TERM:
Carol Service, Tuesday 19th
December
BD Great Hall
Thursday 14th
September
Jujitsu—4-5pm LAMDA—4-5pm Sailing Club, 4.45 5.45pm (collection from Anderton Centre at 6pm)
Friday 15th
September
U11 Football vs Cheadle Hulme (A)KO 1.30pmreturn to school—4pm
After School Hockey, 4-5pm, collection from Leverhulme Pavilion Group 1 Water Polo Trials — 4-5pm, collection from Pool
It has been lovely to welcome the boys back into school and they have very much been enjoying their time with teachers and friends. This week, we have welcomed parents in for our annual information evenings, there will be further information related to the curriculum and how you can help your son coming home at the beginning of next week, along with the most pertinent details from my presentation to parents, so please do look out for that.
I am sure that we will all have a very productive and positive year and I look forward to welcoming parents into school on many occasions, however, if you do have any concerns please do let us know.
This week, we are very much establishing new routines with the boys, as they settle into their regular timetable, select new clubs to enjoy as part of the extra-curricular programme and begin to get back into the swing of regular homework and reading. Please do take time to chat with your son about his day, encourage him to talk through what he has been doing and what he is looking forward to. As I said at the information evenings, encourage him to think about what he has on the next day and what equipment that means he will need so that he can plan and pack accordingly.
In terms of safety around the site, please can I request that you avoid parking on the double yellow or zigzag lines, and also that if your son is crossing the road whether he is with you or not, to please do so at the crossing with Barry. Please can I also ask that if you are waiting in the playground at the end of the day, you are aware that no children should be using the adventure trail at that time.
Our newsletter is emailed to parents each Wednesday and we hope that you will find it interesting and informative. As well as reporting on events and celebrating achievements, we also give information about future activities and publish our diary dates. Please keep an eye on the newsletter calendar for upcoming events, though if you want to plan further ahead, the calendar in Parent Portal is an excellent point of reference too.
If you are contacting the School Office, either by telephone (01204 434735) or by email (parkroad@boltonschool.org), please do include your son’s name and form in any communication, as this enables us to deal with queries more efficiently.
Park Road, BOLTON, BL1 4RD. t: (01204) 434735
e: parkroad@boltonschool.org.uk www.boltonschool.org
The School Office is open from 8.15am 4.15pm during term time. Please note that any texts sent by the Office cannot be replied to.
Please direct all enquiries to parkroad@boltonschool.org and always include your son’s first name and surname, as well as his form. Please note that ParkRoadOffice email is no longer monitored.
If your son is going to be absent from School, whether he be off sick or attending dental, medical or any other appointment, please email parkroad@boltonschool.org so that the registers may be marked accordingly. Please use this email address for all day-to-day enquiries relating to school matters to ensure that your enquiry may be dealt with in a timely manner.
For all coach / transport enquiries: Logistics Co-ordinator: Mr B. Gould, t: (01204) 434711, e: bdmgould@boltonschool.org.uk
Monday 18th September
STEM Kids, 4-5pm
Judo, 4-5pm
Tuesday 19th September
Angling Club, 4-5pm (collection from venue)
Chess, 4-5pm
Warhammer Club, 4-5pm
Thursday 21st September
Jujitsu 4-5pm
LAMDA—4-5pm
Sailing Club, 4.45— 5.45pm
(collection from Anderton Centre at 6pm)
Bolton Schools’ Cross Country, Moss Bank Park
Friday 22nd September Group 2
Water Polo Trials — 4-5pm, collection from Pool
After School Hockey, 4-5pm, collection from Leverhulme Pavilion
Drama Lessons
Congratulations to all of the Park Road boys who successfully passed their LAMDA examinations in Performance Acting last term, under the tutelage of Mrs Buchanan.
If your son is interested in after school drama lessons, there are still a few places available to join Mrs Buchanan for the term ahead, please click here for further details of the course and cost.
Please return the completed form to Mrs Buchanan directly if you would like a place for your son on this after school activity, which takes place each Thursday from 4pm for one hour.
For those of you who are new to Park Road, we have many teams, including football, cricket, hockey, cross country, athletics, water polo, swimming and chess, for which your son may be selected. If selected to represent the School in a sporting event or chess competition, we will endeavour to give your son and you as much notice as possible about the fixture.
To enhance the possibility of selection, boys are encouraged to attend clubs held during lunch hours and after school on a regular basis. If your son misses lessons due to a school fixture, it is his responsibility to find out what work has been missed and to catch up accordingly. Please check the Calendar section of our weekly Newsletter for the most up-to-date list of events.
The Big Battery Hunt is a nationwide programme to help educate and inspire young people to recycle more used batteries. Please keep sending all of your unwanted batteries to school this year, where we will store them and then take them to our local supermarket for recycling. There are great prizes to be won for school, including £3500 towards outdoor and garden equipment. SL
Well done to all the boys in Gardening Club who planted seed potatoes in June and have now harvested them.
They loved discovering them in the soil. After washing and sharing them, most of the boys had potatoes with their tea. Teddy in Year 6 is pictured on the right with his delicious home cooked chips from the potatoes.
Well done to you all ! SL
New software called Practice Pal is going to be used to schedule instrumental/vocal lessons with our visiting music teachers.
If your son will be having lessons in school, please watch out for an email from Mr Forgrieve with instructions about how to set up an account.
