READING BLUE COAT SCHOOL

Reading Blue Coat School is a friendly and busy school of some 750 pupils.

Although we value our strong traditions of scholarship and learning, we are forward-looking and are wholly committed to preparing our pupils for life.

We make the most of our fantastic setting on the banks of the Thames in the village of Sonning and seek to create an environment that fosters the growth of self-confidence, instils the joy of learning and prepares our students for full participation in a diverse and changing world.

There is a buzz and excitement about academic life at Blue Coat, where our friendly and supportive environment enables pupils to flourish and thrive.

Our aim is to produce confident, flexible and creative learners and we challenge our pupils to listen carefully, examine issues from a variety of perspectives, and solve problems using multiple approaches.

Academic achievement is valued highly and the school has enjoyed strong results in recent years.

Learn more about our results and university destinations on our website at www.rbcs.org.uk.

Our curriculum is designed to provide the best possible preparation for life after school.

Careers education runs throughout the school to help students make the right choices as they consider their options for university and beyond.

In the Sixth Form particularly, students are given weekly careers guidance, guest speakers feature at a special Higher Education evening, and events include a Careers Fair, a UCAS Convention at Reading University and group university visits.

Pupils are also encouraged to participate in a wide range of cocurricular activities.

The School offers generous provision in sport, the arts, the CCF, the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, Young Enterprise and a wide variety of additional activities. Major sports offered include rugby, football, rowing, cricket, tennis, netball, athletics and hockey – as well as climbing, cross country, basketball, badminton, weight training, swimming and lifesaving, golf and lacrosse.

Travel is an essential part of our pupils’ spiritual development; not only does it place their education in context by improving their fluency in languages, by taking them to places they have learned about and introducing them to different cultures, but also by teaching them to know and appreciate their own place in the world.

For this reason, Blue Coat offers numerous opportunities to travel to all manner of locations, from places as close as Devon and Cornwall to those as faraway and exotic as Nepal, Ghana, South and Central America and Morocco.

Blue Coat’s new Design Technology Centre, complete with 3D printers, further enhances the school’s impressive facilities, which also include an IT centre, a Psychology and Geology block, the 23-classroom Richard Aldworth Building, an extensive Sixth Form centre, an all-purpose sports hall, an indoor swimming pool, a purposebuilt science centre and a cricket pavilion.

Blue Coat is an independent day school for boys aged 11-18 and girls aged 16-18.

For further details, please contact Mrs Jane Jarrett or Ms Audrey Fernandes in Admissions on 0118 944 1005 or admissions@rbcs.org. uk.

Further information is also available on the school’s website, www.rbcs.org.uk.

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