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This year the English Faculty will be honouring Charles Dickens by promoting his novels each month in the BMS newsletter. With Year 8 currently studying his work, it seems...
Mythology with year 7 at the start of a new academic year is one of my favourite things to teach! All the students thoroughly enjoy learning the meaning behind myths, how they’re...
How many people speak English? There are over 840 million people who speak English as a first or second language. This makes it the second most spoken language after Mandarin. It...
This week in English, students in year 9 have been conducting research about life in America following the Great Depression in preparation for their study of John Steinbeck’s...
81% of us don’t feel that we spend enough time as we would like reading. To celebrate National Read a Book Day on Monday 6th September, classrooms around Bushey Meads School fell...
It was a dark and stormy night. The wind was howling through the trees outside and as I sat alone in my dimly lit home, my eyes cast downward. On the table, I beheld a sight that...
The Comedy of Errors is a five-act comedy by William Shakespeare and his shortest play. It was written in 1589–94 and first published in the First Folio of 1623 from Shakespeare’s...
Due to a staff absence, I was asked to cover an English lesson last week. When I arrived at the classroom, Miss Richardson – one of our experienced Learning Assistants...
Richard III is a historical play written in approximately 1592. It depicts the rise to power and short reign of Richard III of England. Set after the Civil War, Richard III is...
This year the English Faculty will be honouring Charles Dickens by promoting his novels each month in the BMS newsletter.
With Year 8 currently studying his work, it seems appropriate to introduce the novel they are currently reading: Great Expectations.
One of Dickens’ best-loved novels, Great Expectations tells the story of Philip Pirrip, nicknamed Pip, a young boy born into humble beginnings with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefactor allows him to escape for a more promising life in London.
The story opens when young Pip accidentally meets a convict out in the marsh one Christmas Eve. He has no idea that his life is about to change forever. The incredible events following this encounter, and the strange tale of Miss Havisham and her adopted daughter Estella, have made Great Expectations a must-read since it was first published in 1860.
