Any ex Blue Coat boys on here
Interesting website here, although it's a bit of a pain to navigate.
http://www.bluecoatboy.webeden.co.uk
It's nice to read a site from someone who left without sitting A levels and is happy with his life as a bus driver, unlike those on friendsreunited who all claim to be brain surgeons and company directors.
I was there 1982-89 and hated 95% of it, often being ridiculed for not wanting to vote Conservative and my passion for football. Despite this I'm still a little nostalgic and quite looking forward to the tricentenary celebrations.
Bluecoat School Liverpool
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gorgeous
Hiya ,
My son started Bluecoat 2003 & is still there , A bright lad but just from an ordinary background ,He loves the education side in fact thrives on it , So in all honestly education wise i think it'll be the making of him , Class wise he feels half of the pupils are stuck up , ( his words not mine ) I myself can't praise the school highly enough,
When did this school become elitist? I know little about its history but I understand it was for the children of destitute families, orphans etc. This still seems to have been the case pre WW2. The object of the school being to give the child( boy or girl) a basic education and the rudiments of a trade and then get the child an apprenticeship at age 14.
Bluecoat School Liverpool
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SteH
The school stopped being an orphanage and relaunched as a boarding and day school in 1949, with a selevtive intake.
Thanks for that. I suspect the closure of the old orphanage ties in with the arrival of the then new Labour Government's Welfare State.