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It was impressive to see and hear Sophie in Year 8 speaking confidently to all her peers in last week’s literacy focused reading lesson in the school’s Learning Resource Centre or...
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It was impressive to see and hear Sophie in Year 8 speaking confidently to all her peers in last week’s literacy focused reading lesson in the school’s Learning Resource Centre or...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
With the Year 11 Pre Public Exams or PPEs in full flow, it was inspiring to see how well these important exams at this time of year started last week. The two day art exams gave...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
During these continued challenging times another major adaptation we have had to make as a school has been to move towards an online system for Parent Consultation Evenings. Our...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was great to see two ends of the reading spectrum from Year 7 to Year 12 on the last Friday of half term with the CDCs choosing an appropriate age-related text to read to their...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Staff at Bushey Meads have worked incredibly hard all term to provide a continuing outstanding educational experience to all students at the school. They really have gone the...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Despite the challenges of last half term it has been so encouraging to receive so many emails and letters expressing deep gratitude to all the staff at the school for keeping...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
As part of our ongoing improvements to the school site, particularly in this challenging era of needing to provide exclusive Year Group Bubble Areas for before and after school...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
On Monday of this week we welcomed highly acclaimed keynote speaker Isabella Wallace to Bushey Meads School as part of our annual conference across the Bushey St James Trust....
Posted by Jeremy Turner
After one of the most challenging half term’s that most teachers can remember, it was good to listen to our inspirational Lead Practitioner for English and Whole School...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was reassuring this week, to visit BMS and see management of the COVID-19 Plan in action. The Senior Leadership Team meet, at least weekly, to review the effectiveness of...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was impressive to see and hear Sophie in Year 8 speaking confidently to all her peers in last week’s literacy focused reading lesson in the school’s Learning Resource Centre or LRC.
She was talking eloquently about the latest book she had been reading and all students were impressed with her effective summary and enthusiasm.

¡Hola! Year 8s have been learning in Spanish about “En la ciudad y en el campo“, about the differences between living in a city and in the countryside. Students...
Taking every opportunity to help students develop their functional skills of literacy the LRC has been utilising ebook readers. Showing best practice around inclusion the e-reader...