Pre-Prep Chapel Tube
29th January 21
The Launch of our 300th Year
14th January 2022
The year 2022 has finally arrived, not only is this an important year because it is HRH The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and the year that Birmingham will host the Commonwealth Games, it is also 300 years since the founding of The Blue Coat School! Last term we began our preparations with a whole school Creative…
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Recreating The Taj Mahal
As part of their Humanities topic on ‘India’, on Wednesday Year 5 had the wonderful job of recreating the Taj Mahal using only sticks and rubber bands. Recreating the structure of the Taj Mahal gave the children an opportunity to reinforce their understanding of famous Indian landmarks and culture. The children looked at how to build different…
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End of Term Celebrations
15th December 2021
A short but fun-packed final week of term was enjoyed by all. The week started with a trip to the Forest School to see a very important visitor. The outdoor classroom had been decorated and Father Christmas was in residence! From Nursery right up to Year 6, the magic of Christmas was in abundance and…
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The Magical Christmas Jigsaw
10th December 2021
In a bustling Christmas market, full of exciting sounds and treats, 5 excited children find a toy seller selling an old, tatty Christmas jigsaw. He asks the children for their promise that they will complete it on Christmas Eve, but they are not sure why…. Christmas Eve arrives and the children take out the jigsaw…
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Christmas Celebrations
Although we are bitterly disappointed to have to cancel the remaining events of this term, we were at least able to enjoy some wonderful Christmas music over the last week. Our Chapel Choir spread some festive cheer at the Royal Star and Garter Home for retired servicemen and women in Solihull. We were connected with…
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West Midlands Chess Champions
3rd December 2021
Each year The Blue Coat School takes part in the country’s largest chess tournament: The UK Chess Challenge. Thousands of children take part each year, with qualifying heats taking place in school clubs such as ours, and then the latter stages of the Megafinal, Gigafinal and Terafinal, where children compete against the top scorers from…
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Reception’s Christmas Story
In Reception, we have used the Christmas Story as our literacy focus this half term. The children familiarised themselves with the story using Talk for Writing. They learnt the story by saying it out loud as a class whilst performing lots of simple actions. After this, they were given the opportunity to draw their own…
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Midlands Rugby Champions!
26th November 2021
Early on Wednesday morning we set off for the IAPS U11 Regional Rugby Festival at Ratcliffe College. Following the girls’ superb performance in the IAPS U11 Hockey Regionals, the boys were determined to do their best and both staff and pupils were raring to go and ready for the day. On arrival we were immediately…
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Prep STEM Day
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 the application of learning to address real world…
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U11 Boys X-Country Win
What a way to end the week! Last Friday we travelled to RGS The Grange to compete in the U9 and U11 Cross Country Meet. For some runners this was their first ever meet and for some they were running up an age category. As we walked the course, the anxiety was building and the…
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