English Faculty Recommended Reads: Wk beginning 1st June
‘Things Fall Apart’ (1958) by Chinua Achebe A worldwide bestseller, Amazon summarises ‘Things Fall Apart,’’ as the compelling story of one man’s battle to protect his...
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‘Things Fall Apart’ (1958) by Chinua Achebe A worldwide bestseller, Amazon summarises ‘Things Fall Apart,’’ as the compelling story of one man’s battle to protect his...
Posted by Lynn Court
Please find another opportunity for our budding writers. It is open to students aged 11-17 and is open until 31st July. The competition welcomes poems on any theme and any length.
Posted by Lynn Court
Across the Multi Academy Trust that we are part of the Headteachers and Senior Leaders have been working incredibly hard to ensure that all the well thought out and detailed plans...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
The wider Dance community have been very inventive during lockdown, whilst we can’t watch live dance or take part in dances. There have been many projects showing...
Posted by Lauren Dolan
Bedrock Vocabulary Learning Last month, I wrote about our established Bedrock Vocabulary Learning Programme at Bushey Meads and how busy George Furr, our IT manager,...
Posted by Danielle Bowe
Posted by Danielle Bowe
Hola! During this half term, students have learnt Spanish from the cultural perspective, we travelled “mentally” to Spain to visit Barcelona and to taste paella, the most famous...
Posted by Monica Palenzuela
It has been so great to welcome back to Bushey Meads School a small but significant number of dedicated Year 10 and 12 students who have taken up the offer of working in a well...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Prem Patel, Year 8, sent me a copy of this poem that he found while working on his Silver Reading Award. Written in 1927, it would be easy to believe the poem was written...
Posted by Teresa Turton
The school mantra of ‘Our School has a Mind to be Kind‘ has really inspired some fantastic Acts of Kindness during the lockdown period. This week we recognise the Acts...
Posted by Sara Ash - Deputy Headteacher
‘Things Fall Apart’ (1958) by Chinua Achebe
A worldwide bestseller, Amazon summarises ‘Things Fall Apart,’’ as the compelling story of one man’s battle to protect his community against the forces of change.
Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa. But when he accidentally kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find missionaries and colonial governors have arrived in the village. With his world thrown radically off-balance he can only hurtle towards tragedy.
‘The writer in whose company the prison walls fell down’ Nelson Mandela – High praise indeed.
It is so good to see how embedded our whole school reading agenda is across all year groups and wonderful to see so many students choosing books for a variety of purposes whether...