Ending on a High!
Our concluding Friday Faculty Focus at the end of this year’s first very successful Marking and Feedback Fortnight of the academic year shared some superb best practice from the...
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Our concluding Friday Faculty Focus at the end of this year’s first very successful Marking and Feedback Fortnight of the academic year shared some superb best practice from the...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
All teachers across the Bushey St James Trust met at Hartsbourne on Wednesday 20th November for the first Teacher Toolkit session, the theme of which was well-being. Although only...
Posted by Graeme Searle
Mr Mitchell, Head of Beech, delivered a thought provoking assembly to Beech House this Tuesday. He talked about the many achievements that Beech house already have this year,...
Posted by Stephanie Knowles
Key Stage 3 Polly 7 Elm – Polly has made an excellent start to her Bushey Meads journey. She is a conscientious and hard working student who always does her best in...
Posted by Kashan Malik
From Wednesday the 23rd to Tuesday the 29th of October 2019, there was a History and RE trip to Berlin and Krakow. It was organised and run by Mr Lyley, Mr Malik and Mrs Paddick....
Posted by Adam Lyley
It was great to see students in Elm House listening so intently to Miss Pattni’s typically inspiring assembly at the start of the day last Wednesday on the theme of...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Our new Scholastic Book Club is up and running! Go to http://schools.scholastic.co.uk/bushey-meads to browse the latest books and order online. For every £1 you spend on this...
Posted by Teresa Turton
Last week, I was delighted to take four of our students on one of the First World War Centenary Battlefields trips organised and led by the UCL Institute of Education. As with...
Posted by Roger Newbold
¡Hola! Year 8s have been learning in Spanish about “En la ciudad y en el campo“, about the differences between living in a city and in the countryside. Students...
Posted by Monica Palenzuela
Posted by James Felix
Our concluding Friday Faculty Focus at the end of this year’s first very successful Marking and Feedback Fortnight of the academic year shared some superb best practice from the Design and Technology Faculty related to facilitating high quality peer feedback.
Mrs Hewitt highlighted a number of examples provided by teachers from across the faculty including the use of teacher prompts, references to clear success criteria, checklists and encouraging online feedback using our google platform for learning. It was very powerful and encouraged all staff to continue moving this important agenda in school to the next level.
Verbal feedback from teachers is one of the most common forms of feedback given in classrooms across the school. In this video we capture Mr Chalkley providing constant verbal...
It was a fitting end to our autumn term marking and feedback fortnight to hear from Advanced Lead Teacher Mr Symeou and be informed about some of the tried and tested strategies...