Outstanding Sixth Form Provision at BMS
Over the last four years our popular and successful Sixth Form has grown in both quantity and quality. Outcomes for the all important value added performance measures place our...
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Over the last four years our popular and successful Sixth Form has grown in both quantity and quality. Outcomes for the all important value added performance measures place our...
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Posted by Danielle Bowe
Our Learning Resource Centre really is a hub for learning at BMS. It was great to see so many Sixth Form students making the most of the inspirational and well managed learning...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
What a magical afternoon we had honouring all the newly appointed Student Leaders to the school on Tuesday afternoon. Over 250 students from years 8-13 filled the tiered seating...
Posted by Lauren Wright
As part of the improved catering provision across the school site, our ‘Pod in the Quad’ enables students to avoid the slightly longer queues in the Main Restaurant if a quick...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
I would like to thank the key school leaders who have been working hard with our Catering Company Caterlink to raise the standards of food provision at Bushey Meads School...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
A number of our students are budding table tennis enthusiasts and enjoy playing at break and lunchtime on the many tables provided around the school site. If you want to play just...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It is always exciting to see and experience the many superb improvements that our hard working Site Staff have made to our ever-improving learning environment. During the last few...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
This week’s theme of the week was respect and our main school assemblies were led by our Executive Principal Mr Turner. The different ways in which we can show respect were...
Posted by Kashan Malik
We encourage our students to make the most of our extensive grounds and enjoy the fresh air at break and lunchtime. A lovely place to sit in is our new picnic area outside our...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Over the last four years our popular and successful Sixth Form has grown in both quantity and quality. Outcomes for the all important value added performance measures place our provision in the top 15% of schools nationally, teaching and learning is constantly rated as outstanding and students continue to secure higher education places at some of the world’s top universities, epitomised by our Head Girl Amira who is just about to
head off to Oxford to start her English Literature degree.
It is no surprise to see that our student numbers at Post 16 have increased by a staggering 65% since 2014; this has further enabled us to increase the breadth of our curriculum offer and retain some of the more marginal, but hugely important minority subject areas that provide all students with the necessary stepping stones to future career paths.
Many schools now do not offer these minority subjects due to financial constraints, but careful strategic planning over the last few years has meant that Bushey Meads can and compliments them with a number of very exciting additional vocational options – again providing pathways to degree level study and top apprenticeships.
Over the last two years our successful Childcare Diploma course has seen students gain university places to study primary education, our performing arts based vocational courses have supported talented students to access more practical Level 4 Performing Arts focussed degree courses at other universities and our minority language A level courses have enabled a student even this year to access a place at ‘Russell Group’ acclaimed Nottingham University – heading off to study at this prestigious institution this weekend.
A visit to our Sixth Form Centre earlier this week reminded me how that has been made possible. We have invested heavily in transforming our existing accommodation – now one of the very best in the local area: smart, business like, with access to state of the art IT resources, providing a variety of silent and quiet study areas as well as a superb Sixth Form Cafe – popular as a more relaxed breakout space and social area, providing a personalised and cost effective offering.
Students were very focussed, supporting each other with their studies and some were working in the outside space under the canopy.
The Silent Study rooms were being well used and many students were making the most of the computers and more portable Chromebooks – accessing the internet via our high speed broadband connnection.
Pictured here is newly appointed Head Boy Rukhil focussed on making a great start to his Year 12 courses.Students told me they love the responsibility that Sixth Form life affords and also the chance to be more independent with their studies.
An occasional break in the Sixth Form Cafe and even the odd game of chess helps balance the work load!
For those of us who have been at the school a number of years we will truly recognise the difference in science teaching at Bushey Meads. Under the superb leadership of Mr...
Our Learning Resource Centre really is a hub for learning at BMS. It was great to see so many Sixth Form students making the most of the inspirational and well managed learning...