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It was a privilege to join 10 Beech last week on Friday morning and read with them during the whole school silent reading programme that takes place at Bushey Meads every Friday....
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It was a privilege to join 10 Beech last week on Friday morning and read with them during the whole school silent reading programme that takes place at Bushey Meads every Friday....
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was great to be able to join a few different CDC Groups last Friday morning and see all the students engaged so well with our Friday Reading programme, aimed at developing and...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Once again Bushey Meads students excelled in the World Book Day Bake-Off 2023. Tasked with creating one or more cakes, large or small, to celebrate books, our students produced...
Posted by Teresa Turton
On Monday morning, just before breaktime, our school fell silent and we all participated in a Drop Everything and Read or DEAR event across all lessons and office spaces in the...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Therapeutic Benefits of Reading and Writing Creative writing has reading at its core. The benefits of reading and writing (including journals and letters) have been referenced in...
Posted by Lynn Court
How Healthy is Reading? 19th century newly literate women were considered vulnerable and there was a fear that they could be manipulated by fiction! Similarly, newly literate men...
Posted by Lynn Court
Reading through History Reading has long been seen as a source of ‘solace, consolation and healing throughout history.’ Helen Mary Gaskell set up a War Library in 1914 (after...
Posted by Lynn Court
We often hear about poems, due to some of us having to learn about them, or it just being a major form of literature that has existed for a very long time. Some of us might think...
Posted by Natasha Collins
Identification and Transportation This means the extent to which the reader identifies with characters and situations and how much they become mentally and emotionally immersed in...
Posted by Lynn Court
Reading Through Time… Reading is a form of entertainment with a long history. People often turn to reading as a source of comfort e.g. when in hospital, a distraction from...
Posted by Lynn Court
It was a privilege to join 10 Beech last week on Friday morning and read with them during the whole school silent reading programme that takes place at Bushey Meads every Friday. All students were listening quietly, following the carefully chosen text with their BMS Bookmarks. It made for a very calm and purposeful start to the day with an appropriate focus on developing those all important literacy skills at the heart of learning across all curriculum areas of study.
This week we recognise Charlotte Boother Dominguez as our Reader of the Week. Currently reading ‘Cinder’ by Marissa Meyer means that she is exploring not only the...
The reintroduction of home learning has been the ideal opportunity to focus students’ reading by re-launching the Reading Awards. Some students started this during the first...