First Marking and Feedback fortnight
Our Monday Magic Moment this week in our Staff Meeting before school was led by two of our most inspiring and talented teachers: Lead Practitioner Mrs Hoskins and Advanced Lead...
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Our Monday Magic Moment this week in our Staff Meeting before school was led by two of our most inspiring and talented teachers: Lead Practitioner Mrs Hoskins and Advanced Lead...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
The theme for our Main School Assemblies this week has reflected a strand that is at the very core of our school – that of Aspiration. Assistant Headteacher Mrs Greenwood...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
The Dance Department’s Student Awards were created to award students from all years and key stages for their commitments, efforts, improvements and successes at the end of every...
Posted by Eliz Noyan
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I continue to be impressed with the quality of independent projects received as part of Black History Month. Leila from Year 7 researched the impact Marcus Rashford has had on...
Posted by Stephanie Knowles
On Thursday 13th October, Year 11 students and their parents attended our annual Revision Techniques Evening. Each student received a Revision Goody Bag upon arrival containing an...
Posted by Stephanie Knowles
Mum-Dance, the 80s dance fitness class runs from our school gymnasium every Monday 7.30-8.30pm. Get fit and strong doing hilarious routines to all your school disco smash-hits...
Posted by Tejal Mistry
Reading Through Time: Making Sense of Our World Anthropological evidence suggests stories were used by ancestral hominids. Rubin (1995) says stories are such a strong part of...
Posted by Lynn Court
Last Thursday it was a real privilege to walk around a number of really impressive lessons in the Design and Technology Faculty at Bushey Meads School. Across all classrooms there...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
We are very proud of our students at Bushey Meads and we are delighted to recognise hard work in all forms. The pastoral team are privileged to work alongside such dedicated...
Posted by Laura Godfrey
Our Monday Magic Moment this week in our Staff Meeting before school was led by two of our most inspiring and talented teachers: Lead Practitioner Mrs Hoskins and Advanced Lead Teacher Mrs Jackson. They were launching our first Marking and Feedback fortnight of the academic year due to start after half term with an emphasis on capturing best practice that exists across all faculties and departments in the school.
Proven research shows that providing students with detailed feedback and allowing them time to respond to the feedback in lessons is one of the most powerful strategies for raising achievement and moving students on in their learning. It is an agenda that we are very proud of at Bushey Meads and know that it is an integral part of our very strong teaching and learning culture at the school.
As parents and carers do check your children books to see that all their coloured assessment stickers have been filled in (Blue – self assessment, green – peer assessment, orange – verbal feedback and white – teacher assessment) and that all questions and suggestions for improvement made by the teacher (usually in green pen) have been responded to in the students’ purple pen of progress.
Make sure your child has a purple pen of progress in their pencil case and has corrected any misspelled words three times – using their purple pen.
All titles and dates should be underlined nearly with a ruler, perhaps using a coloured pen to make them stand out.
Little things go a long way and ensuring all feedback is responded to will definitely enhance progress throughout their time at the school.
In our Staff Briefing ‘Monday Magic Moment’ at the start of this last week of the autumn term, our hardworking Head of Physics Miss Booth shared some best practice in...
At Bushey Meads we are extremely fortunate to be able to constantly learn from each – especially those staff who have great experience and a superb track record of...