The New Landscape for Feedback
With the emphasis on live lessons being streamed to the 90% of our school population working from home, additional challenges are being embraced by the hardworking teachers at...
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With the emphasis on live lessons being streamed to the 90% of our school population working from home, additional challenges are being embraced by the hardworking teachers at...
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I would like to thank all stakeholders for their understanding and support on Monday of this week as we grappled with the additional challenges of the inclement weather conditions...
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It has been incredible to see how effectively our IT team has been overseeing and managing the roll out of the laptops for schools initiative to enable those students, who are...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
In our Staff Briefing meeting last Friday our Acting Headteacher and Advanced Skills Leader Ms Knowles led an excellent sharing best practice ‘Friday Faculty Focus’ to support all...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
In these challenging times we are often seeing very polarised opinions and attitudes – the very best and sometimes the worst of people’s characters. What has been inspiring...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Although numbers of students are significantly lower than usual, with only about 10% of our school population attending for in-person lesson, our growing number of Year 7 students...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Last Friday morning outstanding Business Studies Teacher Mr Malik provided an excellent start to the day and shared some superb best practice related to setting the standards to...
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At Bushey Meads School we want to make the workplace and school environment as safe as possible and have fully engaged with the national initiative to offer Lateral Flow Tests to...
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As all staff continue to work incredibly hard to support all students with their learning – whether attending school for face to face lessons or via the live lessons, it is...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was inspiring to walk through our learning community on Tuesday afternoon and see how well students and staff had adapted to our model of hybrid learning. All staff were...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
With the emphasis on live lessons being streamed to the 90% of our school population working from home, additional challenges are being embraced by the hardworking teachers at BMS.
Providing feedback for students is inevitably a little more challenging, but new ways are being found to do this as smartly as possible, bearing in mind that we all know that the power of great feedback can significantly increase the progress of learning.
Hard working English teacher Mr Cox showed me a piece of student work in black type that he had provided feedback for in green font. The student in Year 11 had then responded to the teacher’s feedback and written in purple font to demonstrate his progress.
On the right hand side of the screen Mr Cox also provided some specific instructions in the chat column which guided the student to further success.
It was very impressive!

Providing fabulous feedback to students remains a top priority for teachers and learning assistants at Bushey Meads School. Research shows that, when students are shown the clear...
Verbal feedback from teachers is one of the most common forms of feedback given in classrooms across the school. In this video we capture Mr Chalkley providing constant verbal...