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Reading Blue Coat School is a co-educational private day school in Holme Park, Sonning, Berkshire. It is situated beside the River Thames, and was established in 1646 by Richard Aldworth, who named it "Aldworth's Hospital". Aldworth founded a near-identical school in Basingstoke in the same year. [1]
Reading Blue Coat School, Sonning. 2,408 likes · 391 talking about this · 2,205 were here. Reading Blue Coat School is a co-educational independent day school for students aged 11-18.
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The School was established near St Mary’s Minster Church in Reading and was known by its original historic name of Aldworth’s Hospital, providing ‘Education and bringing upp of twenty poore male children’ and for a ‘Godly and learned man to be Schoolmaster’.
Reading Blue Coat is nestled in the bucolic village of Sonning-on-Thames, home to Theresa May, Jimmy Page and George Clooney. ‘It should really be called Sonning Blue Coat,’ says the head wryly. Founded in 1646 by local merchant Richard Aldworth to offer education for the poor children of Reading, the school moved to its current site 300 ...
- Holme Park Sonning Lane Sonning on Thames Reading Berkshire RG4 6SU
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11+ is the main point of entry into Reading Blue Coat. The admissions round for entry into Year 7 begins in September of Year 6. There are three elements to our selection process: interview, assessment and a satisfactory school reference.
Reading Blue Coat is an independent day school with almost 800 students aged 11-18, set in an attractive 46-acre site reaching down to the banks of the River Thames in the village of Sonning-on-Thames in Berkshire.