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Christmas Newsletter – December, 2016

Senior Choir at Birmingham

Symphony Hall

Major Tim Peake

Meeting Tim Young and Nathanael

Sadgrove

Faith ~ Vision ~ Nurture

Dear Parents, Guardians and Carers,

This newsletter reflects just some of what students have been doing since the start of the school year

2016: we hope you find it interesting and informative.

Thank you for your support during this term – there have been parents’ information evenings, open

days, maths evenings, the Year 11 presentation and Speech Night, and the Christmas Concert and

Year 8 Parents’ Evenings are coming up. A random sample of parents met to give us feedback on

the school and where we could improve (and we are working on both the staff glossary and better

communication through Twitter for PE and fixtures!) and many returned to provide a focus group for

our Church of England inspection in November. We realise that this all makes demands on families,

and are very grateful for your support. The report from the inspection won’t be out for 2 – 3 weeks,

but as soon as we have it, it will go on the website and you’ll hear via ParentMail. Our students did us

proud – they were both delightful in their pride in their school, and formidable in their determination to

be heard.

This is a demanding year. The A-Level and GCSE subject specifications and assessment are

practically all new, and you will find in the newsletter that a number of departments are including quite

a lot of information about what students are now studying, and how it is different. A new grading

system is being introduced at GCSE, starting with English and Maths this year. A 9-1 scale will

replace A* - G, but clearly these two are not equivalents.

It’s exciting but demanding for both students and staff across the country. You’ll notice that many

departments have flagged up their additional provision for homework and revision clubs, and drop-ins

(both voluntary, and invited) to ensure that all students achieve as they should and need. If your

young person is struggling in anything, do direct him/her to these opportunities as appropriate.

We have just finished the Shoebox Appeal, collecting 535 beautifully and generously presented

boxes, which will be a Christmas gift for orphans and refugees in Albania.

As part of our celebration of Advent, we are supporting two charities – Oldham Foodbank, and The

Mustard Tree, both of which provide practical support for people suffering hardship. Christmas

celebrations will take place in the last two days of the term.

Arrangements for the end of term are as follows, and detailed at the end of the newsletter:

Friday, 17th December - Christmas Lunch followed by the Carol Service.

Monday, 19th December – Staff Pantomime, Year 7 Christmas Party and Year 8 Karaoke.

Tuesday, 20th December – Non-Uniform Day and Student Talent Show. (Please note:

School closes early – 1.20pm)

We wish all our families a peaceful, happy Christmas, and every good wish for 2017.

Yours sincerely,

Headteacher

The curriculum, learning and achievement

Religious Studies

End of Year Church visits At the end of the Summer Term, all of our Year 7

students visited Oldham Parish Church. This was an

excellent opportunity for students to learn outside of

the classroom, and to explore a religion which will be a

core belief system they need to learn about as part of

their Religious Studies GCSE. The building is also

important as we celebrate many special occasions as

a school community in the Parish Church.

During the visit, students took part in a number of different activities.

Firstly, they explored the church building with Reverend Palmer, who explained to them the

symbolism and significance of many of the features. Olivia Redfearn said “My favourite part of

learning about the history of the church was when Reverend Palmer told us about the stained glass

windows and who the different people were in them. I’ve looked at these windows before and never

understood them, but now I do.”

Then students took part in a singing workshop with Mrs Dallender. Olivia commented; “We sang

Shine, Jesus, Shine. It was really fun because we got to make up actions for the words, working in

groups.”

One of the most anticipated activities was the tour of the Church crypt. Olivia said “When we went

down to the crypt it was quite dark, and John showed us a large, arched shaped hole in the wall

where families would pay to be buried when they died. My favourite part of the crypt was seeing the

giant coffin because I have never seen anything like it before!”

Finally, students participated in an experiential, reflective workshop with The Salt Cellar. Olivia

reflected on this and said; “We got to think about our experience of church and the different ways

Christians can worship. We also found out about what Salt Cellar does for young people and how we

could get involved.”

Big Questions Club - an update from Miss Crump Big questions club continues for students in KS3. This term we've had discussions around 'What

happens when we die' and 'How do I know that I'm not dreaming right now?' Students responded so

well to this one that we had to have it across two sessions as we had so much to talk about!

Year 7 Challenge Project Year 7 have been working on an exciting new challenge project. In their current topic; “Did God create

the world?”, they are creating a scrapbook of research on a variety of challenging questions. The

questions will challenge students to critically evaluate, think in a more philosophical way and develop

their research skills. The students have demonstrated in RS this year that they love a challenge so we

are excited to see what their final pieces look like. We are so proud of the Year 7s for producing such

brilliant work for their challenge projects.

Here is some of the amazing work we have seen so far…

Glenda Mutota Samuel Howard Leah Wilcox

Farheen Sheraz Evie Gallagher Erin Barnes

Another fantastic piece of homework was completed by Millie Noonan, Year 8, who designed this

three dimensional overview of the life of the Dalai Lama as part of her learning into Buddhism.

Faith Day In November, the RS department hosted ‘Faith Day’ for all of our Year 7 students. We also welcomed

the Year 5 classes from East Crompton St James’, St Georges’, and St Luke’s primary schools; who

all took part with great enthusiasm. One of the Year 7 students, Riaz Ahmad, explains what the day

was all about:

What is Faith Day? Faith day is a spectacular day where pupils experience a journey through faith. The journey consists

of experts from major religions discussing aspects of their religion and the traditions that are important

to them. It allowed us to experience things we would never know about and helped us broaden our

knowledge about other people’s religion. Everyone was given a passport to record all the fascinating

workshops we visited through the day. Here is a review of each of the workshops I visited:

Workshop 1 - Sikhism The Sikhism workshop was an adventure through the

history of Sikhism, Prakash Singh taught us about the birth

of Guru Nanak; the five k’s and told us about a daily life of

a Sikh. Furthermore, selected students were lucky to see

what it was like to wear a turban by trying one on;

although it was (really) heavy!

Workshop 2 – Buddhist Mandalas Next part of our exciting journey was producing our very

own Buddhist mandalas! These are exceptionally

gorgeous pieces of artwork created by Tibetan monks.

These works require patience, concentration and team

work which everyone was able to practice. But – as

traditional Buddhists do they destroy their mandalas and

put it in the nearest river. Therefore, we were able to rip

ours up to see what this is like to. The reason in

destroying these intricate artworks is so Buddhists know

we should never be too attached to things as they are not permanent.

