The Power of Live Observations!
Head of Faculty for Performing and Visual Arts Mr Knowles was joined by Drama Teacher Mr Futerill to present a Friday Faculty Foci last week that encouraged all staff to consider...
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Head of Faculty for Performing and Visual Arts Mr Knowles was joined by Drama Teacher Mr Futerill to present a Friday Faculty Foci last week that encouraged all staff to consider...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Advanced Skills Leader and Head of Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences Ms Knowles shared her proven pearls of wisdom last Friday for really supporting forensic...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Our concluding Friday Faculty Focus at the end of this year’s first very successful Marking and Feedback Fortnight of the academic year shared some superb best practice from the...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
As staff at Bushey Meads we are continually focussed on working as smartly as possible to assist each other with the pressure of workload. An important facet of Staff Wellbeing is...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was fantastic to hear from Miss Lister, our superb Subject Leader of Sociology and Psychology, on Friday morning last week as she shared how effectively she uses the Mega...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was great to hear Senior Assistant Headteacher Mr Searle provide such positive feedback last Friday about our first week back at Bushey Meads School at the start of our new...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Last weeks Friday Faculty Focus saw Head of Dance – Mrs Rosa share a very simple yet effective resource – visual timers. Having a timer on your slides can really...
Posted by Kashan Malik
Our Friday Faculty Focus in Staff Briefing last week was led by our hard working and dedicated Head of Faculty for Foreign Languages Mrs Charles. Sharing some excellent practical...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Our hard working Associate Leader and Head of Sixth Form Mr O’Kelly led our Friday Faculty Foci last week to launch this year’s vertical Character Development Time...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Our Friday Faculty Focus at the end of another busy and productive week at Bushey Meads highlighted the strong and embedded culture of kindness that exists within our great...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Head of Faculty for Performing and Visual Arts Mr Knowles was joined by Drama Teacher Mr Futerill to present a Friday Faculty Foci last week that encouraged all staff to consider facilitating even more live observations of performances of student work.
In their faculty, Key Stage 3 classes actively watch drama, music and dance dress rehearsals and examination performances by Key Stage 4 and 5 students and find it a truly inspiring experience – often motivating them to consider picking these subjects later on in their school careers. The process is mutually beneficial as the younger students provide that real ‘audience’ dynamic and, from their perceptive insights, provide excellent powerful live feedback. Transferring this concept across the curriculum might translate into younger students looking at practical coursework or examination scripts or model answers from older students’ work. Younger children learning from older ones is a powerful lever for self improvement across any school.
Our enrichment and extra-curricular programme at BMS has been described as one of the most eclectic seen across most secondary schools, recognised in our two excellent recent...
Our first ‘Monday Magic Moment’ of the new decade was led by Gary Johnson, one of the key leaders within our excellent English Faculty here at Bushey Meads. He...