Month: June 2020

26th June 20

At a time when we marvel at the virtuosity of playwright and author Alan Bennett, while we titter at the linguistic limitations of the Talking Head who purports to be Leader of the Free World, and we rejoice in a downturn in the virus, it’s time for some really good news. The sale of books…

26th June 20

What a delight it was to welcome Years 2, 3 and 4 back to the fold this week. Mr Neeson greeted everyone as they drove through the BCS gates again and the BCS traffic sign flashed its welcome back message. The children got a glimpse of the new pod areas on the field where the…

26th June 20

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…

26th June 20

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…

26th June 20

Pupils in Year 2, Year 3 and Year 4 have been admiring poetry this week, while sharing an age appropriate anthology of poems, and all participated in the ‘BCS Reciting Poetry by Heart Week, 2020’. After observing some professionals at work performing their poems, including James Carter who visited BCS last year, the children were…

26th June 20

RECEPTION Bowe Bushell Jaiya Dosanjh Mustafa Alam Sukmani Yang Tan Matthew Cibelli Omioje Akhibi Tisha Gupta YEAR 1 Luca Ottengo Aarav Gautem Hari Godhania Benjamin White Arya-Veer Solanki Michaela Loizou YEAR 2 Ella Black Malika Zahra Hiridjee Hassam Noah Jordan Jayden Gupta Katherine Kendall Navya De YEAR 3 Hugo Brinkman Tarini Vemuri Ahryan Paul Anoushka…

19th June 20

In the early 1960’s – way before my time and even the concept of colour television – a TV programme suddenly became ‘all the rage’. It was called ‘That Was The Week That Was’. (My dad loved it and had me in stitches reminiscing about TW3 this week!) The programme was made up of a…

19th June 20

Buttons Children in Nursery have been practising their counting to 10, singing number songs, counting shells, teddies and objects around the house. They have been learning about the importance of friends, drawing their picture and making them a card. Transition We have had a fun week in Transition. We have learnt a new sound ‘x’,…

19th June 20

We will be sad to say goodbye to several children who are leaving BCS at the end of this term. As part of her English lesson looking at clause structures and persuasive writing, Claire in Year 5 has written the following about her time at BCS. The Blue Coat School is an amazing school and…

19th June 20

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…