Job Vacancies

New Prep Library Officially Opened!

15th November 2019

We had a very exciting day on Wednesday this week. Our new Prep Library was finally ready to be officially opened! Our day of celebration started with a presentation from our visiting author Ali Sparkes. Ali has written many children’s books, including the Blue Peter Book Award title Frozen in Time. Ali’s energy and enthusiasm…

View All
Share

St George’s House Charity Day

Friday 15th November heralded the first of the 2019-2020 House Charity Days. It was St. George’s turn to lead the whole school in a day of fundraising for BBC Children in Need. All the children enjoyed the chance to come to school in home clothes, pudsey onesies and various colourful and spotty attire, paying a…

View All
Share

We Will Remember Them

8th November 2019

Today we marked Remembrance day in chapel, with two very special services. During our first service for Years 4-6 Colonel Alan Kay, a Blue Coat Parent and an Army surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, presented our copper wreath. Staff Sergeant Alan Woodland spoke poignantly about some of his memories of serving in the Falklands…

View All
Share

The Scotsman Run

The Scotsman Run Friday 18 October 2019 All Year 5 & 6 running You can celebrate the end of term with fancy games, interactive form time and awesome food. Well how about running around the woods with your fellow friends, under superb conditions to test your physical endurance? The Scotsman Run has developed through the…

View All
Share

The Animal Man!

18th October 2019

Year 2 spent a great morning with Steve from DWAEC and a host of unusual and interesting animals. They met Mary the python which took 10 children to hold, Woody the beautiful eagle owl and a kookaburra with a very loud laugh! It was an excellent end to their topic on habitats and I am…

View All
Share

Lady Macbeth

11th October 2019

On Tuesday, we were delighted to welcome back The Young Shakespeare Company to Blue Coat and witness their mesmerising performance of Macbeth. Year 5 were the perfect audience. As the rain lashed down, the wind howled and the owls hooted, we were transported to the wilds of the Scottish moors, Great Birnam Wood and High Dunsinane Hill….

View All
Share

BCS Experience Days

4th October 2019

The first two BCS Experience Days of this academic year have taken place over the week. We were delighted to welcome thirty Year 4 pupils from Quinton Church Primary School and thirty Year 5 children from Chad Vale Primary School. During the Forest School Experience, the Year 4 children enjoyed the opportunity to spend the whole…

View All
Share

BCS Languages Week

27th September 2019

It has been a busy week at Blue Coat this week celebrating Languages Week which coincides with the European Day of Languages on the 26th September. Children across the school have been trying out different languages in their lessons through registrations, class activities, and dual language books, and we were even treated to some Chichewa…

View All
Share

Blue Coat Launches Christmas Shoebox Appeal

20th September 2019

Don’t be a Dudley! This morning the whole school joined together for an exciting assembly in the sports hall, where we launched our annual shoebox appeal. Children from across Pre-prep and Prep entered the sports hall to the sound of Christmas music, presents and a sparkly tree. There were many squeals of delight…

View All
Share

Listen, Look, Dream and Grow

13th September 2019

Over the Summer Holiday, work in the Forest School area continued. The second Outdoor Classroom (HC2) was completed, a pathway from the driveway constructed and covered with bark chippings, a second fire pit area constructed, a Mud Kitchen area was built and the area adjacent to the cricket nets landscaped. Most pleasingly, most of this…

View All
Share

The BCS Family

Open Mornings