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Carnegie Shadowing Group News This week’s featured book, also available as an ebook through the local library, has been greatly in demand with our shadowers. Eagerly awaited by...
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Carnegie Shadowing Group News This week’s featured book, also available as an ebook through the local library, has been greatly in demand with our shadowers. Eagerly awaited by...
Posted by Teresa Turton
Posted by Sara Ash - Deputy Headteacher
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
Continue to Keep Yourself Busy with Your Family During Lockdown With the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Hopefully, some of you managed to achieve some of the challenges...
Posted by Stephanie Knowles
Seventy-five years ago, we celebrated Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) when fighting in Europe against Nazi Germany came to an end in World War Two. To allow the country to reflect...
Posted by Claire Till
As we all get more and more used to our online community and remote learning, we are able to bring a bit more excitement and fun in to our new learning experiences. Staff and...
Posted by Suresh Varsani
One of our most impactful student leaders, Jhanavi Tiwari, was elected to take over the leadership of the debating society from one of our BMS legends, Leon Hirsh. Leon is...
Posted by Suresh Varsani
In the past week we students have accumulated an impressive 1837 reward points! R1 R2 R3 R4 Total Year 07 189 239 88 1 517 Year 08 278 153 96 2 529 Year 09 97 259 124 0 480 Year...
Posted by Sara Ash - Deputy Headteacher
Posted by Paula Gregory
Bushey Meads students have been invited to learn Mandarin in an online live language and culture workshop run by student ambassadors from the University of London. Those who...
Posted by Hilarie Charles
Carnegie Shadowing Group News
This week’s featured book, also available as an ebook through the local library, has been greatly in demand with our shadowers. Eagerly awaited by fans of Angie Thomas’s first book, The Hate U Give, her second, On the Come Up, is equally engaging and thought-provoking. Whilst not a sequel to The Hate U Give in the true sense, this book is set in the same town and in the months following the events of THUG. As Bri struggles with a sense of injustice, and make herself heard, Thomas falls upon her own background as a child rapper to give her a voice. This is another socially important book while the inclusion of Bri’s raps, reflecting her inner strength, make it even more gripping and far from bleak or without hope.
On The Come Up by Angie Thomas
Bri Jackson has big ambitions to become one of the world’s most famous rappers. Alongside her dreams, Bri has big shoes to fill, as her father was a formidable underground rapper whose life was cut tragically short as a consequence of gang warfare. Home life is challenging for Bri and her family whose daily life is battle against the backdrop of poverty and discrimination.
What Bushey Meads Shadowers say:
“This book is about how Bri wants to become a rapper and her journey. She goes through a lot of things that jeopardise her relationship with family and friends but always finds a way to solve it. I loved this book even though it had some swear words because it talked about things that actually happen in real life so it’s not all fictional.” Anastasija Yr8
Thursday saw the launch of a new Reading Mentors programme at Bushey Meads. I had the pleasure of running a breakfast training meeting for 25 mentors from years 10 and 12. They...