Category: Community

26th November 21

This morning, the whole Prep school squeezed into the school hall to enjoy singing their first Christmas carols of the year, accompanied by The Salvation Army brass band! The Salvation Army has been visiting Blue Coat annually for many years, but due to last year’s Covid restrictions, we missed having them on site. It was…

26th November 21

On Friday 19th November children from Years 4 and 5 were treated to two different language workshops run by boys from KES, and we felt very fortunate to be able to take advantage of their Outreach work once again. Year 4 were doing activities based around the Ancient Greek alphabet and had fun decoding, and…

19th November 21

Yesterday we were delighted to welcome 24 pupils from Thornton Primary School for a Multi-Media Experience Day. The aim of the day was for children to produce their very own live TV newscast. Working as part of a production team the children tried on-camera presenting, behind-the-scenes producing, directing, graphics creation, editing pre-recorded video segments and…

12th November 21

At BCS, there is much to celebrate but we are always delighted to hear about our pupils’ successes and endeavours outside of school as well. This week our super shout out goes to Sabrina in Year 5 who recently ran 5km raising a staggering £850 for Cancer Research. Well done Sabrina! Mrs Dredger    …

12th November 21

On Tuesday 9th November, Blue Coat welcomed 30 Y6 pupils from Maryvale Catholic Primary School for a STEM Enrichment Day. Their challenge was: design, build, test and improve a fan driven model boat. Fan boats are a popular means of transportation in marshy or shallow areas where a submerged propeller would be impractical, most notably…

5th November 21

It’s been a busy week in Chapel! On Tuesday morning, the new Chapel monitors, together with Chaplain, Miss Levett, Miss Akehurst and the Estates team took two minibuses full of food and toiletries to the ‘Love Your Neighbour’ Food Bank at St Luke’s Church. The Chapel monitors certainly had their work cut out as they…

14th May 21

We are delighted to announce that BCS will be taking part in Walk to School Week, from Monday 17th May to Friday 21st May. As part of the week, we are encouraging all children to either walk, cycle or scooter their way into or home from school. Walking has so many benefits from physical to…

23rd April 21

Thank you to the Blue Coat community for supporting our Smarties challenge for Let’s Feed Brum over the course of the Lent term. In addition to collecting our loose change in empty Smarties tubes, many pupils have been motivated to do their own fundraising. We have already shared Abhav’s great Read-a-thon and Nirvan’s walk up…

23rd April 21

New Stories, New Voices The Blue Coat School was delighted to work with Threewise Entertainment to provide a filming location for a new television series.  The BBC’s Snaps series, directed by Samuel Dore, is aimed at 7-11 year olds and is a collection of seven bold, joyful standalone stories from diverse UK talent, bringing a…

29th January 21

We are delighted to announce the BCS Smarties Challenge, which we are launching this week across the whole school to raise money for Birmingham-based charity ‘Let’s Feed Brum’. The idea is that the children take a Smarties tube (or an empty jam jar if you’d prefer) and fill it with loose change to raise money…