Reading Blues Podcast Reading Blue Coat School

#020 - Welcome back to the Reading Blues Podcast, the place to find out more about the school and to connect with staff, pupils and parents at a deeper level. Each week we’ll be interviewing people within the school community, asking them questions and spending time understanding more about them and more about the school.

In this episode we speak with Nina and Tytus, two new heads of school. We learn what the Heads of School actually mean, how you apply to get the position , how relationships have changed between teachers and students and what they are planing to do after Blue Coat.

So come with me now as we jump into this conversation with Heads of School Tytus and Nina

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#019 - Welcome back to the Reading Blues Podcast, the place to find out more about the school and to connect with staff, pupils and parents at a deeper level. Each week we’ll be interviewing people within the school community, asking them questions and spending time understanding more about them and more about the school.

In this episode we’re outdoors into some pretty harsh conditions as we find out about something called the Ten Tors event, a 45 mile hike across Dartmoor. Director of Adventure Education, Stephen Lamacraft is joined by Year 12 students Nina, Sergio, Chris, Sophie and also Eloise who’s dialling in from home. Together they explain what the Ten Tors event is, how you prepare for something like this, what it’s actually like to endure this and what it feels like to cross the finish line. But we also hear about teamwork, something that’s at the heart of Reading Blue Coat School.

So let’s get boots out, laced up and step outdoors for this episode right now.

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Additional resources:
Ten Tors: www.tentors.org.uk
Mr Lamacraft's email: sla@rbcs.org.uk

#018 - Welcome back to the Reading Blues Podcast, the place to find out more about the school and to connect with staff, pupils and parents at a deeper level. Each week we’ll be interviewing people within the school community, asking them questions and spending time understanding more about them and more about the school.

In this episode we’re speaking to Scott Yates, Director of Middle School, and Robert Tidbury, Deputy Head Academic.

They’ll be walking us through the process of choosing GCSEs at Reading Blue Coat, the kind of systems in place to ensure students pick the right GCSEs for them and what advice they’d offer to students in Year 9.

So come with me now as we jump into this conversation with host Tracey and Reading Blue Coat staff Scott Yates and Robert Tidbury.

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Website: www.rbcs.org.uk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ReadingBlueCoatl
Twitter: @ReadingBlues
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#017 - Welcome back to the Reading Blues Podcast, the place to find out more about the school and to connect with staff, pupils and parents at a deeper level. Each week we’ll be interviewing people within the school community, asking them questions and spending time understanding more about them and more about the school. 
In this episode we’re going to be talking to Sarah Langdon, member of the Sixth Form pastoral team, who’s joined by some students from the school, Archie, EJ and Ben.

Sarah will tell us all about Rainbow Flag Award, what it is, why it is that Reading Blue Coat has applied and what it means to Sarah.

But we’ll also get to hear from some of the students, how they have been involved with the Rainbow Flag Award application and what is like being part of the LGBT+ community.

This episode is great, the students and Sarah are very passionate about the Rainbow Flag Award and the LGBT+ community within the school, they open up about the challenges faced, the focus on inclusion and diversity and how things are changing.

So enough from me, let me take you into this episode right now as we speak to Sarah and some of the Sixth Form students.

Reading Blue Coat School online
Website: www.rbcs.org.uk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ReadingBlueCoatl
Twitter: @ReadingBlues
Instagram: ReadingBlueCoatSchool 

#016 - Welcome back to the Reading Blues Podcast, the place to find out more about the school and to connect with staff, pupils and parents at a deeper level. Each week we’ll be interviewing people within the school community, asking them questions and spending time understanding more about them and more about the school. 

In this episode we’re going online and finding out about the future of education with the Head of Physics at the school, Benjamin Schuler. Now, fun fact, Reading Blue Coat was one of the schools that was already looking at online learning before the pandemic arrived which means they were naturally in a good place to make that rapid switch back in 2020. Not that it came without its issues though, something that Benjamin talks about in this episode.

So we get to hear what challenges they faced, how it all worked at school (especially in the Physics department) and what the opportunities were that came as a result of this.

So enough chit chat from me, let me take you into this episode right now as we speak to Head of Physics, Benjamin Schuler.

Reading Blue Coat School online
Website: www.rbcs.org.uk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ReadingBlueCoatl
Twitter: @ReadingBlues
Instagram: ReadingBlueCoatSchool 

#015 - Welcome back to the Reading Blues Podcast, the place to find out more about the school and to connect with staff, pupils and parents at a deeper level. Each week we’ll be interviewing people within the school community, asking them questions and spending time understanding more about them and more about the school.

In this episode we’re in the sixth form department talking to Director of Sixth Form, Katie Fatania. Now Katie joined the school recently, you can probably tell from her accent she’s not a local Reading girl, see if you can work out where she’s from before she shares this with us all.

But, more importantly, we find out how she feels able to engage with people around in the sixth form, we hear how Blue Coat is different to other schools and we explore the words ‘educating the whole person’ to see if it’s simply a marketing phrase at school.

But we also find out how girls settle into sixth form life if they’ve joined from another school that’s not co-ed, so one that’s all girls.

But come with me now as we step into this conversation with Katie Fatania.

Reading Blue Coat School online
Website: www.rbcs.org.uk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ReadingBlueCoatl
Twitter: @ReadingBlues
Instagram: ReadingBlueCoatSchool