Bushey Meads Sixth Form – Kindness Matters Programme
The Kindness Matters Programme greatly enhances the prospects of all those taking part; particularly when applying for future education or employment placements. Every student...
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The Kindness Matters Programme greatly enhances the prospects of all those taking part; particularly when applying for future education or employment placements. Every student...
Posted by Des Timotheou
On Friday afternoon it was a privilege to walk around a number of sixth form lessons taking place as part of the school’s annual Sixth Form Taster Day with Sixth Form Leader...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was great to welcome so many Year 11 students and their parents and carers – not just from Bushey Meads School, but also from a variety of different schools in the local...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Over 100 new Sixth Formers were in school this week as part of their journey to post 16 education on a First Lesson Transition Programme offered at Bushey Meads. Dressed in their...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Last Friday saw the Sixth Form Leavers Assembly, the final act on the last official day of schooling at Bushey Meads School for our Year 13’s. Having all now completed all...
Posted by Matthew O'Kelly
Mihir 12S Mr Chalkley has nominated Mihir for being such a reliable and helpful student who is always ready to support younger students. Mihir shows great empathy when dealing...
Posted by Giles Monks
The annual Next Steps evening was held on Wednesday 14 June for Year 12 students alongside their parents and carers. Led by Mr O’Kelly, Associate Leader and Head of Sixth Form,...
Posted by Sara Ash - Deputy Headteacher
As students continue to complete their Extended Project Qualifications (EPQ) and hand in their 5000 word essays, many are moving on to the next phase of their projects. For some...
Posted by Matthew O'Kelly
Benji 12S and Alex 12W Mr Cartledge has nominated Benji and Alex for their help officiating the County League Athletic Match. Mr Cartledge said they were superb and excellent role...
Posted by Giles Monks
Alex 12A Alex has been nominated by several members of staff for being such a positive role model and ambassador for the school. Alex is always extremely polite, actively helps...
Posted by Giles Monks
The Kindness Matters Programme greatly enhances the prospects of all those taking part; particularly when applying for future education or employment placements. Every student has a Kindness Matters booklet which is signed by the teacher. This booklet provides sound evidence of extra curricular activity for those involved, showing that they are prepared to go the extra mile for the benefit of the wider school community. Kindness Matters sees students arrange with teachers to attend a lesson and assist them every week for an hour. This involves our Sixth Form students taking part in a variety of activities with younger students including listening to them read, mentoring and supporting a student in a lesson with their learning. Many of our Key Stage 3 and 4 pupils are benefiting enormously from the support they are receiving in lessons with Sixth Form students.
Teachers have spoken highly of our Sixth Form mentors supporting students in various lessons, including literacy lessons.
The integrated picture of learning, throughout the entire school, has had an enormous impact on the number of Key stage 3 and 4 pupils.
This programme has proven to be effective and successful; both students and teachers have benefited greatly.
The programme involves:
Benefits of the programme:
The Kindness Matters Programme greatly enhances the prospects of all those taking part; particularly when applying for future education or employment placements. It provides sound evidence of extra curricular activity for those involved, showing that they are prepared to go the extra mile for the benefit of the wider school community.
Mrs Timotheou
Assistant Head of Sixth Form.
Below is an article from some of our Sixth Form students who are completing their Kindness Matters at Little Reddings School
Kindness Matters is a programme where Sixth Formers participate in, they give an hour a week back to our school community, whether that’s helping out in one of your subjects or at a local primary school. For us we help out at Little Reddings School every week.
We are allocated a year group and during this hour we do activities with the children like reading, helping them with spelling and even playing with them.
A couple of us help in reception where we work closely with the students to help them develop basic life skills like reading and communicating with one another whilst playing with and reading to them. We all thoroughly enjoy this, as it allows us to play a vital role in encouraging a positive attitude towards the school learning environment.
Some of us help in Year One which involves working with the children in group work and one-to-one. We help the children who need some extra support, this allows us to finish independent work with some of the children, whilst their teachers focus on the main class. We also assist the children in learning their phonics and help them spell a range of words containing the sounds they have already been taught on whiteboards. This experience is great for us to learn how to work with children and lead others and the children are excited to see us every week.
Lily Adams 13B Lily has impressed all of the Sixth Form Team with her mature and conscientious work ethic. She is highly motivated and determined to do her best, always using her...
Led by Mrs Waring and Mrs Speker, Year 11 students had an introduction into compositional elements of photography, some technical training on using lighting equipment and...