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Prep Celebrate World Book Day

5th March 2021

The Big Bad Wolf, The Cat in the Hat and his reliable Thing 1, The BFG, Miss Trunchbull, as well as a Tiger all came to the Mad Hatter’s tea party in order to help celebrate World Book Day. Lockdown could not deter the enthusiasm of all the children and staff at Blue Coat, who embraced the day in high spirits,…

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Pre-Prep’s World Book Day Excitement!

In Pre-Prep the children have been diving into brilliant books and watching an array of live author/illustrator events this week to celebrate World Book Day. Ladybirds, caterpillars, cats, witches, wizards and a host of other fascinating faces lit up our screens yesterday as we explored the wonder of reading. Reading for pleasure is at the…

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Varoom!

26th February 2021

This week the pupils in Prep have been looking at the work of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. They discovered that he used the technique of painting in pixels of colour to replicate the comic book style he liked so much. They have all created an onomatopoeia in his style and used pixels to colour in…

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Let the music play on!

12th February 2021

We are missing live music so much but wanted to share that in true Blue Coat fashion, pupils and staff have been ‘cheerfully persevering’ and achieving great things online. In fact some children have embraced the new format on Zoom so well, they are simply flying! Of course none of this would be possible without…

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Our Four Nations

5th February 2021

The children in Year 2 have been learning about Wales this week as part of their Humanities topic about the countries in the UK. They learned all about St David and how he became the Patron Saint of Wales and to help remember all about St David they made some excellent 3D models of him….

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Children’s Mental Health Week

At Blue Coat, our pastoral care and the wellbeing of our pupils is a top priority. To coincide with Children’s Mental Health, we gave this a special focus by setting up our own Wellbeing Week. The theme of this year’s Children’s Mental Health Week has been ‘Express Yourself’. Expressing yourself is all about finding ways…

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National Storytelling Week

As well as it being Children’s Mental Health Week, this week has also been National Storytelling Week. Taking time out to enjoy a good story can do the world of good for our wellbeing and so both themes coincided nicely for our Blue Coat pupils. To kick start the week the staff had been busy…

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Year 5 Recreate The Taj Mahal

29th January 2021

As part of their Humanities topic on India, Year 5 have been exploring the wonderful world of India. Throughout the half term, the children have looked at locating India on a range of maps, explored the varying lives of people living in India and have also travelled to some of India’s famous landmarks. The children…

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Year 2 Distance Learning

Dragons have been the theme of the week in our Humanities and Creative Arts lessons! We learnt about the legend of St George and the Dragon as part of our studies of England and its heritage. We have taken our time to produce some detailed, colourful (and scary!) dragons, persevering and making sure our sketches…

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Winnie the Pooh Day

21st January 2021

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…

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