Going 4 Great
Preparing students for further education and apprenticeships Going 4 Great facilitates them in building independent learning skills. This timetabled lesson provides our year 10...
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Preparing students for further education and apprenticeships Going 4 Great facilitates them in building independent learning skills. This timetabled lesson provides our year 10...
Posted by Claire Till
It was good to talk to two of our Year 11 students Eric and Nathan on Tuesday at break time earlier this week about their new approach to arguably their most important year in...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
At Bushey Meads we offer some of our Key Stage 4 students timetabled lessons to compete independent learning. We call these sessions ‘Going for Greatness’ lessons as it gives some...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was really impressive to see students so focussed in their personalised study Going for Greatness lessons, supervised by some of our top teachers that allow them to push their...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
One of the major new raising achievement initiatives started in recent years at BMS that has arguably had the most impact, has been the introduction of our Going 4 Greatness...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Preparing students for further education and apprenticeships Going 4 Great facilitates them in building independent learning skills. This timetabled lesson provides our year 10 and year 11 students with the opportunity to take ownership, and in line with our 3 R’s responsibility for their learning. Each week students embark on a period of self-directed study.
This requires them to plan ahead thereby managing not only their work demands but also their time in a mature manner. As such, Going 4 Great gives students a bridge between being in school and entering into sixth form, college and apprenticeships where they will experience increased flexibility and independence in terms of the expectations placed on them. Hadi, year 11 saw a benefit of the lesson as being the chance to get homework done while having a teacher on hand and enabling him to revise at home.
Last Thursday it was good to represent Bushey Meads School and the Bushey St James Trust, alongside Rebecca Tregear the Headteacher of Little Reddings Primary School at the termly...
On Monday 5th February, we were very fortunate to have the opportunity for a Google Meet with four of the actors from the acclaimed production of ‘Macbeth’ at the Donmar Warehouse...