Founded in 1708 as a charity school in Liverpool city centre, Blue Coat originally provided free education, clothing, food, and housing for orphaned and disadvantaged children. By 1725, the school moved into a purpose-built site—now the Bluecoat Arts Centre—complete with almshouses to support adults facing housing hardship. Three centuries later, the school continues to honour these founding principles.

Our students have access to a wide range of activities throughout the year, including:

• Music and Performing Arts: Choirs, orchestras, ensembles, drama productions, and instrumental tuition.
• Sporting Activities: Competitive teams in football, netball, cricket, athletics, and more, as well as recreational clubs for all abilities.
• STEM and Academic Enrichment: Maths Challenges, Science Clubs, Debate Club, and participation in national competitions and Olympiads.
• Community and Leadership: Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, student leadership councils, peer mentoring, and charity initiatives.
• Creative and Cultural Opportunities: Art clubs, creative writing groups, trips and visits, and cultural celebration events.
• Thriving Minds Conference
• Oxford University Debate Competition
• Orienteering package
• Year 7 residential trip to Conway Centre, Anglesey
• Show Racism the Red Card – Anti racism package
• Chemistry Club
• Magic Club (Maths)
• Eco Garden Project
• Crest Award (Biology)
• Duke of Edinburgh Award licence
• Raspberry Pi competition
• UK Military School leadership programme Years 7 and 12
• Brook Liverpool – online misogyny and real-world impact
• Exploring China Key Stage 3 software

The current climate of reduced government funding for schools presents ongoing challenges. Despite our best efforts to sustain all our activities, many of these enriching experiences rely on additional support beyond our core budget.

To help maintain and grow our enrichment provision for the coming academic year, we are asking families, where possible, to consider making a voluntary contribution of £10 per term (£30 annually) per student. This contribution will go directly towards sustaining and enhancing our extracurricular and enrichment activities, ensuring they remain accessible to all.Contributors will be added into a monthly raffle for either a £50 cash prize or prize of an equivalent value, for each £10 paid contributors will receive 1 entry into each month’s draw.

This collaboration will provide students with incredible opportunities to develop their creativity and confidence through regular drama sessions led by a Creative Practitioner, as well as the chance to take part in performances at the Everyman Theatre. With even more exciting projects to come, this partnership promises to enrich our students’ cultural and artistic experiences.

Mr Martin, English teacher at Blue Coat, said:
“This is a really exciting and unique partnership between two of the most renowned institutions in the city of Liverpool. It is brilliant to see the excitement from our students around working with the Everyman and Playhouse, and I have no doubt that they will massively benefit from the experience.”

We look forward to watching our students flourish through this inspiring collaboration.

Produced by Merseyside Youth Association, in partnership with the Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership, young people from across the Liverpool City Region shared their voices on mental health and violence prevention. Racism, sexual harassment, online abuse, homophobic abuse, hate crime, and many more topics were explored in a variety of powerful performances.

The Rainbow Flag Award is a national quality assurance framework for LGBT+ inclusion (see video) https://youtu.be/zYdlfJKYzlw.  It has involved months of work by all our stakeholders to provide evidence that we strive to create an inclusive and supportive environment for our LGBT+ community.

We have been able to demonstrate our commitment to challenging LGBT+ phobia and promoting inclusion in 6 key areas of the school, which include skilled teachers, supportive trustees, and parents (thank you!), effective policies, an inclusive curriculum, pastoral support, and most importantly student voice.

The number of Grade 9s achieved grew by a third to 35% compared to 2019 - the last set of results before the pandemic. In addition, 81% of all exams sat secured a grade of 7 or above.