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October began for our students with our first inspiring enrichment day for all year groups. At the top end of the school, year 13s spent the day finalising their next stage...
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October began for our students with our first inspiring enrichment day for all year groups. At the top end of the school, year 13s spent the day finalising their next stage...
Posted by Stephanie Knowles
Enrichment day for Year 10 MFL students comprised a role play activity, a treasure hunt and an interactive film clips session. The day started with students conducting role plays...
Posted by Hilarie Charles
On the first of October, students at Bushey Meads School had an Enrichment Day. This meant off curricular learning for the day- a chance to gain experience & knowledge in new...
Posted by Sandra Kinghorn
Our Space is full of helpful students. The new year 7s found that out this week. New school, new students, new building ‘I feel lost’ said Charlie H. Come to Our Space Charlie I...
Posted by Helen Mateides
As part of the whole school enrichment day, Year 10 had an exciting RE and PE day planned for them. In one of the RE sessions, the students were discussing some very thought...
Posted by Suresh Varsani
In last week’s newsletter you will have read the article about the amazing day our Year 7 students had in school as part of their Enrichment Day – a day focussed on creative...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Now that the summer weather is here, students in the year 7 area have been making the most of it. Some have been playing football while others are enjoying games of table tennis....
Posted by Unami Tenga
New sturdy goal posts arrived on the lunchtime student football pitches earlier this week and were very gratefully received by our talented footballers. Instead of the typical...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
For Enrichment Day last week Year 9 were learning Christmas songs in French and Spanish. Half the students learnt Vive le Vent and the other half learnt Feliz Navidad. They...
Posted by Maria Fort
During the recent Enrichment Day, our Year 11 students were treated to some intense Science and English sessions. Our Science and English teams prepared special resources just for...
Posted by Suresh Varsani
October began for our students with our first inspiring enrichment day for all year groups.
At the top end of the school, year 13s spent the day finalising their next stage applications and their personal statements with the support of our specialist staff. Year 12, though, enjoyed cultural trips to London and the business studies and economics students visited Thorpe Park to enjoy a presentation about the running of the park and, of course, the rides. The rain did stop, the sun did come up, so a great day was had by all.
The day for year 11s was in two halves. It began with a careers and next steps presentation, followed by all students preparing their CVs and personal statements. The second half was spent in English looking at Victorian England and how it compared to today, all essential enhancement for the study of ‘A Christmas Carol’. Year 10s enjoyed Options Immersions where they worked for the day in the subject area of their choice. I particularly enjoyed watching students in childcare learning how to change nappies and bath babies, culminating in the production of a video aimed at helping new parents. Other highlights was the making of a volcano in geography and making it erupt and the modern foreign languages faculty serving a croissant and juice breakfast and running a treasure hunt.
For key stage 3 students there was a great variety of activities and challenges for students. Year 9 enjoyed a day of performing arts. I loved watching, or rather listening to, the students’ soundtrack compositions to Spiderman clips. I was particularly impressed by how the music matched precisely the visuals. Art was also fun, where students found natural alphabets arounds the school site and then recreated these using textures and printing. Year 8 accepted the challenge of ‘Mission to Mars’, a joint project between Maths and D&T. In Maths, students calculated spaceship areas and space years leading to building their own space buggy in D&T. The buggies were raced and winners celebrated. Finally, year 7s either went to Kidzania or spent the day in science learning a whole range of things through practical experience, such as how heat behaves and the art of balance.
Our first enrichment day of the new academic year has certainly set the bar high – our second is only a month away but I’m sure that it will be equally as engaging as our first.
On Friday 4th November, we enjoyed our second enrichment day of the year. Year 10 worked for the day with a company called ‘Enable’ focusing upon workplace skills. Students worked...
Last week our inspirational Senior Assistant Headteacher Mr Fisher reminded students about the unique opportunities that as a school we give throughout the year on our highly...