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After an eight week period of physical distance, Year 12 students were able to enjoy their first face-to-face lesson with their humanities and social sciences teachers last week. ...
Most of us have been having a fair few of those since the lockdown began, both literal and metaphorical. Like many idioms, the origin is uncertain, although it seems to be one of...
We have recorded a new high score for the number of reward points issued in a week with a total of 2006 issued to students in the past week. This is a testament to the efforts the...
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Please see a list below of our students who attended the Medicine Careers talk recently: Dhruvit Modi Ilayda Tinriover Kajana Sivakanthan Kavya Mehta Peter Wakaba Roshni Vara...
“Go to work on an egg” was an advertising slogan used by the United Kingdom’s Egg Marketing Board during the 1950s and 1960s I have no idea why we needed to...
This week: A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003) by Bill Bryson A nonfiction offering: In his quest to provide what the title suggests, Bryson is funny, clear and...
The last few months have been very strange for everyone at BMS and each subject has had to make some drastic changes over the last few months to help learning continue. Arts Award...
After an eight week period of physical distance, Year 12 students were able to enjoy their first face-to-face lesson with their humanities and social sciences teachers last week. Although students have been continuing to study hard during lockdown, completing a variety of virtual lessons set by their teachers, it was fantastic to resume live lessons with the whole class again.
Mr Monks, teacher of politics, says, “It was great to restart Government and Politics with face to face lessons last Thursday. We discussed how devolution of the UK has led to the confusing and varied approaches to easing lockdown, with different policies in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Then we started a new topic ideologies looking at Liberalism and its view of human nature, the state, society and the economy. One student commented “It is interesting to see how political ideas influence policies.”
In law, students studied how judges are able to make law, revisiting key cases suck as Dudley where sailor ate the cabin boy to survive!
Ms Dunsby, leader of geography, says, “I thoroughly enjoyed teaching again after nearly 3 months of not seeing students! I think both myself and the students were grateful for face to face contact to go through work completed during lockdown.” Mr Mitchell, teacher of geography, praised his A level geographers who benefitted from being able to peer assess each other’s work, whilst still social distancing, using chromebooks.
In Mr Newbold’s history lesson, he was able to check the student’s understanding of the virtual learning topic, ‘Early Stuarts’ and make a start on American Civil Rights 1865-1992. The class really benefited from being able to relate present events to the past through classroom discussion. Mr Newbold’s source-based essay mnemonic, ‘Very enthusiastic kangaroos usurp jackdaws’ would not have had the same impact virtually!
Lessons across the faculty, took place all week for year 12, and provided a splendid ‘warm up’ for year 10 lessons beginning Monday 22nd June.
