Bolton School
Mutare Vel Timere Sperno (Latin: "I scorn to change or to fear")
Established	ante 1516
School type	Independent
Headmaster (Boys' Division)	Mervyn E. W. Brooker
Headmistress (Girls' Division)	Gill Richards
Location	Bolton, Lancashire, England
Website	www.boltonschool.org

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The school comprises:

• A nursery on Dobson Road (ages 0-5)
• A co-educational infant school, called Beech House (ages 5-7)
• A junior independent boys' school (ages 7-11), known as Park Road
• A junior independent girls' school (ages 7-11)
• Two separate secondary divisions, both with 6th form provision - Bolton School Boys' Division and Bolton School Girls' Division (ages 11-18).

Established as Bolton Grammar School, it is not known exactly when the Boys' School was founded, though it is recorded as being a 'going concern' as early as 1516. In 1899, the school moved from its site next to the Parish Church in Bolton to its current site on Chorley New Road. In 1913, it was re-endowed by Viscount Leverhulme. The current buildings were begun in the 1920s though they were not completed until the late 1960s. Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women. ... A human infant An infant or baby is an extremely young person. ... // Events March - With the death of Ferdinand II of Aragon, his grandson Charles of Ghent becomes King of Spain as Carlos I. July - Selim I of the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Mameluks and invades Syria. ... The title Viscount Leverhulme, of the Western Isles in the Counties of Inverness and Ross & Cromarty, was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1922 for William Lever, 1st Baron Leverhulme. ... The 1920s was a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ...

The Girls' School was established in 1877 as Bolton Girls' Day School and was quickly renamed to Bolton High School for Girls. In 1913 it amalgamated with Bolton Grammar School and the Bolton School Foundation was formed.

The Boys' Division came in the top 20 nationwide in GCSE examinations in 2004. It has won national titles in water polo, football and chess. In 2006 A level examinations, the Boys' Division secured a position at 110th nationwide in the Daily Telegraph league table. GCSE redirects here. ... Water polo is a team water sport, which can be best described as a combination of swimming, football (soccer), basketball, ice hockey, rugby and wrestling. ... Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Chess is an abstract strategy board game for two players that is played both recreationally and competitively. ... This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ...

The Girls' Division was ranked the 155th best school in the country for A levels in 2006 by the Daily Telegraph. This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ...

Bolton School owns its own private coach company, B.S.S. Coaches, which has routes spreading from Preston to Rochdale. Preston is a city and local government district in North West England. ... Statistics Population: 94,000 (2001 Census)) Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SD893130 Administration District: Rochdale Metropolitan county: Greater Manchester Region: North West England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Greater Manchester Historic county: Lancashire Services Police force: Greater Manchester Fire and rescue: {{{Fire}}} Ambulance: North West...

The Headmaster of the Boys' Division is Mr. M. E. W. Brooker, in post since 2003, and the Headmistress of the Girls' Division is Mrs. G. Richards, in post since 2005.

The Headmaster of the Boys' Junior Division is Mr M. Percik, in post since 1990, and the Headmistress of the Girl's Junior Division is Ms J. Yardley.

The motto of the school (used only by the Boys' Division) is Mutare Vel Timere Sperno, meaning "I scorn to change or to fear".

Both divisions of the school were featured in the 2006 edition of the Good Schools Guide.

The Boys' Division and Girls' Division Senior Schools (11-18 year olds) have over 800 students each. The Junior Boys' and Junior Girls' schools (ages 7-11) have about 200 pupils each.

Extracurricular activities

The school has a varied extracurricular programme, ranging from the subject-related clubs, such as Art Club and The History Society, to wider-ranging clubs, such as Film Society and Gameshow Club. Many of these are run by the staff with the help of sixth-formers, but some have been created by the sixth-formers themselves. The lunch break is also used for sports training, along with sports-related clubs.

Bolton School maintains a large, full-time outdoor pursuits department, called Bolton School Outdoor Pursuits (BSOP). The school operates Patterdale Hall, a large residential outdoor pursuits centre in the Lake District. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Over 450 boys have an individual music lesson. Many ensembles are operated jointly with the Girls' Division. The Joint Chamber Choir has performed live on BBC Radio 4. The Senior Guitar Group has also won the Kirklees National Youth Guitar Orchestra Competition in recent years. BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ...

The Bolton School Paper is a quarterly-released newspaper, founded in 2002 and printed on tabloid newsprint. As of 2006, its circulation was 1,000. It is distributed free of charge to Bolton School students, staff, visitors and alumni. It is written solely by the students of the school - with students from Year 7 through to Year 13 taking a role in production, whether writing content, editing it or finalising the data. The newspaper also takes part in the TES Newsday competition annually. In 2006 it was Highly Commended. Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... TES could stand for: Teatrul Evreiesc de Stat, the State Jewish Theater of Romania Texniki Epagelmatiki Sxoli (Technical Vocational School) - a now obsolete Greece institution Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer Thermal Emission Spectrometer - A scientific instrument aboard the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft The Eulenspiegel Society - a BDSM support group in New York... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

Students contribute to the staff-edited Boltonian magazine, which is published annually.

In the past few years, the Boys' Division has run a "Mechatronics" club, which has given boys an opportunity to help create remote controlled vehicles for several national competitions, including Technogames and Rex Garrod's Robot Challenge. This society built the "LoonyCycle", a robotic unicycle (actually a monowheel), which won the award for "Most original concept" at the BBC-televised Technogames in 2002, the boys who originally created these machines have now moved onto University. The problem of creating a robotic unicycle, a self-powered unicycle that balances itself in three dimensions, is an interesting problem in robotics and control theory. ... A monowheel is a one-wheeled vehicle similar to a unicycle. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is one of the largest broadcasting corporations in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of more than £4 billion. ...

For the past eight years, the school has been building a concrete yacht as a millennium project ("The Third Millennium Ketch"). The boat is being constructed in a temporary boat shed attached to the school. This is scheduled for launch in 2007, and will be owned by the school and used for outdoor pursuits.

The boat was originally intended to be finished in the year 2000 and was called "The Millennium Yacht". However, due to the scale of the project, the ketch wasn't finished in 2000 and the project is still running, with continuing effort from boys of all ages.

Notable Old Boltonians

• Sir Arthur Rostron (1869–1940), Captain of the RMS Carpathia, first ship to aid the RMS Titanic
• Leslie Halliwell (1929–1989), film writer and historian
• Sir Harry Kroto (born 1939), chemist
• Sir Ian McKellen (born 1939), actor
• Sir Geoffrey Jackson (1940–1988), British Ambassador to Uruguay, kidnapped by Tupamaros guerrillas and held prisoner for 8 months
• Dame Janet Smith (born 1940), judge
• Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton (born 1947), politician
• Patricia Morris, Baroness Morris of Bolton (born 1953), politician
• Mark Radcliffe (born 1958), radio broadcaster
• David Ruffley (born 1962), politician
• Nigel Short (born 1965), chess player
• Monica Ali (born 1967), author
• Roger Draper (born 1970), Chief Executive of the Lawn Tennis Association and formerly Chief Executive of Sport England
• Archis Tiku (born 1977), bassist with the band Maxïmo Park
• Caroline Plumb (born 1978), businesswoman
• Ralf Little (born 1981), actor

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External links

• Bolton School home page
• Girls' Division home page
• Boys' Division home page
• Bolton School Annual Open Day
• The Third 'Millennium' Ketch Project

Reference

• The History of Bolton School, W. E. Brown M.A., Bolton School 1976, ISBN 0-9504947-0-4, with an extended essay by F. R. Poskitt, C.B.E., M.A.