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List of Posts
- The Great Reset
- My 19th Secretary of State and Why That Matters
- What is School For?
- Boys Should Build Careers in Nursing, Adult Social Care and Primary Schools
- A Call to Properly Fund Young People’s Mental Health Service
- The Future for Independent Schools
- The Language of Elections
- Let’s Nationalise the Examination Industry!
- The Importance of Sharing Sports Facilities
- What is the Purpose of Higher Education?
- AI is Already Here!
- Do Exams Cause Stress?
- Fair Access to University
- Make Exam Results Clearer
- School’s National Recognition is Good for the Town
- Seeking Better Role Models for Young People
- Money to help a child find their passion?
- The Arts and Creativity Have Never Been So Important
- The ‘Problem’ With Boys
- Let’s Celebrate All Exam Success
- Promoting Modern Foreign Languages
- Encouraging Social Mobility
- Recruiting, Retaining and Celebrating Teachers
- What is it to be a Good Man?
- Is the Curriculum too Narrow?
- Unconditional Offers
- Research in Education
- First, just read this ..
- The Importance of Reading
- language please
- Some stability please
- The Health of our Children
- Bursaries improve society for all
- Will robots replace teachers?
- Volunteering
- National Success
- Key issues with the new exams
- The importance of learning languages
- The Meritocracy
- Developing identity
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Promoting Modern Foreign Languages
Posted on August 8, 2018 | No CommentsGovernment announced this week the creation of a national centre for Modern Foreign Languages, providing a catalyst and engine room for 9 regional hub schools. The nearest to Bolton is […] -
Recruiting, Retaining and Celebrating Teachers
Posted on July 11, 2018 | No CommentsAs we near the end of term there have been the usual events to mark the service of those colleagues moving on from the school at the end of the […] -
What is it to be a Good Man?
Posted on June 20, 2018 | No CommentsWhat is it to be a good man? Leading a boy’s school has its challenges in the modern age. 150 years ago it would have been an almost obvious truism […] -
Is the Curriculum too Narrow?
Posted on May 30, 2018 | No CommentsIs the curriculum of our schools too narrow? A great deal has been written about how performance measures such as progress 8 and some other league tables have led to […] -
Unconditional Offers
Posted on April 6, 2018 | No CommentsOnce again the question of unconditional offers for University places is a public debate. The usual system is to offer a place based on achieving some A level grades. An […] -
Research in Education
Posted on April 2, 2018 | No CommentsAt the time of the recent BETT (Educational Technology) show it was said by one speaker that too much of educational research was the latest æsnake oilÆ. This relatively obscure […] -
First, just read this ..
Posted on March 20, 2018 | No CommentsThis week it is World Book Day and schools across Bolton will be engaged in activities aimed at raising awareness about books and the importance of reading for young people. […] -
The Importance of Reading
Posted on February 28, 2018 | No CommentsThis week it is World Book Day and schools across Bolton will be engaged in activities aimed at raising awareness about books and the importance of reading for young people. […] -
language please
Posted on February 15, 2018 | No CommentsOne of the things that a good school focuses on is allowing pupils to understand the importance of language. Obviously, at a basic level, that means using language that is […] -
Some stability please
Posted on January 5, 2018 | No CommentsAnother year and another Secretary of State for Education emerges from the reshuffle. When schools do not thrive often the high turnover of staff is blamed. But what about high […] -
The Health of our Children
Posted on December 18, 2017 | No CommentsA recent change in nursing colleagues at Bolton has provoked useful thinking on what the purpose of a school nursing service is and how, like so many things, in essence […] -
Bursaries improve society for all
Posted on December 2, 2017 | No CommentsLast weekend we celebrated 20 years of fundraising for the bursary campaign at Bolton School, which currently allows 1 in 5 pupils to be educated irrespective of their means. Bolton […] -
Will robots replace teachers?
Posted on October 25, 2017 | No CommentsThis question was asked decades ago and decades later they have not. It would be tempting to think then that they will not do so in the future. And in […] -
Volunteering
Posted on September 5, 2017 | No CommentsIn June Bolton School was very proud to be named as one of this yearÆs recipients of the QueenÆs Award for Voluntary Services (QAVS)û an honour regraded as the æMBE […] -
National Success
Posted on August 25, 2017 | No CommentsIn recent weeks Bolton School has secured the æTriple- TripleÆ û winning all three age group national Water Polo titles for the third year running. This is not only three […] -
Key issues with the new exams
Posted on August 20, 2017 | No CommentsComment this year on exam results has focused on the reforms introduced by Michael Gove . But just what is worth thinking about and what is the noise of transient […] -
The importance of learning languages
Posted on August 17, 2017 | No CommentsOne of the last few assemblies of summer term saw the Head of Modern Foreign Languages talking about the need to value language learning in schools. She outlined the two […] -
The Meritocracy
Posted on July 16, 2017 | No CommentsLetÆs be clear: Inequality in opportunity is wrong and it is a key driver of economic and social instability. Education is an important ingredient in shaping life chances. Arguably independent […] -
Developing identity
Posted on June 25, 2017 | No CommentsSo Ronaldo has had a new hair cut, an event which made the newspapers. I have a passing moment of sympathy for a man who cannot visit the barbers without […]