BlueCoat Primary School News

Having just observed our 2-minute silence outside on Armistice Day, we in school have taken a number of opportunities to reflect on this spiritually and culturally significant event.

14 boys. 12 teams. 5 pitches. 2 places awaiting in the county cup finals. 1 Blue Coat qualification then? Hmmm...

Yesterday afternoon saw two 7-a-side teams, comprising of a selection of our Milepost 3 boys, take to the artificial surfaces of Katherine Lady Berkeley's sports centre pitches in the hope of securing a group win to qualify them for the county cup finals.

Last year, our attention was drawn to a Year 5 girls' football team who performed brilliantly in local competitions aimed at Year 6 teams. We knew they held promise and they've been carrying out some light training work thanks to Mrs Needham's son, a trained coach, Tom Needham, over the last couple of weeks.

Once again, the girls performance proved to be oustanding. Here's a brief match report from Rowen (Team 1) on the experience:

It seems only fitting that when the previous news item bid farewell to our cherished Class of 2014, we now take the opportunity to welcome the new members of our Blue Coat school family - Class of 2021!

One church; one school family; one amazing group of Year 6's. Today, we bid 'farewell' to our eldest pride and joy, wishing them every success in their exciting futures. Songs/hymns, orchestral arrangements, memories, readings and buddy presentations of cards and Bibles made for a moving service. We also found time to say goodbye to Mr Jones and Miss Gleeson, both of whom will be missed in September. 

Today's celebration worship was a memorable one as England Rugby International, Ben Morgan, decided to drop in and meet our pupils! 

Milepost 2's topic has culminated in a Blue Coat Sports Award shows where sporting personalities were marketed and then voted for by our children. The excitement gathered momentum as the whole school cheered on their choice personalities in each category. Sadly, Usain Bolt, David Beckham and the England Rugby team were unable to make it... or were they?

Today we held another one of our Big Breakfast events so that our school community could get together once again over the most important meal of the day. The turnout, as always, was fantastic as Key Stage 2 families continued to show the longstanding support for the occasion.

This morning, Key Stage 2 pupils took part in a district Swimming Gala attended by 6 schools at Dursley Pool. Blue Coat has previous form in this sporting event so anticipation was high...

Following the school's successful SIAMS inspection outcome, we had our annual visit by the Bishop's Visitor last week. This is an opportunity designed to celebrate the ongoing work church schools are doing with regard to the development of their Christian distinctiveness and ethos. 

The school was recently inspected under the Statutory Inspection of Anglican & Methodist Schools (SIAMS) framework. The purpose of this inspection is to evaluate the school's Christian 'distinctiveness and effectiveness'. In doing so, the one-day inspection involved a broad cross-section of stakeholders being met to give their views, school achievement data scrutinised, teaching and collective worship observed, leaders interviewed... all with the intention of determining to what degree Blue Coat is having a (positive) impact on its school community, in particular the impact of our core Christian values.