Bolton School Primary Division
Junior Boys’ School
Summer
Wednesday 21st June
Cubs, 6.30pm
Thursday 22nd June
ABRSM Music Exams
Y5 House
Swimming, 2.30 pm
Jujitsu, 4-5.30pm LAMDA, 4-5pm
Cubs, 6.30pm
Friday 23rd June
LAMDA Exams, all day
Y5 & Y6 House Cricket (in Sport)
Hockey, 4-5pm, Leverhulme Pavilion
Water Polo, 4-5pm
Monday 26th June Y6 Play
Full Dress Rehearsal, GD Theatre, all day
ABRSM Music Exams
Summer Drama Workshops
Judo, 4-5pm
Wednesday 21st June
Last week, we held our Year 3 concert and will repeat it this afternoon to Year 2 students from Beech House. It will be lovely for our boys to get a second chance to perform.
Our Year 6 cricketers have made it through to the AJIS finals and will play Newcastle Under Lyme School at home before the end of term. Who needs The Ashes? On Thursday, it was our Year 3 boys’ chance to compete as they took part in the House Swimming competition. Our Year 4s had their competition on Monday and Year 5 and 6’s will take place later this week and next. On Friday, Year 5 and 6 will have their House Cricket competition during sport.
This is by far the most exciting term for our Year 6 boys, who are really working hard for their performance of “Oliver! Jr” but many will also be competing in the badminton and table tennis competitions. The badminton competition started on Tuesday and was fiercely contested with some thrilling rallies and nail-biting ties. This afternoon, the Year 6s have taken part in the Public Speaking competition and this will carry on into Thursday.
A few of our boys will also have their ABRSM exams on Thursday. We wish them the best of luck with their final preparations and the exam itself. On Friday, another group of boys will take part in the LAMDA examinations. They have had additional rehearsals and will have their final practices in their ECA on Thursday: break a leg, boys!
This term, we all start to look to the future and, on Tuesday, we held our New Parent Information Evening, to talk to parents about what life will be like at Park Road next year for their son. Going forward, on Tuesday 27th June, Year 6 has an Induction Day and will visit Senior School, find out their forms and meet the teachers and other pupils who will be in their class from September. On the same day, Year 3, Year 4 and Year 5 will spend the morning in their new classrooms. All of the new pupils, including the Year 2 boys from Beech House, will join us, too. The timings of the day will remain normal for the boys, though, of course, the timetable will change slightly.
Some parents may have seen a notice in our Senior Boys’ newsletter regarding several serious incidents involving theft and knife crime in Queen's Park. None of these incidents has involved pupils from Bolton School and we do not believe many of our families use this route. However, we do advise using a different route if possible.
Message
from Mrs Faulkner- Head of Primary Foundation
There has been a notable increase in those seeking approval for additional days of holiday, very often immediately before or after the normal school holidays. We monitor all such absence in order to spot patterns and discern trends. It is timely to remind you that I cannot, by law, grant absence for holidays in term time unless in exceptional circumstances. Theclearsenseoftheguidanceisthat ‘exceptional’ alsomeansrareandcertainlynotdue to the planning of flights and other logistical arrangements. Permission must be granted in advance, so a letter on the day of the absence or a call as a holiday is extended cannotbeauthorised.Thisiswhysuchabsenceisrecordedas ‘unauthorised’.
Contacting the School Office
Park Road, BOLTON, BL1 4RD. t: (01204) 434735
e: parkroad@boltonschool.org.uk www.boltonschool.org
The School Office is open from 8.15 am 4.15 pm 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
Term, 2023 WEEK B
Tuesday 27th June
ABRSM Music Exams
Moving Up Day
Chess, 4-5pm
Wednesday 28th June
ESSA Water Polo, all day
Summer Drama
Workshops
Y3 & Y4 House Cricket (in Sport lesson) Cubs, 6.30pm
Thursday 29th June
Y6 Play Rehearsal, all morning
Young Fiction Awards, 9.30am (Y5)
Summer Drama Workshops
Jujitsu, 4-5.30pm
Water Polo Dinner, 5pm, Seniors Cubs, 6.30pm
Hot Weather
Last week was extremely hot, so we made changes to our usual uniform rules.
