Category: Head’s Blog

Headmaster’s Update

15th October 21

I have a confession to make: when Mrs Ayub told me that ‘her’ children were going to hear Karl Nova speak, I was left completely in the dark. That may be because Karl deals in rap lyricism and hip hop, rhythm and poetry. Not among my strong suits – especially the first two! Mr Nova’s…

Headmaster’s Update

8th October 21

Blue Coat? Nothing quite so monochrome! We went really vivid this week – and the school became a kaleidoscope of colour. Green came into focus (symbolically, at least) as we tackled the concept of envy and jealousy. Reddish-brown filled many a table as some of our youngsters got their hands busy moulding clay. Earth pigments…

Headmaster’s Update

1st October 21

Queues on the garage forecourts, incessant rain, temperatures dropping through the floor, a rare white deer shot down on Merseyside, The United States shooting us down in Wisconsin. What a miserable week it has been! It’s almost enough to make you envious of the humble tortoise. With the dismal weather, and a natural loss of…

Headmaster’s Update

24th September 21

A friend of mine has just returned from Buckinghamshire, where he went specifically to visit the Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden. He tells me that the experience was ‘delightful’. Dahl himself would probably have invented a new word to describe the museum tour: after all, during decades of working in his shed at the…

Headmaster’s Update

17th September 21

As we reach the end of Week Two, it feels as if we have never been away. The children have quickly settled into life at BCS under the excellent guidance of the staff. ‘In loco parentis’, teachers are, of course, significant role models for all our children. This term they will be reinforcing the importance…

Headmaster’s Prize Giving Address

14th July 21

Honoured Guest, Chair of Governors, Governors, Ladies and Gentlemen and every member of The Blue Coat community. A very warm welcome this evening to our annual celebration of the academic year just finishing; a time both to reflect and to look ahead. This is a day of firsts and lasts. It is one of the…

Headmaster’s Update

9th July 21

Well the penultimate week of term was one to remember. What a joy it was to welcome back parents for our Sports Days – in Year Group bubbles. And the children had a great time competing in a wide range of disciplines. How wonderful to see everybody smiling and having fun. Perhaps, as adults, we get…

Headmaster’s Update

2nd July 21

Hoping for the best and fearing the worst, most of us, I imagine, have been dreaming of sandy beaches, sunny days and the joy of our upcoming summer holiday… Well, this week, we had a sneak preview, courtesy of our budding thespians. Drama was the chief focus for the Prep, and the children certainly put…

Headmaster’s Update

25th June 21

Desmond Morris is perhaps best known for his 1967 book The Naked Ape, and for his television programmes such as Zoo Time. Morris, now in his nineties, is an English zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter, as well as a popular author in human sociobiology. He is perhaps less well known for writing a compelling book,…

Headmaster’s Update

18th June 21

Once upon a time, many years ago, while studying the ancient Greeks, I was instructed on the difference between the Stoics and the Epicureans. There are varieties of the two, and I am going to simplify the difference when I write that Epicureans insisted that human beings, ever since we are infants, naturally avoid pain…