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Dear Bushey Meads staff members and students, After 9 months working in this lovely school, it is now time to say goodbye. On the first of September 2020, when I joined BMS, I...
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Dear Bushey Meads staff members and students, After 9 months working in this lovely school, it is now time to say goodbye. On the first of September 2020, when I joined BMS, I...
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BMS students show off their French speaking skills Language leaders and other students across the school have recently volunteered to take part in a project to share their...
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For Enrichment Day last week Year 9 were learning Christmas songs in French and Spanish. Half the students learnt Vive le Vent and the other half learnt Feliz Navidad. They...
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It was a real pleasure to be able to walk around and visit so many wonderful enrichment day activities last Friday. One of the nicest highlights was in the Year 10 French and...
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On Monday 1st June, Year 7 and 8 language learners participated in a virtual Mandarin session and learnt how to greet each other in Chinese as well as finding out interesting...
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Hola! During this half term, students have learnt Spanish from the cultural perspective, we travelled “mentally” to Spain to visit Barcelona and to taste paella, the most famous...
Posted by Monica Palenzuela
Mrs H Charles In MFL we have had great fun creating new resources and using them in our online lessons. From voice over power points, bespoke video activities and a wealth of...
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The school closure hasn’t stopped me from hosting a weekly game of QUIZLET LIVE! This is a fun resource which enables students to embed and recall key vocabulary in French or...
Posted by Victoria Hargreaves
It’s been nice to think about more festive times in French recently and 9Fr1 students have made some fabulous posters following on from an independent research homework into...
Posted by Victoria Hargreaves
Dear Bushey Meads staff members and students,
After 9 months working in this lovely school, it is now time to say goodbye.
On the first of September 2020, when I joined BMS, I could not imagine how challenging this academic year was going to be. However, I cannot be happier to have spent this tough time here, surrounded by my wonderful colleagues and students.
From the perspective of a Spanish citizen, living in a foreign country is never easy, especially when you are on your own. Different language, different food, different sense of humour… It is hard not to feel out of place.
But it also brings a number of good things that you cannot experience if you stay home, among which is the opportunity to start from zero and to make a second family, a family you have the chance to choose.
This is what Bushey Meads community has become to me this year: my family, my home, and now, a part of my identity.
Therefore, I would like to say thank you: to the members of SLT, for being positive, approachable and down to earth; to Sarah Davey, who not only has behaved my Professional Mentor, but also as my friend; to Hilarie Charles and to the MFL department, who have patiently taught me all I know now about teaching and have helped me to define my teaching style; and to all the teachers, student teachers, TAs and members of Pastoral team, who have supported me day by day and have genuinely worried about my mental health, my happiness and my progress. But especially a big thank you to the IT team, particularly James Booth, Head of Willow House and Systems & Communications Technician, who has not only supported me every single day of this year to accomplish my goals, but also has showed me the best of myself when I could not see it.
And finally, thank you to all my students, who have been my best coaches by helping me to train my endurance, my patience and my resilience, and have made me laugh and taught me an endless number of live lessons.
I wish you all the best, and although I am sure this is not a definite goodbye, I will always keep Bushey Meads School in my heart wherever I go.
Hasta pronto.
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