Monthly Archives: April 2017

Blue Coat was honoured to host Holocaust survivor Janine Webber on 21st April as the guest speaker at our weekly Sixth Form Special.  Janine’s visit was organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust, who also organised a visit by a group of our Sixth Form History students to the former concentration camp at Auschwitz in Poland last term. Janine was […]

On 31st March, 16 Year 12 students and two members of staff set out to study the rocks and structures of the Isle of Arran. We flew from Heathrow and took a bus, train and ferry to reach our destination – then stayed at the Lochranza Field Studies Centre, which served as a home and base for […]

On the morning of 16th March, in the weekly spiritual assembly, Year 7 Niam stood up and spoke about his diagnosis of, and ongoing treament for, Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Niam has been undergoing chemotherapy at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, where he has met a number of other children dealing with cancer – and one child […]