Thursday 16th March
Year 5 Trip to Ordsall Hall (all day)
Jujitsu, 4-5.30pm LAMDA, 4-5pm Cubs, 6.30pm Bridgewater Hall Gala Concert, 7.30pm
Friday 17th March
AJIS Hockey
Tournament, 11-345pm, Leverhulme Pavilion
Water Polo, 4-5pm
Monday 20th March
AJIS Rugby, MTS, all day Judo, 4-5pm Cricket Nets, 4-5.30pm
Tuesday 21st March
Y6 Trip to Quarry Bank Mill, all day Chess 4-5pm
This week has seen a flurry of trips and visits, with Year 4 visiting the Liverpool Philharmonic as part of their music education; Year 5 visiting Ordsall Hall, as part of their study of Tudors in History and Year 6 to Cuerden Valley, as part of their geography studies on rivers.
The trips really do add an extra dimension to the boys’ learning and understanding of our curriculum: they offer a chance to engage with local experts, glean new information and inspire new lines of inquiry. In the coming week, there will be follow up lessons and discussions on these visits.
In each of these visits, we have been supported by parent volunteers, who have been vital in ensuring the trips can go ahead safely. Many thanks to all those parents who have helped out or will be helping out in the coming weeks.
Our trips to Patterdale Hall are rapidly approaching and, on 23rd March, we will be holding our Patterdale Hall Information Evening for Year 3 and Year 4 parents and any other parents new to the school this year. If you have not yet done so, please fill in this Google Form which indicates your attendance at the event (sent 10th March). We can then make suitable arrangements to accommodate all attending parents.
On Tuesday, we took the first of our Year 5 groups to Ordsall Hall in Salford. Ordsall Hall is a Grade 1 listed Tudor manor house. The building has had Tudor nobles, an Earl, artists, priests and even rumoured ghosts amongst its occupants! Thankfully, we did not see any ghosts, but we were ably guided around the manor by ‘Lady Catherine’ and ‘Betsy’, who gave us a glimpse into the lives of rich and poor Tudors.
We learned the roles and conditions of servants and how the ‘nobles’ of the era managed to keep themselves clean by bathing once a month! The boys had a great time and the visit stoked curiosity and gave them a chance to show off some of their knowledge from our studies on the Tudors. The second group of Year 5s are on the trip today.
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Spring Term, 2023 WEEK B
Thursday 16th March
Wednesday 22nd March
Quiz Club heat, 2pm Cubs, 6.30pm
Thursday 23rd March
Y4 Trip to Martin Mere (all day)
IFSA Football, Stockport Grammar School (all day)
Jujitsu, 4-5.30pm LAMDA, 4-5pm
Cubs, 6.30pm
Patterdale Hall
Information Evening, 7pm, GD Great Hall
Friday 24th March
ESSA Swim Gala, Everton Park (1-6pm)
Eco Committee to meet Mrs Riley, After School Hockey, 4-5pm, LP
Water Polo, 4-5pm
Congratulations to our hockey players who braved the cold to take part in the U11 Lancashire & Cumbria Hockey Tournament last week in Lytham, accompanied by Mrs Faulkner and Mr Sutcliffe.
The boys all played excellently and drew one game and won three, cementing their place in the forthcoming North West tournament later this month.
Good luck to all the boys taking part in the AJIS Hockey tournament at the Leverhulme Pavilion. Spectators most welcome ! SAF
Last Sunday, George James in 6C played one of the last rugby games of the year with his team, Leigh Raiders RUFC. They have remained undefeated this season and this week George was selected as player of the match. This was for displaying excellent team spirit, try scoring and also for setting up a number of tries with his excellent passing. Well done, George !
Yesterday, Year 6 had to cope with every type of weather for their fieldwork at Cuerden Valley Park which linked to the current geography curriculum topic of ‘Rivers’. The boys spent the day down at the River Lostock carrying out various activities including water sampling and observing river processes in action. Unfortunately, due to the recent heavy rainfall and snow, the water in the river was very high and fast and so it wasn't safe for the boys to actually get into the river, but they still had lots of fun.
From the water samples collected, the boys were able to identify all sorts of river life and conclude that the water in the river at Cuerden is very clean and sustains a great variety of plant and animal/insect life. The boys also spotted a heron on the river and were very lucky to see a kingfisher at the ox-bow lake.
In our next geography lesson, the field sketches the boys did will be completed and labels of the processes they observed - erosion, transportation, deposition - will be added along with other physical river features such as meanders, cliffs, beaches and even an ox-bow lake. Hopefully, they are all now river experts, so feel free to give them a test at home!
