Monthly Archives: March 2022

Defined by Vision, United by Ambition – Reading Blue Coat School

Last Friday, the Foundation Office launched it’s first ever fundraising campaign “Defined by Vision, United by Ambition”. A special evening was hosted by the Foundation Office to mark the occasion and was well attended by parents, past parents, Old Blues, governors and trustees. Please do read our latest article about the launch – https://buff.ly/36YKznO – […]

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Defined by Vision, United by Ambition

On Friday 25 March, the Foundation Office officially launched its very first fundraising campaign “Defined by Vision, United by Ambition”. This monumental moment in the School’s history was marked with a launch event at Holme Park. Guests included Old Blues; parents; past parents; governors and trustees, who arrived at the School for a welcome drinks […]

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Linguists visit Goethe Institute – Reading Blue Coat School

Last Monday, Year 10 students travelled to the Goethe Institute in Kensington for an exciting day of German! Read more about their day in London here – On Monday 21 March 2022, Year 10 students travelled to the Goethe Institute in Kensington and immediately embarked on an escape room in German, which involved following a […]

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Linguists visit Goethe Institute

On Monday 21 March 2022, Year 10 students travelled to the Goethe Institute in Kensington and immediately embarked on an escape room in German, which involved following a bewildering set of clues using an iPad in the library. The winning group completed the task 30 minutes early! They then had a session on East Germany, […]

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Geologists miss top spot at Royal Geological Society

After posing the question ‘Can Carbon Capture and Storage save the world?’, our Year 12 Geologists were invited to the Royal Geological Society to compete in the final of the National Schools Geology Challenge, at Burlington House in London. “On Thursday 24 March, five Year 12 geologists had the privilege of travelling to Burlington House, […]

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Blue Coat earns Rainbow Flag Award

On Wednesday 2 March 2022, Reading Blue Coat very proudly received the Rainbow Flag Award, a certification of positive LGBT+ inclusion and visibility. The award was first sought out by former-Director of Sixth Form, Mr George Morton, in the Spring term of 2021, when he began to pursue a non-binary dress code for the Sixth […]

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Geologists through to finals!

Before Christmas, the Geology Department invited the Year 12 class to work together in teams to create entries for the National Schools Geology Challenge, hosted by The Geological Society. It was met with enthusiasm, hard work and dedication from all students throughout the following half term and in February, they were able to host a […]

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HUGE congratulations to Year 11 Toby S, who has worked hard to achieve the accolade of being second in the UK’s under-17 pole vaulting!

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Aldworth Partnership Ukraine Crisis

A reminder that the Aldworth Partnership prefects are appealing to the Blue Coat community to help the people of Ukraine as they face unprecedented disruption. Please watch the video below and support in any way you can. Thank you.

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Music in Year 7

This year, Reading Blue Coat has launched a new music initiative for all students in Year 7. Part of this was the fantastic All-Year-7 Concert which took place at the end of January. This featured all singing together in a light-hearted performance of Dracula! And all playing together in an orchestra made of nearly 100 […]

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