Junior Girls Annual Review 2014-15

JUNIOR GIRLS’ REVIEW 2014/2015
From the Head...
If we could hear these pages speak they would talk of adventure,
exploration, expression of new ideas and engagement in new learning.
The pupils’ personal achievements sit comfortably alongside collective
efforts and aspirations. Engaging young minds and providing opportunities
to explore a wide variety of themes and ideas is key to all we do. Hesketh
House is a place of learning and personal growth where the focus is on
showing resilience, personal endeavour and courage to face challenges
with a growth mindset to match. We pave the way to future success on the
understanding that all pupils will somewhere, somehow make a difference
by virtue of their Bolton School education.
The journey is a colourful and rich one offering excitement and fun along
the way and I truly hope you will enjoy scanning these pages as testament
to all we strive to do each and every day.
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BOLTON SCHOOL JUNIOR GIRLS
Ambassadors
Spring Term
This year, Hesketh House introduced the Ambassadors. The role gives all of the Year 6
pupils the opportunity to carry extra responsibilities and serve the School in their final
year as Junior Girls.
Ambassadors are expected at all times to reflect the values of Hesketh House: respect,
honesty, kindness, resilience and responsibility. Their duties are diverse and include
welcoming visitors and providing tours, sorting lost property and helping to return items,
acting as playground mentors and assisting playground staff. Girls in the role also help to
celebrate and represent the Junior Girls’ School at events throughout the year.
All of the Year 6 girls set a good example for other pupils, who will also aspire to be
Ambassadors in future years and play their part.
Back Row: Natalia Bromilow, Katie Burgess, Ellen Masterson, Megan Potter, Taya Panter, Daisy Taylor,
Mia Short, Helena Lintott.
Front Row: Sarah Al-Falahi, Isabella Hawkins, Lauren Hilton, Louise Perry, Chloe Ferguson,
Isha Nunkoo, Amy Scoble.
Autumn Term
Summer Term
Back Row: Lily Morrow, Isabel Brennand, Ani Sastry, Emma Payne, Amelia Myall, Trinity Entwistle,
Reet Kaur, Sophia Liang, Rhianna Taylor-Birch.
Back Row: Katie Wild, Jessica Bailey, Amerleen Hundle, Caris Williams, Estelle Pass, Eleanor Haighton,
Rachel Roscoe, Genevieve Storey, Manahil Masood.
Front Row: Connie Williamson, Millie Ashton, Olivia Sample, Gracie Grundy, Vanessa Wong,
Ruby Hill, Rebecca Parkinson, Ariella Tanfield.
Front Row: Maya Peter, Holly Stevenson, Caitlyn Howard, Madihah Jiva, Issy Corrigan, Molly Morrow,
Caitlin Foster, Ella-Rose Parkin.
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Music and Drama
The ‘Tales of Hesketh House’
Summer Concert
Pupils attended the Music for Youth Festival
and the AJIS Sings event
Singing carols at Bolton Market Place
The girls performed their own mini-pantomimes
on the Year 6 Drama Morning
Girls ‘Following the Star’
in this year’s Nativity Celebration
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BOLTON SCHOOL JUNIOR GIRLS
The Young Shakespeare Company’s interactive
performance of ‘Macbeth’
“Something wicked this way comes”
Macbeth, Act 4 Scene 1
“For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo”
Romeo & Juliet, Act 5 Scene 3
The Year 6 girls’ interpretation of the famous tragedy ‘Romeo and Juliet’
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The Arts
The Young Writers 100 Word Mini Saga
competition entrants
Some of the winners of the Library’s Pyrate Creative Writing
Competition discuss their work with visiting author E. B. Colin
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Year 6 girls achieved highly in their ESB
examinations, discussing diverse topics from
Egyptian Burials to the Women’s Suffrage
Movement to the work of Walt Disney!
