A secondary school and sixth form where Respect, Belonging, Honesty and Support are at the heart of all that we do. Ofsted rated as Good across all areas.
We are RBHS!
We are delighted to introduce our new promotional film, which showcases the learning and life at Rivington and Blackrod High School and Sixth Form.
Discovering dreams • Achieving ambitions • Transforming lives
The staff
@RBHSBolton
have been busy putting together something very special for our students. We want you to know that we’re still here for you and ‘we’re all in this together’ 🌈💛🤩🎤🎸🎬
#HighSchoolMusical
We're absolutely delighted and incredibly proud to announce that Ginny (one of our star Year 11 students and also the Head of our Rowling House) has been selected by the FA to attend an England Women's Under 16 football training camp at St George's Park! Well done Ginny!! ⚽️
Excellent attendance, spotless uniform, great engagement and lots of smiling students .... I don’t think our first day back could’ve gone any better?! Thanks to all staff and students for such a great day, see you all again tomorrow! 😊
It’s an absolute pleasure to see so many of our wonderful Year 11 students looking fabulous and enjoying themselves at our outdoor prom
@Rivington_Barn
this evening!
We’re so pleased that the staff on the critical care ward
@boltonnhsft
are making good use of our school walkie talkies to help with communication. A huge THANK YOU to all NHS staff.
#NHS
#Support
🌈❤️
Remote learning set up at 24hrs notice ✅
Hundreds of live lessons delivered to Yr11/13 ✅
Hundreds more live lessons ready for Yr10-13 next week ✅
Thousands of hours of students’ work done online ✅
School open despite the snow ✅
Not bad for our first 3 days of 2021?! 😎
Our amazing Year 7, 8 and 9 students are having an equally wonderful time at Blackpool
@Pleasure_Beach
in the sunshine! What a fabulous way to spend the day!! 😊
Delighted to announce our new Head Girl and Head Boy, Rebecca and Jack. Congratulations to you both, we can’t wait to see you proudly representing the school in these important roles next year.
Our amazing year 11 student Sunil Ghosh entertaining the crowds at Geneva airport waiting for a flight back to Manchester after a wonderful trip. Unbelievable! What a talent! 🇨🇭✈️🎹
We really do like to give our students, staff and visitors a nice, bright welcome on a dark morning or afternoon. 🎄 ❄️ 🌟 It’s beginning to look a bit like Christmas …
Today we have been busy collecting science goggles 🥽 from all the secondary schools across Bolton, who have kindly donated them to Bolton Hospital 🏥
@boltonnhsft
. Thank you to everyone for your support.
#WeAreInThisTogether
@BLP19K
Massive congratulations to our former student George Martindale who won the Bolton
@IronMan_UK
this weekend!! 🥇 He completed the 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile cycle and 26.2 mile run in an amazing time of 9:38:30! 🤩
We are so incredibly proud of you all! We will do everything in our power to get you all the grades you have worked so hard to achieve this year. We promise you that you will have your assembly and the prom will happen at some point.
Once a Riv, always a Riv 💖
#WeAreRBHS
It’s been an incredibly emotional day closing our school to students. We are still here to support them and will continue to share news, information and advice via Twitter and our website. Please keep in touch via email if there’s anything you need. 💖
#WeAreRBHS
#Support
These two RBHS legends got a great send-off today after an incredible 57 years of combined service at the school?! 😳
Mr Canning retires after 26 years and Mr Maloney retires after 31 years! Delighted that they will both be staying with us on a part-time basis next year too! 😊
Huge congratulations to our star
@RiviSixthForm
student Ginny L who made her debut for
@ManCityWomen
in their 8-0 victory against Notts Forest this afternoon at just 16 years old!!
