BOLTON School has been shortlisted for a sports award.
It has been nominated in the Independent School of the Year category at the 2012 Aviva and Daily Telegraph School Sport Matters Awards.
The ceremony, at Lords Cricket Ground next month, will be attended by Trevor Pledger, director of partnerships at the schools, and two Bolton School athletes from the last academic year — swimmer Emma Saunders and James Roberts who plays for England’s cerebral palsy development squad and captained the England Cerebral Palsy Development Football Squad at the 2012 Cerebral Palsy Home Nations Championships, and led them to victory. Guests will include sports personalities Jessica Ennis, Richard Whitehead and Zoe Smith.
The school has been shortlisted for opening up sporting opportunities for its pupils and the local community.
Events the school has organised include the Sports Festival which involved more than 30 primary schools Bolton School offers a vast range of sporting opportunities for its pupils and the local community.
Over the summer the school was one of the sponsors of the Bolton 2012 Games.
Former Bolton School pupil Rachel Flanders, who became the youngest person to row the Atlantic at the age of just 17 and broke the world record for the furthest distance rowed in a 24- hour period with her rowing partner Robbie McFarlane, aged 21, was chosen to carry the Olympic Torch past her old school when it came to Bolton during the summer
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