Year 3 girls receive certificates for completing the
Reading Rewards Recognition scheme
Girls created a wall of ‘Literary Bricks’, each containing a book
recommendation, for World Book Day
Poem and artwork created by Year 6 girls for
their John Muir Award
Year 3 – Charlotte Harris:
Busy, colourful, expressive minds
Year 3 – Alexia Howarth:
Greek vase design
Year 4 - Aboriginal style art
inspired by the work of Michael Morpurgo
Year 4 – Ai Makino:
Oil pastel inspired by Paul Klee’s ‘Castle and
the Sun’ (1928)
Year 5 – Caitlin Nuttal:
Portrait of Jane Seymour
Year 5 – Silk Paintings:
Silk painting based on studies of Islamic art
and Suzani patters
Year 6 – Connie Williamson & Manahil
Masood:
Hand-painted wallpaper designs in the style
of William Morris.
Year 6 – Caris Williams:
War collage evoking war-torn images from the
First World War
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School Celebrates
100/500 Anniversaries
In 2015-2016, Bolton School is celebrating 100 years of the Foundation on its present site
and 500 years of education in Bolton. In 1915, Lord Leverhulme brought together Bolton
Grammar School for Boys and Bolton High School for Girls under one foundation, split into
the Girls’ and Boys’ Divisions that still exist today. In 1516, Bolton Grammar School for Boys
was recorded as “a going concern” in what is the earliest known reference to the school
that would become part of the Bolton School Foundation, and also the first record of a
school in Bolton. The Junior Girls’ School has been involved in a number of commemorative
events this year, helping to celebrate the first of these very special anniversaries.
Two pupils in Hesketh
House composed the song
‘Thank You Lord Leverhulme’
to celebrate the School’s
benefactor. This piece
was performed by the
whole school at the
Summer Concert
Hesketh House Tapestry,
Centenary Textiles
and Blazer
The Junior Girls’ choir sang at the whole school Gala Concert at
Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall
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BOLTON SCHOOL JUNIOR GIRLS
Port Sunlight
The whole of the Junior Girls’ School took a
day trip to Port Sunlight for an amazing heritage
lesson. The village was built for Sunlight Soap
workers in 1888 by William Hesketh Lever, who
went on to become the School’s best-known
benefactor, Lord Leverhulme. The visit allowed
the girls to learn more about Lord Leverhulme
and Lady Lever, as well as giving them an insight
into Edwardian and Victorian life.
Foundation Family Fun Day
The Bolton School Foundation
Family Festival saw the Parents’
Association of the Infant School,
the two Junior Schools and the
two Senior Schools work together
to produce a spectacular
afternoon of fun for families and
friends of the School. There were
stalls, games, activities and events
for the whole family to enjoy,
and the atmosphere throughout
was exhilarating.
Pupils took part in the Great Junior Bake-Off
as part of the celebrations
Zahra Ali abseiled down the School Clock
Tower to raise money for charity
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School Events
The theme for MFL Day was Spain!
The School celebrated European Day of Languages by sharing the many different
languages spoken by girls’ families, including Hindi, Mandarin, Gujarati, Egyptian,
Russian, Polish, Punjabi, Urdu, Malayalam, Bengali, Shona, Cantonese, Spanish, French,
German, Thai, Turkish, Afrikaans, Tamil, Bosnian, Arabic, and of course English!
Girls performed an Indian dance in assembly
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Girls and staff had a wonderful time skiing in Claviere
Members of the armed forces visited on Remembrance Day
Girls dressed up as their favourite characters for World Book Day
Outdoor Learning
The Junior Girls’ outdoor learning begins
in Year 3 with a day of exciting activities in
school. In Year 4 and above, the girls travel
to Patterdale Hall, the School’s outdoor
pursuits centre in the Lake District, to
continue their outdoor learning experience.
The Year 6 girls this year completed the John
Muir Award at Discovery Level. Exploring
and conserving wild places and sharing
their experiences with others formed the
basis of the Award.