Lovely to see that our local deer family are getting more friendly and confident as they popped onto the rugby field to see us at the end of the day today! We really are lucky to have a school that enjoys the beauty of nature so much! 🤩
It’s heart-warming to see so many of our wonderful students making such generous contributions to our
@UrbanOutreachUK
charity collection this morning. Thanks and well done to
@MrAndrewHistory
and
@Senate_RBHS
for organising this on our last day of term before Christmas
#proud
A select group of our superstar students and staff were given an incredible opportunity to visit Bolton Town Hall for the Royal visit by King Charles lll today! 🤩 They looked fabulous, represented out school brilliantly and thoroughly enjoyed the experience!! 👑
Very excited to share our new canopy, that’s been installed just outside F-block over the weekend, to keep our students safe and dry outdoors during break and lunchtimes! Looking forward to seeing students enjoying the increased shelter from the elements next week.
We are saddened to hear of the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Our thoughts are with the Royal Family at this time of sorrow.
Thank you for your service and dedication, rest in peace your Majesty.
Delighted to have star Year 11 student Ginny back in school after her most recent England Women’s Under 16 Lionesses Training Camp at St George's Park where she had the honour of not only playing for her country, but also captaining them! 🏴⚽️ A fabulous achievement!! 👏
Just wanted to say a huge THANK YOU to all of our staff and students who delivered and attended over 450 lessons on Teams today!! Our first full day of live lessons for all students had a couple of minor hiccups but overall was a massive success!! Well done to all involved! 🤩
We’re delighted to confirm that following our Ofsted inspection on 14/15th June, our school received a judgement of Good across all areas. This is thoroughly well deserved & sincere thanks go to all students, staff, parents & Governors for supporting the school to achieve this.
Thank you & well done to Mrs Mulholland and our
@rivimusic
Brass Band & Choir for performing brilliantly at the Horwich Christmas Tree Light switch on, at the request of Horwich Town Council this evening. It was fantastic to see and hear their wonderful festive songs! 🙏🏻
Huge congratulations to our star Year 13 student Ginny who has been selected to represent England U17s
@Lionesses
in their UEFA qualifiers against Russia, Belgium and Poland this month 👏🏻 ⚽️ 🦁 Well done Ginny and good luck!!
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we remember them. Today, as we observed the two minutes silence, our talented GCSE pupil played the last post.
Our fabulous Year 7 students have arrived at the residential activity centre for the weekend! It’s a little wet and windy but they made it into the “Devil’s Cauldron” at Cwm Idwal 🤗
Massive congratulations to our amazing Yr13 student Sophie W who finished 6th in the women’s 200m final at the World U20 Athletics Championships in Santiago de Cali, Colombia earlier today, having set a lifetime best of 23.24 in the heats! Well done Sophie!! 🙌🏻
#Cali22
We were VERY excited to hear our production of School of Rock being given such a positive ‘shout-out’ by Vernon Kay on the
@BBCRadio2
Breakfast Show this morning!! 😆
Well done to all the amazing
@RBHSdrama
and
@rivimusic
students who took part!! 🎸 🤘
Some very excited students (and staff!) were up incredibly early this morning to get to Manchester Airport on time for their flight to New York! ✈️ 🇺🇸
Hope they all enjoy their trip of a lifetime, can’t wait to hear all about their adventures when they get back!!
#TakePart
Huge achievement by our amazing Maths students whose incredible efforts this week mean that RBHS is first🥇in the country (out of 1915 schools!) for questions answered & correct answers on the
@HegartyMaths
website! 🤩 Thanks to
@RBHSMaths
for their inspirational input too!!
So proud of our students and their families who donated over 550 Easter Eggs for local children as part of the campaign being run by
@Craftprint
and
@BLGCofficial
. Thank you all for their wonderful support for our community which will help to create a very happy Easter!!
Congratulations to our Head Boy, James who has cycled 419.5km in 12 hours and raised over £1000 for the NHS. Thank you to everyone who has supported him 🚴🏻👏⭐️.
