We are a 'GOOD' School - Ofsted 2018
On the 26th and 27th June, we were visited by Ofsted. We are pleased to announce that we are officially a 'GOOD' school. Mr. Sidebottom said, "all Smithills Staff, Pupils, Parents and Carers should feel very proud!"
Well done to all!
We are extremely proud to announce we are currently achieving 100% in 7 of the Gatsby Benchmarks. Thanks to the work of our amazing staff, students involved in CEIAG events, employers and support from our EA Carrie Riley
@BoltonatHome
and Jane Wells
@GMCA
#SuccessForAll
#Gatsby
CONGRATULATIONS 🥳
🎓 Well done to our Y11 pupils who have worked so hard in challenging circumstances over the past two years.
👏 We have produced a cohort of Year 11s that are resilient and able to positively tackle post 16 education.
#resultsday2021
#proud
𝐘𝐑 𝟏𝟏 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐒 𝐃𝐀𝐘 🥳
Smithills School’s pupils, parents, staff & trustees are delighted with this year’s results & the amazing achievements of our yr 11's.
🎉 Congratulations to all our pupils & we wish you every success in the next chapter of your education.
Our lovely dance pupils came 3rd and 2nd today in the UK National Dance Challenge Competition, we are so proud of them all! They are off to Blackpool in November for the National finals 😃😃😃😃😃😃
𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝟕 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐃𝐀𝐘 @𝐒𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐒 𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐋 🎓
🥳 What an amazing day we had today with our new Year 7 pupils.
👍 School Tours, Exciting Lessons and Yummy Food!
👥 We look forward to welcoming you back again tomorrow along with all of our other year groups.
𝙒𝙀𝙇𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙀 𝙏𝙊 𝙎𝙈𝙄𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙇𝙇𝙎 𝙎𝘾𝙃𝙊𝙊𝙇 🙌
Over 200 Yr 7 pupils walked through the Smithills doors today, once again on their journey to success.
We hope you enjoy your time here & embrace all the opportunities on offer.
#successforall
#year7
#smithillsschool
Yesterday Smithills hosted the 2nd day of the Bolton primary school sports athletics championship 🏆. Once again our pupils were the sports leaders & did an amazing job facilitating the event to ensure all 15 primaries could compete at a high level.
#SmithillsPE
#SuccessForAll
🗓 On Friday one of our pupils wrote a note to express our heartfelt condolences following the death of our Queen.
🇬🇧 On Saturday, along with the note, Mrs Gallagher travelled to London to lay some 💐 at Buckingham Palace to pay our respects to the Queen on behalf of Smithills.
Smithills School is saddened by the passing of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. We extend our sincere condolences to The Royal Family.
Today we will have a minutes silence at 11am, while the flag at the front of school has been lowered to half-mast.
We are excited to announce that we are restarting the Duke of Edinburgh Award programme at Smithills School. The aim of the programme is to provide our pupils with lifelong skills in leadership, organisation, resilience, initiative and communication.
At Smithills we fully understand the impact financially of the current rises in cost impacting our country.
With this in mind we are asking families to consider donating any old trainers, football boots, School PE kit, swimming costumes & towels.
Many Thanks,
Smithills PE
OUR NEW YEAR 7’S FIRST DAY 🏫
The day started with an assembly from our Headteacher Miss Dewse. At the end of the assembly, all pupils received a planner and a tour of the school.
Pupils enjoyed time getting to know their form tutor and form peers throughout the day.
#year7
𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐘𝐖𝐎𝐎𝐃 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑 🌟
👏 Huge congratulations to our ex-pupil
@_laurenpatel
on her film debut!
🎞 Lauren plays a key role as Pritti Pasha in the screen version of the stage musical, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie.
▶
#starinthemaking
#proud
SOME SPECIAL NEWS 📢
We are proud to announce that our
𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃 𝐁𝐎𝐘 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐆𝐈𝐑𝐋
for the academic Year 2020/21 is
𝐊𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐋 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐀 👏
Well done to everyone who applied for the post 🤩
#HeadBoy
#HeadGirl
#smithillsschool
#successforall
Proud to announce that the following Smithills staff have been rewarded for their excellence in teaching. Mr Sheard-Pearson and Mr Hussain picked up their awards at the Bolton News School Awards 2017
@TheBoltonNews
SMITHILLS GOT TALENT 2023 - HEAT 1
What an amazing, sellout show we had at lunch today for the first heat of Smithills Got Talent.
Tomorrow sees the last heat before our final on Friday.
Well done to all the contestants, you all did yourselves proud!
#gottalent2023
Today Smithills School celebrated
@WorldBookDayUK
📚. We started the day with Breakfast 🥐 in the Library for top borrowers across Years 7, 8 and 9. We also ran a Book Café for one lesson, with pupils trying a variety of genres 📕📗📘📙.
