Fantastic Friday Reading
It was a real delight to walk through A Block classrooms on Friday morning last week and see all students following our fantastic Friday reading expectations which are designed to...
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It was a real delight to walk through A Block classrooms on Friday morning last week and see all students following our fantastic Friday reading expectations which are designed to...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Our Monday Magic Moment in Staff Briefing at the start of this week was led by our inspirational Lead Practitioner of English and Whole School Literacy for the Bushey St James...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Nicholas Nickleby or The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a novel by Charles Dickens originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839. It was Dickens’ third...
Posted by Natalie Stanton
The Yoto Carnegie Medal is awarded annually by children’s librarians for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people. Every spring, reading groups in...
Posted by Teresa Turton
Back in March, for the World Book Day competition, some of our amazing students baked book-themed cakes and held a bake-sale so others could enjoy their creations. The proceeds of...
Posted by Teresa Turton
This week we are celebrating 25 years of World Book Day and in the dyslexia lunch club we wanted to focus on the fact that World Book Day is not just for avid readers but is an...
Posted by Emma Denton
The Pickwick Papers is Dickens’ first novel. It was originally serialised in monthly instalments and quickly became a popular success with sales reaching 40,000 by the final...
Posted by Natalie Stanton
Every Friday our school falls silent for 20 minutes and in every CDC Time students are read to by their Character Development Coaches as they carefully follow the texts with...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
As part of our annual World Book Day celebrations we are holding a Book Bake-Off competition, open to all students in the school. The challenge is to bake a cake or series of...
Posted by Teresa Turton
Following year 10 parents’ evening, we had several requests for book recommendations. Regular reading is so important for success at GCSE and beyond, yet it’s exactly...
Posted by Danielle Bowe
It was a real delight to walk through A Block classrooms on Friday morning last week and see all students following our fantastic Friday reading expectations which are designed to strongly reinforce the hugely important reading agenda at BMS that underpins all learning in the school.
All students were carefully following the specially selected texts using their BMS bookmarks, listening silently to the adults in the room reading, occasionally stopping to expand on the context and understanding or explain some of the more tricky vocabulary. I was so inspired I even joined in with the reading myself! A big congratulations and well done to all students and staff for making the reading sessions on Friday so fantastic.
The Year 11 Food Preparation and Nutrition group carried out their first food science investigation today. The NEA 1 food science investigation is back on the curriculum after it...
On Wednesday, Bushey Meads had another one of our regular DropEverythingAndRead events. This is where at an agreed time everyone drops what they are doing and picks up their books...