A Year of Sparx Reader
This year has been a remarkable success for Sparx Reader at Bushey Meads School, with students across years 7-9 making fantastic progress in their reading. We have seen...
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This year has been a remarkable success for Sparx Reader at Bushey Meads School, with students across years 7-9 making fantastic progress in their reading. We have seen...
Posted by Anthony Carter
We are thrilled to announce an opportunity for years 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12. You can earn a place to go to the Harry Potter Studios simply by completing a book review after you have...
Posted by Emma Denton
At Bushey Meads, we use a variety of online platforms to support students’ learning. Each week, we will focus on one such platform to bring you all the information you need...
Posted by Anthony Carter
Reading ‘Beowulf’ And exploring the topic of History of English in our English lessons has been an exciting experience. Students have been focused on villains and heroism...
Posted by Emma Denton
I have thoroughly enjoyed walking around the school on Friday mornings to see all students following our reading expectations, which are aligned to the important literacy agenda...
Posted by Gary Johnson
Banned Books Week: The Power of Unsilenced Voices This week (October 1st – October 7th) we celebrate Banned Books Week, an annual event that champions the freedom to read. It’s a...
Posted by Anthony Carter
Last Friday Year 11 students had the opportunity to spend 3 hours focussing on aspects of their English GCSE content. So often students’ learning is broken up into 1 hour...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
At Bushey Meads we are extremely fortunate to have Lead Practitioner for English and Whole School Literacy Mr Johnson overseeing our excellent literacy and reading programmes at...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
In a world where children are chosen to battle each other to death. Where you have no control of your actions. Death, Destruction, War. Does that sound like a book you would read?...
Posted by Natasha Collins
The article below was written by Imogen Woodroofe- 11 Beech. Thank you. Sons, husbands, fathers and brothers all men who got sent to war. All wars. Jane Weir was a writer who...
Posted by Natasha Collins
This year has been a remarkable success for Sparx Reader at Bushey Meads School, with students across years 7-9 making fantastic progress in their reading. We have seen significant improvements in reading ages, demonstrating the positive impact of regular reading practice and engagement with the platform.