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January 30th to 6th February, is National Storytelling Week. If you want to find out more about the group, the work they do and some fact sheets that help aspiring writers, this...
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January 30th to 6th February, is National Storytelling Week. If you want to find out more about the group, the work they do and some fact sheets that help aspiring writers, this...
Posted by Lynn Court
Shakespeare’s play of the month is Hamlet. Set in Denmark, Hamlet is a play that explores conscience, madness and the nature of humanity. A young prince meets his father’s...
Posted by Natalie Stanton
Posted by Danielle Bowe
The Young Writers’ Award is a competition for those between 11 and 18 years of age who have a passion for writing. The participants can write in various forms, for example:...
Posted by Lynn Court
Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2019 The Poet X has joined our growing collection of books that celebrate the diversity of writer’s experiences and the backgrounds from...
Posted by Claire Till
Year 9 students have been learning about the 1930s Civil Rights Movement in the lead up to their study of ‘Of Mice & Men’. Our class took the opportunity to...
Posted by Saina Asadi
Joining a Year 11 English lesson this week I found myself immersed in the world of Scrooge. Our GCSE English gains students two GCSEs: one in English Language and the other in...
Posted by Claire Till
This year the English Faculty will be honouring William Shakespeare by promoting his plays each month in the BMS newsletter. With October being the spooky month of Halloween, it...
Posted by Natalie Stanton
It was a real privilege to spend time with Miss Denmark’s Year 7 English group on Wednesday of this week and see their imagination and creative ideas come to the fore within the...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Posted by Danielle Bowe

We were lucky enough to appoint Mr Carter to teach English at Bushey Meads School from September and he has made a superb contribution to the English faculty and is liked by...
Last Friday, a group of 50 year 11 students, accompanied by Mr Carter, Mr Godfrey, Mrs Godfrey, Mr Waygood, Mrs Hedges, and Ms Hofer, embarked on an educational journey to the...