Category: STEM

26th February 21

This week in Reception we have been adding coins together to find the total.  Also the children have learnt that you can use different coins to make the same total. For example the total of 4p can be made up of 1p,1p,1p and 1p or 2p and 2p or 2p,1p and 1p. Great problem solving…

12th February 21

Safer Internet Day 2021 was held earlier this week, on Tuesday 9th February. The event was marked at BCS with a week of Online Safety lessons across the whole school, with our focus on the theme “An internet we trust: exploring reliability in the online world.” We all know that the internet has an amazing…

29th January 21

We have enjoyed a very busy and productive week in Year 1. Investigating waterproof materials to keep the Blue Coat Bear dry was the focus of our practical experiment in science this week. In Humanities, the children focused on Florence Nightingale, thinking about the positive influence that she had on the nursing profession. They wrote…

11th December 20

This week Year 6 developed their understanding of some of the issues facing the world through a study of the text ‘If the World Were a Village’.  The children were challenged to represent information from the text graphically.  They studied some of the problems facing survivors following natural disasters and discussed some of the ways…

4th December 20

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 teaching skills in a way that resembles real…

27th November 20

Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3… Hello and welcome to ‘Into the Blue’, a brand new podcast devised, produced and presented by our School leaders. The Podcast, launched today, is presented by Seb (Head Boy), Sarika (Head Girl), Sam (Deputy Head Boy) and Lucie (Deputy Head Girl), and gives them a focus and a voice in…

9th October 20

Although we are not able to combine Year 5 and Year 6 pupils into TED groups, the TED programme still remains vibrant at BCS this term, and children in Year 5 and Year 6 have all been allocated a TED activity of their choice. After the excitement of the weekly online Headmaster’s Assembly and House…

25th September 20

At the beginning of a new academic year there is always a long tick list of jobs that the children have to work through, just to get themselves ready for learning! The Year 3 children have new logins to memorise, all of the children have to check their Google Chrome account is synchronising, they all…

3rd July 20

This week we have had some more fabulous entries for the Year 6 Science Fair 2020. Well done to all the pupils who have worked so hard and submitted brilliant entries. In addition, Blue Coat are delighted to announce that we have been awarded the Primary Science Quality Mark. These awards have been given to…

26th June 20

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Carl Sagan The 2020 Science Fair was launched in December 2019 with a presentation to parents and children describing our rationale for running the projects and detailing what a ‘good project’ would involve.  In some ways the most challenging part…