Workshop 3 – Gospel Singing For the Christianity section of our faith day – we did

some gospel singing. The song chosen was ‘Shackles’

by Mary, Mary which was about the shackles that

Christians believe you could be restrained by without

knowing Jesus. It was such a fun and enjoyable session

which included some free-style dancing! We were taught

by a talented gospel choir singer, Margaret Ferguson.

Workshop 4 - Judaism In this session, we looked at the religion of Judaism with

Guy Samuels. We were taught many things like the history

of the Jewish people and celebrations in the Jewish

calendar. We could try some traditional challah bread with

salt which to Jews represents the sweetness and bitterness

of life. We also had some wine (grape juice really!) and

learnt about that Shabbat ceremony. In addition to this, we

also could understand Jewish clothing and culture like why

they wear a kippah.

Workshop 5 – Islam The final workshop was the Islam workshop. It was delivered by two representatives

from the Oldham Interfaith network, the very humorous Mufti Helal and Fazal Rahim.

The workshop taught us more about the five pillars of Islam and how to perform them and why are

they important. It showed the life of the Prophet Muhammed (pbuh); and taught how Islam is a religion

of peace. There was also a modelling of the Muslim Salah (prayer).

As you can tell from my review, faith day was a remarkable, inspiring and unique day in which we

learnt a lot about faith, how it impacts peoples’ lives, and some of the similarities and differences

between different religions.

Siobhan Metcalfe, the RE co-ordinator at St Luke’s primary school sent us a message of thanks after

the event: “Thank You so much for a fantastic day on Friday, both children and staff thoroughly

enjoyed the day. The children have taken away new knowledge of different religions”

We shared some follow up activities with the primary schools and are looking forward to receiving

some of their evaluative comments and examples of their work.

Year 7 students also had the Gideon Charity come in to speak to them during a Wellbeing slot

in November – Shyla Khan tells us about it:

When the Gideons came to our school, I thought that they were welcoming and kind and I found it

interesting listening to them. As a gift, they gave each of us a Bible – for us to always keep with us. As

they were telling us about gifts, a girl in the audience went up to the front because Margaret said “who

will be my friend?” The girl put her hand up – as an extra gift she received a packet of sweets. We

were told we could choose to accept the gift of the Bible and many of us did.

During the session, they showed us a video of Basil. The story was about Basil being under a bad

influence. He stole cigarettes and did disrespectful things. One day, Basil ran away and hid in an old

building. Across the way, he saw a board saying. “Thou shall not steal.” (This is a quote from the

Bible) and this helped him to change his behaviour.

Overall, I enjoyed the session because it was interesting. I learnt many different things and they were

kind and welcoming.

This term Year 9 have been learning about the Holocaust and considering the question ‘where

was God in the Holocaust’?

As part of this, Miss Frazer organised for a visiting speaker, Judith

Hayman, to come in to some lessons. She talked to the classes about her

mothers’ experience during the Holocaust, particularly her experience of

Kristallnacht in Austria. She was also able to answer many questions the

students had about life as Jewish person, and the impact of the Holocaust

and current anti-Semitism on faith. This is a photo of Judith’s mother,

Charlotte in 1940; and also an example of some of the work students

have been completing to help them evaluate this statement.

Year 11 Revision Sessions – an update from Miss Spragg Over the past few weeks, the RS department has been running interventions for Year 11 students during Monday lunchtimes and after school to help them prepare for their mock exams in December. As part of these sessions there have been fun and interactive activities such as watching memorable revision music videos, playing charades and playing a variety of TV style quiz shows such as The Chase and Million Pound Drop – RS style!

As well as this, students have also practised exam techniques including how to structure a six-marker, how much to write for each type of question and how to answer all the questions in the time given. The RS department is hoping that these sessions will prove useful to Year 11 for both the mock exams and the real exams that will take place in May. Good Luck Year 11!

Key Stage 5 Religious Studies The programme of Key Stage 5 RS sessions is an opportunity for our

sixth form students to think about some of the big ethical,

philosophical, and religious dilemmas facing us today. The first

session this term asked all sixth form students to consider the

statement ‘physician assisted suicide should be legalised’.

Students were gathered in the Hall for a Key Note presentation from the prolife charity ‘Life’ – which

was fantastic. This was followed up in form tutor sessions with more debate and resources to learn

about the arguments to agree with the statement. The afternoon culminated in a class vote with the

results being displayed in the Mezz – 64% in favour, 31% against and 5% undecided.

Some of the upcoming themes for Key Stage 5 RS are:

Chaplaincy Our focus as a school this year is about living distinctive lives as Christian people, to bring the light of

Jesus Christ into the communities where we live. We have been using Matthew 5:14-16 as our text for

the year: “You are the light that gives light to the world. A city that is built on a hill cannot be hidden.

And people don’t hide a light under a bowl. They put it on a lampstand so the light shines for all the

people in the house. In the same way, you should be a light for other people. Live so that they will see

the good things you do and will praise your Father in heaven.”

This is our focus in the challenges we face, to retain our Christian identity and values in an ever-

changing world.

Form reflection, as always, is a really important part of the school day, with students exploring themes

such as peer pressure, self-image, promises and conflict - using discussion, media, games and

personal reflection. All these themes have been linked to the school verse for the year with the

students thinking imaginatively about how they can ‘Be the light’ in their particular situations.

Christian Union continues to meet each week. Mr Ford and Mrs English lead the group with games,

craft, discussion and lots of fun; we have been looking most recently at some ideas about Christian

identity and character, and how we can live out the faith that we share.

The Salt Cellar youth team have been very much involved in the life of the school. They run a weekly

club called ‘Escape’ which has again been growing in number this term. They also help with the

Christian union and have led some assemblies this term too. As part of the Year 7 Faith Day, students

had the opportunity to experience a reflective space led by the Salt Cellar team, which allowed

students to engage in the Bible, their own faith and spirituality.

Across the school, form groups have been creating shoe boxes, as gifts to be sent to children who are

living in poverty, or who have no families. This year we collected our biggest every total of 535, along

with a combined donation of over £700 to pay for their delivery. Our focus this year was on producing

good quality boxes, and students across the year groups r ose to the challenge.

During advent this year we will be focusing on the idea of Jesus being ‘The light of the world’ and how

that can help us to also ‘Be the light’. Our advent challenge as a school is to make a difference

collectively by supporting those in poverty in Oldham and Manchester through the Foodbank and

Mustard Tree charity.