#NHS
#Success
So far I have raised just over £1.1k but some donations are waiting to be processed so I will put the updated figure on later!😁 In the 12 ,I managed to ride 419.5km🚴♂️😅Once again thanks for all the kind support and donations throughout the day! And also to the staff
@RBHSBolton
We are delighted that our star Year 10 student, Eleanor K, has qualified for the British Swimming Championships (the Team GB Olympic trials event for Tokyo 2021!) This is a massive achievement so Eleanor is really pleased, as is her family, her swimming squad and her school 😊
We had a wonderful first day at our Summer School yesterday with lots of smiley Yr6 pupils looking like they’re raring to become Yr7 students! 😊
They engaged brilliantly in English 📖 Maths 🔢 & Science 🧪 on Day 1 so are now looking forward to Art 🎨 Music 🎶 & Drama 🎭 today!
Congratulations to our turbo-powered Year 12 student Sophie W who ran in the 100m and 200m at the British Athletics Championships this weekend! She has also been selected to represent Great Britain in the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships in Estonia next month! 🤩 🇬🇧
We are extremely excited to welcome Teddy to our RBHS family, he is a 4 year old Cavapoochon who has recently passed his therapy dog training with flying colours🌈 We can’t wait for him to meet & work with our students in the coming weeks. Welcome to the family Teddy 🐶🐾⭐️
#rbhs
Good luck to Mr Brown
@RIVI_Sport
who is currently taking part in the Lakeland 100. This involves a gruelling 105 mile run with a 6300 metre ascent across the Lake District. We know you’ll smash it! 🌟🏃🏽♂️💪
#lakeland100
#takepart
#goMrB
A huge congratulations to all our amazing students collecting their A level results today 🤩
You have worked so hard and we are proud of each and every one of you!
While our wonderful students weren’t cheering on the other athletes from their House, they had the pleasure of being entertained by our talented Staff Band!! 🎹 🎸 🥁 🎙 🎶 🎼 🎵
#WonderWall
#RiviFest
Well done to our Class of 2022!! 🤩🥳
Seeing so many happy, beaming faces as our Year 13 students celebrated their outstanding results today has been fantastic. 78% of students received grades A*-C at A Level, some of the best in recent years!
After an incredible meal thanks to
@Rivington_Barn
our lovely Yr11 students are enjoying some fantastic speeches as part of their Prom! Thanks to Jack (our Head Boy), Rebecca (our Head Girl), Mr Bradshaw (Head of KS4) and Miss Cavill (Head of Year) for their wonderful words! 😊
Massive THANK YOU to Mrs Graham who retired today after an amazing 43 years service at our school 🙌🏻 She’s a key part of our Catering Team & we’ll miss her very much! She has served over 5 million meals in her time to all RBHS student currently under the age of 60!! 😮
So proud of our staff and students after the first day of remote learning! One or two early teething problems but staff have worked really hard (at very short notice) to get remote learning ready, and students (and their families) have responded brilliantly!! Well done to all 😊
We are sorry to hear that former student Paul Mariner has passed away at the age of 68 after a brief battle with brain cancer. Paul played for England 35 times and also won the FA Cup and UEFA Cup during his career. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and former classmates.
A huge congratulations to our Sixth Form student, Eleanor Kay, who is officially a British Swimming Championship 2024 qualifier (Olympic trials)! She will race in the 400, 800 &1200m free races, starting today. We are immensely proud of you Eleanor, good luck! 🏊🏻♀️🍀🏅
#teamrbhs
Many congratulations to our incredible Class of 2022 on your amazing GCSE results!! 🥳
It was fantastic to see so many huge smiles this morning as you opened the results your hard work deserved!
Now it's time to enrol in
@RiviSixthForm
on our of A-level and/or Vocational courses!