Parent/Guardian accounts are required to be set up before pupils can access their own Practice Pal accounts. Lessons will begin this week. IKF
Bag2School Collection: Our next clothes and shoe collection will take place on 5th October from 8-9am, donation bags will be sent home soon. Please bring your bags to the Beech House car park and help us have a really good collection. As well as raising funds for the PA, it also helps the environment by helping to divert unwanted textiles away from landfill. You can use any bag to donate your items and don't forget to ask grandparents, friends and neighbours to have a sort out as well!
EasyFunding online shopping can also generate funds for the school PA by simply using the easyfundraising app and linking your account: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/boltonjbpa
WhatsApp if you would like to join the PA WhatsApp Group to keep up to date with all things PA, please click on the following link: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BRtBl8QwJpS9OxpBm3MHDj
PA Mailing List if you would like to be added to the PA mailing list, please get in touch: parkroadpa@gmail.com
don’t forget to follow us on Twitter: @BSPDJnrBoysPA
Lots more dates for your diary to follow very soon ! Next meeting 27th September at 6.45pm at Park Road
Congratulations to Saathvik (in 4A) who received Distinction in his Grade 1 piano exam. During the Summer holidays, Saathvik took part in the Summer Reading Challenge run by Horwich Library. He received a medal and a certificate for successfully completing the task, this has really boosted his interest in reading different genres. Well done, Saathvik !
Congratulations also go to Oliver (in 6B) who obtained a Merit in his Grade 1 piano exam too. Well done, Oliver !
Well done to Gwilym (in 6B), who had some fantastic success with his tennis this summer. He won two Grade 5 tournaments, is 15 and under champion of Lostock Tennis Club and is this year's Lancashire County Champion at 11 and under!
Gwilym had to overcome very tough competition along the way we are all delighted with these amazing achievements !
Well done to Vivaan (in 5C), who played the finals of the GMCL Under 11 Cup for his cricket club, Horwich RMI v Ramsbottom CC. Unfortunately, they lost however Vivaan scored 21 runs (17 balls) and bowled 3 overs and claimed 2 wickets for 8 runs. Great cricketing!
Well done to Yahya (in 6B), who took part in the Junior fishing match at Croft Fisheries over the Summer holiday. Yahya finished in joint 3rd place and won some awesome fishing gear. Fantasic news !
It has been a great Summer of indoor skiing success for Jasper in Year 5. He won gold medals in all five of the EOLA GB Indoor Race Series, also winning the overall series and bringing home The SnowSport England Cup for the year (he's rightly very proud of his name being added to this trophy!)
He also finished off the summer by winning the English Championships, the Welsh Championships and The British Championships. He keeps his English U10 Indoor Champion title for the second year running and now also holds the British U10 Indoor Champion title.
Jasper now has two National School Championship races to look forward to, as well as being one of the ski racers representing Great Britain at the Lowlands Championships in The Netherlands later this month.
Well done from everyone at Park Road for these outstanding achievements and good luck in the upcoming competitions, Jasper !
Further to Miss Ormerod’s recent email, please could we request that parents of Year 6 boys complete the Google Form below as a matter of urgency, giving consent for your son to attend the event at the AO Arena in Manchester, the number of tickets required and if you wish to purchase a t-shirt for your son.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdTW26fGf_GYIvKkTIM9JTrxAodDqB5pXg3WdXlZzLHrDOiog/ viewform?usp=pp_url
We will be placing one large ticket order for ALL parent tickets before we break up for half term on Friday 20th October. Tickets sell out very quickly for this event. Please note that your son does not require a ticket as he will be seated in the school grouping. Please note, once our order is placed we are unable to process any more ticket requests. Tickets will be received in school in January and they will be distributed to parents before the concert. All of our parents will be seated together. If you wish, you can also purchase a Young Voices Tshirt for your son, which can be worn during the concert.
Well done to all boys who received a commendation in celebration assembly this week.
What a fantastic start to the year!
We look forward to celebrating more achievements in these assemblies in the coming weeks. GF
As Mr Britton mentioned in his email to Senior School parents at the start of term, we are keen to make more opportunities this year for parents to engage with School life.
Whilst we know you are busy, we will invite you to events and hope that you will be able to come to School to meet us from time to time.
A first such occasion will be Thursday 21st September when we will hold a coffee and conversation morning from 8.30am to 11.00am in The Leverhulme Suite. You would simply arrive at the main senior school reception.
All parents are welcome but it may be especially suitable for new parents to the School and we will be joined by some volunteer parents from the Friends of Bolton School.
Mr Britton will give a short talk at 9.00am and have a question and answer session, as well as informal conversation.
There will be other opportunities at other times of the day and evenings during the year, as well as online. Please do park off site and arrive via Riley Reception.
Join us on Monday 25th September for an evening with Eric Fairweather, the Bolton School Archivist, who will share some of the historic treasures of Bolton School with a small audience.
We will meet in the Boys’ Division library for light refreshments from 6.30pm, and then Eric will guide us through various items of historical interest around School, between 7pm and 8pm.
Tickets are £5, on a first come first served basis, and there are 20 places available.
If you would like to attend, please email Friends@boltonschool.org for booking details and tickets.”
Please find linked here the programme of lectures for the Historical Association for the next few months. The Bolton Branch has met here in school for many years.
This year, they shall be meeting in the Leverhulme Suite in the Riley Centre. Lectures will start a little earlier, at 6.30pm.
All members of the wider school community, staff and pupils, are welcome to attend for free as per our Corporate membership.