page_title: Liverpool Blue Coat School
section_title: Ties
hierarchical_section_title: Liverpool Blue Coat School / Uniform / Ties
caption_attribution_description: English: Blue Coat School Tie for First XI in 3 Sports
context_page_description: The Liverpool Blue Coat School is a grammar school in Wavertree, Liverpool, England. It was founded in 1708 by Bryan Blundell and the Reverend Robert Styth as the Liverpool Blue Coat Hospital and was for many years a boys' boarding school before reverting in September 2002 to its original coeducational remit.
  The school holds a long-standing academic tradition. Examination results consistently place it top of the national GCSE and A-level tables. In 2016 Blue Coat was ranked as the best school in the country based on GCSE results. In 2015 it was The Sunday Times State School of the Year. The acceptance rate for admissions is around fifteen percent.
  In 2004 the school received a government grant of almost £8 million, together with £1 million from its foundation governors, enabling an expansion and redevelopment of its site.
context_section_description: The school is also known for its wide variety of school ties, the most common of which is the royal blue tie with an embroidered school coat of arms (fig. 1). Sixth Form Prefects may wear a navy blue tie with alternating blue and gold stripes (fig. 2), and those who are in the first XI may wear the school sports tie, a navy blue tie with gold school coats of arms criss-crossing it (fig. 3). The Old Blues tie, a navy blue tie with alternating squirrels (the school's crest) and blue stripes, is worn by those pupils whose father was once a student at the school (and therefore members of the Old Blues Society)(Fig. 4). Other ties occasionally seen include a navy blue tie with stripes in the four school form colours (awarded for being in the first XI for 3 separate sports teams)(Fig. 5), and a navy blue with two gold stripes (Fig. 6). Only the royal blue and prefect ties are commonly in use.
  Shortly after the introduction of house Tod in 2017, the conventional royal blue and prefect ties were modified. Both ties now feature diagonal stripes representing the student's form's colour (below), with these stripes replacing the gold stripes on the prefect tie.
caption: Fig 5- Tie for Members of the First XI in Three Sports
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