22nd May 20
Last week our School Leaders, Freya, Will, Hari and Maggie launched their Lockdown House Challenges
House 2km Run
House Bake-Off
House Art Challenge
House Rainbow Hearts
They have been excited to see some of your entries coming in. Please keep going and send your photos in. Remember to wear your House T-Shirt if you can!
On Monday it was National Winnie The Pooh Day! It commemorates author A.A. Milne’s birthday in 1882. He brought the adorable, honey-loving bear to life in his stories, which also featured his son, Christopher Robin. BCS pupils celebrated by having a go at drawing this well loved character. They were given some top tips by Miss…
Thank you for the parent feedback on our BCS Live Distance Learning Programme. We were delighted by the feedback received and are pleased that the children are continuing to enjoy their lessons, albeit remotely. Mr Newman and Mrs Kavanagh-Finch have put together a few short videos which we hope will be useful to you in…
The Nursery children have had lots of fun learning about nocturnal animals.They looked at pictures of various nocturnal animals on Google images and watched some short video clips which promoted some lovely questions and discussion. The children particularly enjoyed sharing, acting out and talking about The Owl Babies story by Martin Waddell. They also created some super nocturnal animals of their own using various…
Some fantastic news for Ismail in Year 4 who came 1st in Category B of the Ex Cathedra ‘Singing Medicine’ Story Competition. He was the overall winner of this writing competition and received some wonderful feedback from the judges. Rhian Ivory, one of the four judges commented, “I loved this poem and read it several…
On Sunday 6 December over 25 Blue Coat families gathered around their screens to battle it out in The Friends’ Christmas Quiz. With questions such as reindeer name anagrams, match the teacher to their pet and various Christmas trivia it was a close battle between the Jordans and the Longworths for first place. Coming down…
This week Year 6 developed their understanding of some of the issues facing the world through a study of the text ‘If the World Were a Village’. The children were challenged to represent information from the text graphically. They studied some of the problems facing survivors following natural disasters and discussed some of the ways…
Year 6 Christmas Movie comes to Chapel! We ended the term with a very special Prep Christmas service in Chapel, where the Year 6 nativity was premiered on a huge movie-style screen! Each year group came to see the film and were mesmerised by what they saw. Year 6 have been working hard throughout…
What is STEM? STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. These are all areas of learning that children need to be comfortable with to excel in the future. STEM education is far more than just ‘lumping’ those subject titles together. It’s a philosophy of education that embraces teaching skills in a way that resembles real…
Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3… Hello and welcome to ‘Into the Blue’, a brand new podcast devised, produced and presented by our School leaders. The Podcast, launched today, is presented by Seb (Head Boy), Sarika (Head Girl), Sam (Deputy Head Boy) and Lucie (Deputy Head Girl), and gives them a focus and a voice in…
This week BCS was delighted to support KEHS with their national arts event for schools across the country. Tuneup Tuesday was created to highlight the impact of the arts in the development and mental health of young people and to encourage young people to consider a career in the arts. The project involved over 130…
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