However, moving ahead, we would like to revert to our usual rules: boys should attend school in their blazer and tie.
Weather dependent, we will ask them to take their blazer and tie off. However, we do still strongly encourage sunscreen and a sun hat to be brought into school, as well as water bottles to be refilled throughout the course of the day.
Science Fun in the Summer Holiday
Calling all budding scientists !
Please find linked here details of two exciting-looking week long science courses in Manchester, which will take place in the Summer holidays. Please do let us know if your son attends.
Lessons
If your son is interested in after school drama lessons from September, 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.
World Cube Association
Registration is now open for the World Cube Association competition which takes place on 5th and 6th August at Senior School. There are 120 spots available and some old Park Road boys are already signed up. Further details can be found in the link below:
https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/competitions/ BoltonSummer2023#general-info
EPSCA Chess Championship Semi-Final, Nottingham
On Sunday 18th June, chess teams from Park Road and Hesketh House travelled to Nottingham High School to compete in the EPSCA National Chess Championship Semi-Final.
Both teams played against five other schools from across the country in some highly competitive and tactical chess matches.
Excellent chess was played by all the boys and, as the dust settled and the results were counted, our A Team finished in fourth place and our B team finished thirteenth, out of twenty five.
I was incredibly proud of all the boys for representing the school in such a positive way; they played their best and did so in a sporting manner. MP
Charity Fun Run Grand Total
Thank you for all your generous donations for this year’s charity Fun Run.
We raised a grand total of £3,293.57, fifty per cent. of which will be donated to the Foundation-wide Malawi Appeal, with the remainder being split between the four Houses’ chosen charities, namely
Dobson: Team Seas
Lever: Diabetes UK
Chadwick: Cancer Research
Crompton: Derian House
Sports Day Arrangements
Please find linked here a reminder of the arrangements for Sports Day on the last afternoon of term, on Friday 7th July, from 1.15pm.
We hope many of you will be able to join us for the final event of this school year !
TG LAMDAMessage from Mrs. Faulkner:
Classes from September 2023
Further to our communications earlier this term regarding staffing changes at Park Road, we are now able to confirm those details as we look ahead into the new academic year.
As Mr Britton explained, I will be both Head of Primary Division and Head of Park Road and, in support of that, Mrs Winstanley, who is currently the Deputy Head, will be joined by Miss Fletcher, who will take up the role of Deputy Head with specific responsibility for pastoral care. The Park Road teaching team will also be joined by Mrs Clarke, whom many of you will know from your son’s time at Beech House.
Form teachers for the academic year 2023-24 will be as follows:
3A Mr Price
3B Mrs Hough
4A Mrs Gould
4B Mrs Clarke
5A Mr Hough
5B Mr Winstanley and Mr Grieve
5C Mr Minta
6A Mr Porter
6B Mrs Brisk
6C Mr Livesley.
Today, the boys currently in Years 3 and 5 have been told which class they will move up to:
3A will move to 4A
3B will move to 4B
5A will move to 6C
5B will move to 6A
5C will move to 6B.
from the Art Room
Pupils from across Primary Division recently came together to celebrate their creativity as part of a project which has been running within the whole Foundation.
The Rethinking Assessment Action Research Project has been looking at how we teach and assess certainty with a high focus on inquisitiveness.
Year 6 pupils at Park Road have created shoe box dioramas using natural materials, responding to the work of land artist, Andy Goldsworthy. Through this process, the boys had to create gallery labels that explored their work and posed deep-thinking questions to their audience. In History, with Miss Fletcher, pupils developed their enquiry skills to interrogate sources and in English, with Mrs Brisk, they used similar skills to explore characters in the book “Street Child”.
The gallery reviews in the Arts Centre brought together all their work , along with projects created by Hesketh House girls and allowed pupils to visit and respond to the work of others and also be questioned about the work they had created.
This was a great example of creativity in action with a real-world outcome and pupils (exhibitors and visitors) all enjoyed the opportunity to explain and expand their own thinking.
Big thanks to Miss Fletcher and Mrs Brisk, who ran their projects in Year 6 for the first time this year, alongside the second year of this research in Art, and to all the pupils who made such fantastic work and responded to the work so positively and creatively. JM
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