Month: March 2020
Distance Learning – Week 4
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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Pupils receive a Golden Letter
Blue Coat children were delighted to receive a special delivery this week. A shiny golden envelope addressed to them was delivered in the post! Mr Neeson has been missing the opportunity to invite the children to his Golden Table on Fridays and decided to send them a letter asking them to create their own Golden…
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Week 3 Distance Learning
Buttons, Transition and Reception have thoroughly embraced their topic work this week. Our World: Out of this World saw the children go on a journey into outer space just like Baby Bear from Jill Murphy’s Whatever Next. Sebby had fun getting into character and boarded his own cardboard box ready to take off! Meanwhile lots…
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Distance Learning Week 2
Thank you so much for continuing to share pictures of your children working at home on the BCS Distance Learning programme as well as the other activities they have been doing. This week we have watched Arjun Dev’s video about his mini-diary, read a new Isolation poem written by Freya Mangotra and a Covid-19-inspired ode…
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Though We’re in Lockdown, We Won’t be Knocked Down
Since the release of Chaplain’s “Looking To The Rainbow” lockdown song last week, performed by members of the The Blue Coat School Chapel Choir, the video has now been shared and watched by in excess of 20,000 people worldwide! We have featured on social media and in the Press and on Monday we even made…
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BCS Launches Distance Learning Programme
The start of Trinity term 2020 was not how anyone had envisaged back at the beginning of the academic year but thanks to the hard work of the staff over the Easter holidays and with the continued support of our Blue Coat families, BCS learning went online! Pupils were delighted to see video messages from…
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Pupils Sing Song of Hope
If getting to grips with Distance Learning was not enough, our intrepid Music Department and Chaplain have been working extremely hard behind the scenes on the creation of a Blue Coat School Lockdown Song. Just as a beautiful and bright rainbow brings hope of things getting better after a storm, members of Chapel Choir have…
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Mrs Lynn’s Sewing Bees
It has been a strange few weeks for everyone. Life has certainly taken on a different form but one thing we can celebrate is the BCS spirit – ‘individually strong, unbreakable as one’. The School has continued to remain open for families of Key Workers, supporting them as they go to work on the front…
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British Science Week
Last week, schools across the nation celebrated British Science Week 2020. The theme was ‘Our Diverse Planet’. Year 1 and 2 were delighted to welcome the brilliant Dr Jenny Watson to Blue Coat. Dr Watson led an extremely engaging and enjoyable activity into the science of creating bubbles. We created our own bubble mixture, discussed…
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BCS Young Musician of the Year
BCS Young Musician After a week of wonderful music-making, the BCS 2020 Music Festival reached it’s final cadence in a crescendo of incredible musicianship. We were delighted to welcome Mrs Iona Zuiderwijk to spend the day at Blue Coat, judging our 94 semi-finalists during the day and selecting the eventual 16 finalists to perform in…
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