Year 12’s Making Excellent Progress – EPQ Get Ahead Day
On Friday last week the first ever Extended Project Get Ahead Day took place and was a huge success. This Get Ahead Day gave the current Year 12 students the chance to concentrate...
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On Friday last week the first ever Extended Project Get Ahead Day took place and was a huge success. This Get Ahead Day gave the current Year 12 students the chance to concentrate...
Posted by Matthew O'Kelly
I am pleased to announce the results of the annual House Arts Event. The theme for this year was Vision and we received a huge range of entries from poetry to photography. This...
Posted by Matthew O'Kelly
This week has seen our biggest First Lessons Event ever at Bushey Meads. The Sixth Form team have worked hard to welcome all students enrolled into next year’s Sixth Form...
Posted by Matthew O'Kelly
Looking Forward As June 15th gets closer, the day for the return for Year 12 students to school is fast approaching. Next week we will be welcoming back our Year 12 students for...
Posted by Matthew O'Kelly
As the remote learning continues for the Sixth Form students, Year 12 in particular are working hard to ensure they are making the progress needed for success. This week I spoke...
Posted by Matthew O'Kelly
Last week was an exciting time for the enrolment of students for Sixth Form in 2020. We have had record levels of interest in our ‘Outstanding’ Sixth Form with...
Posted by Matthew O'Kelly
On January 5th the initial applications for a Sixth Form place in September 2020 closed. This is just the first stage of applications and we can report that record numbers have...
Posted by Matthew O'Kelly
Wednesday 15th January at 6pm saw the deadline of submissions for applications for University close across the UK. At Bushey Meads we are proud to say that we have had more...
Posted by Matthew O'Kelly
On Friday December 6th our current Year 11 students got to spend the day as a Sixth Former taking part in our ‘Into Sixth Form Day’. The day was spent experiencing the day to day...
Posted by Matthew O'Kelly
On Tuesday 26th November the Heads of House hosted their third annual House Arts Competition. With each year that passes the quality of the submissions increases and this year the...
Posted by Matthew O'Kelly
On Friday last week the first ever Extended Project Get Ahead Day took place and was a huge success. This Get Ahead Day gave the current Year 12 students the chance to concentrate solely on their Extended Project and make fantastic progress towards completing their 5000 word essays. As I am sure many of us can appreciate, often the hardest part of a big task is getting started and this day provides all the students both the time to focus on their project and the much needed one to one support from their project supervisor.
A Year 12 Extended Project is an additional qualification that all our Sixth Form students complete as part of their studies at Post 16. It is something we are incredibly proud to offer our students. The exciting aspect of any EPQ is that it can be based on any topic and any title, as it is actually the students themselves who decide upon the direction of their projects. The students work hard in the early months of Year 12 learning and developing independent study skills and begin the all important research into areas of interest. These areas of interest then blossom into fully fledged projects in the months after Christmas and with the support of their supervisor the project writing can begin. In the past we have welcomed projects ranging from child mental health to 3D animation and, it seems, all possibles inbetween. One particularly memorable project was on a modern interpretation of Dungeons and Dragons.
I am pleased to say that the students made outstanding efforts last week and they really did use their time wisely. I look forward to reading this year’s projects and celebrating all the effort made by the students.
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