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Bushey Meads is a Reading School! With the gorgeous weather we had over Easter weekend, I was teased with one of the best things about a summer holiday; sitting outside immersed...
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Bushey Meads is a Reading School! With the gorgeous weather we had over Easter weekend, I was teased with one of the best things about a summer holiday; sitting outside immersed...
Posted by Danielle Bowe
It was good to visit a number of Character Development Groups last Friday morning and once again see all students making the most of the dedicated 20 minutes of silent reading....
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Mr Dowty’s Year 9 CDC group are participating in guided reading sessions in CDC time on Friday mornings as part of our continued focus on improving literacy and reading at...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
During today’s 4th Drop Everything And Read event, the whole school had a wider reading non-fiction focus. My year 12 A level English Language and Literature class are studying...
Posted by Danielle Bowe
This month we launched an exciting new initiative at Bushey Meads involving all year 7 and 9 Character Development Coaching groups. Here at Bushey Meads the promotion of reading...
Posted by Danielle Bowe
This year the Reading Agenda at BMS has gathered speed. The reason being, is that we believe literacy underpins success in every element of education. For example, the recent...
Posted by Graeme Searle
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan war whose voice has been silent – till now. Briseis was a queen until her city was...
Posted by Danielle Bowe
n line with our current drive to encourage all students to read for pleasure, widen their vocabulary and develop their literacy skills, on Wednesday of this week we held our first...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
The Crystal Stair by Catherine Fisher Life in the Settlement is not as perfect as Caz and Will had hoped – they live apart in the Boys’ and Girls’ Towers and...
Posted by Danielle Bowe
It was so good to supervise one of the weekly reading lessons in the Learning Resource Centre or LRC this week and see so many of our Year 7 students clearly making the most of...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Bushey Meads is a Reading School!
Patrick Ness’s ‘A Monster Calls’ is a very popular book in our LRC, and for good reason. Both moving and magical, this book takes you on an emotionally thrilling...