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It was great to walk through some outstanding Year 7 morning Character Development sessions this week and see some of our inspiring Character Development Coaches engaging all...
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It was great to walk through some outstanding Year 7 morning Character Development sessions this week and see some of our inspiring Character Development Coaches engaging all...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
As many of you are aware throughout the year, every half term, each faculty is asked to nominate one student from each year group to receive a prestigious High Achiever Award...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was great to pick up some top literacy tips from Mrs Cooper our hard working and enthusiastic Head of Girls PE at the start of this week in our latest Monday Magic Moment in...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Over the past four years we have worked hard as a school to refine year on year our raising achievement strategies that have so effectively supported our students to achieve their...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Mr Malik, our hard working Pastoral Support and Communications Manager, led some inspiring assemblies this week with all students from Years 7 – 11, encouraging us all to...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
On Tuesday evening a select and appreciative audience were treated to a wonderfully intimate evening of musical entertainment with a very festive theme. Superbly hosted by Aaron...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was a real privilege to welcome Rachel Macfarlane to Bushey Meads School last week. Rachel is the Director of Education for Herts for Learning and is a very experienced...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
We now call our Form Tutors ‘Character Development Coaches’ so that their title truly reflects the hugely important role that they have in our superb school. They have never just...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
At Bushey Meads School we all know what DIRT is – Dedicated Improvement and Reflection Time. On Monday in our Staff Briefing meeting Miss Smith reminded us all in her Monday...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was great to join the Willow House Assembly last Friday morning and hear Mrs Speker talk to all the students about the importance of being organised and working together to...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was great to walk through some outstanding Year 7 morning Character Development sessions this week and see some of our inspiring Character Development Coaches engaging all students in a variety of important different activities.
Some students were discussing the Theme of the Week ‘Resilience’ and were talking in pairs about times that they could remember when perhaps things hadn’t gone so well and they had demonstrated great resilience. Other students were talking about the Word of the Week ‘unscrupulous’ and the meaning and contexts when they would use this word in their speech and writing.
In addition some Character Development Coaches were encouraging students to read about the Scientist of the Week and also check that their student planners were all up to date and signed by parents and carers. It was really impressive to see Tasmita’s student planner which was clearly well looked after and being used to record all her home learning in to effectively support her progress and studies throughout the year.

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...
Key Stage 3 Jack 8 Beech – Jack has had an excellent first term this year, receiving nearly 200 reward points for a variety of reasons. All of Jack’s ATL scores are 6 or 7...