CDC Reading Project Launch
After the success of our CDC time reading project for years 7 and 9 in the summer term, all year 7,8 9 and 10 CDCs met this week for the launch of our newly expanded scheme. Each...
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After the success of our CDC time reading project for years 7 and 9 in the summer term, all year 7,8 9 and 10 CDCs met this week for the launch of our newly expanded scheme. Each...
Posted by Danielle Bowe
Posted by Danielle Bowe
In the final few days before the start of the Summer holidays, whilst most students were winding down, around twenty of our then Year 12 students were preparing to be at their...
Posted by Suresh Varsani
It was great to hear Senior Assistant Headteacher Mr Searle provide such positive feedback last Friday about our first week back at Bushey Meads School at the start of our new...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Hello, my name is Teresa Turton and I had the privilege of taking over last week as the new LRC manager. Much as I was very excited about working in such a buzzing, successful...
Posted by Teresa Turton
It has been great to welcome so many new Sixth Form students to Bushey Meads School this year, not only from last year’s hard working Year 11 cohort, but also from a growing...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It has been so fantastic to see the high standards of work and superb attitudes to learning being displayed across our inspiring learning community and so lovely to see our new...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Their journey begins….from receiving their GCSE results, registering into Sixth Form and enjoying the fantastic team building activities hosted by the great company, Wise...
Posted by Des Timotheou
With our A level scientists achieving some of the best grades ever in the recent summer exams, it is no surprise to see our success in science breeding even more success. One...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Posted by Sara Ash - Deputy Headteacher
-development of vital critical reading skills
-engagement with real world values such as ‘identity’, ‘freedom’, ‘tolerance, rights & respect’, ‘justice’, ‘diversity & community’, ‘democracy’, ‘equality & responsibility’, ‘change & action’, ‘power & control’.
We want struggling readers to get hooked on the stories in the chapter books, without the frustration of reading them. ALL readers learn to love stories by hearing stories. When they listen to a challenging book, you are exposing them to a wealth of new vocabulary particularly if you stop to talk about the meaning of these harder words-regardless of how strong a reader they already are.
Literature is one of the best ways to help students understand something without experiencing it for themselves- books do this with all sorts of subjects and concepts, building our students’ understanding of humanity and the world around them.
We sincerely hope our students enjoy their Friday shared reading experience!
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Following on from another successful DEAR Event (Drop Everything And Read) on 26 January 2021, the Humanities and Social Sciences departments shared the following feedback:...