Science Ogden Trust – Danny McLoughlin

We are delighted to announce that one of our ex-students, Daniel McLoughlin, has been awarded an

Undergraduate Science Scholarship, worth £1500 per year, by the Ogden Trust. This will greatly support Danny through his university course at Oxford, where he is studying Physics (MPhys).

Ogden Trust – Jack Turner The Ogden Trust Ceremony took place in September, at the Schuster Building (Physics) at the

University of Manchester. The Ogden Trust recognises the best Year 12 Physicists for their work and

dedication. Jack attended with his parents, where they enjoyed a dinner and a talk on Pulsars. The

evening concluded with the prize giving ceremony. Jack is also one 4 students doing a Nuffield

placement at the University next summer. He will be doing his project in Particle Physics with

Professor Soldner-Rembolt, who recently spoke to the BBC about a new 750 GeV particle they've just

discovered at CERN.

Principia Schools Conference, University of York This has been a very exciting month for two of our Year 11 students, Tim Young and Nathanael

Sadgrove. After taking part in the Space Seeds Project last year, Tim and Nathanael wrote a report

about the experiment and made links to their learning in Science. We entered this report into a

competition offering the opportunity to attend a schools’ conference at the University of York, and

were delighted to hear that we had won a place.

On Saturday 5th November, we travelled to York University where we sat in the conference hall

eagerly awaiting the key note speaker – Major Tim Peake. He is an inspirational public speaker who

described his experiences before, during and after his mission to the ISS, as well as showing amazing

photos and video footage.

Tim and Nathanael presented their work confidently and clearly to an audience of over 100 Key Stage

4 and Key Stage 5 students, we visited stalls and displays from space industry experts, but

the highlight of the day for us all was definitely meeting Major Tim Peake. He shook our hands, then

sat round the table with us and answered our questions, before posing for a group photo. This was

an amazing opportunity and an experience none of us will ever forget.

Over a hundred A-level Chemistry students are taking part in the Chemistry mentoring scheme, in

which Year 12 and Year 13 students work together to increase their depth of knowledge across the

specification. The Science building has been a hive of activity on Wednesday lunchtimes, and the

sense of Chemistry community is growing stronger every day.

Chemistry Olympiad has started again, with 25 students going for gold in the Olympiad exam with

their eyes set on a prize trip to Thailand. Last year brought Blue Coat closer to a gold award than ever

before, and we are hoping that this year's preparation will be even more auspicious.

This year, students in Year 9 are taking part in the CREST award scheme with Mr. Ford. Students

investigate an area of science that they find interesting and are currently exploring how to make bath

crystals with extra fizz. This involves investigating a range of chemical reactions, looking for not only a

lot of fizz but also safety and cleaning ability. This involves a lot of planning and testing and the

students are having a great time learning how real science works.

Oxbridge Ten of the best and brightest in Blue Coat's Upper Sixth headed down to Oxford on the 15th

September to experience the city, the culture, the people and, of course, the University. Blue Coat

students get star treatment, thanks to our current and past association with porters and professors.

We were given special permission to park on the University sports fields, right in the centre of the city.

No park and rides for our students.

We got straight down to business with a tour of New College, organized by Blue Coat partner

Professor Miles Hewstone. Colleges are normally closed to visitors, with restricted parts occasionally

open to tourists. Blue Coat students were given access to all areas.

One popular destination is always the tree

where Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy fought a

battle in the popular films. As Professor

Hewstone explained, however, most days,

you'd find students sitting here studying, or

maybe relaxing with friends. Oxford colleges

can be intimidating at first, with their high

walls and ancient buildings. Seeing students

dressed in jeans and tee shirts, listening to

music or texting their friends can be a nice

reminder that people are the same no matter

where they come from.

It's not all relaxing at university, of course. Our students were given the chance to visit Professor

Hewstone's study and to experience a mock tutorial - a formal session where students discuss their

work with their tutors. The study was very luxurious with various rooms leading off including a kitchen

and a library. Mrs Gartside pointed out that Professor Hewstone's library was bigger than Mr

Ballantyne's office. Admissions interviews take place in studies just like this one, so our students will

be familiar with their surroundings when they come to be interviewed later this year.

After that it was off to Corpus Christi College to meet Brendan Shepherd, the Outreach Officer and

Admissions Administrator for Oxford University. Brendan had arranged a session on writing Personal

Statements for UCAS applications. He brought along plenty of examples of successful statements,

and then spent time with the students looking at their individual statements. Brendan works hard for

Oldham students, arranging meals, accommodation and interviews for those coming to visit.

Students at Oxford often dine in Hall, sitting at long tables

just like they do at Hogwarts (though without so many

ghosts). We ate in Corpus that night. Although there is a

good choice of healthy food, ensuring a balanced diet,

most of those dining had a bit everything, piling their plates

with Corpus Burgers, spinach and ricotta parcels, chips,

pasta twists, peas and anything else they could see.

After that it was off to Keble College where some of us

were staying that night. Here you can see a view of Keble

College Chapel (the big building on the right). Blue Coat

students stayed in the regular

student accommodation which is located in the smaller

buildings surrounding the lawn. The rooms are old, but

comfortable, with Wi-Fi and en-suite bathrooms. After

checking in, the students went off to meet ex Blue Coat

students currently studying at Oxford to get the inside

information on university life. Then it was back to college,

where there was a chance to experience the facilities in

the JCR before going to bed. The JCR includes such

delights as TVs, pool tables, table tennis, play stations and

even a piano.

The next day students breakfasted in Hall (cooked breakfast, fruit, cereals, toast, croissants, coffee,

juice) and then headed off to visit other colleges where they attended talks and lectures about the

subjects they were interested in studying. This was where the really valuable part of the visit

occurred: meeting lecturers and other students and talking about subjects that really interest you with

people who share your interests.

To find out what that's like, you'll have to come on the next trip…...

Computer Science

Barclays Project Tech visit This month we took 10 of our computing

students to Barclays Bank UK technology

headquarters in Knutsford. Barclays employs

over 3500 people at this site and our pupils were

given a unique insight into how the technology

projects within the bank are managed.

Pupils took part in various exercises,

highlighting the skills required to be successful.

We have forged strong links with the company

and we are looking forward to running further

trips to the centre to look more closely at their

programming and cyber security work.

CAS Hub Application

This term we had a visit from Dave Ames, a master teacher from Computing at School (CAS), a

nationwide organisation tasked with promoting the teaching of Computer Science. He was so

impressed by the work done by our students that he asked us to become a CAS Hub/Lead School. A

CAS hub is a meeting place for teachers and lecturers who share ideas for developing the teaching of

computing in their schools, classrooms and communities.

