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Blues News Issue 47

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Blues News Issue 46

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Blues News Issue 45

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Excellent response to Blue Coat’s first Book Bingo

Over the summer, the Library team set staff and pupils a summer reading challenge. The challenge was called Book Bingo and involved reading books that fell into different categories, in order to complete as many squares on the bingo card as possible. The challenges included reading a book with non-human characters, a  non-fiction title, a […]

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Harry races drones for international TV series

On Saturday, 16th September, Year 12 student Harry Plested was invited to be a last-minute replacement in a drone racing team taking part in a five-team competition in Ireland for an international television series. The team was made up of a Korean, an American and Harry – who was replacing an injured third member of the team. […]

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Boat Club raises thousands of pounds with sponsored row

Early on the morning of Saturday 16 September, when it was still dark, 55 members of the Boat Club, including some recent leavers, made their way to Radley to begin their Spon sored Row – an event that last took place four years ago. Just after sunrise, three Octos and three VIIIs pushed off from Radley College Boathouse and […]

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STEM subjects lead the way in another set of strong results at Blue Coat

Following stellar, record-breaking A level results last week, Blue Coat posted another fine set of GCSE results today. Overall, nearly a third of all grades were an A* (31.2%), and almost two thirds of grades were A*/A (65%). 89.5% of all grades were A*-B, in line the previous years. Despite the news in the press […]

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Blue Coat celebrates record A Level results

  Blue Coat School is celebrating record A Level results, with 82.7% of all results at A*-B and 96% at A*-C. Thirty students achieved all A*s and As, with six – Mathew Janes, James Montgomery, Charlie Regent, Matthew Roberts, Josh Smith and Amy Thompson – achieving at le ast three  A*s. Amy Thompson and Matthew […]

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Students have an adventure of a lifetime in China

On July 5th – the last day of the summer term – a group of 18 Sixth Form students and three staff members (Miss van der Werff, Ms McConalogue and Mr Taylor) set off with Dave Thompson from Wilderness Expertise, on a 28-day adventure to China. The ‘Personal Development Expedition’ the group un dertook is so-called because, although the […]

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