An Exciting Trip to the British Library!
Reading ‘Beowulf’ And exploring the topic of History of English in our English lessons has been an exciting experience. Students have been focused on villains and heroism...
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Reading ‘Beowulf’ And exploring the topic of History of English in our English lessons has been an exciting experience. Students have been focused on villains and heroism...
Posted by Emma Denton
This week we are celebrating 25 years of World Book Day and in the dyslexia lunch club we wanted to focus on the fact that World Book Day is not just for avid readers but is an...
Posted by Emma Denton
This week in Bushey Meads the SEND department has been focusing on Texthelp Read and Write and how staff can support students’ use of it effectively in the classroom. What is...
Posted by Emma Denton
Last week was Dyslexia Awareness week and to celebrate this, Mrs McDermott and I launched a new dyslexia lunch club for all year groups in A1a. The dyslexia lunch club was started...
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We sold cakes… We counted the money (Jake was in his element)… We paid Mrs Mirkovic back her money…And this was the result… The anti-bullying ambassadors...
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Our year 10 Prince’s Trust class are currently working on the Community Project Unit. During our lessons, we have discussed many projects to get involved with and what we can do...
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Reading ‘Beowulf’ And exploring the topic of History of English in our English lessons has been an exciting experience. Students have been focused on villains and heroism within the story of Beowulf.
On Monday 27th November, year 7 students were given the opportunity to attend the British Library in London to visit their exhibition focussing on fantasy and the realms of imagination. Students journeyed through different fantasy landscapes, from a dark enchanted forest, the weird and uncanny, epic mountains and even using a portal to enter a new world! Students particularly enjoyed the experience in the ‘weird and uncanny’ area where students had the chance to have their senses altered in the projector room.
Students were also given the opportunity to develop their creative writing skills by using inspiration from around the exhibition to create their own hero. Students particularly enjoyed seeing the only surviving original manuscript from Beowulf but also being able to use references from video or board games around the exhibition to help support their creative writing.
We are looking forward to visiting the British Library again next week with year 8 to visit the Malorie Blackman Exhibition!
For our first unit of study in English at Bushey Meads School, we have been looking at Mythology. During our first lesson, we had the chance to create our own mythical creatures...