23rd November 18
Congratulations to the following Pre-Prep and Prep children who have been nominated to have lunch at the Golden Table this week:
PRE-PREP
Aatika Chaudhry
George Griffiths-Stamboulis
Finn Burrell
Olivia Zhang
Amber Laroiya
Sabrina Townsend
Mani Kaur
Toby Williams
PREP
Kevin Ge
Riah Bailey
Georgina Byrne
Lara Wilcox
Humnah Khan
Emily Whitehouse
Elspeth Martin
Maya Hart
MR NEESON
The Headmaster’s House Cup Throughout the children’s journey through Prep, we understand how important the Houses are to the children. The community and togetherness the Houses bring are crucial to the day to day lives of the children at Blue Coat. Due to year group bubbles being unable to mix at the minute, we want…
We welcomed 62 new children to Pre-Prep this week and it was also lovely to welcome back our returning pupils as well as new and returning Pre-Prep staff. The first week started in top gear with co-curricular activities and instrumental lessons, a WOW day and finding our way around the new dining arrangements – the…
Congratulations to Siyuan in Year 5 who was one of only ten girls nationally to make it through to the Delancey UK Chess Challenge Terafinal earlier this month. Believed to be the first BCS girl to qualify for the Terafinal, Siyuan can be rightly proud of her achievement. Only the top 0.5% of entrants to…
What does the word ‘hero’ mean to you? What kinds of things do heroes do? How do we recognise heroes? Do you need to be physically strong to be a hero? Who is a hero to you? These were questions posed to Year 4 in the Lent Term in preparation for the children to decide…
We are excited to celebrate Junior Language Challenge Success again this year. The Blue Coat has a history of success with this competition, and 2020 is no exception. This national competition saw 2321 entrants competing in two different language rounds. Bronze awards went to the top 208 competitors, of which 8 were from The Blue…
One of things we have missed so much at Blue Coat is our Morning Recitals and Concerts. The Visiting Music Teachers have done a fantastic job continuing to offer instrumental tuition remotely via Zoom and we thank them for keeping music part of our children’s lives. Mr Nicklin has recorded a special virtual concert with…
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Carl Sagan The 2020 Science Fair was launched in December 2019 with a presentation to parents and children describing our rationale for running the projects and detailing what a ‘good project’ would involve. In some ways the most challenging part…
IAPS have released the results from the qualifying swimming gala’s and we are proud to inform you that we had 9 swimmers who would have qualified for the National Swimming Finals at the London Aquatic Centre! Samuel Tan, Harry Forty, Sebastian Stendall, Vivek Ratti, Vinay Ratti, Hari Phillips, Milo Dowling, Freddie Trevis and Filippos Psychogios…
“Though we’re in lockdown we won’t be knocked down.” So rang out the lyrics of the song ‘Looking to the Rainbow’, written by Chaplain, Becky Drake and recorded by members of the Class of 2020. This year will certainly be a memorable one for our Year 6 Leavers in more ways than one. Back in…
Buttons and Transition children have enjoyed learning about recycling and looking after our environment this week in their topic: Precious World. They have also started to learn about money and have had great fun playing shops and counting pennies. Transition children have also learnt all about the ‘j’ sound. In Reception the children created starry…
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