English Symphony Orchestra Summer Courses

This week, Class 2S presented a very seasonal class assembly. Part of this included a ‘Battle of the Seasons’. Dressed in colours appropriate to each time of year, groups of children explored why their season was the best. They argued the merits of the weather, activities and events that were associated with each one. At…

On Thursday 13th September Caitlin, Lydia, Henry, Boyi and Priyam from years 4 and 5 went to Fairfield Preparatory School in Loughborough to take part in the Junior Language Challenge semi-finals.  Having qualified in the first round of Spanish in the spring, the children had been learning Khmer (the official language of Cambodia) using the…

A very warm welcome to all the new pupils who have started at Blue Coat this term. We are so pleased to welcome you to the Blue Coat family! We hope you have enjoyed your first few days and are looking forward to an exciting term. It is always daunting to start at a new…

This summer, we were delighted to welcome Paramjit Sehmi and Helen Nethaway to work at The Blue Coat School on the Santander SME Internship Scheme in partnership with the University of Birmingham. The ten-week project was co-funded by the School and Santander bank for the purpose of working on the School archives, ordering, cataloguing and…

On Monday afternoon 20 lucky children went down to the cricket nets and met Ian Bell. After introducing himself and the other coaches he explained some of the shots we would be learning: the cover drive; the sweep; the pull shot; and T20 shots. We were split into groups and Ian came round to each…