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Nine months ago I thought about what this week in June would be like because this week I will be officially leaving on my maternity leave and will be due to have my baby in the...
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Nine months ago I thought about what this week in June would be like because this week I will be officially leaving on my maternity leave and will be due to have my baby in the...
Posted by Aya Speker
I hope you are keeping well during this unprecedented and continuing period of lockdown. Even though certain restrictions have been relaxed since my last time of writing, I...
Posted by Graeme Searle
These past couple of months we have been celebrating the lockdown learning of the students and staff, including all the wonderful extra-curricular activities that have been taking...
Posted by Michelle Penny
‘Things Fall Apart’ (1958) by Chinua Achebe A worldwide bestseller, Amazon summarises ‘Things Fall Apart,’’ as the compelling story of one man’s battle to protect his...
Posted by Lynn Court
Please find another opportunity for our budding writers. It is open to students aged 11-17 and is open until 31st July. The competition welcomes poems on any theme and any length.
Posted by Lynn Court
Across the Multi Academy Trust that we are part of the Headteachers and Senior Leaders have been working incredibly hard to ensure that all the well thought out and detailed plans...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
The wider Dance community have been very inventive during lockdown, whilst we can’t watch live dance or take part in dances. There have been many projects showing...
Posted by Lauren Dolan
Bedrock Vocabulary Learning Last month, I wrote about our established Bedrock Vocabulary Learning Programme at Bushey Meads and how busy George Furr, our IT manager,...
Posted by Danielle Bowe
Posted by Danielle Bowe
Hola! During this half term, students have learnt Spanish from the cultural perspective, we travelled “mentally” to Spain to visit Barcelona and to taste paella, the most famous...
Posted by Monica Palenzuela
Things have turned out quite differently and the farewell was not as I or anyone else anticipated. However what has greatly impressed me was the dedication and hard work that the GCSE and A-level students continued on independently through lockdown. It was not compulsory however very beneficial for them to enter more work as their GCSE and A-levels exams were cancelled and we as teachers and moderators sat to look through their work and use our professional judgment to give them their final grades based on our predictions.
Both Mrs Hoskins and Mr Heywood have been very impressed by the number of GCSE and A level students who have been regularly attending lunch time catch up sessions. They would like...
Our new year 12 Photography students experimented with slow shutter speeds in the dark space of the drama studio. All students really enjoyed creating beautiful visual light...