This means that Blue Coat will become a Specialist School Status for Computing, and will act as hub

for computing activities for the North West, offering training to local schools.

Mr Mkandawire will be HUB leader and we are expecting to hold our very first CAS Hub welcome

meeting in January 2017.

Homework Club Our popular lunchtime homework club is as well attended as ever. As well as offering subject specific

advice and help, we usually assist with other subjects too. It runs every lunchtime except Friday in

GT11 from 1.30pm - 2.00pm.

Year 7

The new Year 7 cohort have had an introduction to the school’s network, covering topics including

password security, email, Bloodle and word processing. They will now keep on developing these

skills along with learning of the importance of cyber security and staying safe online

Year 8

Students have been working on an introduction to programming in Python, an open source

programming language. So far they have covered strings, variables, comments, syntax errors, lists

and data types including integers, floating point numbers and the Boolean data type.

Year 9

Students have embarked on their GCSE courses a year earlier so have already received a solid

introduction to logic and algorithms and how to express them in both flowchart and pseudocode

formats. Recently this theory and pre-programming knowledge has been implemented in Python,

building on the work the pupils did last year in this language.

Year 10

The pupils in Year 10 also start their GCSE course and have had a similar introduction to the Year 9

group, covering algorithms, flowcharts and pseudocode and have practised converting algorithms into

actual Python code.

Year 11

The Year 11 group began their second controlled assessment of the GCSE course. This time they are

coding a solution to a problem surrounding the mathematical modelling of greenfly populations. Once

this is complete, they will continue with the theory topics on the course, ultimately leading up to

revision sessions in preparation for next year’s exam.

Year 12

The new A-A/S level students are studying for the practical aspects of the course with an introduction

to the Java Object Oriented programming language, which is a steep learning curve for those who

have only previously coded in Python.

The theory aspect of the course has so far covered topics including the classification of programming

languages including low level languages like machine code and assembly languages to high level

imperative and declarative languages like C, C++, Python, Java et al.

Year 13

The Upper Sixth Computer Science class are currently working on their A level projects. The new specification allows for a far wider range of projects than has been the case in the past, and allows the students to develop something that really interests them. The students build on the skills they've learned in lessons. This doesn't just mean coding, it also means using collaboration tools such as repositories to work with other developers. This year’s projects include writing a tower defence game that uses the Google Maps API so that players are defending real places. Games are popular project choice, with 2D platformers and randomly generated top down dungeon explorers also being attempted. Other projects include writing a program to solve Rubik's cube. Oddly enough, it’s not the cube solving algorithm that presents the difficulty - these are well known and freely available - it's the procedure for scanning the cube’s current state into the computer using sensors that is proving interesting. In the past, Computer Science projects had involved a large written component. This has now been reduced to allow students to concentrate on the coding. Documentation still must be produced, of course, but this is a necessary part of any project. If you're interested, you can follow the development of the projects on platforms such as GitHub and YouTube .

Cryptographic challenge

See if you can break the code below to reveal the secret message.

Answers should be sent, via email, to amkandawire@blue-coat.org by the end of the term. The

winner will be selected, at random, from the correct entries. The winner will receive a small

Christmas-related prize!

Media Studies Year 12 and 13 Media students have been busy planning, filming and editing the new

school and sixth form open day videos. Working alongside their peers and liaising with

staff the sixth form teams managed to capture the ethos and spirit of the school to

showcase it at its best. Year 13 student, Samantha Richardson, has also been putting

her creative skills to good use and has worked alongside our school chaplain to

illustrate the school verse for 2016/17. Sam has created a beautiful image that is being

displayed around school, well done Sam!

Year 11 has also gone into production. Each team has been planning the marketing material for their

latest Hollywood blockbuster and is now working on set to film the material for their own trailers. The

Year 11 students have some fantastic ideas and the creativity they have demonstrated so far

suggests that their final products are going to be well worth a watch.

Year 9 and 10 are making a great start with their Media courses. Both year groups have been looking

at the four key theoretical concepts and have completed some fantastic textual analysis and

production work. Year 9 have been on set, filming scenes to demonstrate their understanding of

genre theory and Year 10 have been developing skills in Photoshop to illustrate their understanding of

stereotyping in the media.

Maths

STEP inset Our second of three annual STEP inset took place on 6th October. Peter Mitchell led the session to 26

students from Blue Coat as well as 3 students from Crompton House. The session was designed to

prepare students for the Sixth Term Extension Paper exam which they need to apply to the Russell

group universities. They day was incredibly successful and students left feeling much more confident

and able to tackle the very challenging STEP exam questions.

Senior Maths Challenge Elliott Mellor, Maxwell Roberts, Benjamin Hartnell-Booth and Jack Turner will be representing the

Blue Coat School in this year’s Senior Team Maths Challenge at Manchester University. The STMC is

a competition testing mathematical, communication and teamwork skills, and students compete

against teams from other schools and colleges from their region.

Elliott Mellor in year 12 successfully secured tickets to watch the filming of countdown over half term.

Whilst Rachel Riley was unsuccessful in finding the only solution to the numbers round, Elliott had

solved the problem! During the break Rachel invited Elliot back stage to show her the solution! The

numbers were 100, 50, 25, 10, 5, 3 and the target was 841. To check solutions, see the maths

department!

Here is Elliott showing Rachel his solution!

UKMT Challenges In the world of tricky mathematical problems, our sixth form once again delivered the goods. This

year’s Senior Mathematical Challenge saw Blue Coat students secure no fewer than eleven silver

awards. This was backed up by a further eight bronze awards. Special mention must go to George

Raynes, Benjamin Hartnell-Booth, Thomas Bebbington and Kate Hindle who all secured over 80% of

the available marks. To top off our ongoing success in the challenge, Elliott Mellor (of Countdown

fame), proved his worth in this arena once again, coming out with our only gold award of the year.

Every mark counts, as they say, and Elliott just managed enough to see him through to the renowned

Kangaroo qualifier round. Very well done to everybody who took part, particularly those who managed

to achieve an award.

Creative Maths Club Creative Maths Club has had a very successful start this term and is proving to be very popular with

our KS3 students! So far we have made Columbus cubes which we are stacking to create the tallest

tower, and we also create beautiful origami animals. For the end of half term, the students competed

in teams to complete the Halloween maths relay which required them to use their problem solving

skills.

