Reading Aloud
In support of our growth mindset culture we have introduced an app for those students normally engaging with our reading intervention program, who have dyslexia or English as a...
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In support of our growth mindset culture we have introduced an app for those students normally engaging with our reading intervention program, who have dyslexia or English as a...
Posted by Claire Till
I was working in my office (which is off of the school library) on Thursday morning and I started to hear a familiar story being read that was an old favourite of mine as a child...
Posted by Graeme Searle
Don’t forget, even when working from home, you can access a vast range of books and resources online using our SORA system. In library Studies next week, Mrs Turton will be...
Posted by Teresa Turton
Student engagement with learning simply would not happen without an incredible amount of parental support and improving student reading is no exception. The importance of...
Posted by Claire Till
Our first fiction D.E.A.R event took place Monday 7th December with both students and staff engaging in 20 minutes of reading. This designated reading session reminds us all of...
Posted by Claire Till
Literacy is taken very seriously at BMS and viewed as a vital cog in the wheel of student progress. High standards of literacy allow students to access the curriculum in every...
Posted by Graeme Searle
Taking every opportunity to help students develop their functional skills of literacy the LRC has been utilising ebook readers. Showing best practice around inclusion the e-reader...
Posted by Claire Till
This week, I have had the pleasure of meeting with our new subject leaders for English. Luka Kovalevskyte, Prisha Tapre, Aagarsan Velautham and Myfanwy Taylor-Bean brought some...
Posted by Jade Denmark
It was great to see two ends of the reading spectrum from Year 7 to Year 12 on the last Friday of half term with the CDCs choosing an appropriate age-related text to read to their...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
This week we held our first non-fiction D.E.A.R event. Non-fiction texts being seen as those about existing things and as informative. Described in a TED talk as ‘healing...
Posted by Claire Till
It’s all go in the LRC this January. As you can see from the display below, we’ve bought in a lovely range of new titles for year 7 right up to adult readers. Stuck in a reading...
Welcome to our latest Carnegie shortlisted book. The eight books chosen to battle for the Carnegie Award represent the best among the new books written for young people. Some are...