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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...
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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
News The start of a new term sees the start of a new programme of sport and physical activity practices, clubs and competitive fixtures. Last year many of our students took the...
Posted by Ashley Cartledge
The new Year 7 students had their first day at BMS on Tuesday 3rd September and made a very positive first impression on the staff. The day began with a short assembly on the...
Posted by Graeme Searle
One week into the new academic year and all of the students and staff are working hard already. The staff however, returned to work a day earlier than the students and spent...
Posted by Graeme Searle
Posted by James Felix
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 school, starting somewhere new is always a daunting experience, however the staff and students have been extremely helpful and welcoming and I already feel at home.My overwhelming first impression is how kind and considerate students are towards each other; I have witnessed several going out of their way, often at the expense of their own study time, to help new students with their homework and using the equipment in school,. Many Year7 students have written book reviews as their gap task and I am overwhelmed by the high standard, the use of sophisticated vocabulary reflecting the power of reading. I have included a few examples and will display others in the LRC. I am fortunate to have inherited a superb team of student librarians, with whose help I have reorganised all the books to make them easier to locate and moved all the fiction from LRC3 into LRC1 so books are more accessible during lesson times. I look forward to working with the team in the coming year.
As part of our reorganisation, we will be establishing a library of sixth form resources in LRC3, along with an Adult Fiction section. If any staff have books they have particularly enjoyed and feel inclined to donate them for others to read, we will gratefully add those to our collection.
To those who would question the value of books, I ask you to consider the following passage that I came across when reading The Librarian of Auschwitz:
“Culture isn’t necessary for the survival of mankind; for that, you only need bread and water. It’s also true that with bread to eat and water to drink, humans survive; but with only this, humanity dies. If human beings aren’t deeply moved by beauty, if they don’t close their eyes and activate their imaginations, if they aren’t capable of asking themselves questions and discerning the limits of their ignorance, then they are men or women, but they are not complete persons: Nothing significant distinguishes them from a salmon or a zebra or a musk ox.”
(From the Afterword) The Librarian of Auschwitz, Antonio Iturbe
This week saw our second non-fiction D.E.A.R event. On Tuesday students and staff dropped everything to read for 25 minutes. With the school bell being rung it acted as a reminder...