It was an absolute honour to have
@FA_PGMOL
referee Leigh Doughty in school this morning to deliver an inspiration assembly to our fabulous Year 11 students. They were hanging on his every word and gave him a huge round of applause at the end without any prompting!! 👏 👏 👏
Delighted to announce that we will be launching our RBHS Community Support Bus on Tuesday 23rd February, offering stationery (pens, pencils, rulers, paper, etc) and the chance to talk with a member of our pastoral team! 🚌
#WeAreRivington
And just like that, it is over! Our Year 7s finished the week off with ice creams and inflatables!! Lots of smiles from our amazing students and a week filled with fun and new friends. We can't wait to see you all in September.... 😁🍦🏀🎯
#YouAreAmazing
#SummerSchool
#YouDidIt
We also launched a ‘12 Days of Christmas’ initiative to reward our wonderful staff and support their wellbeing 🎄 It was lovely to see so many enjoying their ‘brew and breakfast’ served by SLT this morning at both Upper and Lower School 🥯 ☕️
Good evening everyone. Following the recent news about school closures in England I ask that you continue to send your child into school this week if they are well.
School is the best place for them and will ensure you can go about your daily working life.
We are very proud of our wonderful Year 9 students who successfully completed the
@BrilliantClub
Scholars Programme this year 👩🎓 👨🎓 🧑🎓
A selection of those involved are shown below with their very well-earned, prestigious certificates!! 📜
A fabulous group of our amazing staff are taking on the Yorkshire Three-Peaks Challenge today. This is a 24-mile (38.6km) round trip that includes 1585m (5200ft) of ascent! Good luck to everyone involved 😊
Today brings our Summer Term to a close and we’ve had the perfect end to the perfect week! Our Founders Day Walk is approximately 5 miles in the glorious weather around our beautiful local countryside with over 1000 students and 200 staff. Students were brilliant as always!! 😊
Such a great day today with our Year 11 students as they collected their superb GCSE results! Lovely to see so many smiling faces, and great to see so many of you enrolled for
@RiviSixthForm
next year too. Well done, see you in September!!
Opening night of School of Rock was a sellout! What an incredible performance by our talented students. A massive thank you to everyone who came to support - we hope you enjoyed the show!
#YouRock
👩🏼🎤🎟🎭🎸👨🏻🎤
The school site looks amazing 🤩 Students arrived on time with big smiles 😊 Their school uniform was impeccable 🤵♂️ Assemblies were fabulous 👩🏫 Lessons have gone brilliantly 📖 And the sun is even shining! 🌞 Do first days of term get any better than this? 😍
#GoodToBeBack
We have conducted over 2000 Lateral Flow COVID-19 tests this week! We’ve been delighted with the high uptake and very proud of the maturity our students have shown. This letter gives parents further information on the next stages of our testing programme
Even lunchtime was extra-special during our “RiviFest” today! The students all enjoyed the music being played by our star
@rivimusic
student DJs, but some went even further as they danced in our first ever ‘flash mob’ 🕺 🎶 Thanks to
@pe_hewitt
&
@RIVI_Sport
for the choreography!
Our students &
@RIVI_Sport
staff had a wonderful day
@Rivington_Barn
today for our inaugural Sports and
@DofE
Awards event! 🤩
Almost 200 students attended this prestigious event to recognise their contributions to school sport & Duke of Edinburgh awards.
Well done to everyone!
Mixed emotions in school today. Sad to see our Class of 2023 leaving but immensely proud of the wonderful young adults they have become. Their leaving event was fantastic chance to celebrate their time with us, sign shirts & books, take photos and enjoy these delicious cupcakes!
Congratulations to our local football team
@OfficialBWFC
on winning the Papa John’s Trophy 4-0 this afternoon! ⚽️
We hope that all our students, staff and families who made the long trip down to Wembley had a wonderful day!! 🏆
Huge congratulations to our former student, and current
@BritAthletics
star, Sophie Walton who helped Great Britain to emerge victorious at the inaugural European Athletics DNA U20 Indoors international event in Madrid! Well done Sophie!!🥇
Excitement levels are very high this morning as our students head off for their end of term rewards trip to Blackpool
@Pleasure_Beach
! 🎢. There were lots of smiley faces as the coaches departed this morning 😊 Have a great day everyone!!
