Year: 2022

9th December 22

Year 10A Rugby House Match This match demonstrated how far the pupils have progressed from rugby individuals to a rugby squad. The depth of talent and understanding makes next year’s season a promising adventure. Both teams showed aggression in their running with the ball and within defence. Teams ran with support and looked to pass…

9th December 22

Considering that their heroic stamina-sapping efforts had finished just 72 hours before, just imagine how England’s cricketers must have felt today, starting another five-day Test Match under a glaring sun in Pakistan. Warmer, but otherwise a bit like our Friends of Blue Coat heroes, I guess. Fit, enthusiastic and geed up by the success of…

2nd December 22

Around this time of the year, I start to feel huge sympathy for the nation’s dedicated and often very aged army of bellringers. Up the church towers they troop, these unsung heroes, invariably feeling the cold, to regale us with a diversity of peels, the intricacy and coordination of which pass by most mortals’ understanding….

2nd December 22

U10 Hockey v Solihull With all of Year 5 getting the opportunity to play a hockey match against another school, our girls were thoroughly excited to travel to Solihull. The match started off quite slowly with both teams being cautious in their approach to the match. Solihull then upped a gear and broke through clear…

1st December 22

On Thursday 1 December 2022, every seat in the School Hall was filled in anticipation for the annual Prep Christmas Concert. This concert is the both the culmination of a term of dedicated practice and the beginning of the festive celebrations at The Blue Coat School. Over the Michaelmas term, the ensembles who performed on…

25th November 22

U11 Rugby Festival The U11 team travelled to Warwick for a festival of Rugby against RGS, Warwick and Crackley Hall. Despite the incredibly windy, cold conditions, the boys played brilliantly and gave huge amounts of effort. In the first game, it was clear that the team were a little apprehensive and gave away a few…

25th November 22

As the World Cup started so controversially in Qatar, our children basked in the glory of England beating Iran so convincingly. I could hear in the playgrounds the children impersonating their heroes, shouting, “I’m Saka” and “I’m Bellingham”.  What strong role models these international players can be to our children, combining self-discipline, teamwork, flair, grace…

18th November 22

U10A Rugby v King’s Hawford What a game of Rugby! This was a physical, competitive and an enjoyable game of Rugby to watch. From the first whistle, BCS were organised in their defence: moving forwards and completing tackles. In attack, we looked to use a combination of crash ball and passing effectively for the first…

18th November 22

How timely it was for us that only last week, the MP for South Staffordshire, Sir Gavin Williamson CBE, lost his Government job as Minister of State without Portfolio. And that this week, a cloud hung over deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, who is the subject of allegations by former members of staff at the…

14th November 22

300 years is a momentous milestone for a school and I was honoured to be Headmaster during this landmark year. The whole of the Blue Coat community, past and present, came together for a calendar of events, many happy memories were shared, and many new memories created.  On Friday 4 November, we shared a montage…