Year 7 Parents’ Evening Students from two Year 7 classes were invited into school with their parents to spend an evening

tackling maths problems. Parents were offered advice on how to support their sons and daughters

master key skills in mathematics whilst working together on number problems. Our aim is to help

students understand the most important concepts thoroughly and then build on these skills throughout

their time in maths at Blue Coat. There was a high turnout (extra chairs had to be brought into the

classroom!) and the evening proved to be a great success with positive feedback from the parents.

The parents particularly enjoyed using the mini-whiteboards and got very competitive, hiding their

answers from their children!

History

It’s been a busy start to the academic term in History with the first of many trips taking place over

October half term, and the start to our exciting new GCSE. We had lots of successes in the summer

with GCSE and A level results and we’re looking forward to repeating this in the summer.

Our Key Stage 3 students have been getting to grips with new topics which prepare them well for the

new GCSE. They have been sitting new end of unit tests which challenges their revision skills as well

as their writing abilities in order to support them ready for linear exams.

Year 7 have hit History with a bang with their study of 1066 which was very apt with the

commemoration of the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings whilst we were teaching about poor

Harold Godwinson! They have been learning about the problems of 1066, the different claimants to

the throne and the viability of their claims, the battles and the factors behind William’s success. Next

they will be going onto investigating how William controlled a country full of 2 million angry Saxons,

focussing on Norman crime and punishment.

Year 8 have been completing another topical unit based around WW1. At the moment they are

learning about the Battle of the Somme and Ypres ready for their trip to Belgium and France at the

end of the year. They’ve been filling out booklets based on all the sites that we’re going to be visiting

in order to be able to link their learning in lessons to the Historical sheets when we’re out on the Battle

sites. The teachers can’t wait to see them experience the mud of a preserved trench!

Year 9 have made an excellent start to their GCSE studies. All staff have been very impressed with

the attitude of their classes and their enthusiasm for the topics. They are currently studying Weimar

Germany, including the impact of WW1, the political and economic problems facing Germany in the

1920s. After Christmas they will be starting the Crime and Punishment unit that Year 10 have started

in September.

Year 9 & Year 10 both have an exciting trip to look forward to with

visiting the Crime and Punishment focus points in London including the

‘Clink’ prison museum which is built upon the original site of The Clink

Prison, which dating back to 1144 was one of England’s oldest and most

notorious prisons. They are also going to have a guided tour around

Whitechapel where they will be seeing the real streets that they are

going to be investigating for their British Depth Study. Finally, they will

be having a tour of the Old Bailey Court.

Year 10 are enjoying a new style of learning History as they are looking at 1000 years of History

focusing on the changed and continuities across periods. This demands an extremely good

conceptual understanding of the time periods but Year 10 have worked extremely hard, using

independent revision styles as well as getting to grips with new types of questions. Soon they will be

learning about the modern development in policing technology that forms our present day justice

system & being able to track the themes and causes of change across the whole 1000 year period.

On the Friday that we broke up for half term, 26 Year 11 students and some bleary eyed staff left

school at midnight to travel to Belgium for our first Battlefields tour of the year. Our students were

stunning – we had many compliments from members of the public about the conduct and behaviour of

our students being exemplary. They showed respect, engagement and understanding of the sites that

we visited and were a credit to the school.

Students are now in the final weeks before their mocks. They will be sitting 2 parts of their GCSE, a

full mock Paper one on the causes of WW1, Peacekeeping in the Inter-War years and the causes of

WW2. They will then also sit part of their paper 2, focussing on Weimar Germany. This should be a

real test of their understanding and give them a flavour of what is to come in the summer.

Following on from the success of their GCSEs Year 12s have really impressed the History staff. Old

and New Blues alike are working hard and succeeding in their new topics. They are studying the USA

in the 19th Century including Westward Expansion, going on to looking at the sectional divides that

caused the Civil War. For the other side of their course they are studying Tudor England.

Our Year 13s are excited about the trip to the USA in February where we are visiting New York City

and Washington, seeing all the sights that are extremely pertinent in recent times! In the classrooms

students are continuing the development of their knowledge in Tudor England by completing an

independent coursework project, whilst also learning about Civil Rights in the USA, drawing out

themes and significance of aspects across the 19th-20th centuries.

Trial by Bread: Open Morning 1st October During our Open Day on the 1st October, Ms Bezer in the History department helped to engage

prospective students in the Crime and Punishment unit by getting hands on. To do this, the

prospective students, along with their families and friends, could take part in a real medieval trial

called Trial by Bread.

Trial by Bread happened in the Anglo-Saxon era and in Medieval England. It was where, if you were

accused of a crime, you had to eat bread to determine if you were guilty or innocent. If you had no

difficulty eating it you were innocent of your crime, but if you choked or could not finish it then you

were guilty.

To get everyone involved on Open Day they had to pick a

medieval crime from a box which they were ‘guilty’ of

committing and they then took a piece of bread to have a go

at the trial. We had a great response from this both from

prospective students and their families who all wanted to

have a go and try out something which, 800 years ago,

would have been a real trial in this country.

Social Sciences

Behind Bars Conference- Sociology Students in Year 13 attended a conference this half term called ‘Behind Bars’ and got to meet and

hear stories from ex-offenders who had experienced long prison terms. Some of the offences they

had committed were robbery, assault, firearms, drugs and murder. Students had the opportunity to

question whether the prison system works, discussing current issues of re-offending and

overcrowding. They also got to judge a real murder case, looking at the evidence and coming to a

decision about whether the person was guilty or not guilty. They then went into smaller seminar

groups to ask all of the ex-offenders questions about their experiences and decisions that led them

into the criminal justice system. The conference was extremely well received by all students that

attended, they were given a real insight into prison life and it proved to be an invaluable day for those

studying both Sociology and Psychology.

Health and Social Care Year 12 Health and Social Care students are currently studying Osteoarthritis as a Life Challenge.

Their learning was brought to life by a visitor - Jean Henshall (Miss Henshall's mother!) who came in

to speak to them about her experiences of having osteoarthritis and the impact it has on her health

and wellbeing. The students enjoyed being able to apply their learning to a real life example, which

has deepened their understanding of the challenges this condition brings.

Government and Politics The AS government and politics students enjoyed a very successful trip to London on Monday 14th

November. We had an exciting tour of areas of London including Buckingham Palace, Green Park,

Trafalgar Square, Leicester Square, Parliament Square including educational tours of the Supreme

Court and Parliament itself. Highlights of the day include observing a ceremonial military display in

honour of Prince Charles' birthday and a meeting with local MP Debbie Abrahams. The day was awe-

inspiring to many students who have not been to London before and just as eye-opening to those who

have a keen interest in the study of politics because we got in-depth insights into the day to day

running of the work of an MP.