A huge thank you to the parents who volunteered to come along on the trip and help out. We really appreciate the support and, without this help, trips like this, with a high pupil to adult ratio, would be very difficult to organise. Thank you and I hope you had fun despite the conditions! KEW
As you will be aware, we asked all boys to help support a group of 100 orphan children in Malawi, who have the opportunity to attend primary school for the first time, by helping to supply them with stationery packs and wash bags.
Each form collected a range of items and the donations were fantastic!
All packs have now been collated and sent over to Hesketh House, ready to be collected and flown over to Africa next week. Thank you to all who so kindly donated for your generosity and support! GF
Energy can be saved in your home by assessing whether there is enough daylight in the room. Do you really need to switch the light on?
Our litter pickers have noticed that crisps are regularly being brought in to school. As a school, we want to promote healthy choices and therefore ask that crisps are not brought in for snacks.
The Big Battery Hunt is a nationwide programme to help educate and inspire young people to recycle more used batteries. Please send your unwanted batteries to school, 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
The Young Voices charity single, Proud, is currently No 6 in the charts !
Performed by Heather Small and featuring The Young Voices Choir. all the 27 performances at Young Voices 2023 have been edited together! The full video can be seen linked below :
https://www.facebook.com/100064899903641/videos/781194042905339?__so__=permalink
Please could you add a reminder into this week’s newsletter for all children going to Patterdale for the first time this summer, to complete the google form by next Monday 20th March..
Email was sent out on Friday 10th March.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf8iKAektcd9AfExR4dH2btdQcbHu6NN7n9KK-32l2vhxscEw/viewform?usp=pp_url
Please note the date of your son’s visit to Patterdale Hall this year :
Year 3: Thursday 4th to Friday 5th May
Year 4: Monday 24th to Wednesday 26th April
Year 5: Wednesday 26th April to Friday 28th April
Year 6: Tuesday 9th to Friday 12th May
All visits are compulsory as they form part of your son’s curriculum.
An information evening for Year 3 and Year 4 parents and parents of boys new to school this academic year will take place at 7pm on Thursday 23rd March in the Arts Centre more details will follow nearer the time, as well as a list of kit your son will need for his trip.
Instructions:
-Choose a famous sports person, whom you are inspired by.
-Write a fact-file about their life in terms of:
-which countries have they lived in
-what are their hobbies relating to geography e.g. travelling ?
-who are their friends and which countries do they live in ?
-have they played in different Olympics around the world ?
How to submit your fact-file:
- email LJG@boltonschool.org.uk with your submission by Friday 31st March at 4pm!
PRIZES FOR THE WINNERS!
WHO CAN CREATE THE MOST INTERESTING AND GEOGRAPHICAL FACT
Over last weekend, Mr Winstanley was in Romania, captaining the Senior Men's GB Water Polo Team which was competing in the European Qualifying Heat for the World Cup 2023.
The team performed very well against strong opposition from Romania, Germany, Ukraine and Malta but, unfortunately, didn't manage to qualify.
Nevertheless, it was an amazing experience for Mr Winstanley and one that he can share with all the boys and, hopefully, it will inspire more of them to take up water polo as Mr Winstanley started his own polo career at Bolton School.
Just a reminder that if your son forgets any books, homework, sport, PE or swimming kit, etc., please do not make the journey to school to drop it off for him.
Having to explain to his teachers will help him to problem solve for himself and, we hope, not make the same mistake again! Rest assured, we shall always lend equipment to him to enable him to participate in his lessons.
Please find linked here the Kidzone programme for the Easter holidays.
Book early to avoid disappointment !
Yesterday, Year 4 travelled to Liverpool to hear the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra at their annual school concert called “The Symphonic Time Machine”. We listened to lots of wonderful pieces of music that we have studied in lessons over the past term and also joined in, singing with “Back in Time for the End of the Song”, which was specially written for the concert.
All of the boys had a great time, loved seeing an orchestra right in front of their eyes and came away with lots of smiles. Many thanks to Mrs Critchley and Mrs Darbyshire for coming along with us.
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We are delighted to announce that GD Parents’ Association will again organise their annual Foundation-wide plant sale. It is a significant fundraising opportunity for us and so your support would be greatly appreciated. We would like to encourage the wider school community, any friends, neighbours and families, to add some colour to their outside spaces by ordering hanging baskets and plants via our very successful plant sale.
Ordering is really easy, emails or texted images of our form are accepted and payments made via online banking. Plants will be ready for collection on Saturday 13th May. The order form is linked here and is also available via the School website (or Parent Portal).
