Monthly Archives: September 2016

Blue Coat was honoured to host three-time Olympic gold medallist rower Andrew Triggs Hodge MBE at morning Assembly on Monday, 26th September. Triggs Hodge, who won gold medals at the last three Olympiads, talked with pride about the fact that the UK’s 67 medals, including 27 golds, at Rio “exceeded our expectations of what we […]

On the last weekend in September, the 20 students going to China next summer with Wilderness Expertise completed the first stage of their expedition training. They spent the weekend researching and creating their itinerary, which sees them, over 28 days, travel from Chengdu to the Gobi Desert, covering vast distances (the longest of several train […]

Conductor and choral expert Dominic Peckham, who is Artistic Director of the Royal Opera House’s RM19 Youth Singing Group and conducts the Royal Opera House’s Big Sing Fridays, conducted a series of Singing Workshops for various groups at Blue Coat on 21st September. The remarkable Peckham has vsited Blue Coat a number of times and, every […]

Our A Level Performance Studies and A Level Drama & Theatre Studies students had their first Theatre Makers Day in London on September 14th. The group survived the heat of the day and, in the morning, enjoyed the Theatre and Performance Rooms at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where they looked at set designs across […]

At today’s lunchtime Engineering Society meeting, Mr Budge invited Physics teacher Mr Gilbertson (who has many years of experience working in engineering) and Old Blue Louise French (2015 – currently studying civil and structural engineering at Newcastle) to speak to interested Sixth Form students about the various branches of Engineering, studying Engineering at university, and […]

Over the summer, a team of 14 Year 11 and 12s, Mr Mitchell and Miss Higgins spent just over three weeks in Ghana, at our partner school in Ankwanda village. Daily Life The entire trip was unforgettable, but a major part was camp life. For the majority of the trip, we lived in a disused […]

Brothers Sam (Year 13) and Tom (Year 9) Lawton-Davies took part in  the Junior Touch Championships in The Netherlands in August, when they represented England in the  U18s Mixed and U15s Mixed teams respectively, against teams from Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, the Middle East, The Netherlands and Guernsey.