Friday Reading Time
It was so good to join Ms Noyan and her lovely CDC group 7 Beech for their Friday CDC time and see the real variety of books they were silently reading as part of our weekly drive...
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It was so good to join Ms Noyan and her lovely CDC group 7 Beech for their Friday CDC time and see the real variety of books they were silently reading as part of our weekly drive...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
The reading partners scheme launched on Monday 11th November with a range of year 8 and 9 student buddies meeting their year 10 and 12 reading mentors for 15 minutes during CDC...
Posted by Danielle Bowe
The English teachers are always encouraging students to read widely in order to improve their vocabulary, punctuation, grammar and writing techniques. These skills are needed for...
Posted by Sara Ash - Deputy Headteacher
Our school always falls silent at 8.40 am on Friday morning every week as we dedicate 20 minutes in the busyness of our lives to reading. Some CDC groups read a set text together...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
On Thursday 17th October I had the absolute pleasure of taking the newly recruited reading mentors team through their initial training prior to meeting their reading buddies. We...
Posted by Danielle Bowe
This week saw the launch of some new strategies focused on reading and encouraging students to invest time developing their reading further to complement the existing Friday...
Posted by Sara Ash - Deputy Headteacher
Last week saw (and heard!) the first DEAR event of this academic year. Firmly established as an important part of practice here at Bushey Meads, DEAR events (Drop Everything And...
Posted by Danielle Bowe
The importance of reading quality materials on a regular basis is key to success not only in school examinations but the wider world. Being able to understand and use a wide range...
Posted by Sara Ash - Deputy Headteacher
It was brilliant to hear one of the student class-readers helping to engage his peers (and indeed CDC Miss Dunsby and Learning Assistant Mrs Malik) in Friday morning’s CDC session...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It is always inspiring to walk around Bushey Meads School during Friday morning’s Character Development Time and visit CDC groups reading together; the whole school silent apart...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was so good to join Ms Noyan and her lovely CDC group 7 Beech for their Friday CDC time and see the real variety of books they were silently reading as part of our weekly drive on improving literacy for all students at BMS.
The whole school Friday Reading time is one of many strategies being employed to promote and encourage the importance of literacy across our learning community and overseen by our talented Lead Practitioner for English and Whole School Literacy Ms Bowe.
Do have a look at the pictures and see the book titles – perhaps worth a read yourself?
This week, our theme at Bushey Meads has been ‘aspiration’ and Mrs Turton, our fantastic LRC manager, has been celebrating just that with her year 7 and 8 classes....
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...