The latest news from Turton School.
AcademisationDespite last week’s TUC article in the Bolton News, Turton’s governing board actually only voted on whether to academise or not on Monday. The vote was overwhelmingly in favour of academisation and there are very good reasons for this. Turton’s aim is to maintain its strong position as a community school that serves the local area, Read More …
Turton Community Sports Centre Roof Appeal (Turton School Parents’ Association)Dear Sir/MadamTurton School is very proud to run a community sports centre which provides affordable and easy access to sports activities for local residents. Since taking over the running of the centre in 2012 the sports centre staff have worked hard to increase the range of Read More …
Swim SuccessSince September the weekly training sessions on Wednesdays and Thursdays after school has been a roaring success with pupils from all years attending with an aim to improve their technique, stamina, fitness and make friends. Commitment from pupils has been fantastic. Initially for some I think the training regime was a bit of a shock Read More …
Making Charity CountHere at Turton we are always looking at fun ways to support and promote the amazing work of charities, encourage entrepreneurship and collaboration.Towards the end of last year Ms Robinson, Mr Bennett and a number of pupils organised a number of events aimed to do just this.Firstly we had the fantastic Mad Hatters Read More …
Author Juno Dawson visiting Turton School on the 8th February. Dear Parent/Guardian, Your child will be attending an event with multi award winning and bestselling author Juno Dawson on 8 February and will have the opportunity to buy personally signed and dedicated copies of her books.Should you wish your child to be able to purchase books Read More …
Celebrating GCSE Art & Design, GCSE Graphic DesignSome wonderful GCSE Art & Design and GCSE Graphic Design work on display from Thursday night’s Year 9 option evening… [ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”38″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_pro_mosaic” row_height=”180″ margins=”5″ last_row=”justify” lazy_load_enable=”1″ lazy_load_initial=”35″ lazy_load_batch=”15″ captions_enabled=”0″ captions_display_sharing=”1″ captions_display_title=”1″ captions_display_description=”1″ captions_animation=”slideup” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]
Parents’ Forum letter (Jan, 2017) Download PDF
Year 9 Options Letter to Parents Download PDF
Rising Stars: A careers talk by Gunan Shang.Turton recently hosted a careers talk by Gunan Shang (a former student in material science) for our design technology students. “I really enjoyed the Turton career talk of material science. I found the subject very interesting and Gunan made the job of material scientist seem very enjoyable and compelling. Read More …
Year 9 Options Booklet (2017-19) now available to download…