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The final Final Friday Faculty Focus to mark the end of our latest Marking and Feedback fortnight was a really positive way to end an excellent period of time at BMS where we have...
At Bushey Meads School we have a very eclectic and embedded culture of sharing best practice across all levels of the organisation to promote strategies related to improving...
Advanced Lead Teacher Miss Lindau led a really concise and useful Monday Magic Moment at the start of the week, sharing some smart advice for marking and providing useful feedback...
Our attitude and behaviour can really affect our learning and at the start of the week one of our top teachers and Advanced Skills Leaders Ms Knowles shared some superb tips to...
Many subject and faculty areas at Bushey Meads have seen significant year on year improvements over the last four years and our inspirational Design and Technology Faculty is one...
Now an annual event in the school calendar, I would like to praise the efforts of all the hard working staff who made our 2018 BAFTA Awards such a success. The Bushey meads...
Every now and then, an opportunity arises for a hard-working teacher to take some well-earned rest from the challenges of school-life. And so, on Friday 22nd June, I missed out on...
Last month, as part of Bushey Meads’ strive towards greatness, Ms. Connell and I delivered a Monday Magic Moment to teachers on the benefits of becoming an examiner in your...
The second Marking and Feedback Fortnight took place recently and the theme was ‘Marking to Move Forward’. Staff were asked to mark a set of exercise books or test...
On Monday 19th February 2018 the staff at BMS were involved in a Staff Development Day during which they attended a number of training sessions. The feedback from staff has been...
The final Final Friday Faculty Focus to mark the end of our latest Marking and Feedback fortnight was a really positive way to end an excellent period of time at BMS where we have all been involved in capturing superb examples of how teachers and teaching assistants across the whole school are fully supporting all students to make great progress.
Miss Booth and Miss Morrin – two superb teachers from our ‘most improved’ faculty for 2018 – the Science Faculty, reminded staff about the power of asking students questions in their books to challenge their thinking and move their learning to the next level. The students are provided with DIRT or Dedicated Improvement and Reflection Time and respond to the green pen questions with their purple pen of progress.
Research shows that this ongoing cycle of written feedback (questions) and response drives up student progress well beyond expected levels. It was a great way to end a really positive fortnight in school.