#WorldBookDay
#SuccessForAll
OUR NEW YEAR 7'S 🎓
📅 Today we welcomed our new yr 7's for this academic year.
😁 All the pupils left Smithills today with a smile on their faces having experienced lessons in; Performing Arts, MFL, RE & PE.
🙌 We look forward to welcoming you back again tomorrow.
SUMMER SCHOOL 2021 🌞
𝐓𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝟐𝟒𝐓𝐇 𝐀𝐔𝐆𝐔𝐒𝐓 📆
🙌 We had another fantastic day at our Summer School yesterday.
😀 Enjoy looking through all our pictures below.
😎 We can't wait to see what today brings.
#newyear7s
#day2
#summerschool2021
Well done to all our budding mathematicians ...
✅ 30 hours spent watching videos!
✅ 16000 questions answered!
✅ All this in just 3 days!
Amazing stuff ... keep up the excellent work 👍
@Hegartymaths
#staysafe
#successforall
CHAMPION 🥋
🏆 A massive CONGRATULATIONS to Leon in Year 7 who has achieved gold in the WMO National Championships Martial Arts Competition.
🥇 Leon is a 2 time national British Champion!
👏 WELL DONE Leon, we are proud of you!
#champion
#martialarts
#gold
#proud
𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓'𝐒 𝐀 𝐖𝐑𝐀𝐏 ⛪️
📆 From being 12 months in the making & countless hours spent rehearsing, we closed the curtain on our 𝐒𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐂𝐓 play.
👏 We would like to say a massive thank you to everyone in supporting our amazing Performing Arts Faculty!
#sisteractjr
We are extremely pleased to announce Smithills students have raised £513.87 for Homeless Aid UK from yesterday’s Stalls in the Hall Enterprise Challenge. What great fun we had too! Well done everyone.
We welcomed our new Yr 7's into the Smithills today. All pupils enjoyed their 1st day with one adding, "It was the best day ever!" Mr Sidebottom spoke to all year 7's this morning in assembly, "You are all now part of our Smithills family & we want you all striving for success."
Breakfast of Champions 🥞
🥐 Today at break time some of the pupils who have consistently demonstrated the Smithills Values and are members of the 100 Club enjoyed a ‘Breakfast of Champions’ with Miss Angus.
🥳 Miss Angus is looking forward to more celebrations next half-term!
📽 Due to unforeseen circumstances we had to cancel the cinema trip that was scheduled for today. However, we didn't want to let our pupils down, so we organised a special presentation in the school hall today, with free popcorn! 🍿
#rewards
#hardwork
#SmithillsSchool
After a formal application process and standing for whole school election, we are proud to introduce this year’s Head Girl and Head Boy, Claire and Sahil 👏
It has been a pleasure to not only teach but also to get to know this year of fantastic pupils, all the staff at smithills school wish them the best of luck in the future even these current unfortunate events.
Whysup Seminars 🎤
We had a very special visit from
@whysupofficial
today who ran a series of seminars for all year groups on respect.
A massive thank you to Mark for giving his time to come in and speak to our pupils today.
🎞 Video coming soon!
#WHYSUP
#Respect
#seminars
Congratulations to the pupils at Smithills School who have worked very hard to get a pleasing set of examination results.
Despite the many and varied challenges of the last few years, they have shown resilience and determination in their application to school.
#GCSEResults
On Friday our Y8 boys football team played away at Bolton School in the semi final of the Bolton cup.
The lads played really well but unfortunately lost 2-0. As a school we are proud of their achievements.
Smithills would like to wish
@BoltonSch
good luck in the final!
#PE
𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝟕 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐎 💃🕺
Elliot, Tichi, Rowan & Harvey approached Mrs Freestone & asked that if there were no live lessons in the afternoon could they have a 'dance off'?
Mrs Freestone said, "It was amazing to watch them enjoying themselves".
#danceoff
#smithillsschool
Smithills would like to further recognise pupils, Obang and Yahya for an act of kindness in the community 👍 A purse was found down Halliwell Road on Monday and handed in. Hannah Stanthorpe came forward and contacted the school, thanking the boys for finding her lost purse 👛
SUMMER SCHOOL 2021 🌞
𝐓𝐇𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝟐𝟔𝐓𝐇 𝐀𝐔𝐆𝐔𝐒𝐓 📆
🥺 All good things must come to an end.
😀 Enjoy looking back on yesterdays pictures.
👀 Be sure to check back here later when we will be uploading something special.
#day4
#newyear7s
SUMMER SCHOOL 2021 🌞
🤩 What an amazing start to Summer School we had yesterday.
🏕 Activities included; Camping Building, Creating Poster Adverts & Cooking.
💬 After participating in one of the cookery lessons, Cole-Lee said, "It is the best day of my life".