Modern Foreign Languages The year kicked off to an exciting start for the MFL department with the celebration of the European

Day of Languages on 26th September, is a celebration of linguistic and cultural diversity in Europe.

The aim of the day is to promote cultural awareness and to encourage pupils to reflect on the

importance of language learning.

The Blue Coat MFL department took this one step further

by extending the European Day of Languages into a

week-long affair. Not only did pupils have special lessons

throughout the week where they were quizzed on their

European language and cultural knowledge, there was

also a variety of workshops each lunch time. Workshops

varied from lessons in languages spoken by other pupils

at our school (Bengali, Arabic, Spanish and Romanian to

name a few) to poster competitions and German and

French film screenings. 7W also organised an

international food sale on Friday lunch time where pupils

could buy food from all over the world. All proceeds went

to the Learning Languages at Home (http://www.leah.org.uk/) charity which works with ethnic minority

adults, including refugees and migrants, who are currently socially isolated due to their lack of English

language.

STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths

The Year 7 STEM club is up and running, with students using knowledge and understanding from

Science, Maths and Technology to complete a series of different projects. The club has commenced

with the design and manufacture of an elastic band-powered bottle rocket, with a test run to be used

to see which design can travel the furthest and in the shortest time.

The Engineering Education Scheme has again successfully recruited a team of Year 12 students,

who will be working closely with engineers from local company Innovative Technology. The company

manufacture cash handling solutions for a range of services, including international gaming, retail and

kiosk industries. The team have been asked to find a method of taking notes from a stack, one note at

a time - not an easy task! The team will be manufacturing their designs when they attend the

University of Liverpool residential workshop in the new year.

Music

National Festival of Music for Youth Finals In what seems a very long time ago, the Senior Choir and the ‘Boys of Brass’ quintet both performed

in the finals of the National Festival of Music for Youth in Birmingham. Both ensembles played

superbly well and were a credit to the school. The adjudicators were extremely impressed and both

ensembles received some wonderful comments.

The Schools Prom, Royal Albert Hall, London After their performance in Birmingham, the Senior Choir had the great honour to perform at the Last

Night of the Schools Prom, held in the Royal Albert Hall, London. This is probably the most

prestigious Youth Music event in Europe and to be invited to perform means that you are up thee with

the best Youth Music ensembles in the country. On Monday 14th November, 20 musicians made their

way to London to rehearse in the iconic venue and to take part in the most amazing concert. The

choir performed two pieces, Locus Iste written by Bruckner and Deep in the Night, by Jussi

Chydenius. Over 3000 people witnessed the performances, which were in the second half of the

concert, and the choir received great applause from the most appreciative audience. As well as

performing at the Royal Albert Hall, the choir members performed a ‘flash mob’ at the Natural History

Museum, with the impressive back drop of a Diplodocus skeleton! It was the most amazing

experience and one that every person, both staff and student, will never forget.

Department Performances The department is currently gearing up for the annual Christmas Concert where we shall have over

150 pupils will perform in the school hall on Monday 5th December. It should be a fantastic evening

and tickets are selling fast.

There is a good atmosphere within the department due to the performances at the recent school

Speech Night at the Queen Elizabeth Hall where the Brass Band, Senior Choir and Jazz Combo

performed magnificently with great acclaim from all who attended. The Senior Choir, consisting of

GCSE and A Level Music students, performed the 2 pieces from the recent Royal Albert Hall

performance and it was brilliantly received.

We are also working towards the Christmas Service where not only the school Brass Band, Choir and

soloists will be performing, but following on from last year’s fantastic performance by the Key Stage 3

students, the entire Key Stage 3 cohort of Year 7 and 8 students, will perform as a massed choir

singing a piece by Mark and Helen Johnson, entitled ‘All around the world’. The department last

performed this song when the current Year 10 were pupils in Year 7, so we’re sure that some will join

in with the singing. It is certain that this will sound magical in the church and we are busy preparing

this in classroom music lessons.

Art Year 12 students have visited Manchester Museum and Manchester City Gallery, studying the natural

history collections at the museum as part of their intensive drawing skills training at the start of the AS

course. This was followed up by a visit to the Vogue 100 exhibition at the Manchester gallery.

Vogue 100: A Century of Style showcases the remarkable range of photography that has been

commissioned by British Vogue since it was founded in 1916, this was great inspiration for all pupils

across art, textiles and photography students.

Clothes Show Live exhibition in December This year, students will experience brands, boutiques, fashion experts and catwalk shows.

Expert trend reports and runway shows will give students a glimpse into textiles in action within the

fashion industry. They will also have the opportunity to meet the UK’s top universities and colleges

and ask all their crucial questions about different further education options. They are able to take a

look at past students work and meet recent graduates to find out more about university life.

During December acclaimed artist Mark Demsteader will be working in school

with Year 13 students on their figurative drawing and painting skills. Mark was

born in Manchester where he still lives and works. He studied at Rochdale

College and Oldham College before and taking up a postgraduate position at

the Slade School of Art in London. In a long and varied career his drawings

have won several awards including The Lyceum Prize and The Sidney

Andrews Scholarship. In recent years Mark’s reputation has flourished, such

that he has become one of the most popular figurative artists working in

Britain today. His powerful depictions of the female form in clean assured lines

of charcoal and gouache have sparked a renaissance of interest in traditional

life drawing amongst the art collecting fraternity.

A group of year 11 students have visited The Old Town Hall cinema complex as possible inspiration

for the final piece of their latest coursework unit 'A Sense of Place', looking at the regeneration of this

historic and important building, and thinking about its links to Oldham's past as the centre of the

cotton industry through to the future regeneration of the town centre.

Girls’ PE The girls' netball teams have made an impressive start to the season. A recent U14 National Schools

netball tournament at Wright Robinson, a mixed team of girls from Years 7-9 set their stall out against

the strongest netballing schools from the Greater Manchester area. In the group stages we managed

to beat Withington Girls School, Cheadle Hulme School and Cardinal Langley. We were narrowly

beaten by Bury Grammar - just by 1 goal scored with the last throw of the game! This put us through

to the semi-finals where again, after a valiant fight, we were narrowly beaten 10-12 by St Monica's. All

but 2 of our girls are playing either a year or two years early so the future is extremely promising. The

U14's are also just starting their campaign in the Greater Manchester league so watch out for an

update in the next newsletter!