Mandarin Club made paper
lanterns for Chinese New Year
The Year 3 girls learned about healthy eating
with The H Factor
Pupils competed in many different chess
tournaments throughout the year, including
the Bolton Primary Schools Chess League, the
EPSCA Chess Championships and the English
Chess Federation Championships, and also
took part in the UK Delancey Chess Challenge
The Year 6 Careers Carousel for Junior Girls
and Boys this year featured inspiring alumni
who went on to a variety of careers: a vet,
an entrepreneur, a doctor, an architect, a
video producer, and even a Deputy Chief
Constable in the police force!
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Sports
Girls took part in a wide range of sports outside of school
The girls were thrilled to meet Olympic and
World Champion rower Helen Glover and
international athlete Jenny Meadows
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The netball teams enjoyed a number of matches throughout the year
A team of girls competed in both track and field events at the annual AJIS Athletics Championships
Swimming
Cross Country
Sports Day
The Swimming Teams took part in a number
of competitions over the course of the year,
including Bolton Primary Schools Swimming
Championships, the Greater Manchester School
Games and the AJIS Swimming Gala.
Pupils once again competed in a number of
cross country events over the course of the year.
In spite of cold and wet weather at some of
the competitions, the girls’ enthusiasm was not
dampened in the slightest.
The sun shone for this year’s Sports
Day! The girls had a wonderful
time competing in a wide range of
sporting activities, cheered on by
parents and the rest of their team.
The Year 5 team won the Bolton Primary
Schools Swimming Championships
The Year 3 and 4 girls did particularly well, winning
first place at the Bolton Primary Schools Fun Run
and securing individual medals and the trophy at
the Bolton Schools Cross Country Championships!
The girls with their gold medals after winning
at the Greater Manchester School Games!
The team won medals at the AJIS Gala
Medal winners at the AJIS Cross Country event
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Charity
The Junior Girls joined the
‘Be A Hero’ campaign and
raised £231.66 for Children
in Need! From traditional
superheroes to the girls’
teachers and everything in
between, all kinds of ‘heroes’
were represented on the day
You look amazing,
Heroes! Pudsey
thinks you look
pawsome!
The Junior Girls’ School put together almost 130 shoeboxes
for Operation Christmas Child, sending festive presents to
underprivileged children in Serbia
@BBCCiN Twitter
The Harvest Appeal taught girls the message of sharing, and a vast
amount of food donations went to the charity Winter Watch
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BOLTON SCHOOL JUNIOR GIRLS
Girls in Year 6 organised a
variety of stalls for Charity
Afternoon. The £688.79
raised was split between
eleven charities!
Reverend George of Bolton Trinity Pastorate
received a cheque for £1,222.54, raised
through the Smartie Tube challenge for
Kimathi Presbyterian School in Kenya
The Junior and Senior Girls collected 1,005
boxes of after-dinner mints to donate to
Urban Outreach’s Christmas Hampers
Wear A Hat Day for Brain Tumour Research raised
£648.96 in jars of small change
Girls took part in a sponsored Spelling Challenge, Maths Challenge, or Workout
Challenge for the NSPCC, bringing in a staggering total of £4,684.52 for the charity!
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Parents’ Association
The P.A. funded the Junior Girls’
textile workshop to mark the
100/500 Anniversaries
Year 6 Leavers’ Event
The PA funded the purchase of 25 ukuleles!
Winter warmers and café quality at Breakfast Club
Parents had a wonderful time at the Macmillan
Coffee Morning and raised £304.63 for charity
Easter Bingo is always popular with
the girls
Photography
Competition
The challenging
theme of ‘Unusual
Angles’ inspired
Hesketh House’s
young photographers
in this year’s
competition, which
was run by the P.A.
Photography Competition Winners: (left to right) Madihah Jiva, Rosie Crowther, Gabriella De Koussa and Helena Ormerod