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Posted by Daniela Bourke
We are extremely fortunate to have Lead Practitioner for English and Whole School Literacy Ms Bowe overseeing our excellent literacy and reading programmes at BMS which underpin...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Hopefully many of you have been enjoying the introduction of a number of William Shakespeare plays each month in the BMS Newsletter. Well, things are about to get even more...
Posted by Natalie Stanton
Posted by Danielle Bowe
Posted by Danielle Bowe
Student engagement with learning simply would not happen without an incredible amount of parental support and improving student reading is no exception. The importance of...
Posted by Claire Till
Posted by Danielle Bowe
Posted by Danielle Bowe
Posted by Danielle Bowe
We were lucky enough to appoint Mr Carter to teach English at Bushey Meads School from September and he has made a superb contribution to the English faculty and is liked by...
Posted by Graeme Searle
Thursday saw the launch of a new Reading Mentors programme at Bushey Meads. I had the pleasure of running a breakfast training meeting for 25 mentors from years 10 and 12. They...
‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’ (1886) by Thomas Hardy Arguably Hardy’s greatest work, The Mayor of Casterbridge is the tragic story of Michael Henchard, a man who rises to civic...