Our senior team (Year 10 and 11 combined) competed at the Oldham Schools Netball Rally and

having won all of their round robin games against Hulme, Newman, Oasis and Crompton House,

faced an impressive Saddleworth in the semi-final. After a magnificent game, we were just pipped by

Saddleworth and so placed 3rd overall.

Year Group News The Year 7 Leadership Award

Blue Coat School Leadership Award was launched on Monday 28th

November. The aim is for all Year 7 pupils to develop their leadership

skills throughout the year, so that they become successful,

independent young people.

The award has twelve sections, including a ‘skills’ section, a ‘physical’

section and a ‘community’ section. If pupils play instruments, act, run,

dance, sing, swim, cook, coach youngsters, walk the dog, etc. then

they can use all of these activities as evidence of their endeavours. As

pupils complete each section, they need to get an adult, either in

school or at home, to sign the relevant section. Certain sections of the

award focus on achievements in school, such as 96% (or above)

attendance and all ‘3s’ and ‘4s’ in progress reports. Other sections can

be completed and signed for at home, such as the ‘community’ section

and the ‘healthy eating’ section. Most pupils have already completed

the literacy section, through the completion of their book review over

the summer.

Pupils will have until May 19th 2017 to complete the award, and it is expected that all Year 7 pupils will

complete the award at least up to a ‘Pass’ level. Completion of this award will form the basis of the

Year 7 Celebration Assembly in July 2017. If pupils lose their copy of the award booklet, they can

access a copy of the booklet on Bloodle, by logging onto Misc/Year 7 Pastoral then printing the

booklet off.

Year 8

ASPIRE

Pupils have been working hard on achieving the year group mantra with all pupils contributing to a

display of their aims and ambitions for the year on the Year 8 landing. A group of 16 pupils who took

part in the ASPIRE intervention planned and delivered a presentation to Year 7 form groups during a

form worship slot with the aim of sharing what they had learned and inspired them to aim high at Blue

Coat.

Junior Leadership Team

After 251 applicants and 3 stages of the interview process we now have our 10 JLT representatives,

who successfully participated in group interviews before impressing on individual interview senior

members of staff. The maturity of our students was clear for all to see along with their eloquence on

topics they felt passionate about. The JLT will work alongside the DOL and Year 8 tutors to provide

opportunities for our pupils and keep us 'up to date' with what is popular and current in the outside

world. This is the first step on the Blue Coat leadership pathway and if they continue on this journey,

we will have some extremely capable Head Boy and Girl applicants in 2021.

Year 10 JLT - this term the whole of Year 10 applied for positions on the year's Junior Leadership Team. The

key role of this group is to raise the awareness of local and global issues among the year group, and

the rest of the school, to steer the year group's commitment to improving the lives of others through

charity work, and to enrich the life of the year group by managing the school environment and

organising activities and events. The strength of the applications was excellent, and a group of 23

students was finally given the role after a rigorous selection process, including a group task and

individual interview with a member of the Senior Leadership Team. The team now meets regularly in

a "YEAR 10 Parliament" to raise issues and feedback to the student body. With the help of Sixth

Form Captains, the JLT are now also planning a series of projects and activities in smaller working

groups.

Destiny Children - Each form group in Year 10 takes responsibility for a month to highlight a specific

issue with the wider year group. This can take the form of display, assemblies and form activities. As

a follow up from their month highlighting global, environmental and development issues, H10 are to

sponsor a child from the Destiny Garden School in Mombasa, Kenya, for the final two years of their

school career.

Each member of the form has committed to raise a minimum of £10, which will be more than enough

to cover 2 years of sponsorship. Website below:

The sponsor website is http://www.destinychildren.co.uk/

Destiny Children - Destiny Children

www.destinychildren.co.uk

Destiny Children is a UK Charity that supports Destiny Garden School in Mombasa, Kenya. Destiny

Children raises funds to help provide a better future for the children ...

Year 11 The current Year 11 returned after the summer break with a really positive approach to their studies. It

hasn’t been a “hard sell” to get them to realise the importance of being well prepared for their mock

exams. Quite naturally, the work done in their wellbeing lessons, form times and assemblies around

preparing for interviews and writing personal statements does focus their minds.

A large number of students are well underway with their Blue Coat 6th Form Applications, well ahead

of the January Deadline. This is certainly a focused and determined group of young people.

Year 11 can be the first time that our young people experience pressure. We have started the Mental

Toughness programme in wellbeing lessons to help our young people channel this and help them see

that we can all use this to create a beneficial force that drives us forward. The techniques and

strategies they learn about are directly relevant to all walks of life and are intended to prepare them

for life beyond the examination hall.

What is also striking about this year group is how willing they are to help other people. Not only have

their regular cakes sales been well supported but significant number of them volunteered their

Saturday morning to be student ambassadors at the Open Day for Year 6 students and their parents.

Being able to stand back, whilst our Year 11 students took charge of welcoming people, speaking

confidently with visitors and dealing with their requests made me realise what fine young people they

have already become.

Sixth Form News

DofE Gold Autumn has been a very busy term for Duke of Edinburgh

Gold. September saw the launch of Duke of Edinburgh to

our new Year 12 students, with 68 students signing up for

the programme. The new recruits were put through their

paces on a training weekend that included orienteering,

navigational training, camp craft skills and team building

before completing a 16km walk from Seven Springs Guide

Camp, Disley, to Tegg’s Nose Park in Macclesfield. When

one journey starts another finishes as our Year 13

students delivered presentations on their experiences and

findings during the completion of their summer

expeditions.

Autumn was also a particularly special time for the DofE class of 2015 and 2016 with 15 students

receiving their Gold Duke of Edinburgh awards at St. James’s Palace.

Sixth Form Marketing Team The Sixth Form student marketing team have been out in force this term to promote Blue Coat Sixth

Form Open Day. The students designed their own promotional material and shared first hand

experiences of life at Blue Coat with KS4 students considering their Post 16 options.

Cake Friday Sixth Form students have been raising money for charity this term with the introduction of Cake

Friday. Each tutor group takes it in turn to bake and then sell cakes every Friday break time.

