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- Affordable and Worth Affording
- Building Partnerships in Your Local Community
- The Great Reset
- Confidence in the Future of Independent Education
- What Exactly is a Bursary? Can it Help You Find the Right School for Your Child?
- School Fundraising is About Moral Purpose, Not Gold Bathroom Fittings
- My 19th Secretary of State and Why That Matters
- Bursaries: ‘If your adverts don’t reach the right people, they are to no avail’
- Bursaries are not about virtue signalling or the passing on of privilege
- 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?
- The Virtuous Circle of Lower School Fees
- Unconditional Offers
- Research in Education
- First, just read this ..
- The Importance of Reading
- language please
- Some stability please
- The Health of our Children
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A Call to Properly Fund Young People’s Mental Health Service
Posted on January 13, 2020 | No CommentsThe capacity of mental health service for young people (CAHMS) has been much in the news again – waiting times are too long, serious problems are being left too long and permanent damage is being done to some young lives including, in the most tragic cases, the premature end of those lives. -
![A few weeks ago the leader of OFQUAL, whose job it is to maintain exam standards and oversee the exam boards, argued in the press that it was not the […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Exam-shot-115x115.jpg "Do Exams Cause Stress?")
Do Exams Cause Stress?
Posted on June 3, 2019 | No CommentsA few weeks ago the leader of OFQUAL, whose job it is to maintain exam standards and oversee the exam boards, argued in the press that it was not the […] -
![Much has been made in the national press this week about role models for young people, with the Headmistress of the GirlsÆ Division here at Bolton School leading the national […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/role-models-115x115.jpg "Seeking Better Role Models for Young People")
Seeking Better Role Models for Young People
Posted on December 19, 2018 | No CommentsMuch has been made in the national press this week about role models for young people, with the Headmistress of the GirlsÆ Division here at Bolton School leading the national […] -
![This term we are celebrating the award of Platinum Arts Mark for our work promoting the arts and engaging boys in art, music, drama and creativity more generally. In Bolton […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/kkp-163038-115x115.jpg "The Arts and Creativity Have Never Been So Important")
The Arts and Creativity Have Never Been So Important
Posted on October 17, 2018 | No CommentsThis term we are celebrating the award of Platinum Arts Mark for our work promoting the arts and engaging boys in art, music, drama and creativity more generally. In Bolton […] -
![At three different meetings I have attended in the last month the ‘problem’ of boys in education has been discussed. As you might imagine, running a Boys’ school as I […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Greek-philosophers-115x115.jpg "The ‘Problem’ With Boys")
The ‘Problem’ With Boys
Posted on September 26, 2018 | No CommentsAt three different meetings I have attended in the last month the ‘problem’ of boys in education has been discussed. As you might imagine, running a Boys’ school as I […] -
![What 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 […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/KKP-014026-115x115.jpg "What is it to be a Good Man?")
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 […]