Aspirational House Assembly
I always find our House Assemblies incredibly thought provoking and often a really inspiring way to start the day. Mrs Pattni’s Elm House Assembly on Wednesday of this week...
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I always find our House Assemblies incredibly thought provoking and often a really inspiring way to start the day. Mrs Pattni’s Elm House Assembly on Wednesday of this week...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was a real privilege to welcome the Headteacher of East Barnet School to Bushey Meads on Wednesday of this week. Ms Swain, who was appointed to the substantive Headship post in...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
t was quite breathtaking to see over 30 high quality dance performances at this week’s Key Stage 4 & 5 Dance Showcase Evening held on Tuesday of this week. Our talented GCSE...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Over the last 18 months, I have immensely enjoyed leading our school debating society. When I took over back in 2017, I could never have imagined the scale of the success that the...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was great to see Elaine, Kara and Pilar lead a stretch and challenge True/False starter activity that engaged all students in revisiting prior learning covered during their...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
On Wednesday on this week it was great to see so many parents and carers in the Main Hall for the two Year 9 Options Evening talks provided by Deputy Headteacher Mrs Ash, Work...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Our latest Marking and Feedback Evaluation Fortnight is focussing solely on the power of verbal feedback and how this constant teacher strategy is being employed across our...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Mr Dowty’s Year 9 CDC group are participating in guided reading sessions in CDC time on Friday mornings as part of our continued focus on improving literacy and reading at...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Our Friday morning silent reading sessions in Character Development Time (CDC Time) are now becoming an embedded part of the way we are strengthening our key literacy agenda at...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was great to walk through a real variety of superb English lessons earlier this week and see how well all teachers were enabling students to capture the detailed verbal...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
I always find our House Assemblies incredibly thought provoking and often a really inspiring way to start the day. Mrs Pattni’s Elm House Assembly on Wednesday of this week was no exception to this. Under the theme of Aspiration she went beyond the typical aspirations of ‘what we want to do when we are older’ to focus on the even more important aspects of aspiring to be the ‘best people we can be’.
With a focus on Character, her final slide challenged us all with the statement I would like to be remembered as a person who is……. She left it up to us to complete the sentence as we exited the Main Hall to go about our daily walk and journey through Bushey Meads School. With moments like this we are constantly supported and encouraged to develop our character which will stand us in great shape to be successful in all walks of life in the future.

Assistant Pastoral Manager Mrs Blowers reminded all students in Years 8 and 9 how much they had achieved this term. There are so many bronze, silver and gold certificates to hand...
The Theme of the Week this Week was Aspirations with assemblies delivered by Assistant Headteacher, Ms Greenwood. Linking to the school motto of Aspire to Achieve and the...