Sixth Form Football

Pollard trio sees BC firsts bounce back

Having fallen short against a strong Crompton House 3-0, Blue Coat First XI were looking to return to

form against Oldham Sixth Form College. Lewis Hall started in goal for BC, whilst Pendleton,

Atkinson, Raynes and Lees made up the back four. In midfield Wild fielded an attacking line-up of

Stewart, Arulafela, Pollard and Harry Marsh, with Simpson and Anderson as the front men. Pollard

opened the scoring early on, before Anderson made it 2-0. Blue Coat looked in control. James

Pendleton made it 3-0 mid-way through the first-half, before Pollard secured a brace, moments before

the whistle. After half-time Blue Coat grew complacent conceding two goals before the 60-minute

mark. However, a strong finish saw Simpson bag two quick-fire goals and Pollard round of an

impressive hat-trick.

Todd Slams Six as Seconds sail to victory

Blue Coat 2nd XI faced Oldham Sixth Form College 2nd XI in their second friendly match of the new

season. Having won comprehensively in their opening fixture 10-1 against Crompton House, players

were looking to extend their winning run. With several absentees from the team, Wild set up his side

with six changes. James Bowker started in goal, with a back four of James and Isaac Barker, Jake

Fawcett and Ibrahim. Across the midfield were Morris, Fearnley, Simmonds and Ali, whilst Boardman

and Todd started as the front men. Toby Mears and Chandler Akroyd were amongst the subs. Blue

Coat started brightly but were redundant in front of goal despite creating many chances, Boardman

going closest after just five minutes. However, when a delicate through ball was slipped between the

centre-halves he didn’t need a second invitation, 1-0 Blue Coat. Soon after Boardman doubled his

tally, and BC began to look in control. Todd grabbed a brace before Stewart slotted home before the

half-time whistle. The second-half was much of the same, Blue Coat got further ahead as Todd

sealed the hat-trick before Simmonds and Morris added to the tally. At 8-0 Blue Coat had a

momentary lapse in concentration conceding an easily avoidable goal, however, the game was out of

sight and was nothing more than a consolation goal for Oldham College. Midfielder Dan Fearnley,

ventured further forward in the final minutes and bettered his side’s cause grabbing two late goals,

before James Todd grabbed a further three to round off a fantastic 13-1 score line.

By Ben Simmonds – Year 13 Student and Sixth Form Football correspondent

The Blue Coat Treasure Hunt Over 215 Year 12 students competed in a Blue Coat Treasure

Hunt as part of the Sixth Form’s induction programme. The event

held on the first day for our sixth form students saw New and Old

Blue students grouped together to race round the school

unlocking cryptic clues about famous Blue Coat land marks and

staff. Students evidenced their finds not to mention their artistic

skills by taking photos of themselves with each treasure they

unlocked.

Entrepreneurship Lower Sixth student Jacob Graham has shown some great entrepreneurship this

term by taking advantage of Northern Irelands remarkable footballing transformation

from footballing minnows to tournament contenders. Jacob whose family originate

from Northern Ireland spotted a gap in the market and stared to produce a Norther

Ireland Football Fanzine. The Fanzine is now in its second edition and when Jacob

had returned from selling copies at their latest world cup qualifier in Germany total

sales had passed the 600 mark.

School Direct This year we have an extremely committed and passionate cohort of trainee teachers, who are

making it their mission to fully immerse themselves in whole school, extra-curricular activities. Mr

McMahon in maths helped to facilitate an aviation club where pupils could make model planes.

Mrs Thorley and Miss Broadbent have been running a creative maths club and it has proven to be

very popular with KS3 students! They have made Columbus cubes to stack the tallest tower, origami

animals, mystic roses (as shown in the picture) and had a Halloween relay where students had to use

their problem solving skills to get to the end. Students were particularly enthusiastic about this one!

Mr Lynwood in Geography has been busy inspiring his Year 10 form to be charitable citizens. 10H

have embraced the Global Goals for Sustainable Development scheme and promoted this around

school. Each form member has taken part in some way, many presenting in assemblies across the

year groups to raise awareness on the issue.

Mr Lynwood is currently training to beat his own benchmark 5k running time. He has one month to

get down from 17 mins 17 seconds to 16 mins 45 or below. The money he raises will go to the form

pot. You can see evidence of his hard work in the picture!

Miss Crump (RS) and Mr Lindsay (Social Sciences) have been promoting deep discussion in the

lunchtime Big Questions Club, where students have been debating philosophical topics such as 'How

do I know I'm not dreaming right now?' and 'Does social media connect or isolate?’ Big Questions

indeed!

The majority of our trainee teachers assisted in the recent whole school Year 7 Faith Day. This

involved taking a class of year 7 students and a number of year 5 pupils to various religious

workshops including mandala drawing, gospel singing, talks on Judaism, Sikhism and Islam.

Our trainees are thoroughly enjoying their first term. If you, or anyone you know is interested in

entering one of the most rewarding professions there is, take a look at our website -

http://manchesternexus.com/ and find out more!

Fundraising 2014/15

Donated to £ Raised by Event

Cancer Research £5,340.35 All School Race For Life

£ 384.21 7H Sponsored Silence

£ 36.39 Silvana Devine Plant Swap

£ 25.08 7B Sponsored Football

£5,786.03

Save the Children £ 1,263.23 All School Xmas Fundraising

WaterAid £ 633.73 Mrs Penn’s students Nosh for Dosh

The Mustard Tree £ 303.80 All School Xmas Fundraising

Dr Kershaw’s Hospice £ 119.32 Yr7 Cake Sales

£ 102.96 7W International Day

£ 23.36 Office Staff Xmas Fundraising

£ 245.64

Springhill Hospice £ 309.66 Yr11 Cake Sales

£ 23.36 Office Staff Xmas Fundraising

£ 333.02

St Oswalds Hospice £ 217.00 All school Cake Sales

The Stroke Association £ 309.66 Yr11 Cake Sales

Mind £ 211.50 7M Sponsorship

Destination Florida £ 83.50 7LM Cake Sale

Macmillan £ 74.55 7R Sponsorship

Bleakholt Animal Home £ 70.00 11H Sam Cawley Sponsorship

UK Treatment Bells Palsy £ 50.00 7H Euan Kelly Sponsorship

Oxfam £ 47.00 All School Fashion Show

Wateraid £ 329.69 6th Form Cake Sales

TOTAL £9,958.35

Faith ~ Vision ~ Nurture

Contact Details: The Blue Coat School, Egerton Street, Oldham. OL1 3SQ

Telephone: (0161) 624 1484 E-mail: secretary@blue-coat.org Website: www.blue-coat.oldham.sch.uk

Headteacher: Mrs J.A. Hollis MA