Year 8 have been working hard this week, fund raising for children in need. There will be sweets 🍬, chocolate 🍫, a raffle 🎫, a sweet hamper 🍭, yellow ribbons and best of all ... CAKES 🧁 for sale.
𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐅𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐃𝐑𝐎𝐏 𝐈𝐍𝐍 🎒
We are having a Welfare Drop Inn on 11th Feb from 1pm - 3pm in the Sports Centre.
Pupils can come to the sport centre🚪during this time & we will be handing out packs.
👀 If we run out we will look to put further dates on next half term.
Apprenticeships -
@TheAdamCorbally
Smithills School was proud to welcome back Adam Corbally yesterday to deliver a talk to our year 11 pupils about apprenticeships.
Adam was also joined by
@BoltonCollege
, which opened a new E-Sports gaming suite at the college last night.
Well done to our fabulous year 7's (James, Hayden, Mustafa, Nathaniel) Runners up in the TfGM’s Clean Air Day Media Competition. From over 150 entries across schools in Greater Manchester, to be runners up is a testament to how talented the pupils at Smithills School really are!
Today Smithills celebrated Yr 10 & 11 examination results 👍 We are extremely proud of all our pupil's who have put in so much time and effort in getting some truly outstanding results 👏Watch our promotional film below celebrating the pupil’s success 👇
HELPING 🙏
🤰 Mr Rai (Maths) who also works on the executive board for BCoM has been helping set up the Maternity hub for Bolton Residents, which was launched in conjunction with Bolton Council & Bolton Council of Mosques.
▶ READ MORE -
👏 Well Done!
Today at Smithills, Paul McGovern OBE delivered the ‘Actions have consequences’ (particularly around knife 🗡️ crime & drugs 💊) seminar to all year groups.
All the pupils engaged in what Paul was delivering & we would like to thank
@gmpolice
🚓 for coming into school today 👏
WELLBEING WEDNESDAY 🧠
💖 This weeks bulletin is about reducing stigma around talking about mental health.
🤝 Sometimes, talking about our feelings can be labelled as attention seeking. This stigma can make people less likely to reach out.
RT
@SmithillsMH
We are delighted to announce that we have secured funding to support a pupil visit to St Lucia in the Caribbean!
The trip will be open to pupils in years 9 and 10 and will cost £200, taking place in April 2024.
Letters will be sent through Class Charts late next week.
#trip
𝐒𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐟𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 💷
🤑 A massive well done to staff today for raising money for
@macmillancoffee
.
🧁 Staff baked & brought in cakes, raising over £200, with money still to come in!
#macmillancoffeemorning
#smithills
𝙒𝙚 𝙉𝙀𝙀𝘿 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙎𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙋𝙇𝙀𝘼𝙎𝙀 📢
Mrs Isaacs has recently set up a
@SmithillsCareer
page & Miss Angus has a
@SmithillsMH
twitter page.
We would really LOVE everyone to follow both pages PLEASE, so they can provide you with the most up to date information!
🏏 Yesterday our U13’s Cricket team played a cricket cup fixture away at
@TurtonSchool
.
👏 It was a great game to spectate & all players & staff involved commented that the sportsmanship from both teams was fab.
👍 Smithills School would like to thanks
@TurtonSchool
.
⚽️ Tonight will see our Year 7 & Year 8 football teams in Bolton cup action.
🌧 Mr Whitby’s year 7’s will play at home vs Thornleigh in what is anticipated to be wet & muddy conditions.
💦 Mr Nash’s year 8’s will travel to Ladybridge & play on their 3G astro.
🤞 Good luck!
The Performing Arts Department presents Smithills Christmas Showcase on Wednesday 20th December 7pm. Tickets £4 and are available from reception/students services.
Poland Trip Blog ...
It’s our last day in Krakow and we have been sightseeing, shopping and riding around the old town on scooters.
We’ve been so proud of how mature and respectful our pupils have been on this trip. They’ve been an absolute credit to Smithills School 👏.
Thank you
@BoltonSixthForm
for teaching our students some photographic techniques today. Great to see our alumni back supporting our current students. Interested in Photography? Enter BSF's competition
#AbstractImagery
We are pleased to share with you all some pictures of our yr 11's last day at Smithills School.
We would like to wish all of you the very best in the future & look forward to celebrating with you all, at the end-of-year leaving celebration next week.
SUCCESS FOR ALL!
#year11
Fabulous day at Disneyland Paris 🇫🇷. Lots of thrills on the rides 🎢 and chance to watch the parades and fireworks 💥 too. Tea in Planet Hollywood with a chorus of Happy Birthday for two of our boys 🥳.
Not long to go now till our school production of 'Singin' In The Rain' ☔️
The Performing Arts Team 🎭 have been working tremendously hard in putting this amazing show together.
Tickets 🎟 are available from Smithills School Reception now.