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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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![Far too many words have been written about the EU referendum and I would not add to them without good cause. My justification is to explore what exactly schools can […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/brexit-115x115.png "Politics and schools")
Politics and schools
Posted on June 24, 2016 | No CommentsFar too many words have been written about the EU referendum and I would not add to them without good cause. My justification is to explore what exactly schools can […] -
![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")
Independent Schools ‘Not Just for the Rich and Privileged’ says Head
Posted on June 15, 2016 | No CommentsAn 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, […] -
![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")
Testing, testing
Posted on May 26, 2016 | No CommentsSo 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 […] -
![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?")
500 years – has the point of education changed?
Posted on April 30, 2016 | No CommentsBolton 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 […] -
![“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")
The Education Landscape
Posted on March 28, 2016 | No Comments“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 […] -
![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")
The Lost Boys
Posted on February 21, 2016 | No CommentsImagine 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, […] -
Fiction Awards
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![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")
E is for e-learning
Posted on January 20, 2016 | No Commentsand 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 […] -
![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")
Beyond Prevent
Posted on December 12, 2015 | No CommentsA 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 […] -
![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")
College of Teachers
Posted on October 20, 2015 | No CommentsNever 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 […] -
![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")
Results Day û celebrating success for everyone
Posted on September 16, 2015 | No CommentsEaster 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 […] -
A is for Aspiration
Posted on July 22, 2015 | No CommentsOver 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 with others). […] -
Library Blog
Posted on June 17, 2015 | No CommentsThe blog for Bolton School libraries -
![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")
ISC census time
Posted on June 13, 2015 | No Commentsand 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 […] -
![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")
Fundamental British Values
Posted on May 19, 2015 | No CommentsThis 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 […] -
It’s Time for a Reset on Politicians’ Nonsensical Attitudes Toward Independent Schools
Posted on March 30, 2015 | No CommentsIndependent schools are absolutely part of the community, says one leading Headmaster. Philip Britton, Head of Bolton School, Boys’ Division, says there is no divide in the North… -
![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")
Part 3: IT comes of age
Posted on January 3, 2015 | 1 CommentIn 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, […] -
![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?")
Part 2 – Who and what are schools for?
Posted on October 28, 2014 | No CommentsSo 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 […] -
New Year û Looking forward, looking back
Posted on September 6, 2014 | No CommentsSeptember, much more than January, is the time for New Year resolutions in schools. It is also a time when Janus stands and looks forward into the future and back […] -
![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")
Schools and Social Media
Posted on July 22, 2014 | No CommentsôWe 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 […]