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It has been a delight for me, during these strange times, to receive students’ Reading Award work and see what they’ve been reading – I have certainly added a few books to...
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It has been a delight for me, during these strange times, to receive students’ Reading Award work and see what they’ve been reading – I have certainly added a few books to...
Posted by Teresa Turton
This week’s featured book, Girl, Boy, Sea, is the perfect example of why we should never judge a book by its cover; our group felt the design suggests a book aimed at younger...
Posted by Teresa Turton
I am so proud of the students in our first shadowing group who have been working really hard to read as many of the shortlisted books as possible, despite not being in school to...
Posted by Teresa Turton
I am delighted and excited to announce that all Bushey Meads students and staff now have access to an extensive new digital library collection. With over 2000 titles available,...
Posted by Teresa Turton
This week’s featured book certainly packs a punch! When we hurriedly gave out the books for Shadowing, on the last day in school, and Archie took Patron Saint of Nothing,...
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It’s been fabulous to see students from years 7 and 8 reading for pleasure and completing tasks from their Reading Award booklets. It’s fascinating for me to see the books...
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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...
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Carnegie Shadowing Group News This week’s featured book, also available as an ebook through the local library, has been greatly in demand with our shadowers. Eagerly awaited by...
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Congratulations to the following students who have completed their Bronze Reading Award: Sharly Harris, 7 Ash Matthew Kram, 7 Sycamore Emma Lujkaj, 7 Oak Gracie Michaelson, 7...
Posted by Teresa Turton
Despite these difficult circumstances, students in our shadowing group are reading vigorously and discussing the books. In these updates, we hope to share our thoughts so far on...
Posted by Teresa Turton
It has been a delight for me, during these strange times, to receive students’ Reading Award work and see what they’ve been reading – I have certainly added a few books to my wish list as a result.
Special congratulations must go to Monet Silvain, 8Oak, who has completed her Silver Reading Award. This is no mean feat as she had to read four books to complete Bronze, then another five of varying genres, plus a book of short stories and poems, for Silver. So overall, since lockdown, Monet has read at least nine books.
An outstanding achievement. well done, Monet!
It was so lovely to see how keen the Year 7 students were in their reading lesson in the LRC with Mrs Turton our outstanding LRC Manager on Wednesday of this week. Many of them...