Choosing GCSEs at Reading Blue Coat with Scott Yates and Robert Tidbury

02/02/22 • 23 min

#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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The Rainbow Flag Award with Sarah Langdon and some of the Sixth Form students

#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.
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Next Episode

Hear our Y12 students discussing their 45-mile hike across Dartmoor

#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.
Reading Blue Coat School online
Website: www.rbcs.org.uk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ReadingBlueCoatl
Twitter: @ReadingBlues
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Additional resources:
Ten Tors: www.tentors.org.uk
Mr Lamacraft's email: [email protected]