EVENTS

St Anne’s College provided a superb venue for this year’s Oxford Dinner on Friday 12th November 2021 – after an enforced absence last year, Old Girls and Old Boys relished the opportunity to meet up again in the city of dreaming spires.

Meriel Lewis (Class of 1980), Sian Kilner (Class of 1977), Mark Buckley Akshay Pal and Katerina Gramm (both Class of 2018) Lynne Kyle and Kirsty Fielding (Class of 2017)

As the omicron variant reared its head early in the Spring it was agreed that it would be wise not to hold this year’s Alumni Cambridge Dinner. A catch up via Zoom wasn’t quite the same as sitting down to eat together, but the chatting and reminiscing about Bolton School was as lively as ever!

In 2022, Bolton School will celebrate the myriad contributions of its Old Girls and Old Boys to society, and inspire the next generation of girls and boys currently studying at the School, by launching its inaugural Alumni of the Year Awards. The Awards will recognise Alumni who have delivered upon the famous exhortation of the Girls’ Division prayer, that “much will be expected of those to whom much is given”. The Awards seek to recognise Alumni who have made an outstanding contribution to society through their voluntary service, academic achievements or professional success, or whose behaviour and values inspire others – in short, Alumni who embody the School’s ethos of producing people who go out into the world and make a difference for good. Members of the School community are invited to nominate Alumni whom they feel are deserving of the 2022 Old Girl of the Year and Old Boy of the Year Awards by 12pm on Friday 27th May. After that deadline, a shortlist of candidates for the two awards will be decided by a group comprising the Girls’ Division Head Girl and Boys’ Division Captain, and the Heads of Foundation, Girls’ Division, Boys’ Division and Primary Division, before pupils from across the Foundation are invited to vote for their favoured candidate at the end of the Summer Term. The winners of the two awards will be announced publicly in September 2022, at the start of the new academic year. For further details, including the Awards’ rules, and to make your nomination, please visit the ‘Former Pupils’ section of the School website.

During the past two years, the Girls’ Division has lost three of its former leaders: former Headmistress Dr Margaret Spurr OBE DL, and former Deputy Headmistresses Miss Margaret Dickinson and Reverend Elizabeth Plant. On Thursday 7th July 2022, the Girls’ Division will pay tribute to this generation of Girls’ Division leadership who, both collectively and individually, inspired Old Girls and fellow colleagues alike with their intellect, compassion and drive. Old Girls and former Girls’ Division staff are warmly invited to join us at this commemoration event, which will commence at 9am with an extended assembly in the Great Hall, followed by morning coffee until 11.30am in the School’s Arts Centre. To register to attend this event, please contact the Development Office.

Saturday 30th April ‘1’ Class Reunion Thursday 5th May May Serenade

Friday 6th May

Scottish Dinner Thursday 9th June Old Girls’ Lunch and AGM Friday 10th June Friends of Bolton School Dinner Bolton School, 11.30am-4.30pm Girls’ Division Great Hall, 7.30pm University of Edinburgh, 7pm Bolton School, 12 noon Arts Centre, 7pm

Friday 24th June

Cumbria Lunch Monday 27th June Recent Leavers’ (Class of 2021) Reunion

Lindeth Howe Hotel, 12 noon Bolton School, 3pm-5pm Thursday 22nd September Alumni New York Dinner The Harvard Club, 6pm To reserve your ticket for any of our Alumni events, please call the Development Office on 01204 434718, email development@boltonschool.org or visit the ‘Former Pupils section of the School website (www.boltonschool.org) where you can book online.