Please place an order with us and remember to mention this to your friends too. Don’t miss out, as the absolute deadline for orders is the end of March. As in previous years, plants will be delivered to Bradshaw so that collections can be arranged from Saturday 13th May at a time convenient to you (other collection points can be arranged too). Any questions please contact Amanda Valentine via bsbdpa@gmail.com<mailto:bsbdpa@gmail.com
Due to a range of events in the school calendar, the Year 6 Play 2023 will now be taking place over the following three evenings: Tuesday 4th at 7pm, Wednesday 5th at 7pm and Thursday 6th 5pm. Please note that the Year 6 play is one of our compulsory events and all Year 6 boys are expected to attend, we therefore want to make you aware of this date, in the final week of term, as far in advance as possible.
Closer to the time of the play, rehearsals are understandably very important for all boys to also attend and it would help us if you could avoid the following rehearsal dates when making medical appointments:
Monday 17th April: 9.15-10.25 – boys visiting the Girls’ Division theatre
Friday 5th May: 9- 12.00
Monday 22nd May: 13.00 – 16.00
Monday 5th June: 13.00 – 14.30
Wednesday 7th June: 13.00 - 14.30
Friday 9th June : 10.30 – 12.00
Monday 19th June: half day rehearsal (afternoon)
Friday 23rd June: 9-12.00 (half day rehearsal)
Monday 26th June: full day rehearsal
Friday 30th June: morning - dress rehearsal
PERFORMANCE DATES: Tuesday 4th, Wednesday 5th & Thursday 6th July.
Mrs Hough, in her guise as Akela, has put out a request for us to collect odd socks and socks with holes in and empty miniature bottles for Cub Camp, which takes place in May!
Please do send these items into school if you have them.
Many thanks !
Scouts’ Quiz Night
Why not buy a ticket for the Quiz Night Fundraiser on Saturday 18th March, at Brookside, 19th Bolton (Bolton School) Scout HQ, BL1 4RD to fundraise for Scouts going to the Jamboree in South Korea.
6:00pm Doors open
6:30pm Pie and Peas supper, and a licensed bar
7:15pm Quiz
Tickets: https://beeswithseoul-jamboree-store.sumupstore.com/ product/19th-bolton-quiz-night
This week, we have received the following message from Urban Outreach and we would very much like to help them to provide Easter eggs for children living within the Bolton families which they regularly support.
In Friday’s assembly, we shall be talking to the boys about this and focusing on the idea of ‘The Bolton Power of One’ and inviting every boy and member of staff to bring an Easter egg into School next week. If we can manage to do this, we will have collected well over 200 eggs that we can deliver with pride to Urban Outreach before the end of term.
“We are writing to you to ask if you would consider holding an Easter egg collection at your school to give to another child in Bolton. Over the past 4 months (Nov-Feb), over 4000 children have been in households that have received food parcels through our Food Hub. That's over 1000 children each month. This Easter we would love to give each child in a household that receives food an Easter egg.
We would also love to supply those families we are working with through our support projects Easter eggs as well.
Here at Urban Outreach, we have this idea
the #BoltonPowerOfOne
1 person can do 1 thing to make a difference to 1 other person. Here we have a wonderful opportunity to get children to think about giving a gift that will bring joy to another child in their own town.
If this is something you would like to do as a school, we would be grateful for donations to be done before 31st March so we can start giving them out over the 2 following weeks. You can organise with us for these to be delivered to our Food Hub or arrange for one of our members of staff or volunteers to collect. We are grateful for anything that is donated and appreciate how many families are impacted by increased costs at the moment. We certainly don’t want to add pressure to anyone.
Thank you for considering collecting Easter Eggs on behalf of those we support here at Urban Outreach.”
If you are able to help us rise to this challenge and collect in excess of 200 Easter eggs for children less fortunate than our own, please send your donation into School with your son next week. Many, many thanks in anticipation of your support.
More great skiing from Jasper Daniels in Year 4 in the Interschools Championships in Pila, Italy this week.
He won gold medals in both of his races (Slalom & Giant Slalom) as well as winning the Overall U10 trophy. He's now competing in the British Ski Academy Championships, also being held in Pila. Amazing achievements !
Miss Ormerod has asked if boys could remember that they will need to have their headphones/ earphones with them at all time whilst in school in the next few weeks.
Well done to the seven boys from Year 4 who travelled to the Cliff Training Ground to take part in the MUFC Power Play Tournament last week.
Competing against schools from all across Manchester, the boys came up against some strong teams but managed to come away with some impressive wins and scoring some good team goals. A special treat for the boys was meeting Manchester United Goalkeeper, Tom Heaton, who stopped for a quick picture. TG
