Newton Bluecoat School1707-2007

300th Anniversary

• In 2007 our school celebrated its 300th Anniversary. The new building is 40 years old. The top photograph shows the old building.

300th Anniversary – Willow Dome

• We did many exciting things to celebrate the anniversary. We built a living willow dome to play in.

300th Anniversary

• We built a Willow dome and two other sculptures for school.

300th Anniversary - Mosaic

• A pebble mosaic at the front of school was designed by children in Year 4. Mrs Thomas directed operations.

300th Anniversary - Mosaic

• This mosaic is for inside school. It is a tiled mosaic based on our school logo. Mrs Needham designed it and many of the children throughout school spent time working on it.

300th Anniversary - Dancing

• We learned to do old fashioned maypole dancing and country dancing. We had a dance festival on our school playground.

300th Anniversary – Open Day

• We invited back all past pupils and teachers for an open day and had a big celebration cake.

300th Anniversary - History

• We learnt that school was very different three hundred years ago.

300th Anniversary - Gifts

• To celebrate the 300th Anniversary Lund Church gave us this cross as a present. The Hornby Trust gave us a new library.

300th Anniversary – Improving our school environment

300th Anniversary – Improving the Grounds

• We moved the school flag pole to a more prominent place and the old sundial was moved around the back of school where it would get more sun.

300th Anniversary -Displays

• We created displays around school about the history of our school for everyone to enjoy.

300th Anniversary – John Hornby

• Our headteacher Mr Bird dressed as John Hornby. John Hornby was a gentleman farmer who left money to build our school 300 years ago. He wanted to help out boys and girls who could not afford to go to school.

300th Anniversary – Balloon Race

• At the end of the celebrations we released blue balloons for a balloon race. The furthest travelled to Skegness in Lincolnshire.

300th Anniversary

• We are very grateful to John Hornby for leaving us a fantastic school. We consider ourselves very lucky to have been at Newton Bluecoat to celebrate the 300th Anniversary.