Podium finish for Year 9s at the Physics Olympics 2016

Podium finish for Year 9s at the Physics Olympics 2016A team of four Year 9 pupils (Adam Brierley, Joe Earnshaw, Josh Ryder, Ed Webster) competed against schools from around the region in the Physics Olympics held at Bolton School Boys Division on Wednesday 2nd March. The competition comprised of six events and a set of Read More …

Rocket Science at Turton

Rocket Science at TurtonPupils in the Year 8 science club have become space biologists by planting 100 rocket seeds that had spent several months on the International Space Station with Tim Peake, and returned to earth with Commander Scott Kelly on 2nd March. The pupils will be monitoring and recording the growth of these seeds Read More …

Turton Inventors Win at TeenTech 2016

Turton Inventors Win at TeenTech 2016TeenTech is an award winning event run at Manchester University on Wednesday 27th April, where pupils from 30 schools across the North West try their hand at experiments, using cutting edge technology and even invent new technologies to make life better, simpler, safer or more fun. A group of ten Read More …

Key Stage 4 Information for parents

Dear parents,Thank you to all those parents who attended the year 10 curriculum evening on Wednesday. I hope that you found the event useful, and now have a better awareness of the challenges facing your young people as they move through Key Stage 4. Please find attached the powerpoint and information leaflet that was shared Read More …

Rising Stars: Daisy Bali (11T3)

Last month I was lucky enough to go on a once in a lifetime trip to New York after coming runner up in an essay writing competition about the effects of 9/11. We got to see so much of New York, including the Police department, Fire department, New York times, 9/11 memorial, Empire State Building, Read More …

Kate Clark talks to Year 10 Textiles students (by Madison Wells, 10S1)

Former Student Kate Clark talks to Year 10 studentsLast week, Kate Clark revisited where her journey first began and gave an inspirational talk to the Year 10 Textiles Technology students about her love for textiles from a childhood interest, to now studying fashion in London at one of the top universities in the country. She Read More …