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- Philip Britton is the Head of Foundation of Bolton School. He was brought up on Tyneside, took a first in physics at Oxford and did teacher training at Cambridge. He worked as physics teacher, Head of Physics and Deputy Head at Leeds Grammar School before moving to Bolton in 2008. In 2010 he was awarded an MBE for services to physics and is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics where he has been much involved in physics education, encouraging teachers to encourage the next generation of physicists. Follow at X: @Philip_Britton | View X/Twitter archive | Listen at: Exploring Bolton School | Social Mobility, Leadership & Future School Thinking | Strategic School Leadership with Philip Britton | Strategic School Leadership with Philip Britton
![An article in The Bolton News: A HEADTEACHER of one of the country’s leading schools has dismissed claims that independent schools are just for the privileged in society. Philip Britton, […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "Independent Schools ‘Not Just for the Rich and Privileged’ says Head")
![So much has been written and said this week about school testing. True û people donÆt grow by measuring them. True û if you do measure them and they fall […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/testing-115x115.png "Testing, testing")
![Bolton School, and so education in Bolton, is 500 years old this year. That is a remarkable fact, thinking of how Bolton would have been in Tudor times, when Henry […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/henry-115x115.png "500 years – has the point of education changed?")
![“We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised.ö Might this quote be from a hard pressed […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/academy-115x115.png "The Education Landscape")
![Imagine you had newly arrived from a neighbouring planet, trying to guess out how things worked here on earth. You watch the newsà.and you would see a male world. Men, […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/lost-boys-115x115.png "The Lost Boys")
![and eloquence. Over the next few months, IÆll be writing about the ævowelsÆ of education: aspiration, e-learning and eloquence, I (getting along with yourself), outdoor learning and U (getting along […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/images3VDMA7RN-115x115.jpg "E is for e-learning")
![A blog on the Sunday TimesÆ website by Bolton SchooláBoysÆ Division Headmaster Philip Brittonáhas urged schools to move beyond the Prevent strategy, which is part of the governmentÆs wider counter-terrorism […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/untitled-115x115.png "Beyond Prevent")
![Never has there been such a sense of a moment of opportunity for teaching – and yet it is still so possible that, for all the usual reasons, the teaching […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/CoT-115x115.png "College of Teachers")
![Easter 2011. Thirty year 10 boys and girls, from half a dozen local secondary schools, go on a three day residential to Oxford. Today, alongside celebrating the success of Bolton […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ogden-115x112.png "Results Day û celebrating success for everyone")
![and someáfactsáabout MFL at Bolton School Census time û a Bolton School perspective Each year late Spring sees the publication of a variety of census data: not least the […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/logo-115x112.png "ISC census time"){kind=logo}
![This blog is a transcript of an assembly given in March 2015 by the Deputy Headmaster Earlier this year two young Frenchmen executed twelve of their fellow countrymen because […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/untitled-115x115.png "Fundamental British Values")
![In this third glimpse into the future in education, based on developing the trends of what has happened in the past decades, I look at the impact of technology. Obviously, […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_0382-0-115x110.jpg "Part 3: IT comes of age")
![So just what are schools for and who should be in them? In the first part of this speculation about future paradigm shifts in education (which I believe will […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/janus-115x115.jpg "Part 2 – Who and what are schools for?")
![ôWe did everything adults would do. What went wrong?ö ?áWilliam Golding,áLord of the Flies á This week, from my desk, IÆve been enjoying small snapshots of school activity from the […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/smicons-115x115.jpg "Schools and Social Media")
![Ten Facts about Bolton School It is often said that you never appreciate fully what you live with at close quarters. Tourists will flock to a particular location to admire […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/pnw__1379492638_Bolton_School_Rear_Elevation-115x115.jpg "Ten facts about Bolton School")
![Last week was the final of our school Young Musician final. áSixteen boys played, representing excellence in each category from both junior and senior sections. In the senior section the […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/100-Years-of-flags-at-Bolton-School-033a-115x115.jpg "Excellence AND Participation")
![The Bolton School SPACE programme is now a term old and it is possible to reflect both on what has happened and the rationale for the programme beginning. First, the […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/shuttle-115x115.jpg "Bolton School in SPACE")