Happy half term everyone! Thanks and well done to all our wonderful staff and students for the resilience and positivity shown to overcome the challenges we’ve experienced. It’s been fantastic to have everyone back in school and learning, and we hope you all enjoy the holidays!
40 of our star Year 10 students are completing their Silver
@DofE
expedition this week, in beautiful countryside but in incredibly high temperatures?! 🥵 Congratulations to everyone who is
#TakingPart
and
#WorkingHard
👏 👏 Many thanks to all the staff who are supporting! 🏕️ ⛺️
Massive thanks to our
@rivimusic
Christmas choir for giving our staff and students and wonderful welcome to our final day of term!! 👏 👏 👏
“Merry Christmas Everyone!”
🎤 🎶 🎵 🎼 🎄 🎅
EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT!! We are delighted to reveal that our Geography Department have been awarded the prestigious Secondary Geography Quality Mark with Centre of Excellence for fieldwork by
@The_GA
🤩 Huge congratulations to Mr Needham and his fantastic
@RBHS_Geog
team.
Over 2000 pairs collected from secondary schools across Bolton! Well done everyone! The staff at Bolton Hospital were overwhelmed by everyone’s support👍🥽👏
Two incredible photos of our school looking fabulously festive thanks to Cheryl Doran (CheReel on Instagram) 🤩 We’re so lucky to work and study in such a picturesque setting, especially at this time of year 😊
Many thanks and huge congratulations to our star Year 13 student Emmanuel who gave an inspirational speech at the
#SENDi
conference earlier today! Well done Emmanuel, everyone
@RbhsBolton
and
@RiviSixthForm
is VERY proud of you!! 🤩
We are delighted to confirm that Mrs Greenwood (our Head of Yr8) has been named as the Assistant Coach for the England Rugby League Community Lionesses! 🏉 🦁
She recently had the honour of taking their first ever foreign tour squad to Serbia to compete in the Flora Sandes cup.
“A beautiful sight” (and sound!) to greet as students as they arrive at school this morning, as our amazing
@rivimusic
choir belt out some Christmas favourites to welcome everyone to our last day of term! 🎤 🎶 🎵 🎼 🎄 🎅
It’s been great to see our staff and students extending a very warm welcome to the hundreds of families who have joined us at our Open Evening. It’s been even better to hear the positive comments from the Year 5 and Year 6 students and their families about the evening!! 😊
We are already making plans to give our Year 11 students the send off they deserve. Please keep the 25th June available for our Year photo, Leavers’ Assembly and the Prom. They have been an amazing cohort and we’re going to make it extra special for them! 🎉💃🏻🕺🏻
#Prom
#classof2020
Our week of summer school fun has begun! A fabulous turnout with 147 of our wonderful new Year 7 students. Lunchtime dodgeball was underway!!!
#RiviFamily
Congratulations to former star student &
@RiviSixthForm
alumni Sophie Walton who won a silver medal in the U20 European Athletics Championships in Jerusalem earlier today as part of the
@BritAthletics
women’s 4x100m relay team!!
Very well done Sophie 🥈
We're delighted and very proud that our star Year 11 student Neve B (11K) has decided to do two 300k runs to raise awareness and money for
@CrohnsColitisUK
and
@Coeliac_UK
! Read more about her fantastic efforts and/or donate at and
Massive congrats to our star Yr11 student and House Captain Ginny L who scored both goals (and a penalty in the shootout) for her
@ManCityWomen
Dev Squad team. Fabulous performance, very well done! 👏🏻
Last half term, our staff sent over 400 positive postcards to the homes of our star students. We’ve just done the same thing for this half term ..... except this time there are a staggering 2000 postcards being sent out!! 😮 Just shows how fantastic our students have been!! 😊
It’s was brilliant to see soooo many students coming back to school BEAMING after their rewards trips today! 😊 700 Yr7/8/9 students spent the day at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, while 200 Year 10 students spent their day at Alton Towers. Pretty sure they’ll sleep well tonight?! 😴