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Create a Positive Learning Environment A quiet, well-lit, and clutter-free space for studying can make a big difference in your child’s focus and productivity. Make sure the area...
On Thursday 1 May we welcomed Year 6 pupils, parents and carers to visit with SEND leaders to learn about the support in place for when they join in Year 7. Mrs Seed, SENDCo, Mrs...
This term in English, Year 10 has been studying Power and Conflict poetry for our GCSE English Literature Paper 2. We’ve been learning the context of the poet and the poem, the...
The Study Saturdays for the ‘Class of 2025’ got off to a great start last Saturday with Raed in Year 11 and Head Boy Tom the first to arrive even before the 10.00 am...
EFT tapping, or Emotional Freedom Technique, is a self-help technique that involves tapping specific points on the body while focusing on emotional issues or stress. It’s a...
Last Friday morning our Year 11 and 13 students gathered in the main hall for a very powerful and poignant assembly and one of the last ones they will have altogether as the main...
One of the best ways to learn and develop new pedagogical practice as a teacher is to watch others teach. In our school we have some amazing classroom practitioners and want to...
With the many and very high-profile cyber attacks being reported in the media we continue to take cyber security very seriously at Bushey Meads. A number of schools in...
GCSE and A-Level Art & Photography Trip to Barcelona Over the spring term, a group of our GCSE and A-Level Art and Photography students enjoyed an exciting four-day trip to...
The A level law class visited London on Wednesday to visit the Old Bailey criminal court and some other sites that we study in the OCR A level law course. The first place we went...
This term in English, Year 10 has been studying Power and Conflict poetry for our GCSE English Literature Paper 2. We’ve been learning the context of the poet and the poem, the structure and the themes. We’ve been annotating key aspects of each stanza, focusing on poetic devices and language techniques such as enjambment and oxymorons.
So far we have studied: Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, London by William Blake, Extract from: The Prelude by William Wordsworth and My Last Duchess by Robert Browning.
I’ve loved all of the poems we’ve studied so far because the context behind them is interesting; analysing the meanings within each one gives me a better understanding of the message the poet is trying to communicate with the audience.
I’m looking forward to studying the rest of the poems in the anthology.
-Ellen
